Proceedings of the 7th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment

In this current economic climate of uncertainty, we see a convergence of innovative minds, creative solutions and emerging technologies enabling change. IE2010 will cover how PLAY can contribute to both major and minor challanges we are facing in these roaring times. What can we learn from being inventive and playful? And how can interactive entertainment contribute towards facilitating these changes? What do we need as designers, developers, critical thinkers and researchers to consider, bring in, promote when faced with these challenges? What is the role of play in future scenarios? The Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment, in its seventh year, is cross-disciplinary conference that brings together researchers from artificial intelligence, audio, congnitive science, cultural studies, drama, HCI, interactive media, media studies, psychology, computer graphics, as well as researchers from other disciplines working on new interactive entertainment specific technologiesor providing critical analysis of games and interactive environments.