Topics include

• Multi-player Games: cloud based games, networked games, location awareness, infrastructure, performance, latency, architecture, security
• Game Platforms: mobile/handheld, computers, consoles, portable consoles, cloud servers, network servers, system architecture, network architecture
• Beyond Entertainment: health, exercise, education, training, business, advertising, social change, usability beyond games
• Design, Development and Production: design of games, tools, interdependencies of software & hardware, graphics, animation, content generation, artificial intelligence, cinematography
• Interfaces: interoperability, wearable devices, biometrics, 3D effects, haptics, gaze, proximity, audio, gesture
• Technology: multi-core processors, mobile SoC, memory, 3D display, 3D graphics, augmented reality, virtual reality, storage, vision, imaging, wireless, RF, MEMS, nano devices??
• User Experience: playing experience, behavioral impact, social impact, player modeling, learning, cultural impact, lessons from games
• Play: Theories of Play, historical evolution of play, relationship between electronic andnon-electronic forms of games and toys, psychological dimensions of play, play across the lifespan, impact of computers on play, player-audience interactions.
• Game Design and Development Education: Curriculum Design, Course Design, Survey of Existing Programs, Informal Education