Topics include

• Game design
• Gamification
• Platforms and tools for gaming
• AI applications for serious games
• Serious games methodologies
• User-modeling
• User assessment
• Game modeling
• Virtual environments
• Human-computer interaction
• Augmented reality
• Visualization techniques
• Alternate reality games
• Frame games
• Transmedia
• Pervasive gaming
• Mobile gaming
• Education and learning
• Educational principles/theories/outcomes
• Serious game mechanics
• Mapping educational outcomes and principles into serious game mechanics
• Case studies in serious games and virtual worlds
• Applications (e.g., areas such as environment, cultural heritage, health, smart buildings, v-commerce, business, management, entrepreneurship, humanities, engineering, manufacturing, security, safety, ethics)
• User studies