Scope

The Central Theme The central theme of the TIE 2019 Conference is innovation, with a special focus on emerging technologies for education, creativity, entertainment, well being, arts, and business development. In addition, it aims at promoting new venture creation opportunities that emerge from these innovations, as well as innovative methods that target these core subjects. The conference aims to provide a platform where academics and practitioners from cross-disciplinary fields such as education, artistic creation, creative industries, and business can come together and collaborate. The event will encourage the exploration of the potential synergies that may arise from pooling the different perspectives.

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Topics

In its third edition of 2019, the Special Focus of the conference lies on applied storytelling, technological innovations for storytelling, storytelling systems for education, as well as systems that foster narrative creation, in the context of entrepreneurship and business. Submissions in these areas are particularly welcome. Other themes of interest include, but are not limited to:

Applied Digital Art
Interactive Systems for Education, Well Being, or Entertainment
Positive Computing and Well Being
Engaging and Playful Tangible Interfaces
Design of Playful Interactions
Mixed Reality Games and Toys
Creativity and Games
Creativity and AR/VR/XR
Virtual Agents for Educational and Social Simulations
Creative Learning
Digital Toys for Learning
Digital Media Design and Design Methodologies
Innovation Methods for Digital Creativity – Design Fiction, Science Fiction Prototyping (SFP), Diegetic Innovation Templating (DiT), etc.
Foresight Innovation and Identifying Opportunities for New Product/Future Technologies
New Venture Creation in Creative Industries
Theoretical Frameworks
We call for paper submissions from different disciplines covering these and related topics.

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Publication

All accepted papers will be published as conference proceedings by Springer USA and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world’s largest scientific libraries.

Proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in leading indexing services, Ei Compendex, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef, Google Scholar, DBLP, as well as EAI’s own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

Additional publication opportunities:

EAI Transactions series (Open Access)
EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing Book Series