[ecrea] CHI Play 17 Amsterdam

Just a small reminder that early registration is still open for CHIPLAY 
2017 until September 15th, http://chiplay.acm.org.

I’d like to personally invite you to the CHI Play 2017 conference (Oct. 
15-18) that we are organizing in Amsterdam. Let me update you on the 
upcoming conference and possibilities to attend, especially the keynote 
of Prof Ian Bogost, which is open to the public on Sunday evening, 
October 15th. CHI PLAY is an international and interdisciplinary 
conference (by ACM SIGCHI) for researchers and professionals across all 
areas of play, games and human-computer interaction (HCI). We call this 
area “player-computer interaction.” More information is available at 
http://chiplay.acm.org.

This year we have received a record number of submissions, and we were 
able to select a excellent group of papers for presentation! CHI Play is 
a single-track conference with a friendly community, and attendees will 
easily mingle and connect with presenters. Early-bird discount ends on 
September 15, be sure to register before then 
(http://chiplay.acm.org/2017/registration/).

To make the conference more accessible for everyone, we decided to place 
Ian Bogost’s opening keynote on Sunday October 15th evening, and provide 
super-discounted tickets (30 Euros, students 15 Euros - use discount 
code studentKey17) . We want to address not only academics, but also 
practitioners and students, so please feel free to forward this 
invitation (https://dezwijger.nl/programma/play-anything).

Monday 16th is “industry day” (a special 1-day pass is available), and 
will culminate in an exhibition, named ‘Dutch Courage’, showcasing games 
& playable artifacts from the Netherlands. The refreshments & social 
mixer at the opening of the exhibition is free for conference attendees, 
and special tickets are available for those who want to attend only it 
(http://chiplay.acm.org/2017/registration/).

We also have courses on Sunday 15th, including prof. Sebastian 
Deterding’s “How to Do Gameful Design”. Deterding is among the top 
scholars in gamification, and his course addresses practitioners, 
graduate students, and researchers. Information for registering at 
https://gamefuldesign.wordpress.com/.

CHI PLAY brings research and industry closer, so that the game research, 
design and development community can benefit. As a result, this year CHI 
PLAY is trying something fresh, a new track, called ‘Spotlight Papers’, 
which will highlight significant work from both industry and 
research — from innovative implementations to thought-provoking case 
studies.

And we have much more that doesn’t really fit into this email. Do visit 
http://chiplay.acm.org for more information.

I am really looking forward seeing you in Amsterdam next month!

General Chairs
Ben Schouten
Zachary Toups
Panos Markopoulos


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