Madrid April 15 th, 2013 SGS The Serious Games Society General Assembly President Annual Speech 1

MadridApril 15th, 2013

SGSThe Serious Games Society

General Assembly

President Annual Speech

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Topics

• Assets– SG VRE– LLs– Publisher– Journal– Website– GaLA webiste

• Blog• SIG showcases

• Strategies– Community building– Penetration in application domains

• Communication– Promotion

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VRE

• SG Knowledge Management System– Operational since october 2012 for inserting and viewing SG

semantic data– One UniGe person engaged in the development

• Few bugs removed• Now working on the public query interface

– Online since june 2013

• Further step: SG analytics– Online since october 2013 (presented at the GaLA 2013 conference)

– All GaLA partners• Have to insert their year 2 SG study data (just very few have

already done this)• Have to prepare the year 3 SG studies and insert their data in the

KMS

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Living Labs

• Update by Jannicke– Bremen, Coventry, Madrid, Paris

• Virtual

• Genova– Target: LL for elementary/middle school students

• Tablet PCs boughts• Tests foreseen in may in schools

• SG service catalogue– Being developed in UniGe– Who is interested?– Maira (UniGe) will ask input on the service classification

metadata (this week)

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Publishing activity

• Books– Update by Igor

• MOOCs– One on entrepreneurship basics being developed by ESADE

• Journal– Next slides

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SG Journal

• Priority set by GaLA reviewers and a prospect main asset of the SGS

• A working group has been established– Others want to add?

• We need to define precise responsibilities (teams)

• Publishing model: open access gold• Scientific areas

– Responsible have been proposed– GaLA outsiders needed to cover some areas

• Proposals?

• Editorial board– Related to the scientific areas

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SG Journal

• Buy publisher ISBN– Useful also for books, etc.

• Commitment by GaLA partners to submit high quality papers soon

• Publicity chair and team• Final editing team needed

– Accepted author management - from proof reading to copyright

• Webiste– To be set up and managed

• Workflow– To be explored solutions such as PKP– Initially, we can start with easychair as a temporary solution

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SG Journal

• We aim at a first issue in july or ASAP– In order to exploit the GaLA critical mass

• Quality is the target• Targets

– Peer reviewed– Indexed in Scopus, ISI web of science– IF

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GaLA conference

• Paris, October 23-25, Dassault Systemes • www.galaconf.org• CFP will close on may 31

– Workshops, april 26– Tutorials, may 31

• 2 panels– Learner tracking, assessment and feedback provision in SGs– Roadmapping SG application domains

• Other ideas?

• Some keynote speakers and panelist yet to be defined• Need for advertisment

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SGS website

• Seriousgamessociety.org• Being migrated from wordpress to joomla platform• Gala blog feeded into• Portal to services

– VRE, Service catalog, Journal, Conference

• Leaflet to be prepared?

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Community building

• Are stakeholders aware of GaLA/SGS?• Have stakeholders needs been considered?• Are stakeholders being contacted?• What is the status of the directories?• What infratsructure is needed?

– Who develops it? GaLA has resources

• We have a wShop on this on Tuesday afternoon

• Promotion in conferences in which we participate– ECTEL, ECGBL. iCalt, ACM MM

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Strategies

• Exploiting SGS asset– To be improved

• Free and premium services– Different levels of services– Discounts for SGS members

• Involve users and stakeholders• How to penetrate the various domains

– Know the stakeholders

• Target quality

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Madrid April 15 th, 2013 SGS The Serious Games Society General Assembly President Annual Speech 1