Welcome to this Immersive Technology Strategies Newsletter. Contained in this newsletter :-

Adaptive Learning Simulations

Immersive Technologies for Culture Heritage and Tourism

Singapore Social Media and Gaming Conference

Games for Health Europe 2012

Upcoming Conferences

Adaptive Learning Simulations: Augmented virtuality gets real!

ImREAL Screenshot

Training needs more and more tools and applications that are able to adapt, not only to the user, but also to the context. Both can

change rapidly and being able to design an instrument that follows these changes in a short timeframe represents an investment

that can save time and resources. Using standard methods that are detached from users’ personal experiences and from the

working context are not only obsolete but also ineffective. The ImREAL project (www.imreal-project.eu) is studying how to create

services that are simulator-independent (so that theoretically any simulator could add these) in order to a) exploit activity theory

to be able to update contents with changing reality really quickly b) add affective-metacognitive scaffolding to support learning

and reflection and c) to extend learner modeling with information coming from the web 2.0. Follow @imreal project and join

conversation on LinkedIn (in the ImREAL group).

Immersive Technologies for Culture, Heritage and Tourism

3D Visualisation of Rosslyn Chapel by Students at De Montfort University The use of high-fidelity interactive 3D environments is no longer the sole domain of games consoles and high specification desktop computers. With the rapid development of high quality graphic capabilities on portable devices like the iPad and the embedding of sensor technologies, come massive opportunities for rich interactive multimedia experience in culture, heritage and tourism applications. Six students at De Montfort University used the Unity games engine to develop an accurate interactive model of Rosslyn Chapel for use at the heritage centre, complete with the ability to navigate freely around the chapel and explore artefacts with pop-up textual information. If you are interested in sponsoring further development or would like more information on this and/or any other 3D visualisation work from the Game Art Design Course at De Montfort University, contact Michael Powell – mlp@dmu.ac.uk

Virtual Roman Leicester in 210 AD Another project which has been ongoing at De Montfort University for some time is the visualisation of Roman Leicester and its overlay onto modern day Google maps with access to interactive 3D visualisations of artefacts dating from the same period, geo-locating them on map overlays. The use of GPS enabled augmented reality on portable devices will enable tourists to gain a richer insight into the city’s cultural heritage. For more details of this project contact Professor Martin Rieser – mrieser@dmu.ac.uk

Singapore Social Media and Gaming Conference

The Serious Gaming and Social Connect 2012 Conference is an international platform for serious games developers, government agencies and more important for individuals keen in maximising the applications of serious in their daily lives. This conference was developed with the intention to share serious games applications with educators, corporate HR practitioners and medical healthcare practitioners. It will showcase the trends and applications of games in the area of education, patient rehabilitation, advertising media, adult learning and assessment

Visit http://www.gaming-socialmedia.com/ for more details and to register

Games for Health Europe 2012 – Amsterdam November 5th – 6th

Games for Health Europe 2012 is the second annual conference that will make the gamers work hard for their HP and the doctors

to gain some extra XP! The conference’s aim is bringing together medical professionals, game designers, business executive,

angels, visionaries and dreamers under one roof. GFH Europe is the official sister organization of Boston’s Games for Health

conference, which celebrated its 8th anniversary this year.

This year’s focus is on emerging new technologies, especially the proliferation of mobile devices and gamification methodologies.

Among the first confirmed keynotes speakers are:

- Bill Crounse, MD, Senior Director, Worldwide Health Microsoft Corporation

- Martin De Ronde, Vanguard Games, Co-Founder Guerrilla Games (Killzone)

- Ben Sawyer, Co-Founder of the Serious Games initiative and Games for Health Boston.

See http://www.gamesforhealtheurope.org/program for more details

Upcoming Conferences Below is a list of forthcoming conferences – also accessible at http://www.davidwortley.com/events.html

Date Event Name / Description Location Web URL

Sept 20 Climate Change and Web 3.0 Vienna,

Austria

http://www.clubofrome.at/

Sept 25 LUDUS 3rd Serious Games Conference and

Workshop

TBA Contact Gregor Erznožnik [gregor.erznoznik@bsc-

kranj.si]

Sept 26-

28

WSIE - World Summit on Innovation and

Entrepreneurship

Boston,

USA

http://www.thewsie.org/prologue.html

Oct 2-3 DNA US Conference 2012 : New Interactive

Frontiers in Leisure Facilities Innovative

Digital Interactive Experiences - In

Amusement Parks, Video Arcades, Location-

Based Entertainment Centers, Movie

Theaters, Museums, Hotels, Nightclubs,

Shopping Malls, Stores, Restaurants, Bars,

and many other venues!

Los

Angeles,

California,

USA

http://www.thestingerreport.com/us-

conference.html

Oct 4-6 Serious Gaming and Social Connect 2012

Conference is an international platform for

serious games developers, government

agencies and more important for individuals

keen in maximising the applications of

serious in their daily lives. This conference

Singapore http://www.gaming-socialmedia.com/

was developed with the intention to share

serious games applications with educators,

corporate HR practitioners and medical

healthcare practitioners. It will showcase the

trends and applications of games in the area

of education, patient rehabilitation,

advertising media, adult learning and

assessment

Oct 5-6 SEGAMED Serious Games Conference Nice, France http://segamed2012.fr-aim.org/

Oct 9 -

10

Edutech 2012 - is one of the leading events

in Russia and CIS dedicated to educational

technologies which attracts over 70

educational suppliers and around 2 000

visitors from Russia & CIS and abroad.

Moscow,

Russia

http://www.en.edu-tech.ru/conference

Oct 16-

18

NEM Summit - The NEM Summit, organised

every year since 2008 by the NEM Initiative

in close cooperation with leading industrial

and academic players worldwide, is the “not-

to-be-missed” annual event for all those

interested in Future Internet developments

and in the fast paced evolution of the

networked and electronic media industry.

Istanbul,

Turkey

http://nem-summit.eu/

Oct 22-

24

ESM'2012 (The 26th annual European

Simulation and Modelling Conference)

Essen,

Germany

http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=node/1872

Oct 29-

31

VS-Games 2012 - 4th International

Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for

Serious Applications

Genoa, Italy http://www.vs-games2012.org/

Nov 5-6 European Serious Games for Health

Conference

Amsterdam,

Netherlands

http://www.gamesforhealtheurope.org/

Nov 14-

16

European GAMEON Conference 2012 on AI

and Computer Games

Malaga,

Spain

http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/325

Nov 15-

16

ASPIS International Conference on

Sustainable Public Spaces

Ghent,

Belgium

www.aspis-learn.eu

Nov 20-

21

3D Experience Forum by Dassault Systemes -

The 3DEXPERIENCE FORUM Europe will

enable you to experience first-hand how 3DS

is leading the way businesses; research,

education, and society cross boundaries and

connect to invent tomorrow

Brussels,

Belgium

http://www.3ds.com/company/events/3dexperience-

forum-europe/home

Dec 10-

12

Eurosis Gameon ARABIA 2012 - The 3rd

annual Pan-Arabic Simulation and AI in

Computer Games Conference Arab Open

University

Muscat,

Oman

http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=node/2218

Jan 13-

14

2013 Technology, Knowledge, and Society

Conference.

Vancouver,

Canada

http://techandsoc.com/conference-2013/register/

Jan 15-

16

3rd International Conference on Applied

Social Science (ICASS 2013)

Taipei,

Taiwan

http://www.icass-conf.org

Feb 2-3 BVIMR's 6th International Conference on

"Innovative Ways of Managing Business in

the Post Globalised Era

Pune, India http://www.bvimr.com

March 6-

8

Association for Business Simulation and

Experiential Learning (ABSEL) 40th Annual

Conference

Oklahoma

City, USA

http://www.absel.org/

Mar 22-

25

CAA 2013 - CAA (Computer Applications and

Quantitative Methods in Archaeology) is the

premier international conference for all

aspects of computing, quantitative methods

and digital applications in Archaeology

Perth,

Australia

http://caa2013.org

June 5-7 ACCESS 2013 International Congress on Advances in Citizen, Cyberspace and Environment Safety

& Security

Singapore http://www.accesscongress.org/

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