General Chairs
conferencechair@chiplay.acm.org
![Joan Arnedo](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Joan-Arnedo.jpg)
- Joan Arnedo – Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
![Lennart Nacke](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/gur-profile-lennart.png)
- Lennart Nacke – University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
Assistant to the General Chairs
![Alberto Mora](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/alberto.jpg)
- Alberto Mora – Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
![Gustavo Tondello](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/gustavo_tondello_200x250.jpg)
- Gustavo Tondello – University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
Technical Program Chairs
technicalprogram@chiplay.acm.org
![Vero Vanden Abeele](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/vero.jpg)
- Vero Vanden Abeele – KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
![Phoebe Toups Dugas](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/phoebe-chiplay-2019-300x300.jpg)
- Phoebe O. Toups Dugas – New Mexico State University, New Mexico, United States
Paper Chairs
![Jo Iacovides](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Jo.jpeg)
- Jo Iacovides – University of York, York, United Kingdom
![Günter Wallner](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/color.jpg)
- Günter Wallner – Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Work-In-Progress Chairs
![Elisa Mekler](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/elisa_mekler.jpg)
- Elisa Mekler – Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
![Katharina Emmerich](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/profil_small.png)
- Katharina Emmerich – University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany
Workshops and Courses Chairs
![Pejman Mirza-Babei](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/pejman.jpg)
- Pejman Mirza-Babei – University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Canada
![Carina Soledad-Gonzalez](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/carinax.jpg)
- Carina Soledad-Gonzalez – Universidad de la Laguna, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain
Rapid Communications Chairs
rapidcommunications@chiplay.acm.org
![Theresa Jean Tanenbaum](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/tess-sq-300x300.jpg)
- Tess Tanenbaum – Donald Bren School of Informatics and Computer Science, Irvine, USA
![Michael Lankes](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Michael_Lankes.jpg)
- Michael Lankes – University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Austria
Doctoral Consortium
![Elizabeth Veinott](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/BethVSmall.gif)
- Elizabeth Veinott – Michigan Technological University, Houghton, USA
![Juho Hamari](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Juho.jpg)
- Juho Hamari –
University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
Student Game Competition Chairs
![Hanna Wirman](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/wirman.jpeg)
- Hanna Wirman – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
![Baltasar Fernández](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/index.jpg)
- Baltasar Fernández – Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
![Jordi Sánchez-Navarro](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jordi-sanchez-baixa.jpg)
- Jordi Sánchez-Navarro – Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Publicity & Social Media Chairs
![Crystal Soojeong Yoo](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Crystal-Soojeong-Yoo.jpg)
- Crystal Soojeong Yoo – University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
![Vanissa Wanick](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/wanik.jpg)
- Vanissa Wanick – University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Spanish speaking distribution team
![Sílvia Fornós](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/fotofoto.jpg)
- Sílvia Fornós – IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
![Carlos González Díaz](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Carlos_Picture_01_Small-1.jpg)
- Carlos González Díaz – University of York and Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Interactivity Chairs
![Max Birk](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MAxBirk.jpg)
- Max Birk – Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands
![Rosa Gil](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/rosagil.jpg)
- Rosa Gil – Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, Spain
Student Volunteer Chairs
![Melissa Rogerson](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/melissa.jpg)
- Melissa Rogerson – University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
![Katja Rogers](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/katja_sq_200.jpg)
- Katja Rogers – Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
Diversity and Accessibility Chairs
![Joshua Newn](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/joshua.jpg)
- Joshua Newn – University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
![Rina Wehbe](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/rina.jpg)
- Rina Wehbe – University of Waterloo, Waterloo Canada
Local Arrangement Chairs
![Enric Mor](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Enric_Mor_chi_play.jpg)
- Enric Mor – Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
![Pierre Bourdin](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/pierre.jpg)
- Pierre Bourdin – Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
![Susanna Tesconi](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/susanatesconi-200x200.jpg)
- Susanna Tesconi – Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Play Chairs
![Josh Andres](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/JoshAndres-1024x1024.png)
- Josh Andres – IBM Research & Exertion Games Lab RMIT, Australia
![Jordi Duch](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/bM-ZxK8T_400x400.jpg)
- Jordi Duch – Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
Web Chairs
![Peter Ilfrich](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Peter.png)
- Peter Ilfrich – IBM Research, Melbourne, Australia
![Leah Newman](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/0.jpeg)
- Leah Newman – Harbour Space University, Barcelona, Spain
![César Córcoles](https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cesar.jpg)
- César Córcoles – Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Associate Chairs
- Scott Bateman – University of New Brunwick, Canada
- Staffan Björk – Gothenburg University, Sweden
- Elizabeth Bonsignore – University of Maryland, USA
- Ross Brown – Queensland University of Technology, Australia
- Oğuz Turan Buruk – Tampere University, Finland
- Paul Cairns – University of York, UK
- Seth Cooper – Northeastern University, USA
- Florian Daiber – German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany
- Alena Denisova – City University of London, UK
- Guo Freeman – Clemson University, USA
- Kathrin Gerling – KU Leuven, Belgium
- Jessica Hammer – Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Casper Harteveld – Northeastern University, USA
- J. Tuomas Harviainen – Tampere University, Finland
- Jussi Holopainen – University of Lincoln, UK
- Perttu Hämäläinen – Aalto University, Finland
- Maximus Kaos – Aalto University, Finland
- Simone Kriglstein – AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
- Nick LaLone – University of Illinois, USA
- Andrés Lucero – Aalto University, Finland
- Rainer Malaka – University of Bremen, Germany
- Annapaola Marconi – Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
- Elena Márquez Segura – Uppsala University, Sweden
- Timothy Merritt – Aalborg University, Denmark
- Alex Mitchell – National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Rita Orji – Dalhousie University, Canada
- Licinio Roque – University of Coimbra, Portugal
- Valentin Schwind – University of Regensburg, Germany
- Magy Seif El-Nasr – Northeastern University, USA
- Wouter Sluis-Thiescheffer – Fontys Applied University for ICT, Netherlands
- Katta Spiel – Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Erik van der Spek – Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
- Annika Waern – Uppsala University, Sweden
- James Wallace – University of Waterloo, Canada
- Yvette Wohn – New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
- Gavin Wood – Northumbria University, UK
- Loutfouz Zaman – University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
Work-in-progress Associate Chairs
- Paula Alavesa – University of Oulu, Finland
- Sultan Alharthi – New Mexico State University, United States
- Thomas Apperley – Deakin University, Australia
- Julia Bopp – University of Basel, Switzerland
- Jason Bowey – University of Saskatchewan, Canada
- Jinghui Cheng – Polytechnique Montreal, Canada
- Julian Frommel – Ulm University, Germany
- Christian Guckelsberger – Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
- Andrey Krekhov, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- Byungjoo Lee – KAIST, Republic of Korea
- Zhuying Li – RMIT University, Australia
- Cayley MacArthur – University of Waterloo, Canada
- Amon Rapp – University of Torino, Italy
- Joan Sol Roo – Inria-Potioc, France
- Christian Roth – HKU University of the Arts, Netherlands
- Alexandra To – Carnegie Mellon University, United States
- April Tyack – Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia
- Eric Walsh – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States
- Henrik Warpefelt – Uppsala University, Sweden
- Helen Wauck – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States
CHI PLAY Steering Committee
- Daniel Johnson, SC Chair (until 2020)
- Phoebe O. Toups Dugas, SC Vice-Chair (until 2020)
- Ben Schouten, External Relations Director (until 2020)
- Lennart Nacke, Web Director (until 2020)
- Anna Cox, Documentation Director, (until 2020)
- Regan Mandryk, Member-at-large (until 2019)
- Vero Vanden Abeele, Member-at-large (until 2021)
- Perttu Hämäläinen, Member-at-large (until 2021)
- Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller, Member-at-large (until 2021)
- Paul Cairns, Member-at-large (until 2019)
Honorary Members: Peta Wyeth, Nick Graham, Regina Bernhaupt