Second Workshop on Serious Games in CH

The “Serious Games in Cultural Heritage Field” (SeGaCH) workshop is intended to be a
forum for the presentation of technological, cultural, and business advances in multidisciplinary
areas related with Serious Games applied to the Cultural Heritage (CH). The
main objective of the workshop is the exploration of “engage yourself with the heritage”
concept, in order to investigate new, compelling modalities of interacting with faithful
representations of the CH and propose new areas of applications for Serious Games. The
idea is to explore how to conveniently apply leading-the-edge entertainment technologies
to the promotion and wide dissemination of contents and experiences related to the CH.

Best selected papers will be considered for a special issue in the International
Journal of Arts and Technology (IJART, www.inderscience.com/ijart).

The topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following aspects:

Promotion of the cultural heritage through entertainment technologies
Serious games to promote knowledge and interaction with the cultural heritage
Virtual worlds with a cultural-heritage value
Living worlds
Online interaction with 3D reconstructions of the heritage
Serious games programming and design
Narrative related to cultural heritage (especially non-linear story-telling and interactive narrative)
Digital tools for increasing the interaction of the general public with the cultural heritage
Game Artificial Intelligence and Cultural Heritage
Cultural Computing
Cultural Knowledge Engineering
Cultural Heritage applications-games in mobile devices
Interactive Digital TV and Cultural Heritage
New interaction modalities with digital representations of the cultural heritage
Validation of the cultural appropriateness and usefulness of systems based on digital entertainment
Evaluation and assessment methodologies
User-centred design of cultural entertainment applications
Business models for serious games and, more generally, for cultural entertainment
Definition of user needs and stakeholder requirements for cultural entertainment projects
Tools, methodologies and practices to support participatory and contextual design of multidisciplinary teams in projects for the digital heritage
Case studies based on concrete experiences

Organisers:
Francesco Bellotti, Riccardo Berta and Alessandro De Gloria
ELIOS Lab, University of Genoa

Scientific Committee:
Raphael Attias, ORT, France
Giancarlo Bo, Giunti Labs, Italy
Brunhild Bushoff, Sagasnet, Germany
Wei Chen, Technical University Eindhoven, Holland
Luca Chittaro, University of Udine, Italy
Anton Eliens, VU University Amsterdam/ Twente University, Netherlands
Sven Havemann, Institut fur ComputerGraphik, Austria
Nittai Hofshi, Cognifit, Israel
Simon Lucas, University of Essex, United Kingdom
Anton Nijholt, Twente University, Netherlands
Aiga Ozolina, Techical University of Riga, Latvia
Fabio Paternò, CNR-ISTI, Italy
Matthias Rauterberg, Technical University Eindhoven, Holland
Daniel Thalmann, EPFL VRlab, Switzerland
Gonçalo Leite Velho, Polytechnic of Tomar, Portugal
Stefanos Vrochidis, Certh, Greece
Bruno Zuga, Riga Tech University, Latvia

Paper submission:
To participate please send a full paper to: segach@elios.unige.it
Deadline is the 15 May 2009 24 May 2009