CALL FOR PAPERS
*** ICIDS – Interactive Storytelling 2009 ***
2nd International Conference on
Interactive Digital Storytelling
09-11 December 2009, Guimarães, Portugal
Extended Submission Deadline: July 6th, 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 center that extends a historical palace, at walking distance from most hotels and from the city center 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 behavior, 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 formalized 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 shall 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 organizational 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
Prorgamme 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 organized by the University of Minho and the CCG (Centro de Computação Gráfica) with support of OFAI (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence). ICIDS is sponsored by ZON Multimedia and several other partners.
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