Call for Papers – Special Session
"Applications of Game-Based Learning EDUCON 2018"

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Overview

Today, electronic games are more than just pastimes – they are platforms through which we experience virtual situations, try out strategies, and develop respectively simulate new ideas. Their wide range of engineering applications include automotive, aerospace and systems engineering, medicine, banking, and management.

Thus, the special session Applications of Game-Based Learning within the EDUCON 2018 Conference, 17-20 April 2018 focuses on discussing best practices and successful applications that aim at game-based learning and industry oriented game learning in the context of engineering education or further studies in this field. Another objective is evaluating the efficacy of serious games in terms of enhancing learning and teaching during game play in the context of engineering education.

Topics of Interest

• Applications of game-based learning
• industry oriented game learning
• games engineering
• serious games
• trends of game-based learning
• storytelling
• development of non-technical skills / meta-cognitive skills
• simulation
• learning scenarios based on virtual worlds
• project based learning – capstone projects
• game-based learning arrangements
• tools for developing game-based learning applications
• experience reports

Important Dates

We kindly invite authors to submit their complete papers (no abstract) for review by 20 November 2017 latest, following the submission guidelines at http://www.educon-conference.org/current/paper_preparation.php .

Program Committee

IGIP Working Group "Games in Engineering and Education”

• Matthias C. Utesch, Chair for Information Systems, Technical University of Munich (CHAIR)
• Filomena Soares, R&D Algoritmi Center, University of Minho (CO-CHAIR)
• Klaus-Tycho Foerster, University of Vienna, Austria
• Marek Milosz, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lublin University of Technology
• André Thomas, Department of Visualization, Texas A&M University

International program committee

• Martin Cápay, Department of Informatics, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra
• Susanne Heininger, Chair of Empirical Educational Research, TUM School of Education, Technical University of Munich
• Tim Hume, Universal Learning Games AB
• Klaus P. Jantke, Chief Scientific Officer, ADICOM Software GmbH
• Ángel Jaramillo-Alcázar, Universidad de las Américas, Ecuador
• Bill Kapralos, Faculty of Business and Information Technology, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
• Matus Kirchmayer, Matsuko s.r.o.
• Petros Lameras, Serious Games Lab, School of Computing, Electronics and Mathematics, Coventry University
• Sergio Luján-Mora, University of Alicante (Spain)
• Agathe Merceron, Computer Science Department, Beuth Hochschule fuer Technik Berlin
• Peter H.F. Ng, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
• Matthew Yee-King, Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London