FROG – Future and Reality of Gaming

13^th Vienna Games Conference
Vienna City Hall, Austria
Friday, 18^th October – Sunday, 20^th October 2019

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 “Mixed Reality” in any of its various manifestations.

Call for Papers

Registration / Anmeldung

Important dates

FROG main conference: 18/10/2019 – 20/10/2019

Venue:

Vienna City Hall
Friedrich-Schmidt-Platz 1, 1010 Wien
1010 Vienna, Austria
Nordbuffet

PreFROG

POLLIWOG Krems: 21/09/2019
POLLIWOG Klagenfurt: 04/10/2019 – 05/10/2019
POLLIWOG Vienna: 17/10/2019

FROG@School: 18/10/2019

Speakers

Speakers 2018

Speakers 2017

Programme

Programme

Friday, 18th October 2019
12:00 – 13:00	Registration
13:00 – 13:30	Eröffnung	Gerhard Pölsterl Felix Schniz
REALITYgame
13:30 – 14:30	KEYNOTE: Attila Szantner	Mix in reality: Science enters games
14:30 – 15:00	Sonja Gabriel	The case of „Pokémon Go“ – how an augmented reality game influences society
15:00 – 15:30	Daniela Bruns	When the future becomes the present – Detroit: Become Human as a resource for social criticism
15:30 – 15:45	Ina Stacher	LINA – a digital learning game using mixed reality to discover interpersonal relations in the classroom and foster social connectedness
15:45 – 16:00	Pause
MIXEDplay
16:00 – 16:30	Gernot Hausar	Settlement of digital land – living a part of your life in the sandbox MMO EVE Online
16:30 – 17:30	KEYNOTE: John N.A. Brown	Save Gamer
17:30 – 18:00	Pause
REALITYreportings: MI goes FROG
18:00 – 18:15	Natalie Denk	Alternate Reality Games – Report from POLLIWOG Krems
18:15 – 18:30	Wilfried Elmenreich	Making a hybrid board game – Report from Polliwog Klagenfurt
18:30 – 18:45	Katharina Mittlböck	Game Informed Recruitment and Assessment Tool (GIRAT) – Reporting from Polliwog Vienna powered by play & learn//experts!
18:45 – 19:00	Daniela Bruns	Game Pics Jam/Show
19:00 – 19:20	Felix Schniz	FROG 2018 – Conference Proceedings (Buchvorstellung)
19:20 – 19:40	Alessandro Barberi	Medienimpulse 16/17 (Buchvorstellung)
19:45 – 19:55	Pause
19:55 – 20:35	Podiumsdiskussion Thema „Bildung & Games“
20:35 – 21:30	Diskussion und Ausklang bei Buffet, danach lange Nacht der Games
Saturday, 19th October 2019
MIXEDbodies
10:30 – 11:30	Keynote: Alexia Bhéreur-Lagounaris	WARNING: Not suitable for robots
11:30 – 12:00	Frank Fetzer	Mixed Reality is already there! The Player’s Body as Foundation of the Video Game Experience
12:00 – 12:15	Benedikt Pielenz	EU-Kulturgut: Digital Games & Disability
12:15 – 12:30	Michael Fleischhacker	Augmented Reality in Kombination mit Minecraft in der Primarstufe
12:30 – 13:00	Achim Birkner	Augmented Experience und nicht Augmented Reality
13:00 – 14:00	Pause
REALITYinclusions
14:00 – 15:00	Junior Keynote: Christina Obmann	Gender Portrayals in Video Games: a Reflection of Production Contexts?
15:00 – 15:30	Harald Koberg	Men at Play – Analyzing games as masculine retreats
15:30 – 16:00	Damian Stewart	“This Is For The Players”: Industry Construction of the “Gamer” Identity
16:00 – 16:30	Felix Schniz	The Flanêur in a Masticator: An Experience of Thought through Virtual Walking in Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs.
16:30 – 17:00	Pause
MIXEDapplications
17:00 – 17:30	Alexander Preisinger & Florian Aumayr	„Geschichte ist, was Sie daraus machen!“ Computerspiele als Mittel der historisch-politischen Bildung
17:30 – 17:45	Dominik Müllner	Playing History – Practical Applications for Teachers and Youthworkers
17:45 – 18:00	Richard Hahn	Digitale Gamebooks mit twine
18:00 – 19:00	Explore the Game City
19:00	Dinner / Abendessen (Esterhazykeller)
Sunday, 20th October 2019
REALITYpolicies
10:30 – 11:30	Keynote: Mahshid Mayar	Banal, Boring, Banned: Unplayability in Digital Games
11:30 – 12:00	Katharina Bisset	Players Unite Legally
12:00 – 12:30	Alexander Pfeiffer	Mixed Reality: Las Vegas as gamified theatre and GTA Online in gambling-thrill. About the connection between digital game studies and gambling research.
12:30 – 13:30	Pause
MIXEDinsights
13:30 – 14:30	Junior Keynote: Florian Kelle	The Big Dig: On Rethinking Videogames as Nexus
14:30 – 15:00	Rudolf Inderst & Pascal Wagner	Cortana – eine digitale Assistenz zwischen Datenschutz und Weltraumschlachten
15:00 -15:15	Simon Bernard	From Student To Indie Dev – A One Year Journey
15:15 – 15:30	Christoph Kaindel	Von BSP bis Diamond Square – Methoden zur prozeduralen Level-Generierung
15:30 – 16:00	Pause
REALITYlearning
16:00 – 16:15	Sarah Wagner	The world of Classcraft – online gamification as a game changer in the classroom
16:15 – 16:30	Matthias Treitler	Mobile immersive Virtual Reality Lernanwendungen im Schulunterricht
MIXEDperformance
16:30 – 17:00	Stefan Ancuta, David Praschak & Maximilian Schmidt	Fortschritt und Kontrolle in Videospielen
17:00 – 17:30	Dejan Lukovic	Gotta Go Fast – Human-Machine-Interaction in Speedrunning
18:00	Dinner / Abendessen (3Raum)

Team FROG

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