Call for papers: IEEE Intl Conf on Digital Games & Intelligent Toys Based Education (DIGITEL 2008)

2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Games and Intelligent
Toys Based Education (DIGITEL 2008)

November 17-19, 2008, Banff, Canada
http://www.ask4research.info/digitel/2008/


** Sponsored by IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology

The Conference Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer
Society Press.


** Important dates:
Submissions due:        May 30, 2008
Decision notification:  August 1, 2008
Final articles due:     September 12, 2008
Conference:             November 17-19, 2008


There is a rapidly growing interest in exploring
design and technology of digital games and
intelligent toys for learning. While digital
games, especially online games,
exploit advanced multimedia and
Internet technology, intelligent toys
embedded with chips and sensors
utilize wireless, mobile, and
ubiquitous computing technologies.
Digital games and intelligent toys
are potential new genres of
advanced learning technology.

The gaming strategies and toy design
that incorporate both individual
and social activities will offer
a significant opportunity for
researchers to investigate
the long-running research issues of
technology enhanced learning such as
attention, motivation, and emotion.
It will not be a surprise that
in the distant future when this emerging research
is proved to be fruitful, most technology
enhanced learning will incorporate
some elements of digital games.
Despite the surging interest
in this emerging research,
there are plenty challenging research issues
to be investigated. For example,
can one really learn meaningfully
and deeply from games?
Will there be new theories that explain phenomena
of learning with fun? What
constitute game pedagogies?
How this genre of technology enhanced
learning can be adopted to formal
and informal learning settings?
What are the possible dark sides of game
and toyed education and how to prevent them?
DIGITEL 2008 provides a forum for researchers various
disciplines and practitioners to share and exchange
of this emerging research area.

We invite submission of papers reporting original academic
or industrial research on the issues related to
digital games and toyes based education.
Complete papers will be required for review process;
only abstracts will not be sufficient.

All authors of accepted submissions will be required
to complete IEEE Copyright Form.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit
extended versions for a Special Issue
of a reputed journal.


** Submissions
Submissions are invited in following categories:
Full papers: 8 pages
Short papers: 5 pages
Posters: 3 pages
Workshop proposals: 2 pages
Panel proposals: 2 pages
Interactive sessions: 3 pages

** For more details, please see the website:
http://www.ask4research.info/digitel/2008/

* Conference Chair
Margaret haughey, Athabasca University, Canada

* Program Chair:
Michael Eisenberg, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

* Local Chair
Maiga Chang, Athabasca University, Canada

* General Chair
Kinshuk, Athabasca University, Canada

* General Co-Chair
Tak-Wai Chan, National Central University, Taiwan

* Organization Chair:
Rory McGreal, Athabasca University, Canada

* Local Administrator
Jill Calliou, Athabasca University, Canada

* Finance Chair
Rebecca Heartt, Athabasca University, Canada

** For queries, please contact:

Kinshuk (kinshuk@ieee.org)
Jill Calliou (jillc@athabascau.ca)