Perspectives on Play
Perspectives on Play (PoP) is a *revamped* and innovative track at CHI PLAY aimed at quickly communicating new ideas, reflections, or provocations within and beyond research. The track aims to spark engagement within the CHI PLAY community and adjacent spaces, inviting input from industry, academia, the indie world, and anyone with a stake in games research. We welcome short contributions from those with a unique, constructive, or critical take on game development, games user research, games education, gamification, player experience, or similar. Contributions can be lessons learned, critical opinions, (meta-)reflections on current practice, visions of how the community or our research may be shaped in the future, or anything else that invites discussion. We also encourage new perspectives from folks in other fields that do not typically publish at or attend CHI PLAY, e.g., designers, scholars in the humanities, etc. to elicit conversation across disciplines.
The track does NOT invite new or in-progress empirical research – such work should be aimed at the Work in Progress (WIP) or Full Papers tracks – or courses on important methodologies and practical tools – such work should be aimed at the Connections track.
We invite bite-size contributions that represent the above, to be submitted as follows:
SUBMISSION
Up to 1300 words in the single-column ACM Primary Article Template, where the count does NOT include:
- Content above the first heading: Author, Title, Abstract (max 100 words), CCS Concepts, Additional Keywords and Phrase, and ACM Reference Format
- Figures and tables (including content and captions)
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Appendices
Submissions are NOT anonymous. Detailed instructions on formatting and submission can be found at Extended Abstract Submission Guidelines.
In addition to the abstract, authors/presenters will be asked to provide the following in the PCS system:
- A brief rationale (2-3 sentences) on how the contribution is of interest to the CHI PLAY community
- A 250-word biography of the author(s)/presenter(s)
Upon acceptance, authors will need to provide a 3-minute pre-recorded video of their presentation as a backup and for archival purposes. Please see video guidelines for our recommendations about the video submissions.
REVIEW PROCESS
The review process will involve curation by committee, decided in a small PC meeting.
UPON ACCEPTANCE
Authors of Perspectives on Play papers will prepare a camera-ready version of the paper (potentially incorporating feedback provided by the reviewing committee), as well as the pre-recorded video of their presentation. Author(s) will get a chance to discuss their work and engage with the audience.
AFTER THE CONFERENCE
All accepted Perspectives on Play papers and their respective pre-recorded videos will be archived in the ACM Digital Library in the CHI PLAY 2023 Extended Abstracts.
Please direct any questions to pop@chiplay.acm.org.
Important Dates:
Attendance
From September 11th, 2023 | Regular Registration |
Full Papers (Journal Articles)
Work in Progress
Perspectives on Play
Student Game Design Competition
Interactivity Track
Connections Track
Doctoral Consortium
Student Volunteer
