European Commission DG Information Society Game Structures & Collaborative Environments Léonie Schäfer DG INFSO – New Working Environments Brussels, April 13 th 2005

European Commission DG Information Society Games ? Why ? Games Work Environment Collaboration, Team Work Collaborative Gameplay Technologically highly advanced High number of users Growing market

European Commission DG Information Society Digital Games - Overview Multiuser / Collaborative Game Types Online Games (e.g. Massive Multiplayer Games) Mobile Entertainment (e.g. IST mGain) Pervasive Games (e.g. IP IPerG) Serious Games (e.g. STRP PRIME - soon to come)

European Commission DG Information Society Research Issues – Digital Games Ubiquitous mobile computing Multimodal environments Scalability Visualisation Group management Augmented Group Presence Context-sensitiveness

European Commission DG Information Society SO “Collaborative Working Environments” Research on tools for collaborative work in rich virtualised environments “Focus is on support of augmented group presence, visualisation, group management, sharing support, seamless interaction, service composition, and semantic modelling of complex groups of workers.” (Focus 2)

European Commission DG Information Society Questions to discuss How can Collaborative Working Environments benefit from the game experience? Which structures can be transferred? How can the appeal of Computer Games support the attractiveness of Collaborative Working Environments? Which design implications can we derive from successful game developments?

European Commission DG Information Society Workshop on Game Structures & Collaborative Environments Brussels, 12 th May 2005 Deadline Position Papers: 30 th April 2005 Workshop by Invitation due to space limitations max. 25 participants based on proposed contribution Main Objective: Definition of key challenges – Call 5, FP7

European Commission DG Information Society Workshop Info (soon to come)