Monday, 09:30 – 18:00, ICEC Parallel Session: Tutorial (Full Day) Bio-Sensing Platforms for “Wellness Entertainment” System Design
lecture hall: 6 CW
TUTORIAL: Bio-Sensing Platforms for “Wellness Entertainment” System Design Yoichi Nagashima, SUAC/ASL, Japan

This is a "hands-on" lecture/workshop intended for the designer/ artist/therapist of the interactive system for "wellness entertainment". In recent years, the fields of serious games and medical/welfare/ rehabilitation applications are gaining attention in the field of entertainment computing. The organizer of this workshop has been promoting R & D activities in this area for over 20 years, and recently targeting "Wellness" or "Well-being" entertainment using bio-sensing technology. This lecture/workshop contains four parts of practical techniques/ideas to realize effective interactive system for "wellness entertainment" - environment & interface, concept of biofeedback, special techniques using commercial bio-sensors and cutting-edge topics.

Monday, 09:30 – 11:00, ICEC Parallel Session: Workshop 1: Entertainment Computation – A Key for Improving and Reducing Gender Gap?
lecture hall: 127 BT
session chairs: Javier Gomez, Letizia Jaccheri, Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge
INVITED TALK Aisling Kelliher, Inst. for Creativity, Arts, and Technology, USA
Who Will Be the Leaders in Top Academic Positions in Entertainment Computing? Letizia Jaccheri, Soudabeh Khodambashi, Katrien De Moor, Ozlem Ozgobek, Katina Kralevska
Serious Games in Special Education. A Practioner's Experience Review Guadalupe Montero, Javier Gomez
Perspectives on Accessibility in Digital Games Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge, Neil Judd, Ioana Andreea Stefan, Antoniu Stefan
Adult Perception of Gender-Based Toys and their Influence On Girls' Careers in STEM Serena Lee-Cultura, Katerina Mangaroska, Kshitij Sharma