SAND 2008 call for papers

Faculty of Applied Design and Engineering
School of Digital Media

SAND 2008
Swansea Animation Days Conference

Swansea Animation Days (SAND) is pleased to announce its first annual academic conference on animation, games, and special effects. SAND Paper invites you to submit a research paper on, but not limited to, one of the following topics:

The application, evaluation, or theoretical development of digital visualisation – e.g. procedural animation, motion capture, issues of realism and perception.
Issues relating to the uncanny valley concept in relation to the creative, digital industries – e.g. computer games, 3D animation, multimedia.
An evaluation of pedagogical approaches for digital media disciplines – e.g. teaching strategies, assessment procedures, and the development of new teaching tools.
An investigation of ludological and/or narrative structures in computer and video games.
Issues concerning formal, scientific evaluations of game quality.
Other topics of particular interest include online communities, new approaches for the creation of 3D art, and the design and contextual analyses of digital visualisation.

Papers should outline original work and clearly describe the method(s) used and its application in the context of creative digital industries and/or visualisation.

Submission Guidelines

All papers should include a cover page specifying:

Name of all authors
Affiliation of all authors
Full contact details, including e-mail, for contact author
Paper title
Up to five keywords
Abstract of no more than 300 words

The final paper should adhere to the following.

Maximum word count (excluding cover page, references, and appendices) of 6,000 words.

The Harvard referencing system should be used.
Manuscripts should be submitted as Microsoft Word documents.
Articles should be written in a clear and concise manner, accessible to non-academic readers.
The document should be double-spaced, typed in 12-pt text size.
Footnotes should be avoided, or kept to an absolute minimum.

References should adhere to the following format:

Campbell, J. (1988), The Hero with a Thousand Faces, London: Paladin.

Juul, J. (1998), ‘A clash between game and narrative’, Digital Arts and Culture Conference Proceedings, available at: http://www.jesperjuul.net/text/clash_between_game_and_narrative.html (accessed May 2007).

Moreno, R. (2005), ‘Multimedia learning with animated pedagogical agents’ IN: Mayer, R. (ed.) The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Pillay, H., Brownlee, J. and Wilss, L. (1999), ‘Cognition and recreational computer games: implications for educational technology’, Journal of Research on Computing in Education, 32 (1), 203-216.

Completed papers must be sent electronically to: barry.ip@smu.ac.uk

All papers will undergo double-blind peer-review. Authors will be notified on the dates given below. Accepted papers will be published on a DVD of SAND’s conference proceedings in November 2008 and selected authors invited to introduce their paper at the SAND 2008 conference.

Deadlines

Papers: 30 June 2008
Notification of paper acceptance and reviewers’ comments: 26 September 2008
Final submission date for revised papers: 31 October 2008