Interactive Entertainment

Interactive Entertainment is Australasia's longest running games and digital entertainment conference. In 2023, IE has the honor of being co-located OzCHI at Victoria University of Wellington.  

Topics

Interactive Entertainment has a long history of being a diverse conference that bring together a broad audience of researchers and academics. The conference encourages and pursues deep collaboration and the strength of past events has always been the depth of conversation between people from diverse disciplines. We encourage contributions from fields as diverse as computer science, social science, design, communication, media studies, music, engineering, health and mathematics. Anyone interested in the myriad of technologies and approaches that make up interactive entertainment are encouraged to come along and share your discipline's perspective on interactive entertainment.  

Game design theory and practices	Games history and culture	Interaction design
Dynamic difficulty adjustment	Game engine technology	Computer graphics
Player Experience	Sound design	Virtual agents
Transmedia	User interface design	Serious games and gamification
Exergaming	Project management	Virtual/augmented reality
Experimental game design	Interactive film	Interactive simulation
Real-time animation	Pervasive games	Government policy
Procedural content generation	Narrative analysis	Data analytics in games
Sociocultural aspects of videogames	Edugames	Games research topics not listed here

 

Dates

Conference:  6 December 2023

Interactive Entertainment is a peer reviewed academic conference. All submissions must be original work, not previously published elsewhere, and not currently submitted to any other conference or journal. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking such that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will attend the conference to present the work.  

Format

All submissions are required to use the ACM Standard Proceedings format and conform to the ACM formatting guidelines linked below.  

ACM Workflow and Templates. Submissions should be in a single column format. If you are using Latex / Overleaf, it is recommended that you use the following command along with the ACM class files:  

\documentclass[manuscript, review, anonymous]{acmart}  

De-identification

Interactive Entertainment reviews are conducted as a double-blind process. Please Remove author names, and any additional information in the paper that could be used to identify the paper authors.  

Single Column Page Limits

Full Papers - 18 pages, plus references.  
Short Papers - 8 pages, plus references.  

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