[IGDA Mobile-SIG List] CFP Workshop on Mobile Gaming - Deadline May 22, 2009

[Holger Mügge]

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***           2nd Workshop on Mobile Gaming           ***
***             Informatik 2009 in Luebeck                     ***
***     http://sam.iai.uni-bonn.de/mobile-gaming    ***
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MOTIVATION

Mobile games are based on the physical movements of players in a game- 
world that combines the real world with virtual dimensions. Mobile  
games unite two game-worlds that were previously mutually exclusive:  
classic outdoor games and computer games.

But they are also games in the traditional sense as "homo sapiens" has  
always been a "homo ludens". Games are part of the every day life,  
just like eating, breathing, or sleeping. They allow us to try the  
impossible. We use game rules to voluntarily confine the game space,  
and then roam this space to imaginatively overcome the limits of  
reality. But apart from being a pastime, games also mirror the real  
world and so they can be used to play-test life. Over the centuries,  
games evolved with the intellectual and technical possibilities of  
mankind.

The prehistory of mobile games began in the 1980s with Nintendo's  
handheld "Game & Watch" electronic games. The early 1990s saw the  
advent of the "Gameboy", which introduced exchangeable cartridges to  
the video games mass market. At the turn of the millennium, the  
Japanese I-Mode network pioneered mobile data services and thus opened  
the door for mobile games that used the wireless Internet for  
communication. On 1 May 2000, the US government announced the  
discontinuation of the artificial degradation of GPS signals for non- 
military users. This marks the end of the prehistory and the dawning  
of mobile games in our sense.

The first such mobile game was Geocaching, where participants use GPS  
coordinates that they obtained over the Internet to search for small  
treasures that were hidden by other players. In 2003, Nokia introduced  
the N-Gage, which was a GPRS-enabled smart-phone with an integrated  
game-console. Due to its GPRS data-service, it allowed for wide-area  
multiplayer games that were connected via a central server. At the  
same time, it also allowed proximity based multiplayer games via  
Bluetooth communication. Research project began to sprout world-wide  
in conjunction with all these technological developments. These  
projects set out to exploit the new possibilities and developed  
context-aware and location-based applications that used the new  
wireless positioning and communication technologies in various ways  
and thus advanced the field in which mobile games are grounded.

Mobile games utilise mobile and pervasive technology. Small and  
portable devices are equipped with sensors and models of their  
environments that allow them to sense their current context, which  
includes location, and act according to this input. Thus, from a  
technological point of view, mobile games are part of the field of  
ubiquitous computing.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

Contributions to the workshop can be either technical papers or  
position statements. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

   *	Mobile games in the everyday life
   *	Context of mobile games
   *	Mobile game experiences and activities
   *	Mobile gamer as producer
   *	Alternate reality games
   *	Traditional games and mobile games
   *	Serious games - learning, testing, creating value in a serious  
context
   *	Interfaces and interaction techniques for mobile games
   *	Augmented and mixed reality for mobile games
   *	Development processes and architectures for mobile games
   *	Authoring systems for mobile games
   *	Complexity of hard- and software - problems and solutions
   *	Exploiting technical boundaries

DATES AND DEADLINES

Paper submission: May 22, 2009
Notification of authors: June 12, 2009
Camera ready version due: July 1, 2009
Workshop: September 29, 2009

FORM OF CONTRIBUTION

The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for presenting and  
discussing research, results and practical hands-on experiences. The  
thematic focus of the workshop is on mobile games and other  
(cooperative) applications of a similar character that take location  
and context, as well as the players' mobility as an important design  
parameter.

Apart from presentation of research results, we also envisage to  
include demonstrations of innovative mobile games, as well as  
discussion rounds on controversial topics. We therefore welcome the  
following kind of contributions to the workshop:

   * Research papers
   * Demos of prototypes of mobile games or authoring systems
   * Outlines of theses / disputes (short, concise, informal)

Contributions can be made either in German or English language.

Submissions have to adhere to LNI guidelines and can be up to 6 pages  
long. LNI guidelines and templates for Word and Latex can be found on  
the workshop's homepage. The proceedings are printed in black and  
white. In case that you are using color figures, please ensure that  
they do not loose their meaning without colors.

Workshop contributions should be submitted in electronic form via the  
conference system. A link to this system is provided on the workshop  
homepage.

Accepted contributions will be published in the joint printed  
proceedings of the annual GI meeting as part of the GI-series "Lecture  
Notes in Informatics (LNI)".

ORGANIZERS

The workshop is jointly organized by:

Pascal Bihler, University of Bonn
Barbara Grueter, University of Applied Science Bremen
Holger Muegge, University of Bonn
Leif Oppermann, Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottingham



PROGRAM COMMITTEE

   *	Christian Bauckhage, Fraunhofer IAIS, St. Augustin
   *	Linda Breitlauch, MediaDesign Hochschule, University of Applied  
Science Duesseldorf
   *	Gregor Broll, LMU Munich
   *	Wolfgang Broll, Fraunhofer FIT, St. Augustin
   *	Armin B. Cremers, University of Bonn
   *	Julian Kuecklich, University of Ulster
   *	Peter Moeckel, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Berlin
   *	Alexander Markowetz, University of Bonn
   *	Horst Pohlmann, University of Applied Science Cologne
   *	Albrecht Schmidt, University of Duisburg-Essen
   *	Clemens Tuerck, Ravensburger Spieleverlag, Ravensburg
   *	Steffen P. Walz, ETH Zurich
   *	Andreas Weber, University of Bonn


CONTACT DETAILS

Workshop web page: http://sam.iai.uni-bonn.de/mobile-gaming
Please contact the organizer Pascal Bihler, email: bihler at cs.uni-bonn.de


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Holger Muegge

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