Programme

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Keynote

Academic MindTrek is pleased to announce that Gregory Lowe of University of Tampere, Finland will hold a keynote speech on the topic of the future of the media. Now what?!

Academic MindTrek is pleased to announce that Miguel Sicart will hold a keynote speech at Academic MindTrek 2009. Miguel Sicart is Assistant Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen, where he teaches game design. He received his Ph.D. in game studies in 2006. His book, The Ethics of Computer Games is published on MIT Press. He is currently working on developing a design framework for implementing ethical gameplay in digital games.
Website: miguelsicart.net

Tutorials

Academic MindTrek has accepted the following two tutorials:

Tutorial 1 PDF (Friday 2nd October, 10.00- 12.00, Cabinet 7): Creating game bots in a few easy steps, Ondrej Burkert, Jakub Gemrot, Micha Bida, Rudolf Kadlec, Cyril Crom, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, tutorial website

Tutorial 2 PDF (Friday 2nd October, 10.00-16.00, Cabinet 14): Game Design for Social Networks, Aki Järvinen, mygamestudies.com / IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark tutorial website

This is a preliminary programme and is subject to change

Detailed conference programme pdf.

Wednesday 30th Sep

08:30-09:00	Registration
09:00-10.00	Opening by conference chairs Keynote The Future of the Media Gregory Lowe University of Tampere
	1st Paper Sessions
10:00-11.30 Chair:	Hall 3 Ubimedia Track Artur Lugmayr	Hall 4 Games Track Olli Sotamaa	Hall 5 Social Media Track Heljä Franssila
11:30-12:30	Lunch
	2nd Paper Sessions
12:30-14:00 Chair:	Ubimedia Track Jukka Vanhala	Games Track Olli Sotamaa	Social Media Track Heljä Franssila
14:00-15.30	Coffee Break and Poster Presentations [Hall 5]
	3rd Paper Sessions
15:30-17:30 Chair:	Ubimedia Track Jukka Vanhala	Games Track Olli Sotamaa	Social Media Track Jarmo Viteli
17:30-18:15	Closing

Thursday 1st Oct

12:00 - 13:00	Lunch
13:00 - 13:45	Keynote Not to Choose - Designing Ethical Gameplay Miguel Sicart (IT University of Copenhagen) [Cabinet 14]
14:00 - 16:00	Cross-disciplinary and Best Papers Award Session
16:00 - 17.30	Best Paper Award Ceremony