Interactive Entertainment is Australasia's longest running games and digital entertainment conference. The twelfth series of the conference will be held 2-5 February 2016 as part of the Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW 2016) - http://cs.anu.edu.au/conf/acsw2016/. ASCW 2016 will be hosted at Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia. Registration for IE2016 will enable delegates to attend sessions in any conference participating in ACSW. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library.

IE2016 welcomes scientists, designers, artists, technicians, students, industry and academics from across the spectrum. 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 issues that impact on interactive entertainment and computer games are encouraged to come along and share their thoughts on "Different Perspectives" in Interactive Entertainment.

heuristic methodologies
control and evaluation
design practices and method
design history
transmedia
experience measurement
dynamic difficulty balancing
core mechanics
discussions on narrative
networking models
game physics
game graphics
sound design
artificial intelligence
user interface design
serious games
exergaming
development processes
evaluation methodologies
creativity in games
experimental gameplay forms
advances in mobile and portable games
virtual reality
interactive simulation
interactive film
animation in games
history of interactive media
commercial concerns
case studies on interactive applications
games thinking not listed here

Key Dates
Full Paper Submission: 14th August 2015
Author Notification: 25th September 2015
Camera-ready/Registration: 26th October 2015

Paper Submission and Publication
Papers must not exceed 10 pages for full papers or 4 pages for short papers. The proceedings of this event will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Submission to IE2016 will be electronically only via the ACSW EasyChair system. The formatting requirements and resources for authors, together with the link for EasyChair electronic submission, can be found on the IE2016 website (http://www.ieconference.org/ie2016/.

For more info email: admin@ieconference.org