[humaine news] CFP: Interactive Storytelling 2009 (EXTENDED Deadline: July 6, 2009)

[Paolo Petta]

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 			   CALL FOR PAPERS

 	    *** ICIDS -- Interactive Storytelling 2009 ***

 		   2nd International Conference on
 		   Interactive Digital Storytelling

 	       09-11 December 2009, Guimarães, Portugal

 		     http://www.icids2009.ccg.pt

 		 *** EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE ***

Due to multiple requests, the submission deadline has been extended to

 			     July 6, 2009

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ICIDS is the premier international conference on interactive digital storytelling.

It was successfully launched in 2008, superseding the two previous European 
conference series, TIDSE ("Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling") 
and ICVS ("Virtual Storytelling -- Using Virtual Reality Technologies for 
Storytelling"). While the venues of these events were traditionally bound to 
France and Germany, ICIDS is set to overcome also this geographical limitation. 
The fusion of the previous conferences was most successfully inaugurated in 
Erfurt, Germany, as ICIDS 2008. In a very inspiring and friendly atmosphere, 
over 100 international participants have enjoyed high-quality talks and worked 
together at creative and fruitful workshops, and there were plenty of 
delightful occasions that gathered the attendees for more informal exchange.

ICIDS 2009 aims at setting forth the success of this new beginning. The venue 
will be the Centro Cultural Vila Flor, an excellent modern conference centre 
that extends a historical palace, at walking distance from most hotels and from 
the city centre of the historical city of Guimarães, the birthplace of 
Portugal.

***SCOPE***

Interactive entertainment, including novel forms of edutainment, therapy, and 
serious games, promises to become an ever more important market. Interactive 
Digital Storytelling provides access to social and human themes through 
stories, and promises to foster considerably the possibilities of interactive 
entertainment, computer games, and other interactive digital applications. 
ICIDS also identifies opportunities and addresses challenges for redefining the 
experience of narrative through interactive simulations of computer-generated 
story worlds.

Interactive Storytelling thus promises a huge step forward for games, training, 
and learning, through the aims to enrich virtual characters with intelligent 
behaviour, to allow collaboration of humans and machines in the creative 
process, and to combine narrative knowledge and user activity in interactive 
artifacts. In order to create novel applications, in which users play a 
significant role together with digital characters and other autonomous 
elements, new concepts for Human-Computer Interaction have to be developed. 
Knowledge for interface design and technology has to be garnered and 
integrated. Interactive Storytelling involves concepts from many aspects of 
Computer Science, above all from Artificial Intelligence, with topics such as 
narrative intelligence, automatic dialogue- and drama management, cognitive 
robotics and smart graphics. In order to process stories in real time, 
traditional storytelling needs to be formalised into computable models, by 
drawing from narratological studies, and by taking into account the 
characteristics of programming. Consequently, due to its technological 
complexity, it is currently hardly accessible for creators and end-users. There 
is a need for new authoring concepts and tools supporting the creation of 
dynamic story models, allowing for rich and meaningful interaction with the 
content. Finally, there is a need for theoretical foundations considering the 
integration of so far disjunctive approaches and cultures.

*** SUBMISSIONS ***

We welcome research papers, case studies and demonstrations presenting new 
scientific results, innovative technologies, best practice showcases, or 
improvements to existing techniques and approaches in the multidisciplinary 
research field of interactive digital storytelling and its related application 
areas, e.g. games, virtual/online worlds, e-learning, edutainment, and 
entertainment.

Suggested research topics for contributions include, but are not limited to:

* Interactive Storytelling Theory
* Virtual Characters and Agents
* Environments and Graphical Effects
* Interactive Cinematography
* Design of Sound Interactivity
* Story Generation and Drama Management
* New Authoring Modes
* Narrativity in Digital Games
* Mixed Realities and Mobiles
* Tools for Interactive Storytelling
* Emotion Design for Interactive Storytelling
* Non-Visual Senses for Interactive Storytelling
* Social and Cognitive Approaches for Interactive Storytelling
* Semantic knowledge for Interactive Storytelling
* Real-time techniques for Interactive Storytelling
* Collaborative environments for Interactive Storytelling
* Evaluation and user experience reports
* Case studies and demonstrations

All submissions should follow the Lecture Notes in Computer Science format (see 
"Information for LNCS Authors" at www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). 
Papers must be in English. Only electronic submissions in PDF format will be 
considered for review. Submissions (of all categories) that receive high 
ratings in the review process will be selected for publication by the program 
committee. They will be published as Springer LNCS conference proceedings. For 
the final print-ready version, the submission of source files (Microsoft 
Word/LaTeX, TIF/EPS) and a signed copyright form will be required. Submission 
categories:

Full papers (8-12 pages in the proceedings);
Short papers (4-6 pages in the proceedings);
Demonstration and posters (2-4 pages in the proceedings)

For the submission and review process, we will use the Easychair conference 
management system.

*** IMPORTANT DATES ***

July 6, 2009 EXTENDED Submission deadline (all categories)

August 20, 2009 Author notification of the review result
September 10, 2009 Submission of the print-ready version
December 9-11, 2009 ICIDS Conference Interactive Storytelling '09

A limited number of Student Volunteers will be granted free access to the 
conference in exchange for helping with on-site organisational tasks. Details 
on application modalities will be published after the reviewing process.

*** COMMITTEES ***

Co-Chairs:

Ido Iurgel -- Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Nelson Zagalo -- Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Paolo Petta -- OFAI, Austria

Local Chairs:

Pedro Branco & Rogério Silva -- Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Programme Committee:
(preliminary list of confirmed members)

André, Elisabeth - University of Augsburg, Germany
Aylett, Ruth -- Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Bae, Byung-Chull - North Carolina State University, USA
Barry, Barbara, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, USA
Boa-Ventura, Ana - University of Texas, Austin, USA
Branco, Pedro -- University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
Bushoff, Brunhild -- Sagasnet, Munich, Germany
Cavazza, Marc - University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom
Champagnat, Ronan -- L3i, IUT de La Rochelle, France
Correia, Nuno - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Crawford, Chris - Storytron.com, USA
Donikian, Stéphane -- IRISA / INRIA, Rennes, France
Fencott, Clive - University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom
Göbel, Stefan - Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Gordon, Andrew - University of Southern California, USA
Grimm, Paul -- Erfurt University of Applied Sciences, Erfurt, Germany
Hartmann, Knut -- Flensburg University of Applied Sciences, Flensburg, Germany
Jantke, Klaus P. -- Fraunhofer IDMT, Ilmenau, Germany
Leão, Lucia - Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brasil
Lindley, Craig -- Blekinge Technical College, Sweden
Magerko, Brian -- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
Marcos, Adérito -- University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
Marinho, Chico - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Marsella, Stacy -- University of Southern California, USA
Masuch, Maic -University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Mueller, Wolfgang -- University of Education, Weingarten, Germany
Murray, Janet H. - Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
Nack, Frank - University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Nakatsu, Ryohei - National University of Singapore, Singapore
Natkin, Stephane - Cedric, France
Nitsche, Michael -- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
Paiva, Ana - INESC-ID, Lisboa, Portugal
Pan, Zhigeng -- Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Pelachaud, Catherine - CNRS LTCI, TELECOM ParisTech, Paris, France
Pisan, Yusuf -- University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Prada, Rui - Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal
Rauterberg, G.W.M. - Technical University Eindhoven, Netherlands
Réty, Jean-Hugues -- University of Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France
Riedl, Mark -- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
Roussou, Maria - University of Athens, Greece
Ryan, Marie-Laure - University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Schneider, Oliver - IGDV, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany
Seif El-Nasr, Magy -- Simon Fraser University, Surrey, Canada
Spierling, Ulrike -- University of Applied Sciences, Erfurt, Germany
Stern, Andrew - Procedural Arts, LLC, Portland, USA
Su, Wen-Poh -- Griffith University, Nathan, Australia
Sumi, Kaoru -- National Institute of Information & Communications Technology, Kyoto, Japan
Szilas, Nicolas -- TECFA, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Wages, Richard - Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Young, Michael R. -- North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
Yun-Gyung Cheong, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, South Korea

***VENUE***

ICIDS 2009 will be held in the Centro Cultural Vila Flor, in Guimarães,
Portugal, EU.  It is organised by the University of Minho and the CCG
(Centro de Computação Gráfica), supported by OFAI (Austrian Research
Institute for Artificial Intelligence), and several other partners.

*** CONTACT ***

icids2009 at ofai.at

<EOT>