Research

This page is devoted to disseminating information about research opportunities in the area of gaming and computing. If you have a link/resource that you know of and would like to include it here, please contact us and we will add it.

A good map of gaming around the world can be found at gamedevmap.

GameCareerGuide.com is an excellent source of information and articles.

Professional Societies and Web Sites

Journals

Funding/Grants

Conferences

Current/Future

Indie Game Challenge (deadline 10/31)
The 8th International Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (November 23-24, 2009), Paris, France
GAMEON'2009 Simulation and AI in Computer Games (November 26-28, 2009), Duesseldorf, Germany
- 8/30/09 Paper submission deadline
The Fourth Annual I/ITSEC Serious Games Showcase & Challenge (Nov 30 - Dec 3, 2009), Orlando, FL
- Submissions from Aug 15 - Sept 30, 2009
IE2009: The 6th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment (14-16 December 2009), Sydney, Australia
- Submission deadline is August 21 for full papers, Sept 1 for short papers
International Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (November 23-24, 2009), Paris, France
Independent Games Festival (March 9-13, 2010)
- November 1, 2009 deadline for game submission
The Fifth International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (June 19-21, 2010), Monterey, CA
- Paper deadline 2/5/2010

Past

2008 Austin GDC (September 14-18, 2008), Austin, TX
2008 Southern Interactive Entertainment & Game Expo, SEIGE (October 3-5, 2008), Marietta, GA
Meaningful Play 2008 (October 9 - 11, 2008), East Lansing, MI
Games for Health (October 18-19, 2008), University of Baltimore, MD
2008 International Digital Media and Arts Association Conference (November 6 - 8, 2008), Savannah, GA
Independent Game Conference (November 20-21, 2008), Austin, TX
Australasian Conference on INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT (December 3-4, 2008), Brisbane, Australia
2009 International Festival of Animation & Computer Games (February 2-6, 2009), Middlesbrough, UK
Art and Code: Programming Environments for Artists, Young People, and the Rest of Us (March 7-9, 2009), Pittsburg, PA
Game Developer Conference, GDC (March 22-23, 2009), San Fransisco, CA
Education Programme at Eurographics 2009 (March 31, 2009), Munich, Germany
Oklahoma Electronic Game Expo, OEGE (April 11, 2009), Oklahoma City
GDX (April 16-17, 2009), Savannah, GA
2009 Foundations of Digital Games, used to be GDCSE (April 26-30, 2009), Port Canaveral, FL
Triangle Game Conference (April 29-30, 2009), Raleigh, NC
Independent Game Conference East (May 7-8, 2009), Boston, MA
Computer Games, Multimedia, & Allied Technology (May 11-13, 2009), Singapore
Games for Change Festival (May 27-29, 2009), New York, NY
E3 Expo (June 2-4, 2009), Los Angeles, CA
- Microsoft announces project Natal (motion control and image processing for XBox 360)
IndieCade, at E3 - June 2-5 - Los Angeles, Asia TBA, at SIGGRAPH - Aug 5-7 - New Orleans, 2009 Festival - Oct 1-10, Europe - Oct 26-29 - GameCity UK
Games+Learning+Society Conference 5.0 (June 10-13, 2009), Madison, Wisconsin
Game Education Summit (June 16-17, 2009), Pittsburgh, PA
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (June 22-26, 2009), Honolulu, Hawaii
40th ISAGA 2009 conference, "Learn to Game and Game to Learn" theme (June 29-July 3), Singapore
3rd International Symposium of Computer Games and their applications - CGa (July 14-17, 2009), Barcelona, Spain
Casual Connect Seattle 2009 (July 21-23, 2009), Seattle, Washington
Beyond Virtual: Building Intercultural Competence with Social Games and Online Communities (July 19-24, 2009) as part of HCI International 2009, San Diego, CA
Game Papers - 36th International SIGGRAPH (August 3-7, 2009), New Orleans, Loisiana
- 2/18/09 paper submission deadline for the Game Paper track
4th International Conference on E-learning and Games (August 9-11, 2009), Banff, Canada
- 1/10/09 submission deadline
The Philosophy of Computer Games International Conference (August 13-15, 2009), Oslo, Norway
Game Developers Conference Europe (August 17-19, 2009), Cologne, Germany
IEEE Consumer Electronics Society's Games Innovations Conference 2009 (August 25-28, 2009), London, UK
- 3/10/09 paper submission deadline
8th International Conference on Entertainment Computing (September 3-5, 2009), Paris, France
- 3/2/09 paper submission deadline
International Festival of Independent Games (October 1-10)
- 3/10/09 deadline for submissions

Research Opportunities and Jobs

These descriptions may or may not refer to currently open positions, but we list them here to show the types of research-related positions that are available if you want to do research in the field of gaming and media. Perform internet searches for these positions from here and at the institutions to which these postings refer for more information.

MIT's Media Lab - Scratch Community
NC State's Computer Science Department, Digital Games Research Center
Worchester Polytechnic Institute, Interactive Media and Game Development
Research Fellow (Fixed term), Department of Informatics, School of Science and Technology
Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media at Michigan State University, Assistant Professor of Games and Interactive Media