Simulation & Gaming:
An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theory, Practice and Research

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About S&G: Ed board, subscriptions etc.

Resources:

      CFPs - Calls for papers         ISSN:  1046-8781

      Bibliographies

 

Publisher website:
     From inside North America:  http://sag.sagepub.com/
     From outside North America:  http://intl-sag.sagepub.com/

For announcements about upcoming events, see below.

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Editor: David Crookall;  Business & Management Editor: Precha Thavikulwat

Simulation/games editor & simulation/games review editor:  Pierre Corbeil

Publisher:  Sage Publications, USA, UK, Singapore, India

Official journal of :  ABSEL  |  DIGRA  |  INDSAGA  |  ISAGA  |  JASAG  |  NASAGA  |  SAGANET  | 
SAGSAGA  |  SIETAR-USA  |  SGX  |  SSAGSg  |  ThaiSim  |  TaiwanSG  |

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Simulation & Gaming: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theory, Practice and Research (S&G) is the world's foremost scientific review devoted to academic and applied issues in the increasingly popular methodology of simulation/gaming as used in education, training, consultation and research round the world.  Simulation/gaming is to be taken in its broadest meaning, to encompass such areas as simulation, computerized simulation, internet simulation, gaming, simulation/gaming, serious games, educational games, training games, e-games, internet games, video games, policy exercises, day-in-the-life simulations, planning exercises, debriefing, analytic discussion, post-experience analysis, modeling, virtual reality, game theory, role-play, role-playing, play, active learning, experiential learning, learning from experience, toys, augmented reality, playthings, structured exercises, education games, alternative purpose games, edutainment, digital game-based learning, immersive learning, brain games, social impact games, games for change, games for good, synthetic learning environments, synthetic task environments.  This bi-monthly journal examines the methodologies and explores their application to learning about and understanding real-world problems and situations.

The broad scope and multidisciplinary nature of S&G is demonstrated by the variety of its readers and contributors.  They work in many areas, including: sociology, political science, economics, education, cognition, psychology, social-psychology, social psychology, management, business, marketing, government, entrepreneurship, environmental issues, health, medicine, nursing, research methodology, communication, environment, policy, planning, energy, utilities, natural resources, educational, technology, computing, geography, climate change, multi-culturalism, multi-cultural, intercultural, culture, organization studies, negotiation, mediation, history, peace studies, business, statistics, decision making, conflict management, cognition, communication, political science, language learning, media, video games, learning theory, international studies, agriculture, educational technology, information technology.

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Some thoughts to guide our simulation/gaming endeavours

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding of a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) English physicist, mathematician.

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be "Seek simplicity and distrust it.''  Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) English mathematician and philosopher. Concepts of Nature, p. 163.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.  It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.  Albert Einstein (1879-1955) U. S. physicist, born in Germany.

 

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike and yet it is the most precious thing we have.  Albert Einstein (1879-1955) U. S. physicist, born in Germany.

 

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge in the field of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.  Albert Einstein (1879-1955) U. S. physicist, born in Germany.

The journal also includes professional matters,
such as calls for papers, announcements and news from professional associations:

ABSEL  Association for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning
DiGRA  Digital Games Research Association
ISAGA  International Simulation and Gaming Association
INDSAGA  Indian Simulation and Gaming Association
JASAG  Japan Association of Simulation and Gaming
NASAGA  North American Simulation and Gaming Association
SAGANET  Simulation and Gaming Association - The Netherlands
SAGSAGA  Swiss-Austrian-German Simulation and Gaming Association
SIETAR-USA  Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research
SSAGSg  Society of Simulation and Gaming of Singapore
TaiwanSG  Taiwan Simulation and Gamling Association
ThaiSim  Thai Simulation and Gaming Association
 

For contact details and URLs see associations page.
 

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  A n n o u n c e m e n t s  

C a l l  f o r  P a p e r s   for 2013
Sustainability and simulation/gaming
Special issue of
Simulation & Gaming:
An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theory, Practice and Research

With this special issue, we aim to provide the opportunity for authors to contribute original and unpublished articles that present the use of Simulation & Gaming for exploring social, economic, and environmental sustainability of human and natural systems. Simulation gaming can serve as a proactive anticipatory system to examine possibly unintended consequences of course of actions, as their impacts are amplified and are often unforeseeable due to complex interactions and emergence that permeate through the components of a complex interconnected system of systems. Multidisciplinary approaches are particularly welcome to address the problem of complex system sustainability.   Guest Editors:

• Levent Yilmaz  -  yilmaz |@| auburn.edu
• Tuncer Ören  -  oren |@| eecs.uOttawa.ca

Detailed CfP here:  sg CfP-Sustainability.pdf

Serious Play
23-25 Aug, 2011

The first Serious Play Conference is seeking speakers experienced in creating and delivering cutting-edge serious games to audiences worldwide.

The conference will be held Tuesday – Thursday, Aug. 23 – 25, 2011
at the DigiPen Institute of Technology in Redmond, Wash., USA.

Serious Play aims to push serious game development to a higher competency – building games that deliver predictable results.  Attendees will include heads of corporate, military and health care programs; senior educators, top simulation and education developers; strategic hardware and software vendors and industry leaders.

Over the course of the three days, attendees will spend time in both keynotes and small sessions, aligned by interest and project. Speakers offering information and techniques valuable for multiple tracks are sought and will be given two sessions.

More information here http://www.seriousplayconference.com/ and here Extras

SimTecT 2011

Asia-Pacific Simulation and Training Conference and Exhibition

Achieving Excellence in Training and Decision Support through Simulation

SimTecT will be held in Melbourne, Australia,
from Monday 30 May to Thursday 2 June, 2011.  http://www.simtect.com.au

New Association

Association for Simulated Practice in Healthcare (ASPiH)

Formed in 2009, through the merger of the National Association of Medical Simulators (NAMS) and the Clinical Skills Network (CSN), the overarching goal of the Association for Simulated Practice in Healthcare (ASPiH) will be to enable wider sharing of knowledge, expertise, and educational innovation related to simulated practice across the healthcare professions

• The inaugural meeting of the Society will be on 17-18/11/2010 in Newcastle with a Master Class on 16/11/2010.

• For registration and submission guidelines, please visit www.aspih.org.uk/conference

• Deadline for submissions 31/08/2010

ISAGA 2010 - http://www.isaga2010.org

http://www1.ifi.auf.org/mediawiki/index.php/IWMSC09

2nd International Workshop on
Agent Technology for Disaster Management (ATDM'09)
13 Dec, 2009, Nagoya, Japan
http://www.doesnotunderstand.org/wikka.php?wakka=ATDM2009

If you would like an announcement put here, please contact the editor.

ABSEL    Association for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning

24^th to 26^th of March 2010

RE:    ABSEL is looking for new simulations, games and experiential exercises for training and/or “B” school classrooms

From:  Richard Teach, Chair of the “Games to play” Track at ABSEL2010

Call for new Simulations and Games for the “Games to Play” track at ABSEL2010

The 2010 ABSEL Conference is being held at the Doubletree Hotel in Little Rock Arkansas on 24^th to 26^th of March and it is having a games playing track.  If you have a simulation, game, or experiential exercise that you would like to get faculty feedback or to have a “not-your-own-faculty” evaluation, please submit your creation to this track and if your creation is accepted, ABSEL will play your simulation/game/experiential exercise during its conference.

 We have positions for only about 10 or so classroom or training games that require from 30 minutes to and hour and a half to complete.  Thus, the competition will be a little tough.

 What we need:

A)   A 100 to 200 word abstract   This abstract will be published in the program and will act as an advertisement to entice ABSEL attendees to attend your game playing session.

B)   We will also need a two page short description of your simulation/game/exercise that includes:

1.       How much time the game requires – including set-up time, briefing the participants, playing the game and debriefing.  Your time estimates should be from the time slots of 30 minutes, 1 hour or 1 hour and 30 minutes.  We will have only 2 slots available that could accommodate a game lasting as long as 2 hours. 

2.       The minimum number of participants.  This is to make sure we have an adequate number of participants attending your session.

3.       The maximum number of participants.  This is to make sure the presentation room is of adequate size to accommodate your game.

4.       The needed configuration of the room. 

5.       Are laptops needed by the participants? Or an internet connection?  Please note that you will need to supply any equipment or supplies needed by the participants to play your game.  You can assume that the participants will have their own laptops

6.       What is or are the learning objective(s) of your game?  Why is the game format needed to teach this or these lessons? 

7.       How do you know or how could you know if the lessons were learned by the participants?  (assessing the learning) 

C)    A full description of the game is desired but not mandatory.  We encourage a full paper that describes the theories behind your game and the algorithms that are used by your game as well as the an example of the game’s required inputs and the outputs/outcomes of your game.  If your game is accepted, thi extended paper about the game will be published in the Bernie Keys Library which contains the every paper ever presented at the ABSEL conferences.  

Note that there are no restrictions on the game design.  It could be a computer controlled game, a human controlled game or a game with both human and computer controls.  It could also be a board game or even in a card game format.

 Please indicate your interest by notifying me at richard.teach@mgt.gatech.edu

Please note that he deadline for the entire set of materials 2 November 2009.

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• HH the Dalai Lama :  When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

• William E. Gladstone :  We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

• Jimi Hendrix :  When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

• Tenzin Gyatso the fourteenth Dalai Lama :  Peace and survival of life on Earth as we know it are threatened by human activities that lack a commitment to humanitarian values.  Destruction of nature and natural resources results from ignorance, greed, and a lack of respect for the Earth's living things... .  It is not difficult to forgive destruction in the past, which resulted from ignorance.  Today, however, we have access to more information, and it is essential that we re-examine ethically what we have inherited, what we are responsible for, and what we will pass on to coming generations.  Clearly this is a pivotal generation... .  Our marvels of science and technology are matched if not outweighed by many current tragedies, including human starvation in some parts of the world, and extinction of other life forms... .  We have the capability and responsibility.  We must act before it is too late.