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Social Intelligence in Applied Gaming


IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom-09)

August 31, 2009

Renaissance Vancouver Hotel Harbourside,
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Program

Each presenter of a paper had 30 minutes to present their work, 20 minutes to present with 10 minutes of discussion. Please see PDF Version for further details.

Session 1: Opening

  • Welcome & Introductions
    Scott Butner
  • Sim Ops Studios, Inc. (Invited Talk)
    Shanna Tellerman
    Presentation
  • Discussion Time

Session 2: Model Validation and Evaluation in Social Gaming

  • Validation of Sociocultural Models Via Serious Games
    Colleen Phillips, Norman Geddes, Brock Stitts
  • Inferring Player Rating from Performance Data in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs)
    Kyong Jin Shim, Muhammad Aurangzeb, Nishith Pathak, Jaideep Srivastava
    Presentation
  • Discussion Time

Session 3: Research Issues in Analytical Gaming

  • ASC: a proposed architecture for computing a social capital gaming metric
    Colleen Phillips, Norman Geddes, Brock Stitts
  • Avatar’s as Player Proxies in Analytical Gaming
    Andrew Cowell
    Presentation - Video
  • Mathematical Modeling of Social Games
    Kam Tong Chan, Irwin King, Man-Ching Yuen
    Presentation
  • Discussion Time

Session 4: Applications of Analytical Gaming I & II

  • Application and Evaluation of Analytic Gaming
    Roderick Riensche, Jean, Lou Martucci, Mark Whiting
    Presentation
  • Satisficing the masses: Applying game theory to large-scale, democratic decision problems 
    Kshanti Greene, Joseph Kniss, George Luger, Carl Stern
    Presentation
  • Gaming to Predict Human Responses to Mass Casualty Events
    Robert Brigantic
    Presentation
  • Constructing a Virtual World as a Research Tool: Lessons Learned from the First Iteration in the Development of Greenland.
    Travis Ross
    Presentation
  • Discussion Time

Session 5: Panel Discussion - R&D and Funding Issues in Applied Gaming

  • Chair: Antonio Sanfilippo


    Presentation
  • Members:

    Terry Lyons, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
    Shanna Tellerman, SimOps Studios/Wild Pockets
    Justin Wolf, Future Point Systems, Inc.
    Others: TBA

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