FROG – Future and Reality of Gaming

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FROG – Future and Reality of Gaming

11^th Vienna Games Conference
Vienna City Hall, Austria
Friday, 13^th October – Sunday, 15^th October 2017

While thousands of enthusiastic players are gathering annually at the Game City in the Vienna City Hall, the FROG invites to an academic discourse on the subject of games. The international conference brings together scholars, players, students, game designers, game developers, educators and experts from various disciplines to discuss the Future and Reality of Gaming.

This year’s FROG will focus on the players and illuminates the research field from “The Player Perspective” in any of its various manifestations.

Call for Papers | FROG

POLLIWOG – preFROG conference & workshop
Federal Ministry of Families and Youth, Vienna

Wednesday, 11^th October 2017
preFROG conference (held German/Deutsch)
with Prof. Dr. Winfred Kaminski (TH Köln)
The one-day conference will focus on the topic “Erlaubt ist, was gefällt!? Computerspiele zwischen Ethik und Ästhetik” with thematic talks and poster sessions.

Call for Posters | preFROG

Thursday, 12^th October 2017
preFROG workshop: One day crash course in Educational game design
with Jonas Linderoth (University of Gothenburg)
Participants of the one-day workshop will get insights into the game based techniques of Classification card games (CCG) and Quantitative relation awareness games (QRAG).

The conference is funded by the Federal Ministry of Families and Youth (bmfj) and organized by the Center for Applied Game Studies (Donau-Universität Krems).

Speakers

Keynote Speakers | FROG
13th – 15th October 2017

Scot Osterweil

Creative Director, MIT Education Arcade and MIT Game Lab

Scot Osterweil is Creative Director of the Education Arcade and the Game Lab in the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program. He has designed games in both academic and commercial environments and is a founder and Creative Director of Learning Games Network (www.learninggamesnetwork.org).

Games as Resistance

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Clara Fernández-Vara

Associate Arts Professor, NYU Game Center

Clara Fernández-Vara is Associate Arts Professor at the NYU Game Center. She's a game designer and writer as well as an academic, so her work combines research with the creation of commercial games. Her first book, Introduction to Game Analysis, has been published by Routledge.

Playing the Detective: Game Design and Mysteries

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Katharina Fellnhofer

docent, Lappeenranta University of Technology

Katharina Fellnhofer is a docent at the Lappeenranta University of Technology, where she is engaged in boosting innovative educational science for entrepreneurship education in Europe. In addition, she is the CEO of the Research and Innovation Management GmbH, which is engaged in interdisciplinary European research and innovation projects. She holds a PhD in Social and Economic Sciences from the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

Entrepreneurship education via games?

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Jaroslav Švelch

postdoctoral researcher, University of Bergen

Jaroslav Švelch is a postdoctoral researcher at University of Bergen and assistant professor at Charles University. He is the author of the upcoming monograph Gaming the Iron Curtain on the social history of games in 1980s Czechoslovakia. He is currently researching history, theory, and reception of video game monsters.

We have always been indie: Lessons from social history of game making in 1980s Czechoslovakia

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Eugen Pfister

researcher & lecturer (ÖAW, University of Vienna)

Eugen Pfister is a researcher at the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre history (ÖAW) and lecturerer at the University of Vienna. Founding Member of the research group "Geschichtswissenschaft und Digitale Spiele". Since 2015 he operates a research blog on cultural studies and video games called "Spiel-Kultur-Wissenschaft.

Politics in Games: How (we) players are potentially socialized in digital games

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Anderson Mccutcheon

Co-Founder Synereo

Anderson is Co-Founder of Synereo, a company developing blockchain-enabled attention economy solutions. Before turning to entrepreneurship, Anderson has managed digital marketing for the world's largest gambling companies and programmed thermo-chemical control systems.

Monetize the Weak - Breaking the Algorithmic Echo-Chamber

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Keynote Speakers | preFROG
11th & 12th October 2017

Jonas Linderoth

Professor, University of Gothenburg

Jonas Linderoth is a professor in education and has worked with issues surrounding game based learning since the late nineties. He has been awarded the title ”distinguished scholar” by DiGRA (Digital Game Research Association) and he is a scientific advisor for the Swedish media council.

One day crash course in Educational game design (preFROG workshop on October 12th)

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Winfred Kaminski

Professor, TH Köln

Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Winfred Kaminski was a professor of Cultural Studies at the Technological University of Cologne (TH Köln) until 2015 where he was managing director of the Institute of Media Research and Media Education. In 2006 he founded (together with Martin Lorber) the biannual International Computer Game Conference "Clash of Realities". During the last two decades he published essays on computer games and edited several books.

Computerspiele: Ästhetisch aufwendig, ethisch fragwürdig? Aspekte einer problematischen Entgegensetzung (preFROG conference on October 11th)

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Judith Ackermann

Professor, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam

Judith Ackermann is professor of Digital Media in Social Work at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam and visiting professor at Politecnico di Milano’s School of Design. She is initiator of the urban games festival playin’ siegen. Her research includes hybrid realities, (location-based) Gaming, Performance, Design as Research, Media education.

Ästhetik und Ethik im spielerischen Konflikt (preFROG conference on October 11th)

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Christian Klager

Research assistant, University of Rostock

Dr. Christian Klager is a research assistant for philosophy and didactics of philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Rostock. He studied philosophy, German philology and educational science. His dissertation deals with the philosophical meanings of game in methodological terms and was awarded the Joachim Jungius Prize.

Die Ethik im Als-ob. Dimensionen der Moral im Spiel (preFROG conference on October 11th)

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Programme

FROG – Future and Reality of Gaming

11^thVienna Games Conference
“The Player Perspective – looking at players, and players looking back”
venue: Vienna City Hall, Friedrich-Schmidt-Platz 1, 1010 Wien

Friday, 13^th October

12:00 - 13:00	Registration
13:00 - 13.30	Welcome speech
13:30 - 14:30	KEYNOTE: Scot Osterweil	Games as Resistance
14:30 - 15:00	-- Coffee Break --
15:00 - 15:30	Harald Koberg	We are still weirdos. Challenging the notion of gaming culture at the “center of society”
15:30 - 15:45	Danai E. Gavranidou	Getting Lost in the Game World? - Approaches on Children as Video Game Players \| Thesis
15:45 - 16:15	Jason Goldsmith	H.Ed. Games; Or, When the Player Gets Schooled
16:15 - 16:30	Philipp Söchtig	Video games as art - How players create their own worlds \| Thesis
16:30 - 17:00	Bruno de Andrade	Tirolcraft 2.0: The Quest for Children to Shape their Heritage Values using Geogames
17:00 - 18:00	-- Exploring the Game City --
18:00	-- Conference Dinner & Socializing --
	Dinner Talk by Anderson Mccutcheon	Monetize the Weak - Breaking the Algorithmic Echo-Chamber

Saturday, 14^th October

09:00 - 09:30	Ivan Davidov	The Gambler’s and Explorer’s Shared Mental State
09:30 - 09:45	Jakob Wonisch	The Advantages of Using a Scripting Language As a Tool for Designers of Point-and-Click Adventure-Games \| High School Thesis
09:45 - 10:45	KEYNOTE: Clara Fernandez-Vara	Playing the Detective: Game Design and Mysteries
10:45 - 11:15	-- Coffee Break --
11:15 - 11:45	Birgit Swoboda	Stay out of the fire you %&§!!!! - Negotiation of meanings by positioning in MMORPGs
11:45 - 12:15	Dominik Mieth	“Please look to your right.” - Lessons learned from three Virtual Reality projects
12:15 - 12:45	Ilaria Mariani	Game Designers as Play(er) Experience Divers
12:45 - 14:15	-- Lunch --
14:15 - 14:45	Rudolf Inderst	Wolfenstein: The New Order as a player-centric continuation of dystopian narrative traditions
14:45 - 15:00	Monika Gorczyca	Brain-Computer-Interface Games for ADHD \| High School Thesis
15:00 - 16:00	KEYNOTE: Eugen Pfister	Politics in Games: How (we) players are potentially socialized in digital games
16:00 - 16:30	-- Coffee Break --
16:30 - 17:00	Sebastian Felzmann	Aptum, Agency & Aggressions – Player Reactions to „That Dragon Cancer“
17:00 - 17:30	Katharina Mittlböck	Digital Game Psychoanalysis - A Methodical Approach
17:30 - 18:00	Katarzyna Marak	Virtual trouble: An outline of the problems of immersion and the question of quality in VR games
18:00 - 18:30	Christian Kißler	A Different Kind of Game: Individual Development and Socialization

Sunday, 15^th October

09:00 - 09:30	Jonas Linderoth	Educational game design – breaking the fundamental rules of the craft
09:30 - 09:45	Lyubov Stafyeyeva	Game-based learning in schools: Is it for everyone? \| Thesis
09:45 - 10:45	KEYNOTE: Katharina Fellnhofer	Entrepreneurship education via games?
10:45 - 11:15	-- Coffee Break --
11:15 - 11:30	Alesja Serada	The phenomenon of playbor: Relations between labour and leisure in casual farming games (the case of "royal story") \| Thesis
11:30 - 12:00	Jürgen Hoebarth	E-Sports on the blockchain. How cryptocurrencies and the blockchain influence the e-sport ecosystem
12:00 - 12:15	Richard Fojkar	Texas Hold'em Poker: Skill and Luck \| High School Thesis
12:15 - 12:45	Federico Alvarez Igarzábal	Marshmallows and Bullets
12:45 - 14:15	-- Lunch --
14:15 - 14:45	Gernot Hausar	Being mean in Space - The Player Ecosystem of EVE Online
14:45 - 15:00	Sven Lagger	2D Game Development with the professional Game Engine Unity – An Example of Game Based Learning \| High School Thesis
15:00 - 16:00	KEYNOTE: Jaroslav Švelch	We have always been indie: Lessons from social history of game making in 1980s Czechoslovakia
16:00 - 16:30	-- Coffe Break --
16:30 - 16:45	Simon Wimmer	Participant Observation As a Tool to Delve Within the Magic Circle \| Thesis
16:45 - 17:15	Miłosz Markocki	Game within a game? – the problem of total conversion mods
17:15 - 17:30	Martin Zenz	Video Game Music: History and Composition \| High School Thesis
17:30 - 18:00	Rita Santoyo Venegas	The Intellectual Power of Players: Scientific Collaboration through Digital Play
18:00	-- FROG Game Over --

POLLIWOG – preFROG conference & workshop

venue: Federal Ministry of Families and Youth (bmfj), Untere Donaustraße 13-15, 1020 Wien

Wednesday, 11^th October

preFROG – conference (held in German!)
„Erlaubt ist, was gefällt!? Computerspiele zwischen Ethik und Ästhetik“
with Winfred Kaminski

10:30	Anmeldung & Kaffee
11:00	Winfred Kaminski & Alexander Pfeiffer	Eröffnung
11:30 - 12:15	Christian Klager	Die Ethik im Als-ob. Dimensionen der Moral im Spiel
12:15 - 13:00	Judith Ackermann	Ästhetik und Ethik im spielerischen Konflikt
13:00 - 14:00	Mittagspause
14:00 - 14:45	Winfred Kaminski	Computerspiele: Ästhetisch aufwendig, ethisch fragwürdig? Aspekte einer problematischen Entgegensetzung
14:45 - 15:10	Bernd Dillinger	The Dark Side of Gaming - Internetsucht
15:10 - 15:35	Martin Müllner	Exoskelette und unterstützende Verfahren durch Robotertechnik: Vom Spiel in die Realität
15:50 - 16:50	Panel Diskussion, moderiert von Winfred Kaminski

Thursday, 12^th October

preFROG – workshop
One day crash course in Educational game design
with Jonas Linderoth

09:30 - 10:00	Registration
10:00	Jonas Linderoth	Game Based Learning - what the research says and how you get it right In this talk professor Linderoth maps out the current research on game based learning and gives hands on examples of possibilities and pitfalls when using games in education.
10:45 - 11:00	coffee break
11:00 - 13:00	Workshop 1: Classification card games (CCG)	CCG is a game based technique for training different forms of categorization and classification. The approach can be used for a large number of topics, math, langue, social studies, science, etc. from primary school to higher education. In the workshop participants get to try out different classification games, learn their basic structure and create their own games in a subject of their own choice.
13:00 - 14:00	lunch break
14:00 - 15:00	Workshop 2: Quantitative relation awareness games (QRAG)	QRAG is a game based technique that can be used when one wants to teach learners to correctly estimate relative positions between different units. It can be used for scales, proportions, rates, efficiency, timelines etc. Some examples might be learning to estimate the energy consumption of different devices, estimate the difference in calories between groceries or sorting events in a timeline. The technique can be used in both science and social studies for a number of different topics. In the workshop participants get to try out QRAG, learn their basic structure and create their own games with a subject of their own choice.
15:00 - 15:30	Discussion

Info

Important dates

FROG main conference: 13/10/17 – 15/10/2017
preFROG conference & workshop: 11/10/17 & 12/10/17
Call for Papers submission deadline: 07/07/17
Acceptance notification: 01/08/17
Early Bird Registration: 08/08/2017 – 31/08/2017
Registration ends: 09/10/2017