Call for Papers - FDG 2017 Workshop: Advancing STEM Education Through Game Creation
We are pleased to announce the inaugural workshop “Advancing STEM Education Through Game Creation.” This interdisciplinary workshop will focus on the potential of, and opportunities for, game development, game design, and game creation more broadly as a means of engaging young learners in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects. This workshop will bring together an interdisciplinary collective of academics and industry representatives to discuss potential avenues for innovation in games and STEM learning. In addition to discussing opportunities and technologies that may help in creating positive perceptions and increase persistence in learning STEM subjects, we aim to discuss how games can provide opportunities for STEM education as both playful environments and as simulation environments. With the goal of building on existing work, a key goal for the workshop is to highlight new directions and chart new courses in STEM learning and games.
We invite contributions from a multitude of disciplinary perspectives — from game design and game studies to STEM education to games for learning. Descriptions of empirical studies of implementations and applications are welcome, as are position papers detailing future directions for research in this area. Position paper submissions should nevertheless contain research with arguments fully supported by and building upon previous work in STEM and games. Submissions can be full papers about results from novel research (up to 6 pages long) or short papers describing works in progress (up to 4 pages long). All position papers should be considered short papers for the purposes of length and submission system.
We also invite authors to submit mini workshop proposals where the workshop attendees can get hands-on exposure to tools to engage learners in STEM through making games. Although we will consider proposals that use proprietary solutions, we actively encourage presentations that use open-source (free) game development tools. Each mini-workshop will be provided 60 minutes. Authors are required to identify what resources are required (hardware, software, audio, and video) for participants to actively engage in the session.
Paper Submissions
All full-length and short papers will be double-blind peer reviewed. Position papers will be double-blind peer reviewed by a dedicated review committee.
Mini Workshop Submissions
The mini-workshops will be peer reviewed.
The workshop is focused on STEM and game creation, but topics may include (but are not limited to):
Chairs
Program Committee
Full paper/Short paper:
Authors are invited to submit original research contributions, following the instructions below:
IMPORTANT! All papers are subject to double-blind peer review. All submissions must be anonymized – please remove author names, and any additional information in the paper that could be used to identify the paper authors. Any submissions that are not formatted to the ACM specification or include any author identification will be returned to the authors without review. Submissions must be in PDF format and follow ACM SIG proceedings format.
Papers should be submitted to the conference Easychair site.