General Chairs
Ryosuke Yamanishi
Associate Professor
Kansai University, Japan
Ruck Thawonmas
Professor
Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Program Chairs
Lissa Holloway-Attaway
Associate Professor, Media Arts, Aesthetics, and Narration
University of Skövde, Sweden
John Murray
Assistant Professor
University of Central Florida, USA
Financial Management Chairs
Akiko Yamanobe
May Project, Japan
Frank Nack
Associate Professor
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Art Exhibition Chairs
Iva Georgieva
Assistant Professor
Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Mondheera Pituxcoosuvarn
Assistant Professor
Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Workshop Chairs
Frederic Seraphine
Doctoral Researcher
University of Tokyo, Japan
Frank Nack
Associate Professor
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Doctoral Consortium Chairs
Hartmut Koenitz
Professor
Södertörn University, Sweden
Ágnes Bakk
Lead researcher
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Hungary
Online Chair
Liang Li
Professor
Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Area Chairs
Theory, History, and Foundations
Hartmut Koenitz
Professor
Södertörn University, Sweden
Mattia Bellini
Junior researcher & doctoral student
University of Tartu, Latvia
Social and Cultural Contexts
Anastasia Salter
Professor
University of Central Florida, USA
Rebecca Rouse
Associate Professor
University of Skövde, Sweden
Tools and Systems
Frank Nack
Associate Professor
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Vincenzo Lombardo
Professor
University of Torino, Italy
Interactive Narrative Design
Mark Marino
Associate Professor
University of Southern California, USA
Christian Roth
Doctoral Researcher
HKU University of the Arts, The Netherlands
Virtual Worlds, Performance, Games and Play
Sandy Louchart
Doctoral Researcher, Head of UG Programmes
Glasgow School of Art, UK
Emily Johnson
Assistant Professor
University of Central Florida, USA
Applications and Case Studies
Colette Daiute
Professor
City University of New York, USA
Joshua Fisher
Assistant Professor
Ball State University, USA
Late Breaking Works
Hartmut Koenitz
Professor
Södertörn University, Sweden
Joshua Fisher
Assistant Professor
Ball State University, USA
Program Committee
Febri Abdullah Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Alberto Alvarez Malmö University, Sweden
Gabriele Aroni Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Pratama Atmaja University of Pembangunan Nasional “Veteran” Jawa Timur, Indonesia
Byung-Chull Bae Hongik University, South Korea
Sojung Bahng Queen’s University, Canada
Agnes Bakk Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Hungary
Jonathan Barbara Saint Martin’s Institute of Higher Education, Malta
Mattia Bellini University of Tartu, Estonia
Jessica L. Bitter Hochschule RheinMain, Germany
Alex Calderwood Montana State University, USA
Elin Carstensdottir University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Sherol Chen Passion Talks, USA
Laureline Chiapello NAD UQAC Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
Dan Cox University of Central Florida, USA
Danilo Croce Univ. of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Colette Daiute City University of New York, USA
Rossana Damiano Università di Torino, Italy
Steven Dashiell American University, USA
Sam Davern Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Carl Erez University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Mury Fajar Dewantoro Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Jamie Fawcus Skövde University, Sweden
Joshua Fisher Ball State University, USA
Terra-Mae Gasque Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Georgi V. Georgiev University of Oulu, Finland
Iva Georgieva Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Zhengya Gong University of Oulu, Finland
Kyle Gonzalez University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Andrew Gordon University of Southern California, USA
Srushti Goud University of Torino, Italy
Lindsay Grace University of Miami, USA
Mads Haahr Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Wolfgang Heiden Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Kenton Howard University of Central Florida, USA
Ido Aharon Iurgel Hochschule Rhein-Waal, Germany
Emily Johnson University of Central Florida, USA
Shi Johnson-Bey University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Akrivi Katifori University of Athens, Greece
Jonas Knochelmann University of Utah, USA
Hartmut Koenitz Södertörn University, Sweden
David Lamas Tallinn University, Estonia
Bjarke Alexander Larsen UC Santa Cruz, USA
Vittorio Lauro Università di Torino, Italy
Vincenzo Lombardo Università di Torino, Italy
Sandy Louchart Glasgow School of Art, UK
Péter Kristóf Makai Kazimierz Wielki University, Poland
Mark Marino University of Southern California, USA
James Minogue North Carolina State University, USA
Alex Mitchell National University of Singapore, Singapore
Kevin Moloney Ball State University, USA
Jack Murray University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Frank Nack University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Daniel Peniche Tallinn University, Estonia
Andy Phelps American University, USA
Antonio Pizzo University of Turin, Italy
Derek Reilly Dalhousie University, Canada
María Cecilia Reyes Universidad del Norte, Colombia
Joellyn Rock University of Minnesota, USA
Christian Roth HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, The Netherlands
Rebecca Rouse University of Skövde, Sweden
Svetlana Rudenko Bray Institute of Further Education, Ireland
Anastasia Salter University of Central Florida, USA
Morgan Sammut Independent, USA
Despoina Sampatakou University of York, UK
Frédéric Seraphine University of Tokyo, Japan
Digdem Sezen Teesside University, UK
Tonguç Sezen Teesside University, UK
Yotam Shibolet Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Claudia Silva Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Shweta Sisodiya University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Lyle Skains Bournemouth University, UK
Andy Smith North Carolina State University, USA
Caighlan Smith Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Gabriele Sofia Université Paul Valéry Montpellier, France
Ulrike Spierling RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Claire Stricklin Rutgers University—Camden, USA
Stella Sung University of Central Florida, USA
Nicolas Szilas University of Geneva, Switzerland
Alexandra Teixeira Riggs Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Rui Torres Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Portugal
Renske van Enschot Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Jasper Van Vught Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Jessica Vandenberg North Carolina State University, USA
Ruoyu Wen Uppsala University, Sweden
Rob Wittig University of Minnesota Duluth, USA
David Thomas Henry Wright Nagoya University, Japan
Hongwei Zhou University of California, Santa Cruz, USA