Future Play 2008: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Artificial intelligence

• Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari, Michael Sellers:
  Good moods: outlook, affect and mood in dynemotion and the mind module. 1-8
  
• Kevin Grant, David Mould:
  Combining heuristic and landmark search for path planning. 9-16
  
• Christine Bailey, Michael Katchabaw:
  An emergent framework for realistic psychosocial behaviour in non player characters. 17-24
  

Educational games, game-based learning

• Clara Fernández-Vara, Philip Tan:
  The game studies practicum: applying situated learning to teach professional practices. 25-32
  
• José Pablo Zagal:
  A framework for games literacy and understanding games. 33-40
  
• Claire Dormann, Robert Biddle:
  Understanding game design for affective learning. 41-48
  
• Minh Quang Tran, Robert Biddle:
  Collaboration in serious game development: a case study. 49-56
  

Psychology and sociology in games

• Anders Tychsen, Michael Hitchens, Thea Brolund:
  Motivations for play in computer role-playing games. 57-64
  
• Ben Medler, Joe Fitzgerald, Brian Magerko:
  Using conflict theory to model complex societal interactions. 65-72
  
• Anders Tychsen, Alessandro Canossa:
  Defining personas in games using metrics. 73-80
  
• Lennart Nacke, Craig A. Lindley:
  Flow and immersion in first-person shooters: measuring the player's gameplay experience. 81-88
  

Games and society

• Monica McGill:
  Critical skills for game developers: an analysis of skills sought by industry. 89-96
  
• Fred Sebastian, Anthony Whitehead:
  It's all Greek to me: a case for the classics in game development education. 97-104
  
• Jennifer Jenson, Suzanne de Castell, Nicholas Taylor, Milena Droumeva:
  Baroque Baroque revolution: high culture gets game. 105-112
  
• Anders Tychsen, Jonas Heide Smith:
  Game format effects on communication in multi-player games. 113-120
  

Game design

• David Harel, Itai Segall, Hillel Kugler, Yaki Setty:
  Crafting game-models using reactive system design. 121-128
  
• David Pinelle, Nelson Wong, Tadeusz Stach:
  Using genres to customize usability evaluations of video games. 129-136
  
• Annakaisa Kultima, Johannes Niemelä, Janne Paavilainen, Hannamari Saarenpää:
  Designing game idea generation games. 137-144
  
• Christopher Wolfe, J. David Smith, T. C. Nicholas Graham:
  A low-cost infrastructure for tabletop games. 145-151
  

Graphics, visual techniques, sound in games, and hardware

• M. Mohsin Saleemi, Kristian Nybom, Johan Lilius, Jerker Björkqvist:
  Content scheduling in multimedia interactive mobile games. 152-159
  
• Michael Nitsche:
  Experiments in the use of game technology for pre-visualization. 160-165
  
• Brent Cowan, Bill Kapralos:
  Spatial sound for video games and virtual environments utilizing real-time GPU-based convolution. 166-172
  
• Richard Wetzel, Rod McCall, Anne-Kathrin Braun, Wolfgang Broll:
  Guidelines for designing augmented reality games. 173-180
  

Artificial intelligence

• Michael Kutz, Rainer Herpers:
  Urban traffic simulation for games: a general approach for simulation of urban actors. 181-184
  
• Eike Falk Anderson:
  Scripted smarts in an intelligent virtual environment: behaviour definition using a simple entity annotation language. 185-188
  
• Robert G. Price, Scott D. Goodwin:
  Synthesizing neural networks for learning in games. 189-191
  

Educational games, game-based learning

• Daniel Volk:
  How to embed a game engineering course into a computer science curriculum. 192-195
  
• Vinod Srinivasan, Karen L. Butler-Purry, Susan Pedersen:
  Using video games to enhance learning in digital systems. 196-199
  
• Brian Magerko, Carrie Heeter, Joe Fitzgerald, Ben Medler:
  Intelligent adaptation of digital game-based learning. 200-203
  
• Mike Pattrick, Andrew Hogue, Khalil El-Khatib:
  A secure digital asset managment network for game development and education. 204-207
  

Psychology and sociology in games

• Robert W. A. Rawn, David R. Brodbeck:
  Examining the relationship between game type, player disposition and aggression. 208-211
  

Game design

• Jaroslav Svelch:
  What you can't see is what you don't get: paradigms of game world visualization. 212-215
  
• Alejandro Catalá, Javier Jaen:
  A semantic model for reactive entities to support collaborative game design. 216-219
  
• Jennifer Whitson, Chris Eaket, Brian Greenspan, Minh Quang Tran, Natalie King:
  Neo-immersion: awareness and engagement in gameplay. 220-223
  
• Sonja Maier, Daniel Volk:
  Facilitating language-oriented game development by the help of language workbenches. 224-227
  

Graphics, visual techniques, sound in games, and hardware

• Eike Falk Anderson, Steffen Engel, Peter Comninos, Leigh McLoughlin:
  The case for research in game engine architecture. 228-231
  
• Jia Sing Chen, Andrew Hogue:
  Towards 3D model interoperability in games. 232-235
  
• Jeffrey Yim, Eric Qiu, T. C. Nicholas Graham:
  Experience in the design and development of a game based on head-tracking input. 236-239
  
• Robert J. Teather, Wolfgang Stürzlinger:
  Exaggerated head motions for game viewpoint control. 240-243
  
• Rainer Herpers, Wolfgang Heiden, Michael Kutz, David Scherfgen, Ulrich Hartmann, Jens Bongartz, Oliver Schulzyk:
  FIVIS bicycle simulator: an immersive game platform for physical activities. 244-247
  
• Kevin G. Stanley, David Pinelle, Alan Bandurka, David McDine, Regan L. Mandryk:
  Integrating cumulative context into computer games. 248-251
  

Artificial intelligence

• Michael Janzen, Michael C. Horsch, Eric Neufeld:
  Camera selection using SCSPs. 252-253
  
• Arun Somasekharan:
  To grab or not to grab: a viable framework for physically based hand animation in game characters. 254-255
  
• Yingying She, Peter Grogono:
  The procedural planning system used in the agent architecture of games. 256-257
  

Educational games, game-based learning

• Andrew Milner, Andrew Hogue, Bill Kapralos, John Friedlan:
  Interactive accounting simulation environment for accounting education and training. 258-259
  
• Brent Cowan, Matthew Shelley, Hamed Sabri, Bill Kapralos, Andrew Hogue, Michelle Hogan, Michael R. M. Jenkin, Sandra Goldsworthy, Louise Rose, Adam Dubrowski:
  Interprofessional care simulator for critical care education. 260-261
  
• Alain Forget, Sonia Chiasson, Robert Biddle:
  Lessons from Brain Age on password memorability. 262-263
  

Game design

• Victoria McArthur:
  World of Warcraft as a ludic cyborg. 264-265
  
• Victoria McArthur, Tyler M. Pace, Aaron R. Houssian:
  Construction of cybertypes in Lineage II: an analysis of game interfaces and support documentation. 266-267
  

Graphics, visual techniques, sound in games, and hardware

• Michiaki Yasumura, Keita Watanabe, Mark H. Chignell:
  Game 2.0 and beyond: an interaction design approach to digital game evolution. 268-269
  
• Christian Kletsch, Daniel Volk:
  Towards an AJAX-based game engine. 270-271
  
• Stephen Jacobs, Christopher A. Egert:
  Kickback: turning game history students into pinball designers. 272-273
  
• Catherine Leung, Andor Salga, Andrew Smith:
  Canvas 3D JS library. 274-275