VS Games 2018 IPC

VS Games (a conference we hosted here at Bournemouth University back in 2013, soon to be five years in fact from when that happened which shows all too well how quickly time flies) is to take place in Wurzburg, Germany in September for its 2018 outing. 

I have been invited to be on its International Program Committee; the full name of the conference is is Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications and is well worth attending/monitoring in terms of proceedings if you are doing work in areas such as serious games.

CHME 2018 Conference Scientific Committee

Another conference I am helping out with in terms of participating in its scientific committee is CHME 2018, which in fact takes place here in Bournemouth this May. 

CHME stands for Council for Hospitality Management Education (and there is a Technology and Innovation in Hospitality strand/theme).

You can find out more on the event here on the official site of this annual conference.

Edutainment 2018 Program Committee

I have been invited to participate in the Edutainment 2018 Program Committee; the conference took place here at Bournemouth, UK last year and is now moving to China for its 12th outing, in late June (hosted by the Xian University of Technology).

More on the official site of the conference here.

ICONS 2018 TPC

I have been invited to take part in the Technical Program Committee for the upcoming ICONS 2018 conference (which stands for International Conference on Systems), which is to take place in Greece in April 2018.

More information on the event on its official site here.

Cyberworlds 2017 short paper

I am the co-author on a short paper which was recently accepted for publication for the upcoming Cyberworlds 2017 conference in September. 

The paper is titled "OpenGL|D - A Multi-user Single State Architecture for Multiplayer Game Development".

More on the event on the official conference site here.

ICTR 2018 IPC

I will be on the IPC for a conference which is in a similar area to ENTER (see blog post below), running for the first time in March next year (in Finland). This is ICTR 2018 (standing for International Conference on Tourism Research).

For more details, deadlines etc. for this ACPI organised conference see here.

PATTERNS 2018 IPC

Another conference I have been invited for in terms of its IPC is PATTERNS 2018. 

Taking place in Barcelona, Spain in February next year this is the tenth outing of the event. Its full name is Pervasive Patterns and Applications.

More on its official site here.

Reviewer for ACE 2017

As with several previous years I have been invited to review for the annual ACE 2017 conference (Advances in Computer Entertainment).

This year the 14th version of this conference takes place not very far from Bournemouth, it is in fact to be in London this December. 

More on the official conference site here.

ENTER 2018 IPC

Another IPC I have been invited to sit on recently is the one for the ENTER 2018 conference.

This year the conference takes place in Sweden in January 2018. More information on this can be found here.

ARTECH 2017 IPC

I have recently been invited to assist in the International Program Committee for the ARTECH 2017 conference.

This takes place in China this September. More information on the conference itself (it is its 8th outing) can be found on its official website here.

ICGIP 2017 IPC

Another conference I have been invited on the International Program Committee for is ICGIP 2017 (International Conference on Graphic and Image Processing).

To take place in October in China, you can see more about the event here on its official website.

iGBL 2017 IPC

I have been invited to sit on the International Program Committee for iGBL, the Irish conference on Game-Based Learning (2017).

More information on the conference here, it is to take place in June this year.

Edutainment 2017 and four special issues in journals

Edutainment 2017 that I am involved with as a chair, taking place in the summer this year, has recently had a number of special issues confirmed; these will be for selected, significantly expanded and having undergone another review articles of the conference.

The journals are the following four, Springer's Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer's Journal of Vizualization, Elsevier's Entertainment Computing (which I have been the guest editor for in the past for a special issue) and, finally, IGI's International Journal of Distance Education Technologies. 

More details here.

VS Games 2017 IPC

I have been added to the International Program Committee for VS Games 2017, which takes place in Athens this September (the conference has in the past taken place here at Bournemouth in 2013 but also Athens too, back in 2011).

More on this here.

Extension of deadlines for Edutainment 2017

Edutainment 2017 which takes place here in Bournemouth now has an extended set of deadlines (for submissions).

Full papers are now in on the 19th of March; this is worth checking out here in full. 

PG Connects event

This was a year where we did a number of field trips with students of the Games Technology and Games Programming courses here at Bournemouth University; and we have another one coming up in mid January.

The PG Connects London event is taking place on the 16th and 17th of January (2017) and is packed with great talks and networking opportunities; more information and a complete schedule for this seminal mobile games industry conference here.

ICMWT2017 Program Committee

Another conference program committee I have been invited to participate in is the one for ICMWT2017, or, as the full title of the conference is, the iCatse Conference on Mobile and Wireless Technology. 

This one is the fourth outing of this conference and is to take place in Kuala Lampur in June 2017.

More details on the official website of the conference which can be found here.

CGVCVIP 2017 Program Committee

I am on the Program Committee for CGVCVIP 2017, which is next year's outing of the Computer Graphics, Visualization, Computer Vision and Image Processing conference. This is to take place in Lisbon, Portugal in July 2017.

You can see the committee for the conference here where you can also access other information such as deadlines etc.

Edutainment 2017 General Co-Chair

I am involved with Edutainment 2017; a conference which is to be organised in summer 2017 here in Bournemouth, UK, with a strong focus on serious games, game based learning and various other related concepts.

I am to be the General Co-Chair for this, the conference is also to have Springer published proceedings but also special issues in journals. For more details on all of this, deadlines and other information please check the official website here.

BCUR 2017 at Bournemouth University

Next year the annual British Conference for Undergraduate Research (BUCR) will take place at Bournemouth University. This is to be in April 2017.

More information on this can be found here.