Monday 22 December 2008

Elsevier's Entertainment Computing journal, new computer games research journal

A new journal starting out in 2009 for everyone in computer games technology research, from the very reputable Elsevier publisher, is Entertainment Computing.

Entertainment Computing publishes original, peer-reviewed research articles and serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating innovative research ideas, emerging technologies, empirical investigations, state-of-the-art methods and tools in all aspects of digital entertainment, new media, entertainment computing, gaming, robotics, toys and applications among researchers, engineers, social scientists, artists and practitioners.

Theoretical, technical, empirical, survey articles and case studies are all appropriate to the journal. Specific areas of interest include:
• Computer, video, console and internet games
• Digital new media for entertainment
• Entertainment robots
• Entertainment technology, applications, application program interfaces, and entertainment system architectures
• Human factors of entertainment technology
• Impact of entertainment technology on users and society
• Integration of interaction and multimedia capabilities in entertainment systems• Interactive television and broadcasting
• Methodologies, paradigms, tools, and software/hardware architectures for supporting entertainment applications
• New genres of entertainment technology
• Simulation/gaming methodologies used in education, training, and research

In the area of empirical and experimental studies the journal is looking for contributions which are very well documented, innovative, and tested or evaluated in a particular entertainment domain.

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