Meeting Research meets Business

On Wednesday afternoon, February 10, 2010, the GATE project organizes, in collaboration with the DGA, the meeting Research Meets Business. The goal of this meeting is match-making between the researchers in the GATE project and developers in the Dutch game industry, to stimulate future collaboration. For more information and registration click here

Meeting Game Researchers

The Center for Advanced Gaming and Simulation (AGS) and the Dutch chapter of DIGRA organize four times a year a meeting for the Flemish and Dutch game researchers. We meet at the Faculty Club Helios. Address: Achter de Dom 7a, Utrecht.
The meetings normally consist of two lectures, followed by some drinks for further discussions. The meetings will be held in English. Participation in these meetings is free. It is necessary, though, to register.
For the next year we have scheduled four meetings. They are again on Fridays from 15.00-18.00 hours:
October 16, 2009, January 15, 2010, April 23, 2010 and June 18, 2010.
The meeting on Friday January 15 has been cancelled!

The next meeting is scheduled on Friday February 19,  15.00 - 18.00 hours.
For more information and registration click here.

Creative Game Challenge

Utrecht University and sponsors organize the Creative Game Challenge, a game creation competition for all students in VWO, HAVO and VMBO. The theme of the competition is Beasts. 
Game Maker must be used to create the game. See www.creativegamechallenge.nl/ for more information and registration for the competition.

Motion in Games 2009

The Second International Workshop on Motion in Games 2009 will be held 21-24 November 2009.
Games have become a very important medium for both education and entertainment. Motion is currently studied in many different areas of research, including graphics and animation, game technology, robotics, simulation, computer vision, and also physics, psychology, and urban studies.
For more information about the workshop please visit http://www.motioningames.org/

IVA 09 14-16 September

The 9th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents will be held 14-16 September 2009 in Amsterdam. The IVA conference, with the special theme games, is very relevant for the GATE community.
The extended submission deadline for short/long papers is: 26 April. There will also be a GALA Challenge with jury award for best student submissions - of 2-4 movie, with (optional) publication in the IVA09 proceedings.
More information is to be found at: http://iva09.dfki.de/.

GATE Meeting Tuesday June 30 2009

PhD students in the GATE project are currently following a course on science communication. As part of this course they will create a presentation for a general public about their recent research. On Tuesday June 30 they will give these presentation during a meeting in the Kanunnikenzaal of the Faculty Club Helios of Utrecht University (address: Achter de Dom 7a, Utrecht). The meeting will start at 11.00 hours and run until 14.30 hours and includes a lunch. Attendance to the meeting is free but it is necessary to register. For more information and registration click here.

CASA Workshop on 3D Advanced Media in Gaming and Simulation (3AMIGAS)

On June 16th, 2009, Utrecht University is organizing the 3AMIGAS workshop, which is sponsored by the GATE and the FOCUSK3D project. This workshop is about the creation and use of advanced 3D media in gaming and simulation. Simulations and games take place in virtual worlds. Such worlds can either be models of existing environments or can be fictitious. They can have a very realistic look-and-feel or they can be imaginary. To create adaptive game play and simulations, dynamic world models are required that can automatically be adapted to changing requirements. Virtual worlds are inhabited by virtual characters. These characters must behave in natural ways, based on the way they sense their environment and based on their own internal emotional state and relations to other characters. The virtual characters should be able to adapt to the situation at hand. They should react and plan their actions, and smart objects should react to interaction. In augmented worlds, natural navigation and interaction is a real challenge due to limitations in multimodal control and feedback technology and due to limitations in the understanding and true-to-life modeling. Traditional interfaces are generally not natural and demand substantial cognitive resources. All these issues are aspects of advanced 3D media. For more information about the workshop and for registration, please visit: http://www.cs.uu.nl/events/3amigas/.

CASA 09 17-19 June

The Human Media Interaction (HMI) department of the University of Twente in the Netherlands and the Computer Graphics Society (CGS) are pleased to announce the 22nd Annual Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2009) to be held on June 17-19, 2009 in "Het Trippenhuis", Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
CASA is the leading international conference in the field of computer animation and social agents. CASA 2009 will provide great opportunities to interact with leading experts, share your own work, and educate yourself through exposure to the research of your peers from around the world. In addition, make friends and experience wonderful Amsterdam. The conference venue is located on one of the famous canals of Amsterdam.
The CASA conference is extremely relevant for the GATE community. Invited talks are by Volkert Blantz on morphable models and by Franck Multon on virtual humans and sport interactions. During CASA 09 a special session will be devoted to the GATE project. CASA is a GATE sponsored event. GATE PhD students can profit from this. More information about CASA and how to attend can be found at http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/casa09.

INTETAIN 09 22-24 June

INTETAIN 09, Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment.
The Human Media Interaction (HMI) department of the University of Twente in the Netherlands and the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (ICST) are pleased to announce the Third International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment to be held on June 22-24, 2009 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Intetain 09 intends to stimulate interaction among academic researchers and commercial developers of interactive entertainment systems. The global theme of this third edition of the international conference is "Playful interaction, with others and with the environment". INTETAIN 2009 has invited talks by Michael Mattheas on storytelling, Matthias Rauterberg on entertainment computing, and Antonio Camurri on non-verbal full body emotional and social interaction.
During INTETAIN 09 a special session will be devoted to the GATE project. INTETAIN is a GATE sponsored event. GATE PhD students can profit from this. More information about INTETAIN and how to attend can be found at http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/intetain09/program

MUSE Meetings

MUSE is a trans-disciplinary working group at Utrecht University that brings together the various disciplines and groups that study serious games, such as educational psychology, teacher training, new media and digital culture, informatics, information sciences, technology, business science, pedagogy, etc. There are strong ties between Muse and the research in Theme 4 of GATE: Learning with Simulated Worlds and the pilot Education.  The next MUSE meeting is on April 20. For more information on MUSE, please see http://www.surfgroepen.nl/sites/muse/.

GATE Symposium February 10, 2009

GATE Research Day June 24 2008

ICT Delta Congres 2008