Call for Participation - CHI 2014 Game Jam [4Research]

Workshop at CHI 2014
Toronto, Canada,
April 26 – 27
9.00am – 6.00pm

This hands-on workshop will provide participants with the opportunity to create a digital game while also engage with research through Game Jam activities. Participants will collaborate with other academics and practitioners from the CHI community. This workshops builds on last year's successful Game Jam workshop, extending it by exploring jamming as a research method. The research questions we will explore (coming from the jammers) will provide us with specific challenges to design for.

The workshop has five key goals:

1. Explore jamming as research method
2. Learn this method by doing it (learning by doing)
3. Identify the advantages of this method (rapid, collaborative, ...)
4. Identify the disadvantages (difficult to generalize results, bugs in prototypes that may hinder any study, ...)
5. Develop a playable game

At the end of the two-day workshop we will share the results with the wider CHI community to fuel discussions about Game Jams for research.

How to participate
We invite participants form multidisciplinary backgrounds to apply. Researchers, designers, developers and artists are invited to submit a max 4. page proposal in the Extended Abstract format as per ACM guidelines to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> that includes the following:

1. A position statement (about your opinion of game jams/experience of game jams/expectations of game jams as a research method/etc)
2. List of skills and expertise
3. Brief biography and a portfolio URL
4. Research question you propose to study during the Game Jam (optional)

Applicants will be selected based on their experience, vision and what they can contribute to the Game Jam.
Applicants can enlist as a team, but are encouraged to enlist as individuals to foster new social connections during the workshop.
Applications must be submitted by January 4th 2014. We will notify successful applicants by February 1st 2014.

Please note: Accepted participants must register for the workshop and at least one day of the conference


For more info: http://www.gamesjam.nl/about/about-4research-2014-chi/

We are looking forward jamming with you!
Menno, Robert, Alan, Amani, Regina, Allan, Ben and Floyd

Robert Cercos, Exertion Games Lab, RMIT University, Australia

Regina Bernhaupt, IRIT, France 

Florian 'Floyd' Mueller, Exertion Games Lab, RMIT University, Australia