[agents] call for poapers / worskhop announcement

[Harko Verhagen]

Social Believability in Games Workshops

Social believability is of key interest to computer game studies and 
development, and believable game characters are of essence for player 
enjoyment and immersion. Thus, discussing elements of immersion from a 
research and a design perspective may contribute to developing more 
entertaining computer games. In 2013 we organized two workshops 
organized with the theme of Social Believable NPCs, one at DiGRA 2013 
and one at ACE 2013. We aim these to be the start of a workshop series 
to be organized on a yearly basis together with appropriate leading game 
conferences.

The next  Social Believability in Games Workshop is co-locared and 
organised with the Foundations for Digital Games 2014 Conference. The 
purpose of the SBG at FDG  workshop is to allow discussion on the theories 
and models for NPC social behavior and social affordances in industry as 
well as between different but related academic disciplines. The expected 
outcome is a better understanding of the overlaps and differences within 
and between these communities. We also aim to document the workshop in a 
journal article or journal special issue.

Link to Call for papers to SBG @ FDG14: 
https://sites.google.com/site/socialbelievabilityingames/home/cfp-sbg-14-fdg.

Organizers: Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari, Harko Verhagen, Joshua McCoy, and 
Magnus Johansson.

Best regards and enjoy the holiday season

Harko Verhagen