[ecrea] "multi.player - International Conference on the Social Aspects of Digital Gaming"

Title: "multi.player - International Conference on the Social Aspects of 
Digital Gaming"
Target participants: Researchers from a variety of disciplines 
interested in social interaction in games as well as gaming industry 
experts (but open to all)
Affiliation: University of Hohenheim, Chair of Communication Studies 
(Interactive Media and Online Communication)
Venue: University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
Date: Jul 21 - Jul 23, 2011
Contact: (gamescon2011 /at/ uni-hohenheim.de)
Website: https://sofoga.uni-hohenheim.de/conference_home.html

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The international conference "multi.player", hosted by the University of 
Hohenheim (Germany), will take a closer look at the various forms of 
human interaction in digital games. The aim of the conference is to 
bring together researchers from a variety of disciplines interested in 
social interaction in games, including (but not limited to) the fields 
of communication research, media studies, sociology, psychology, 
education studies, and economics.The conference is co-organized by the 
TWG „Digital Games Research“, the „Sociology of Media Communication“ 
section of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) and the ERC 
research group „The social fabric of virtual life“.

Keynote speakers:

- Professor Richard A. Bartle: "Types of Users of Player Types".
Dr. Richard A. Bartle is Professor of Computer Game Design at the 
University of Essex, UK. He is best known for having co-written in 1978 
the first virtual world, MUD, and for his 1996 Player Types model which 
has seen widespread adoption by the MMO industry.

- Professor Mark Griffiths: "Online gaming addiction: does it really 
exist?".
Dr. Mark Griffiths works at the School of Social Sciences at Nottingham 
Trent University. He is one of the world's leading experts in research 
on digital games addiction

- Professor Torill Mortensen: "Phased out: togetherness and parallel 
play in multi-user games"
Torill Elvira Mortensen is associate professor at the IT-University of 
Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research is directed towards games and online 
culture, focusing on multi-user games and social media.

- Professor Yvonne de Kort: "How to win friends - gaming as a socially 
situated experience"
Dr. Yvonne de Kort is associate professor of environmental psychology in 
the research group Human-Technology Interaction at Eindhoven University 
of Technology. Her research focuses most on social interaction, 
well-being and health of people in virtual, mediated, or augmented spaces.


The thematic sessions will address to the following topics:

- Real Life - Virtual life

- Social games

- e-Sports

- Social interaction in games

- Risks and challenges of social gaming

- Learning and social games

- Co-located gaming

- Production and construction of games

- Design and social aspects of gaming

- MMORPGs


The conference program includes a special round table session „Industry 
meets academia“ featuring top industry professionals, and a first 
official meeting of the new TWG „Digital Games Research“. Fore more 
details, please visit the conference website at:

https://sofoga.uni-hohenheim.de/conference_home.html



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