[ACT-R-announce] ITIS workshop - extended deadline

[Integrating Technologies for Interactive Stories]

Please can we request that you post the following.
Thank you very much.
Heather Barber, pp ITIS organising committee


The deadline for submitting papers to the INTETAIN 2008 Workshop on
Integrating Technologies for Interactive Stories (ITIS) has been extended to
the *** 21st of October, 2007 ***.

Please consider submitting a paper to this workshop; in addition to
receiving reviews from researchers who are well-established in the field,
accepted authors will have the opportunity to present their work to a
gathering of like-minded researchers from around the world.  Furthermore, we
intend to actively seek a relevant journal with whom to publish the
highest-quality submissions to ITIS, and will host a PDF version of the
proceedings online as well.  Please find the updated call for papers below.

 Your assistance in circulating this update to other interested parties
would be greatly appreciated, and please accept our apologies if you have
received this message more than once.

 For further details, including a listing of the members of the ITIS
Programme Committee, please consult the workshop's website:

*http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~hmbarber/itis.htm<http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/%7Ehmbarber/itis.htm>
*

Thank you,

Heather Barber
Christina Strong
David Thue

 Co-chairs, INTETAIN 2008 Workshop on Integrating Technologies for
Interactive Stories
 http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~hmbarber/itis.htm
<http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/%7Ehmbarber/itis.htm+>


*** ITIS: Integrating Technologies for Interactive Stories ***

* Call for Workshop Papers *

Interactive Story has the potential to revolutionise entertainment. As a
research area, however, it is becoming increasingly disparate; although
groundbreaking work is being done, there has thus far been only minimal
consideration of integration. To effectively further the field, the exchange
of ideas and the consideration of their integration have become necessary.
Without such an effort, there may be no way to create a single interactive
story system of sufficiently high quality. The ITIS workshop aims to
encourage the integration of
techniques for interactive stories and further collaboration between
research groups. It will bring together researchers from different aspects
of interactive stories, and should aid in ultimately leading to interactive
story systems which are more complete and entertaining.

A subset of submitted papers will be selected for oral presentation at the
workshop. In the event that a large number of high quality submissions be
received, a poster session will be held to showcase further papers. The
workshop will also include discussion sessions which will encourage
researchers to exchange ideas and consider integrating their various
methodologies into a single idealised system (the nature of such a system
will also be discussed within the scope of the workshop). The workshop's
collaborative nature will also aid in the reduction of repeated work between
research groups, helping researchers to recognise how their research fits
into the bigger picture rather than viewing it as an isolated component of a
far-distant whole. All researchers in any aspect of the broad field of
Interactive Story are encouraged to submit papers for presentation at ITIS.
This may include, but is in no way limited to:

* Story generation
* Character development
* Emotions
* Language generation and processing
* Interface and presentation issues

Submissions should be 6 pages in length in ACM two-column conference style
format. Please refer to the workshop website for further instructions.

* Important Dates *

Submission deadline ***EXTENDED TO 21st October 2007***

Workshop Date: 7th January 2008
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