• Axel Stockburger, “HEAD LEFT – CLIMB UP – JUMP IN: What do Walkthrough texts reveal about representational navigable spaces in computer games?”
• Julian Barker, “An Investigation of Play Studies”

• Julian Kücklich, “Neverending Stories – Perspectives of  Computer Game Philology”
• Piotr Sitarski, “Play It Again: Repetitions in Computer Games

• Mike Rawlinson: ELSPA
• Jason Della Rocca: IGDA

• Will Brooker, “The Many Lives of the Jetman: A Case Study in Video Game Analysis”
• Dmitri Williams, “The Social Construction of Video Games”

• Mia Consalvo, “Hot Dates and Fairy-Tale Romances: Studying Sexuality in Videogames”
• Jeroen Jansz, “Why is Violent Appealing to Male Gamers?”

• Aphra Kerr, “Producing Players Not Games: The Digital Games Industry in Ireland”
• Philippe Larrue, William Lazonick & Mary O’Sullivan, “European Competitors in the Video Game Industry: Venture Creation and Enterprise Growth in France and Britain”

• Anja Rau, “All Your Game Are Belong to Us – Computer Games and Online-Marketing”
• Susana Pajares Tosca, “Games ARE the new black”
• Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen, "Games and Learning: The Case of the Trojan Horse"

• Andrew Burn, “Final Fantasy: Multimodal Competences in Player Engagement”
• Diane Carr, “Play Dead: Planescape Torment, Horror and RPG's”
• Gareth Schott, “Moving between the Spectral and Material Plane: Interactivity in Social Play with Computer Games”

Saturday 6^th

9:30 – 11:00

Parallel Sessions 4

Chair: Dmitri Williams

4a

• Friedrich Krotz, “Computer Games as a Form of Computer Mediated Communication and the Changing Images of Childhood”
• Anna Maria Mullally, “The way we tell ‘em: Children, Narrative and ICT”

Dalton Committee Room

4b

Chair: Jason Rutter

• Alberto Alvisi, Alessandro Narduzzo & Marco Zamarian, “Squint-Eyed Strategies for Success: Playstation and the Power of Unexpected Consequences”
• Alison McMahan, “Consoles versus Content: The Battle at Sega”

Dalton Gallery

4c

Chair: Susana Tosca

• Jesper Juul, “Protect Your Resource Gathering Units At All Cost: Sketching a Theory of Gameplay”
• Andrew Mactavish, “Mods, Gods, and Creative Computer Gameplay”

Dalton Lecture Room

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee

Dalton Library

11:30 –1:00

Parallel Sessions 5

5a

Chair: Craig Fletcher

• Xavier Retaux & Juliette Rouchier, “Realism vs Surprise and Coherence: Different Aspect of Playability in Computer Games”
• Tomi Kujanpää & Tony Manninen, “Interaction Forms in Multi-player Games”

Dalton Gallery

5b

Chair: Jo Bryce

• Timothy Dumbleton, “Becta’s Computer Games in Education project: how can computer games influence new software for schools?”
• Johannes Fromme, “Computer Games as a Part of Children’s Culture”

Dalton Lecture Room

1:00 – 1:45

Lunch

Dining Room

1:45 – 3:15

Parallel Sessions 6

6a

Chair: Jo Bryce

• Graeme Kirkpatrick, "Games and Culture"
• Gitte Stald, “Meeting in the Combat Zone. Online Multiplayer Computer Games as Spaces for Social and Cultural Encounters”

Dalton Committee Room

6b

Chair: Jason Della Rocca

• Sugih Jamin, Eric Kozlowski, Ho Lee & Scott Lenker, “Synchronization and Cheat-Proofing Protocol for Real-Time Mulitplayer Games”
• Nicolas Nova, “Awareness Tools: Lessons from First-Person Shooter Games”

Dalton Gallery

6c

Chair: Mia Consalvo

• Tanya Krzywinska, “Constructions of Tension in Horror-Based Videogames”
• Markus Wiemker, “’Where does reality stop... and the game begin?’ – Postmodern media-reality – a sociological analysis of media discourses, cultures of simulations and gaming future exemplified by the film eXistenZ (1998) from David Cronenberg

Dalton Lecture Room

3:15 – 3:45

Coffee

Dalton Library

3:45 – 5:15

Parallel Sessions 7

7a

Panel

Playful Futures: Game Cultures and a "New Media Studies"

• Jon Dovey, "Intertextual Tie Ups: When Narratology Met Ludology"
• Seth Giddings, "Playing with Theory: The Technological Imaginary and a 'New Media Studies'"
• Helen Kennedy, "Gender, Technicity and Play: Girl Gamers and Online Methodologies"

Dalton Committee Room

7b

Chair: Jane Coughlan

• Hardy Dreier, “Windowing and Versioning: The Power of Combination”
• Stina Nylander & Annika Waern, “Platform-Independent Interaction for Online Game Services”

Dalton Gallery

7c

Chair: Alison McMahan

• Dmitri Williams, "Structure and Competition in the U.S. Home Video Game Industry"
• Jai Kim, Jay Chung & Tae Kim, "Foreign Market Entry Strategies of Korean Online Game Developers"

Dalton Lecture Room

5:15 – 6:30

Plenary Session B - "Public Gaming"

• Edward Watson: Csports.net
• Craig Fletcher: Multiplay

Nield Wing JCR

7:30

Conference Dinner
Coach to leave Dalton Ellis at 7.30

Sunday 7^th

9:30 – 10:00

Coffee

Dalton Library

10:00 – 12:00

Parallel Sessions 8

Chair: Anna Maria Mullally

8a

• Marinka Copier, "Is Gaming Just for Kids? Elderly People do Play Games!"
• Ole Ertløv Hansen, "A Cognitive Theoretical Approach to Computer Games and the Aesthetics of Repetition"
• Bo Kampmann Walther, "Gaming and Playing: Reflections and Classifications"

Dalton Gallery

8b

Panel

Videogame Effects Research: New Wine in Old and New Bottles (Panel)

• Brian Brantley, John Chisholm, Lucian Dinu, Dorina Miron, Barry Smith, “Effects of Individual/Team Playing and Constructive/Destructive Goal on Players’ Scores on the Game and on Social Desirability, Individualism, and Coping Style Scales”
• Dorina Miron, Mary Ellen Maxwell, “The Impact of Videogame Playing on Children’s Learning of Prosocial Scripts from Edutainment”
• Hong-Sik Yu, “Effects of Competitive Videogame Playing on Players’ Affects and Self-Ascribed Toughness”
• Pierre Wilhelm, “Videogame Ratings and Regulation in the United States”

Dalton Lecture Room

12.00 – 1:30

Plenary Session C - "Gaming Futures"

• Mike Rawlinson: ELSPA
• Tim Dumbleton: BECTA
• Jason Della Rocca: IGDA
• Jo Bryce: UCLAN

Nield Wing JCR

1:30 – 2:30

Lunch & Conference Close

Dining Room