Firstly, two days, Monday, June 26 and Tuesday, June 27, 2023, will be devoted to workshops, the first on serious games and the second on gamification. The idea here is twofold: to enable participants to distinguish between these two major families of applications, and to come up with a topic, a problem, discuss it and reflect together on development solutions, and leave with concrete ideas. Wednesday, June 28 is dedicated to a day of networking: in the morning, speed-dating to get to know each other, and "private" roundtables in the afternoon. During previous years, these "classic" roundtables consisted of six or seven people discussing a topical issue in an amphitheater. While this was an interesting solution, it was not so appropriate since the audience were not really able to participate. This year’s solution first proposes that topics to be chosen, not imposed, and second, direct interaction is possible in a more human-sized space. Finally, as usual, two days will be devoted to the presentation of conference proceedings on Thursday, June 19 and Friday June 30, 2023. This year, we'll be lucky enough to have six major presentations during these last two days and the main design topic was the game of Tetris – see following illustration– the first computer science serious game?
The work accomplished was the fruit of close collaboration between mainly four institutes, in particular the Haute Ecole Arc of Neuchatel (HE-Arc, CH) for administration and general management, the Haute Ecole du Paysage, d'Ingénierie et d'Architecture (hepia, CH) for the conference program, the Haute Ecole d'Art et de Design of Geneva (HEAD, CH) for design and the Trophées, and the company Contreforme for editing the conference proceedings.
We would like to thank all our sponsors and financial and political supporters, and in particular the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, the Swiss innovation and applied research support association "Innosuisse", hepia and in particular HE-Arc, which alone accounts for the vast majority of direct funding and through paid hours.
