4th International Workshop on Story-Telling and Educational Games (STEG'11)

Organisers

Ralf Klamma (RWTH Aachen University, Germany – [email protected]) is a senior researcher within the Information Systems Group at RWTH Aachen University. He has visited the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge and has been a substitute professor at the universities of Chemnitz and Passau. He is a project manager in the collaborative research centre "Media and Cultural Communication" and was work package leader for "Social Software" in the European Network of Excellence PROLEARN in professional training. He has chaired all four PROLEARN Summer Schools as well as the Doctoral Consortia the European Conference for Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL). In 2007 he was PC chair of the ECTEL. His research interests include theory and utilization of community information systems, mobile, social software, metadata, technology enhanced learning and professional training.

Michael Derntl (RWTH Aachen University, Germany - [email protected]) has a doctoral degree in information systems from the Faculty of Computer Science, University of Vienna. Currently, he works as research associate at the Chair of Computer Science 5 - Information Systems at RWTH Aachen University. He has been involved in TEL research and development for almost 10 years. He is currently involved in the FP7 projects GaLA (network of excellence on serious games) and TEL-Map (roadmapping for technology enhanced learning) . His research interests lie in interdisciplinary application of concepts and methodologies from computer science, social science, and engineering to problems in the domains of technology enhanced learning and serious games.

Stefan Göbel (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany - [email protected]) holds a diploma and PhD in Computer Science. From 1997-2002 he has been working as researcher in the field of (Geo)Graphic Information Systems at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, before he was heading the Digital Storytelling group at the Computer Graphics Center. Late 2008 he moved to the Multimedia Communications Lab - KOM at TU Darmstadt and is heading the prospering Serious Gaming group. Dr. Göbel is the author of numerous papers and active member of program committees of well-known conferences (e.g. ACM Multimedia, FDG, EC-GBL) and juries in the field of Serious Games (Serious Games Award). He initiated the Int’l Conf. on Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment (TIDSE) and hosted that conference in 2003, 2004 and 2006, before it has been merged with the Int'l Conf. on Virtual Storytelling (ICVS) and subsumed into the Int'l Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS) in 2008, and the GameDays as Science meets Business event series for Serious Games taking place in Darmstadt on an annual basis since 2005. Dr. Göbel is -or has been- involved in several EU funded projects related to the workshop theme, e.g. 80Days, INSCAPE, U-CREATE, art-E-fact.

Sandy Louchart (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK - [email protected]) is a lecturer in Human Computer Interaction and Interaction Design in the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences (MACS) at Heriot-Watt University. He gained a BSc. Honours in International Business and Information Technologies in 1999 from the University of Teesside (UK) and has investigated in subsequent research various aspects of interaction design and behaviour-based Artificial Intelligence. He gained an MSc (Distinction) in Graduate Enterprise in Multimedia in 2001 from the University of Teesside, where he studied the communication of emotions in entertainment as part of a Masters dissertation. His PhD, awarded by the University of Salford in 2007, explored the domain of Interactive Storytelling (IS) via the development of the Emergent Narrative concept. His work has been published internationally in Intelligent Agents, Virtual Reality, Game and Interactive Storytelling Journals and Conferences. Sandy also participated in organising event within the Interactive Story-telling community (AI and Games workshops at AISB 05 06 07; Intelligent Narrative Technologies at AAAI spring symposium series in Stanford 2009, the 3rd International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling ICIDS 2010 and the Intercultural agent workshop at IVA 2010). He is also involved in the EU Network of Excellence Game and Learning Alliance GALA and the EPSRC Research in Interactive Drama Environments, Role-Play and Storytelling RIDERS.