7th January 2008
The workshop proceedings are now online
Call for Participation Registration Venue (Playa del Carmen, Mexico) Accommodation Schedule
Please note that attendees at both the INTETAIN conference and ITIS workshop will benefit from a 20% discount in registration fee.
Early registration deadline: 7th December 2007
Interactive Story has the potential to revolutionise entertainment. As a research area, however, it is becoming increasingly disparate; although groundbreaking work is being done, there has thus far been only minimal
consideration of integration. To effectively further the field, the exchange of ideas and the consideration of their integration have become necessary. Without such an effort, there may be no way to create a single interactive story system of sufficiently high quality. The ITIS workshop aims to encourage the integration of techniques for interactive stories and further collaboration between research groups. It will bring together researchers from different aspects of interactive stories, and should aid in ultimately leading to interactive story systems which are more complete and entertaining.A subset of submitted papers will be selected for oral presentation at the
workshop. In the event that a large number of high quality submissions be
received, a poster session will be held to showcase further papers. The workshop
will also include discussion
sessions which will encourage researchers to
exchange ideas and consider integrating their various methodologies into
a single idealised system (the
nature of such a system will also be discussed within the
scope of the workshop). The
workshop's collaborative nature will also aid in the reduction of repeated work
between research groups, enabling researchers to recognise how their research
fits into the bigger picture rather than viewing it as an isolated component of
a far-distant whole.
All researchers in any aspect of the broad field of Interactive Story are
encouraged to submit papers for presentation at ITIS. This may include, but is
in no way limited to:
Submissions should be 6 pages in length in ACM two-column conference style format. To submit a paper, log in to the Easy Chair Conference System for ITIS '08 and follow the on-screen instructions. The same anonymity instructions as for the main INTETAIN conference apply, whereby "Authors are expected to remove author and institutional identities from the title and header areas of the paper. Further suppression of identity in the body of the paper is left to the authors' discretion. In particular, we expect authors to leave the citations to their previous work unanonymised, so that reviewers can ensure that all previous research has been taken into account."
Please email itistory@gmail.com with any questions or comments.
While ITIS participants registering for the main INTETAIN conference is strongly recommended, doing so is not required.
View the call for papers here.
INTETAIN
This workshop will take place as part of, and prior to, INTETAIN 2008.
The venue is Playa del Carmen, Cancun, Mexico.
Important dates
Workshop Paper Submissions Deadline: 14th October 2007 (00:00 CET) ****Extended to 21st October 2007
Workshop Paper Notification: 12th November 2007
Camera Ready Workshop Paper Deadline: 26th November 2007 ****Extended to 7th December 2007
Workshop Date: 7th January 2008
Conference Dates: 8th - 10th January 2008
Organising Committee
Heather Barber, University of York, UK
Christina Strong, University of California Santa Cruz, California, US
David Thue, University of Alberta, Canada
Programme Committee
Isabel Alexandre
Fred Charles
Chris Crawford
Pablo Gervas
Daniel Kudenko
Mark Riedl
David Roberts
Ulrike Spierling
Mariet Theune