Serious Games on the Move: International Conference: 23-24 June 2008

The mobile Games-Based Learning Project is mounting this exciting conference at Anglia Ruskin University’s Cambridge campus during June 2008. The project has been doing ground-breaking work in creating learning games in the fields of e-health, e-commerce and careers education. Not content with that as a difficult task the international team, for a touch of added excitement, have been concentrating on producing these games for use on mobile devices! The results so far are three prototype games, now in user trials, but, more importantly, the team has spear-headed a growth in games theory in an area currently dominated by lightweight games trivia. When the project is successful we’ll have taken great strides forward in the use of games on mobile devices for learning purposes.

The conference call for papers document says:-

This conference seeks to bring together leading researchers and developers who are movers and shakers at the cutting edge of their field with interested professionals in education and training. Our aim is an exciting and compelling conference that will stimulate debate on the design and deployment of serious games, including mobile learning games. Submissions are invited on all aspects of serious games that are relevant to learning and teaching.

This is a real opportunity to bring together everyone who is working to use innovative technologies for gaming with a serious learning purpose. So, if you see a use for games on mobile devices, beyond that of mental chewing gum on boring train journeys, then this is a must attend conference.

Submissions are being sought under three fairly broad heading:

1. Designing learning games and virtual worlds;

2. Embedding serious games and virtual worlds within learning programmes;

3. Tools, technologies and platforms for game-based learning, including mobile game-based learning;

The dates you need to be aware of are:-

• Submission deadline: 15 February 2008
• Notification to authors: 15 March 2008
• Early registration: until 15 April 2008
• Late registration: after 15 April 2008
• Author registration: 30 April 2008
• Final camera-ready submission: 30 April 2008
• Conference: Cambridge, UK, 22 – 23 June 2008

Take this link to read more about the Serious Games on the Move Conference.

Take this link to the submissions template.

And download the call for papers here:- sg-call.pdf

For more information contact the conference organiser here: Alice Mitchell

See you at the conference but in the meantime feel free to raise any interesting projects you know of in this discussion.