Archive 2004 - Schedule & Speaker Presentations -
Thursday AGDC Academic Summit 'Playing with Our Minds 2004'

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Thursday 2 December 2004
Time	Presenter	Session Title
08:45 AM - 09:00 AM	David Giles, Head of School, Academy of Interactive Entertainment Melbourne	Official Welcome
09:00 AM - 10:00 AM	Andrew Stapleton, Multimedia Lecturer & Game Researcher, Multimedia Group, Swinburne University of Technology	Serious Games: Serious Opportunities (pdf - 194k) (pdf - 700k)
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM	Ken Newman , Lecturer & Researcher, Griffith University	Narrative and Interaction - Getting Natural Enemies to Work Together (4.5 Mb)
10:45 AM - 11:05 AM	Morning Tea
11:05 AM - 11:50 AM	Joe Velikovsky , Creative Director, A-Rage Pty Ltd	Gameplay and Design Issues in Outdoor Augmented Reality Games (8.8Mb)
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM	Marsha Thomson, Victorian Minister for Information and Communication Technology	AGDC Official Opening
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM	Jason Rubin, ex - President, Naughty Dog, Inc.	AGDC Opening Keynote - Fear: An Appropriate Response to the Business of Next Generation Game Development (2.2Mb)
01:30 PM - 02:15 PM	Lunch
02:15 PM - 03:00 PM	Anthony Speed , Ph.D., iCinema, UNSW	Narrative Playgrounds
03:00 PM - 03:45 PM	Jennifer Sandercock , Operations Research, Defence Science & Technology Organisation	Improving Gameplay: Characterising differences between NPCs and human players (8.3Mb) (2.6Mb)
03:45 PM - 04:05 PM	Afternoon Tea
04:05 PM - 04:50 PM	Catherine Beavis, School of Social and Cultural Studies in Education, Deakin University	Challenges for Teachers: Games R Us. Do Kids Learn Anything from Computer Games? (530k)
04:50 PM - 05:00 PM	David Giles, Head of School, Academy of Interactive Entertainment Melbourne	Thanks & Farewell
05:10 PM - 06:10 PM	PlayStation®2 Cocktail Party & Expo Opening
Schedule is subject to change.

Academic Summit 2 Dec 2004 • Thursday 2 Dec 2004 • Friday 3 Dec 2004 • Saturday 4 Dec 2004