NILE 2008

Conference Programme

Draft programme, still subject to change

Narrative and Interactive Learning Environments Conference Programme 2008

Tuesday 5th August: 7pm – 9pm

You are invited to attend the book launch of Inside Stories: A Narrative Journey (written by NILE community founder members Judy Robertson, Lisa Gjedde, Rose Luckin, Ruth Aylett, Paul Brna and Michael Young) hosted at the Scottish Storytelling Centre.

Wednesday 6^th August: 9.30 – 10.30am

Key note talk “Looms for Learning” by Dr Donald Smith, Chairman of the Scottish Storytelling Centre.

Wednesday 6^th August 11- 12.40

Ruth Aylett, Sandy Louchart, Anders Tychsen, Michael Hitchens, Rui Figueiredo: Shaping Character-Based Narrative

Paul Mulholland: Learning through the Construction and Use of Intelligent Image Narratives

Katy Howland, Judith Good and Ben du Boulay : A Game Creation Tool which Supports the Development of Writing Skills: Interface Design Considerations

Paul Anderson: A reading from and reflections on Hunger’s Brides

Wednesday 6^th August 1.30pm- 3pm

Guest workshop leader Dr Mel Gibson "‘So what is this mango, anyway?’ Understanding and working with comics, graphic novels and manga."

Wednesday 6^th August 3.30pm – 5pm

Guest workshop leader Dr Mel Gibson Comics Workshop Part 2 "‘So what is this mango, anyway?’ Understanding and working with comics, graphic novels and manga."

Wednesday 6^th August 7pm – onwards

Dinner

Thursday 7^th August 9.30 – 10.30am

Key note talk "Old Stories, New Bottles" by Dr Andrew Burn, Institute of Education

Old Stories, New Bottles: Narrative, game authoring and media education
This talk will explore how children's authoring of computer games in media education provokes new understandings of narrative for both learners and teachers. These relate on the one hand to how game narrative integrates with ludic structure, and on the other hand to how games can recall older traditions of oral formulaic narrative and culture. The talk will draw on recent research in game-authoring with secondary school students.

Thursday 7^th August 11- 12.30

Krystina S. Madej: Traditional Narrative Structure - neither traditional nor the norm

Sean Hammond, Tim Smith, Helen Pain: Children's story authoring with Propp's Morphology: An Exploratory Study

Alyx Macfadyen, Andrew Stranieri and John L. Yearwood: Dramatic Level Analysis for Interactive Narrative

Thursday 7^th August 1.30pm- 3pm

Rania Hodhod, Daniel Kudenko: Towards Intelligent Educational Interactive Narrative

Geoff Allan: Narrative, Meta-narrative, and Susan.

Deborah Maxwell, Catriona Macaulay, Tom Inns: Inspired storytelling: the digital re-tellings of a traditional tale

Paul Hazel: Narrative and New Media

Thursday 7^th August 3.30pm – 5pm: Workshop (Rose Luckin) – preparing a journal article for special issue

Thursday 7^th August 7pm – onwards

Dinner

Friday 8^th August 9.30 – 10.40am

Sanna-Mari Tikka, Tuula Nousiainen and Marja Kankaanranta: Creative Learning by Designing Digital Board Games: Practicing deep-reading skills through game creation process

Sean Duncan: Narrative Remixing as Design: The Case of the Zelda Timeline Debates

Yavuz Inal, Turkan Karakus, Kursat Cagiltay: Designing narratology-based educational games with non-players

Asad Nazir, Mei Yii Lim, Michael Kriegel, Ruth Aylett, Alison Cawsey, Sibylle Enz, Paola Rizzo, Lynne Hall: ORIENT: An Inter-Cultural Role-Play Game

Friday 8^th August 11.10 – 12.30

Nicolas Szilas, Jue Wang, Monica Axelrad: Author-centered approach to Interactive Drama

John Yearwood, Andrew Stranieri, Deanna Osman: A web-based narrative construction environment

Paul Oord, Cecile Crutzen: Storytelling as a Link between Formal Knowledge and Actual Performance in a Critical Transformative Design Environment

Turkan Karakus, Yavuz Inal, Kursat Cagiltay: Cultural Impacts on Narratology in Turkish Game Sector:Game design and expectations of game players

Note: This is a draft version. Times of sessions may change slightly.

Author paper submission instructions

Authors should submit final versions of their papers by 6th June 2008 to nile2008conference@googlemail.com. Files should be in a Microsoft Word format. Please try to address the reviewers' comments as much as possible within the space constraints.

Please note that all authors must register for the conference by 6th June 2008.

Full papers should be 8 pages (including figures, tables and references). You will have 30 minutes to present your work at the conference.

Short papers should be 4 pages long (including figures, tables and references). You will have 20 minutes to present your work at the conference.

Presentations: submit a 1 page summary of your presentation. You will have 20 minutes to present your work at the conference.

Since the paper will be printed more or less as it is submitted authors are requested to keep the following general formatting details.

Page Set-up: Use pages of A4 size, with the following margins: 3cm (left and right), 2.5cm (top and bottom).

Fonts and Sizes: The recommended typefont is Times New Roman. Keep italics and/or bold for special text parts. Recommended typefont sizes: For the title: 16 pts. For the main text (including headings and captions): 12 pts. For footnotes, references, figures and tables: 10 pts.

Title: Centre the title (horizontally) on the page. Leave approx. 1 cm between the title and the name(s) of the author(s) typed centred in bold. On the next (and following) line(s) type the address(es) for correspondence centred in italics. Please include email addresses and URLs when possible in the address.

General Layout: Use single line spacing. The main text (including the abstract) should be fully justified. Leave a blank line between paragraphs (don't intend the first line of the paragraph).

Headings: Headings and subheadings should be left-justified in bold. Do not include references to the literature, illustrations or tables in headings and subheadings. Numerate your headings and subheadings consequently using Arabic numbers.

Illustrations and Tables: All illustrations must be numbered consecutively using Arabic numbers. All illustrations should be centred with captions beneath the figures. Do not assemble figures at the back of your article, but place them as close as possible to where they are mentioned in the main text.  Please also submit images as a seperate file by email. Note that the proceedings will be printed in black and white. Table headings should be placed above the table.

References: References should be listed in alphabetical order at the end of your paper (under the heading 'References') but before any appendix.

Register for NILE 2008 now

Conference prices and registration are now available. Book now to be sure of a place to stay! Did you know the population of Edinburgh doubles in August for the Festival?

Paper acceptances sent out

Authors - I have now sent out reviews and paper acceptances. Watch this space for details on the format and deadlines for final submission. I will post the conference programme in the next few days, along with prices and registration details.

Much gratitude to all the NILE reviewers who worked hard to get the reviews back to you.

Looks like it will be an interesting conference!