<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">******************************</span><wbr style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">******************************</span><wbr style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">**********************************</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">                        DEADLINE APPROACHING: Call for Participation</span><div>                                        Submission Deadline: May 22nd<br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">         Workshop on Tracing the Boundaries of Games as Research Environments</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">        <a href="https://gamesasresearchenvironments.wordpress.com/call-for-participation-2/">https://gamesasresearchenvironments.wordpress.com/call-for-participation-2/</a></span><div><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">                   at Foundations of Digital Games 2017, Cape Cod, Massachusetts </span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">                                                     </span><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-aQJ">August 14-17 2017</span></span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">******************************</span><wbr style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">******************************</span><wbr style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">***********************************</span><br></div></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Karla,sans-serif">Across disciplines, games are being increasingly used as research environments for experimentation and empirical study. This includes enlisting the use of games to explore human behavior and decision making, validate algorithms, consistently improve AI, collect player data, inform game design and more. However, the cost, complexity and rigor needed to produce these types of games is high and not enough is known about how games could be fully utilized in service as rigorous research environments. This workshop aims to bring together the game design and research community who have used games as research environments or those interested in building or enlisting games for this purpose, for a discussion on this topic and to share lessons learned from their work. The focus of the workshop will be to advance the collective understanding of a) the types of phenomena, problems and questions games are being used to study, b) the implications of extrapolating data from simulated environments to the the real-world, c) the theoretical, computational and design hurdles researchers consistently face and d) the potential value and concerns in employing games as research environments.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b>IMPORTANT DATES</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Submission Date: May 22, 2017</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Notification of Acceptance: June 1, 2017</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">FDG 2017: August 14-17, 2017 (Workshop most likely on first day) </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;font-family:Karla,sans-serif"><b>SUBMISSION STYLE AND TOPICS</b></span></div><div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;font-family:Karla,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Karla,sans-serif">We welcome </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Karla,sans-serif">2-4 page position papers, written in extended abstract format</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Karla,sans-serif">, that either discuss experience using games for research environments and interesting problems faced or lessons learned, or cover a particular position on the following topics:</span><br></div><div><section id="gmail-text-4" class="gmail-widget gmail-widget_text" title="Shift-click to edit this widget." style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 2.4em"><div class="gmail-textwidget" style="box-sizing:inherit;word-wrap:break-word"><p style="font-family:Karla,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);box-sizing:inherit;margin:0.8em 0px">● What are games as research environments?</p><p style="font-family:Karla,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);box-sizing:inherit;margin:0.8em 0px">● Why would we use games to learn about the world?</p><p style="font-family:Karla,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);box-sizing:inherit;margin:0.8em 0px">● ‘Serious games’ for research.</p><p style="font-family:Karla,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);box-sizing:inherit;margin:0.8em 0px">● Reliability and validity of using games as research environments</p><p style="font-family:Karla,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);box-sizing:inherit;margin:0.8em 0px">● Game design approaches with specific research in mind</p><p style="font-family:Karla,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);box-sizing:inherit;margin:0.8em 0px">● Criteria for selecting existing games for specific purposes</p><p style="font-family:Karla,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);box-sizing:inherit;margin:0.8em 0px">● Games for psychology and behavioral research</p><p style="font-family:Karla,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);box-sizing:inherit;margin:0.8em 0px">● The design of stimuli that accounts for complex constructs such as social interaction and behaviors</p><p style="font-family:Karla,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);box-sizing:inherit;margin:0.8em 0px">● Studies of games used for a specific domain or discipline</p><p style="font-family:Karla,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);box-sizing:inherit;margin:0.8em 0px">● Games as research environments for the design of game components</p><p style="font-family:Karla,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);box-sizing:inherit;margin:0.8em 0px">● Games as a testbed to validate algorithms</p><p style="font-family:Karla,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);box-sizing:inherit;margin:0.8em 0px">● How do games impact your research environment?</p><p style="font-family:Karla,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);box-sizing:inherit;margin:0.8em 0px">● A priori problems: design, creating valid stimuli for independent variables, adaptation, hypotheses, decision to include or exclude fun elements for serious games</p><p style="font-family:Karla,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);box-sizing:inherit;margin:0.8em 0px">● A posteriori problems: data analysis, filtering, qualitative vs. quantitative, player telemetry, challenges with conclusions and takeaways</p><p style="font-family:Karla,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);box-sizing:inherit;margin:0.8em 0px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:uppercase"><b>SUBMISSION DETAILS</b></span></p><p style="font-family:Karla,sans-serif;box-sizing:inherit;margin:0.8em 0px"><span style="text-transform:uppercase">w</span><font color="#333333">e welcome 2-4 page position papers, written in extended abstract format.</font></p><p style="font-family:Karla,sans-serif;box-sizing:inherit;margin:0.8em 0px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Submissions must be a PDF document and follow </span><a href="http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template" target="_blank" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;word-wrap:break-word;word-break:break-word;font-weight:normal"><font color="#000000">ACM SIG proceedings</font></a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"> format. Accepted papers will be published as part of the FDG proceedings in the ACM DL.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0.8em 0px"><font color="#333333" style="font-family:Karla,sans-serif">For more information, please visit: </font><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Karla,sans-serif"><a href="https://gamesasresearchenvironments.wordpress.com/">https://gamesasresearchenvironments.wordpress.com/</a></span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0.8em 0px">Please submit your contributions at: <a href="https://easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?key=53711432.ruBbkcFla9I2qtjk">https://easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?key=53711432.ruBbkcFla9I2qtjk</a></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0.8em 0px">Thank you! </p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0.8em 0px"><br></p></div></section></div></div>