Third Workshop on Story-Telling and Educational Games

Stories and story-telling are cultural achievements of significant relevance even in modern times. Nowadays, story-telling is being enhanced with the convergence of sociology, pedagogy, and technology. Recently, computer gaming is also deployed for educational purposes and has proved to be an effective approach to mental stimulation and intelligence development. Many conceptual similarities and some procedural correlation exist between story-telling and educational gaming. Therefore these two areas can be clubbed for research on Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL). Many facets of story-telling and educational gaming emulate real life processes, which can be represented either as complex story graphs or as interleaved sub-problems. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

While the integration of learning and gaming provides a great opportunity, several motivational challenges must also be addressed to ensure successful realization. Non-linear digital stories are an ideal starting point for the creation of educational games, since each story addresses a certain problem, so that the story recipient can benefit from other users’ experiences. This leads to the development of more realistic stories providing the kernel for non-trivial educational videogames. These stories cover the instructional part of an educational game, while the game adds the motivation and engagement part.

This workshop aims at bringing together researchers, experts and practitioners from the domains of non-linear digital interactive story-telling and educational gaming to share ideas and knowledge. There is a great amount of separate research in these two fields and the celebration of this workshop will allow the participants to discover and leverage potential synergies.  

Workshop topics

Theories in story-telling and games

Story-telling and educational game design paradigms

Augmented story-telling and gaming

Story-telling and educational gaming with social software

Mobile story-telling and educational gaming

Cross-media/transmedia story-telling and gaming

Computer gaming for story-telling (Game design for narrative architectures)

Multimedia story and game authoring

Story-telling for creating educational game content

Story-telling and educational gaming applications

Registration

Scientific researchers and industry partners within the story-telling and educational gaming domain are invited to participate in STEG'10. Please use the ICWL10 conference website to register: http://www.hkws.org/conference/icwl2010/registration.html

Submissions

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research as full papers (max. 10 pages) or work-in-progress as short papers (max. 5 pages) according to the Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/lncs). For camera-ready format instructions, please see "For Authors" instructions at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed for originality, significance, clarity and quality. Accepted papers will be published online as part of the CEUR Workshop proceedings series. CEUR-WS.org is a recognized ISSN publication series, ISSN 1613-0073.

To submit your paper please use the STEG submission website hosted at easychair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=steg10

Important dates

Paper Submission: September 24, 2010

Notification of acceptance: October 22, 2010

Camera Ready Submission: November 12, 2010

Workshop date: December 8-10, 2010 

Organisers

Yiwei Cao, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Emmanuel Stefanakis, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece

Stephan Lukosch, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

David Farrell, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK

Dominik Renzel, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Program Committee

Alev Elci, Eastern Mediterranean University, Magusa, North Cyprus

Amanda Gower, British Telecommunications plc, UK

Anna Hannemann, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Ansgar Scherp, UC Irvine, CA, USA

Armin Weinberger, LMU, Munich, Germany

Bailing Zhang, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

Baltasar Fernández Manjón, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Carlos Delgado Kloos, Carlos III University, Spain

Christian Guetl, Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media (IICM), Graz University of Technology, Austria

Cord Hockemeyer, University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Dietrich Albert, University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Daniel Burgos, ATOS Origin, Spain

Dominik Renzel, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Emmanuel Stefanakis, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece

Eeva Nygren, University of Eastern Finland, Finland

Georg Thallinger, Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria

Griff Richards, Athabasca University, Canada

Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany

Helen Ashman, University of South Australia, Australia

Hermann Maurer, Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media (IICM), Graz University of Technology, Austria

Irma Lindt, Fraunhofer FIT, St. Augustin, Germany

Jose Luis Sierra, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Kinshuk, Athabasca University, Canada

Lionel Brunie, INSA de Lyon, France

Marc Spaniol, MPI, Saarbrücken, Germany

Marius Preda, Institut National des Télécommunications, France

Martin Haller, TU Berlin, Germany

Michael Granitzer, Know Center, Graz, Austria

Michael Hausenblas, Joanneum Research, Austria

Nalin Sharda, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

Pablo Moreno-Ger, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Peter Schallauer, Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria

Raphaël Troncy, CWI, Netherlands

Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Richard Chbeir, LE2I Laboratory (UMR - CNRS) - Bourgogne University, France

Romulus Grigoras, ENSEEIHT, France

Stamatia Dasiopoulou, ITI Thessaloniki, Greece

Stefan Göbel, TU Darmstadt, Germany

Vedran Sabol, Know-Center Graz, Austria

Victor Manuel Garcia-Barrios, University of Technology Graz, Austria

Vincent Charvillat, ENSEEIHT, France

Vincent Oria, NJIT, USA

Werner Bailer, Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria

Werner Klieber, Know-Center Graz, Austria

Wolfgang Gräther, Fraunhofer FIT, St. Augustin, Germany

Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT, St. Augustin, Germany

Zinayida Petrushyna, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany