Day 1 - Wed 11 Sep

09:00
Wed 11 Sep

Atrium

Coffee

Registration opens

09:30
Wed 11 Sep

030/031

Posters

9:30 - iGGi PhD Researchers, Years 2-3
10:00 - iGGi PhD Researchers, Years 4+

10:30
Wed 11 Sep

002

Welcome

Paul Cairns & Peter Cowling

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10:45
Wed 11 Sep

002

Keynote 1

Cari Watterton - Advancing Accessibility in Games: A Research Wishlist

11:30
Wed 11 Sep

002

Buzz Talk

iGGi PG Researchers - Year 2

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11:45
Wed 11 Sep

002

Talks:
AI

Dimitris Menexopoulos - The State of the Art in Procedural Audio

Prakriti Nayak - Modelling Player Behavior in Navigation-Based Games

Dominik Jeurissen - Playing Games with LLMs - Potential and Limitations

12:45
Wed 11 Sep

Atrium

Lunch

Game Demos

13:30
Wed 11 Sep

002

Buzz Talks

iGGi PG Researchers - Year 4+

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13:45
Wed 11 Sep

002

Talks:
Game Design

Océane Lissillour & Alex Flint - The tyranny of metrics in video game development

Steph Carter - "Sul Sul!" Designing fictional in-game languages that players will understand (sort of)

Tania Dales - Manipulating the human body when designing monsters for video games

14:45
Wed 11 Sep

Atrium & 036/037

Coffee

Mini Industry Expo - Part 1 & Posters continues

14:45
Wed 11 Sep

036/037

Mini Industry Expo & Posters

Mini Industry Expo - Part 1 & Posters

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15:45
Wed 11 Sep

002

Keynote 2

Nasos Kokkinakis - Not a Mirage: Expectancy Violation causes migraines, nausea and accounts for the Uncanny Valley Effect

16:30
Wed 11 Sep

002

Closing Remarks

16:45
Wed 11 Sep

036/037

Mini Industry Expo

Mini Industry Expo - Part 2 & Posters

18:00
Wed 11 Sep

Atrium &
030/031

Light Buffet, Social + Games

Day 2 - Thu 12 Sep

09:30
Thu 12 Sep

Atrium

Coffee

10:00
Thu 12 Sep

002; 023/024; 036/037

Workshops & Panel

PANEL chaired by Ross Fifield & Florence Smith Nicholls - Preserving Digital Play: Strategies and Challenges in Game Preservation

Steph Carter & Océane Lissillour - Navigating Contexts of Gamification: User Perceptions and Autonomy in Gamified Apps

Karl Clarke - Step into the Virtual: An Introduction to Building SocialVR Worlds

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11:00
Thu 12 Sep

Atrium

Coffee

11:30
Thu 12 Sep

002

Talks:
HCI

Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat - How Could They Win? Redefining Win Prediction for Esport Narratives

Nirit Binyamini Ben-Meir - Playing with living systems - harnessing playful behaviours to provoke thought about human and non-human relationships

Doruk Balcı - An Ode to Playing Badly

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12:30
Thu 12 Sep

Atrium

Lunch

13:15
Thu 12 Sep

002

Buzz Talks

13:30
Thu 12 Sep

002

Talks & Panel:
Special Interest

Marko Tot - When the numbers just feel weird

Lauren Winter - YOU WERE NOT PREPARED: Contrasting COVID-19 and the World of Warcraft Pandemic

PANEL chaired by Nicole Levermore: Kyle Worrall, Evelyn Tan & Diego Pérez-Liébana - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (of Starting-up)

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14:45
Thu 12 Sep

Atrium

Coffee

15:15
Thu 12 Sep

002

Keynote 3

Riley Miladi - Empowering Artists through Machine Learning: Balancing Creativity and Control

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16:00
Thu 12 Sep

002

Closing Remarks

Please note that all attendees of the iGGi Conference and Mini Expo will need to adhere to our Code of Conduct.