The Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment (http://ieconference.org/ie2008/), in its fifth year, is a cross-disciplinary conference that brings together researchers from artificial intelligence, audio, cognitive 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 technologies or providing critical analysis of games and interactive environments.

The conference will accept innovative submissions that present new ideas, improvements to existing techniques or provide new ways of examining, designing and using interactive entertainment technologies. All full paper and short paper submissions will be peer-reviewed by an international
program committee.

Key Note Speakers: John Passfield and Kenneth D. Forbes.

Key dates:
*   Long (up to 10 pages) and short papers (up to 6 pages) submission:
18th July
*   Demonstration abstracts (up to 3 pages): 1st August

General inquiries should be forwarded to:
ie2008@ieconference.org
Conference dates: 3 – 5 December
http://ieconference.org/ie2008/