First Call for Papers

The Third International Conference on Motion in Games 2010 (MIG 2010)
November 14-16, 2010, Zeist, the Netherlands

http://www.motioningames.org

Important Dates:
   Paper submission: July 8, 2010
   Notification of acceptance: August 24, 2010
   Camera ready paper: September 3, 2010

Games have become a very important medium for both education and 
entertainment. Motion plays a crucial role in computer games. Characters 
move around, objects are manipulated or move due to physical constraints, 
entities are animated, and the camera moves through the scene. Even the 
motion of the player nowadays is used as input to games. Motion is currently 
studied in many different areas of research, including graphics and 
animation, game technology, robotics, simulation, computer vision, and also 
physics, psychology, and urban studies. Cross-fertilization between these 
communities can considerably advance the state-of-the-art in this area. The 
goal of the Motion in Games conference is to bring together researchers from 
this variety of fields to present the most recent results and to initiate 
collaboration. The conference is organized by the Dutch research project 
GATE. The conference will consist of a regular paper session, as well as 
presentations by a selection of internationally renowned speakers in the 
field of games and simulations.

Authors are invited to submit a paper of 6-10 pages in the Springer LNCS 
format. The conference proceedings will be published as a volume in the 
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (Springer).

Topics include, but are not limited to:
   Animation Systems
   Animation Algorithms and Techniques
   Character Animation
   Behavioral Animation
   Facial Animation
   Particle Systems
   Simulation of Natural Environments
   Natural Motion Simulation
   Virtual Humans
   Crowd Simulation
   Path Planning
   Navigation and Way-finding
   Flocking and Steering Behavior
   Camera Motion
   Object Manipulation
   Motion Capture Techniques
   Motion Analysis and Synthesis
   Gesture Recognition
   Physics-based Motion

Program Chairs:
   Ronan Boulic - VRLab, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
   Yiorgos Chrysanthou - Dept. of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, 
Nicosia, Cyprus
   Taku Komura - Edinburgh University, UK

Local Chairs:
   Roland Geraerts - Games and Virtual Worlds group, Utrecht University, the 
Netherlands
   Arjan Egges - Games and Virtual Worlds group, Utrecht University, the 
Netherlands
   Mark Overmars - Games and Virtual Worlds group, Utrecht University, the 
Netherlands