Topics include

• cost-effective production (authoring tools, support for non-programmers; e-learning platform and tools, animation techniques; game engines, middleware)
• game design and development (game engines, game physics, game rendering and animation, virtual characters)
• game technology (browser games, (Massive) Multiplayer Online Games, mobile games, console games)
• personalization and adaptation (player, gamer, context models, presentation and gameplay, planning and AI)
• collaborative learning and training environments (multiplayer serious games, game mastering, games and social networks, collaboration, competition)
• narration and (interactive, digital) storytelling
• interfaces and sensor technology (game consoles and interfaces, vital sensors and parameters; augmented reality, mixed reality in mobile education/training scenarios, location-based and ubiquitous technology; non-visual senses: smelling, touching, hearing)
• evaluation studies (evaluation methodologies, models and metrics, evaluation tools, effectiveness, efficiency)

• business models and market studies for/of Serious Games and Edutainment applications
• grand challenges and obstacles for game developers and publishers

• field reports, demonstrations and evaluation studies of Serious Games...
• for prevention, rehabilitation and therapy
• as well as any form of learning and knowledge transfer ranging from games for the kindergarten to games at school and
• university or professional training and learning environments for individuals or groups
• research prototypes and commercial games ‘more than fun’
• as well as edutainment applications in the fields of
• education and remote classrooms,
• educational robots and toys,
• digital museum and cultural heritage,
• simulation and training