News update

Our minitrack Game-based Learning for History Heritage and Politics CFP to be held at ECGBL Barcelona 16-17 October 08, is out.

Great Game and VE Journals

I have joined the editorial boards of these journals and also LEA, and I know they consider good submissions in the fields of games, virtual environments and multimedia so please have a look.
  1. International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations*
  2. Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media
  3. Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds
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*Book review editor (with Paul Waelchli)-feel free to send us books to review!

Conference calls I should be promoting  

The 2nd European Computer Games Based Learning (ECGBL) conference in Barcelona 16 October 2008.  Digital Media and its Applications in Cultural Heritage (DMACH) in  Petra Jordan from 3-5 November 2008.
OZCHI:08 Designing for Habitat & Habitus in Townsville Australia from 8 December.
Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM) 2008 in  Cyprus in the European Autumn. Interactive Entertainment 08 (IE2008) at QUT in  Brisbane Australia 3 December 2008.

More conferences here.

Latest Book Chapters

Champion, Erik."Game-Based Historical Learning", Chapter XIII in Handbook of Research on Effective Electronic Gaming in Education, edited by Richard E. Ferdig, (July 2008).  
Champion, Erik. "Explorative Shadow Realms of Uncertain Histories", IN New Heritage: New Media and Cultural Heritage (Paperback) by Yehuda E. Kalay, Thomas Kvan, Janice Affleck (Editors).

Latest Papers

Lazy Panorama Monopoly Table: Take Your City for a Spin, for CAADRIA 2008, Thailand, 9-12 April, 2008. Co-authors Andrew Dekker and Petra Thomas. Erik presented.
A Critical Examination of Presence Applied to Cultural Heritage, for ISPR Presence Conference, Barcelona, 25-27 October 2007. Co-author Laia Pujol Tost presented.
Please Biofeed the Zombies: Enhancing the Gameplay and Display of a Horror Game Using Biofeedback, for DiGRA, Tokyo, 24-28 September 2007.
Social Presence and Cultural Presence in Oblivion, for PerthDAC, Perth, 15-18 September 2007.

Latest Articles

Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology (special issue editor),Special issue on real and virtual places. VOLUME 10, SPRING 2007. Writers: Richard Bartle, Edward Relph, Richard Coyne, Jeff Jacobson and Lynn Holden, Erik Champion. Edited by Erik Champion.

Fragging History: Why Gamers Don’t Learn It The Old Fashioned Way, the Journal of the International Digital Media and Arts Association (IDMA). History and Changing Paradigms: the Role of Digital Media and Arts in How We View our World (Special issue), issue 4.1, 12-24, edited by Sharon Ross.

JOURNAL CALLS

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CONFERENCE CALLS

    18-Apr-08    CSCW
    21-Apr-08    NordicCHI
    22-Apr-08    AIIDE
    23-Apr-08    Pacific Graphics
    25-Apr-08    Sandbox 2008
    27-Apr-08    ACM Multimedia
    29-Apr-08    E-learn 2008
    30-Apr-08    EAA 2008
    30-Apr-08    DIMEA 2008
    1-May-08    CATE 2008

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