Topics include:

• Technology track:
  • Advanced Human-Computer Interaction for serious games (hardware, software)
  • Artificial intelligence for serious games
  • Neuro-scientific principles, experiments and applications
  • Hardware devices for user status and performance assessment and estimation
  • Technological support for collaborative games
  • User modeling and profiling
  • Adaptivity
  • Augmented and virtual reality
  • Support for learner performance assessment (stealth, formative, summative)
  • Provision of feedback
  • Development tools
  • Support for educators and trainers
  • Support for gamification
  • Learning analytics
  • Modeling and simulation
  • Interoperability and standards
• Pedagogical foundations track:
  • Pedagogical theories and their applications in the field of serious games
  • User modeling
  • Methodologies and principles for serious games user assessment
  • Support for educators and trainers
  • Pedagogical principles of gamification
  • Support higher-order thinking through serious games
• Serious Game design track:
  • Mapping educational outcomes and principles into serious game mechanics
  • Serious game mechanics joining entertainment and pedagogical goals
  • Gamification design
  • Design of score and rewards
  • How to balance realism, engagement, learning and entertainment
  • Tools for SG and gamification design
• Application track:
  • User studies applying serious games in formal education
  • User studies applying serious games in training (professional, corporate and executive training, skill development and other workforce programs)
  • Case studies on developing/deploying serious games in application domains such as business, management, entrepreneurship, environment, cultural heritage, health, smart buildings, humanities, engineering, manufacturing, security, safety, ethics, etc.
  • User studies of applying serious games in the above domains, studying effectiveness for learning/training
  • Understanding how, when, with whom, for what to use serious games
  • Gamification in various application domains
  • Verification of learning transfer
  • Study of the long-term impact
  • Assessing personal abilities through serious games
  • Usability studies
• Industrial track:
  • Serious games market studies
  • Business models for serious games
  • Pervasive gaming
  • Mobile gaming
  • Gamification
  • Products to support serious games development and deployment