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Posted on June 28, 2015 by Thomas Apperley Posted in DiGRAA2015 .

Conference program available here.

Draft Conference Program DiGRAA2015

Posted on June 22, 2015 by Thomas Apperley Posted in DiGRAA2015 .

Monday 29th Schedule:

12:30pm 

3rd floor foyer, Robert Webster Building

Registration:
1:00pm 

Room 327, 3rd floor Robert Webster Building

 

 

Welcome 

DiGRAA President: Martin Gibbs

 

Conference Chair: Tom Apperley

 

1:15pm 

Room 327, 3rd floor Robert Webster Building

 

Keynote:  Expansion pack: making Games Studies a robust disciplineSal Humphreys (University of Adelaide)

 

 

2:15pm 

Room 327, 3rd floor Robert Webster Building

 

Session 1:Chair: Darshana Jayemanne (University of Melbourne)

 

Challenging Whiteness: Contrapuntal Analysis and Polyphony in Broadening Protagonist Diversity

Sumedha Iyer (UNSW Australia) and Lois Spangler (Queensland University of Technology)

 

The Disruptive Potential of Regional Game Studies

Bjarke Liboriussen and Paul Martin  (University of Nottingham, Ningbo)

 

Algorithms Pushed Me to the Dark Side: Questions for Procedural Rhetoric

Erik Champion (Curtin University of Technology)

 

3:15pm Coffee Break (uncatered)
3:30pm 

Room 327, 3rd floor Robert Webster Building

 

Kensington Campus, UNSW Australia

 

Map: http://tinyurl.com/oecwo4g

Session 2:Chair: Grant Bollmer (University of Sydney)

 

From the Sidelines: Choice and Consequence in Game Design

Catherine Baird (Squiz)

 

Reconceptualising Gendered Game Spaces

Gemma Roberts (Macquarie University)

 

Gone (Riot Grrl) Home: Methods of gender and genre inclusion in Gone Home

Rowan Tulloch (Macquarie University) and Liz Giuffre (University of Technology, Sydney)

 

4:30pm(5:30pm finish)

 

Room 327, 3rd floor Robert Webster Building

 

Session 3:Chair: Tom Apperley (UNSW Australia)

 

Playstyle and place: On the territorial identity of tactics in Dota 2

Ben Egliston (University of Sydney)

 

A Situated Approach to Urban Play: The Role of Local Knowledge in Playing Ingress

Kyle Moore (University of Sydney)

 

Masquerade: Social Influence of Full-Body Game Interaction on Public Displays

Niels Wouters (KU Leuven & University of Melbourne) , John Downs (University of Melbourne), Marcus Carter (University of Melbourne ) and Andrew Vande Moere (KU Leuven)

 

6pm-8:30pm 

The Arthouse Kitchen url: http://tinyurl.com/q3eawpg

 

 

Dinner and drinks (catered with vegetarian options) 

Please register via eventbrite if you wish to attend: http://tinyurl.com/nfymv2x

 

 

 

Tuesday 30th Schedule

9:00am 

Foyer, 3rd floor Robert Webster Building

Registration
9:30am 

Room 327, 3rd floor Robert Webster Building

 

 

Session 4:Chair: Marcus Carter (University of Melbourne)

 

Why BioShock Infinite is the best pt. 1: The Elizabeth-Anna Rabbit Duck Illusion

Mahli-Ann Butt (UNSW Australia)

 

It’s-a-me, Mario – But who is Mario? Positioning the participant researcher in game studies

Tina Richards (Griffith University)

 

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Luke van Ryn (UNSW Australia), Tom Apperley (UNSW Australia), Justin Clemens (University of Melbourne) and Robbie Fordyce (UNSW Australia)

 

10:30am 

Room 327, 3rd floor Robert Webster Building

 

 

Session 5:Chair: Kyle Moore (University of Sydney)

 

Motion Capture and the Technical Inscription of the Body

Grant Bollmer (University of Sydney)

 

Embodied Identities and Natural User Interfaces

Marcus Carter (University of Melbourne)

 

The Body Language of Fear: Fearful Nonverbal Signals in Survival-Horror Games

Eduardo Velloso (University of Lancaster) , Thomas Löhnert (University of Bath) and Hans Gellersen (University of Lancaster)

 

11:30am Coffee Break (uncatered)
11:45am 

Room 327, 3rd floor Robert Webster Building

 

 

Session 6: 3 x 15 minute papersChair: Rowan Tulloch

 

Ecological Notions in Games: A Typology Towards More Inclusive Environmental Relations

Ben Abraham (independent scholar) and Darshana Jayemanne (University of Melbourne)

Legitimations of digital game play in mainstream newspapers

John Pike (University of South Australia)

 

Journey to the Moon – The First Interactive Narrative

Joel Zika (Deakin University)

 

12:45pm Lunch (uncatered)
1:30pm 

Room 327, 3rd floor Robert Webster Building

 

 

Session 7:Chair: James Meese (University of Technology, Sydney)

 

The Kandy Kolored Tangerine-Flake Wall-Mounted, Water-Cooled and LED-Colored Battlestation

Marcus Carter, Bjorn Nansen and Martin Gibbs  (University of Melbourne)

 

‘Funky little amoebas and poos’ – Customising the play experience of board games

Melissa J. Rogerson, Martin Gibbs and Wally Smith (University of Melbourne)

 

The Design of Systemic Moral Gameplay in Papers, Please

Malcolm Ryan (Macquarie University) , Paul Formosa (Macquarie University) and Dan Staines (UNSW Australia)

 

2:30pm 

Room 327, 3rd floor Robert Webster Building

 

 

Session 8:Chair: Sal Humphreys (University of Adelaide)

 

SimCity and the Problem of the ‘Feedback Loop’

Eli J. Boulton (University of Melbourne)

 

Approaches to cultural heritage in role-playing games

Jakub Majewski (Bond University)

 

3:10pm Coffee Break (uncatered)
3:30pm 

Room 327, 3rd floor Robert Webster Building

 

 

Session 9:Chair: Christy Dena (SAE QANTM)

 

Triad of Design: Applied to Open World Quests

Ivan Beram (SAE)

 

Escaping the room: Creating interactive puzzles from narrative space

Allan Fowler (Waiariki Institute of Technology) , Foaad Khosmood, David Gillette and Michael Haungs (California Polytechnic State University)

 

Inviting you in: Design choices in the opening sequences of Dragon Age and Skyrim

Michael Hitchens (Macquarie University)

 

4:30pm(5pm finish)

 

Room 327, 3rd floor Robert Webster Building

 

DiGRAA Meeting 

Chair: Martin Gibbs (University of Melbourne)

5:30-7pm 

The Doncaster Hotel

 

Map: http://tinyurl.com/pfr9aua

After Conference Drinks 

Informal drink at local Kensington pub 10 minutes walk from campus.

 

DiGRAA2015 Registration Open

Posted on June 22, 2015 by Thomas Apperley Posted in DiGRAA2015 .

The conference will be held in room 327 on level three of the Robert Webster Building (Map below) at the Kensington Campus of UNSW Australia.

Attendance is free and tickets are available online:

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/digraa2015-tickets-17475868794

The conference registration desk will open at 12:30pm on Monday and 9am on Tuesday, please check in you collect you name tag and a paper copy of the program.

RW

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DiGRAA is the Australian chapter of the international Digital Games Research Association (digra.org).

Talks from our annual conference are on the DiGRAA YouTube channel.

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