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Conference Schedule
All locations are in the Reitz Student Union on the campus at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
Thursday March 1
10:00-12:00: Cognitive Fidelity in Virtual Worlds (A Multidisciplinary Approach) (Reitz Union 361)
- Rudy McDaniel and J. Michael Moschell (UCF): Narrative Fidelity and Kinesthetic Manipulation in Virtual Worlds: A Wii Example
- Dan Novatnak (University of Central Florida): Managing Fidelity When Worlds Collide
- Eric Vick (University of Central Florida): Semiotics: Mapping Design to Play
- Sae Schatz and Clint Bowers (University of Central Florida): Can Lessons Learned From Environmental Psychology Translate to Virtual Environments?
1:30-3:00: World-Building: Comics and Game Studies (Reitz Union 361)
- A roundtable discussion featuring Dave Szulborski, Dylan Horrocks, Donald Ault, and Nick Montfort (tentative), moderated by Terry Harpold.
3:15-4:45: Bodies in Spaces (Virtual and Otherwise) (Reitz Union 361)
- Philip Sandifer (University of Florida): The Hermeneutics of Shininess: Wii Bodies
- Lee Sherlock (Michigan State University): One Ticket to Azeroth Please: Travel and Tourism in World of Warcraft
- Jack Stenner (University of Florida): Playas: Critical Reflection in an Immersive Space
7:00: Keynote Address by Dave Szulborski (Reitz Union 282)
Friday March 2
9:00-10:30: Insert Here: Video Editing, Interactive Fiction, and Mediated Surfaces (Reitz Union 285)
- Lyndsay Brown (University of Florida): Stories as Pieces and Fragments as Wholes: The Influence of Final Cut Pro and Nonlinear Digital Editing on Fan Videos
- Aaron Kashtan (University of Florida): The Slavering Fangs of a Lurking []: Interactive Fiction, Ekphrasis and the Painterly Text
- Elise Takehana (University of Florida): Associations Through (Re)Mediation: The "Cut and Paste" Aesthetic and Transparency
10:45-12:15: Virtual Places: Gardens, Cities, and Altars (Reitz Union 285)
- Eugene Shinkle (University of Westminster): Gamescapes and Digital Gardens: The Space of Nature in Digital Games
- Soraya Murray (University of South Florida): Being There: The Aesthetics of Place in the Production of Urban Game Spaces
- Amanda Phillips (Rice University): The Spirituality of a Cyborg: Sacred Spaces in Nintendo's Metroid and Beyond
1:30-3:00: Video Games and Text (As in Letters) (Reitz Union 285)
- Chris Eklund (University of Florida): Radical Depthlessness and Pseudogrammatical Code in Rougelike Games
- Scott Reed (University of Georgia): The Cybernetics of Gaming Worlds: Three Moments
- Zach Whalen (University of Florida): Lost in Emulation: Worlds of Difference in Videogame Typography
3:15-5:15: Establishing Rules: The Self-Definition of Gaming Spaces (Reitz Union 285)
- Ethan Watrall and Patrick Shaw (Michigan State University): The Ethnography of Tabletop Miniature Game Storyworlds
- Dylan Horrocks: Physics Engines and Narrative Machines: Storytelling, Simulated Reality and the Aesthetics of Roleplaying Games
- Geoffrey A. Johns (Michigan State University): The Psychology of Space in Survival Horror Gaming, or, Everything I Ever Needed to Know About Visual Narrative Conventions I Learned in Raccoon City
- Laurie Taylor (University of Florida): Laws, Unwritten Rules, and Etiquette
7:30: Keynote Address by Nick Montfort (Reitz Union 282)
The weekend continues with the Comics Conference. Please see for the Comics Conference Schedule for times and locations of presentations.
