ACE 2008

Entertainment is one of the important magical ingredients in the 21st Century society. ACE 2008 is an annual international conference devoted to computer entertainment to provide a premium forum for researchers, developers, practitioners, artists and designers to present and discuss new problems, solutions, content design and technologies in entertainment areas. The conference is sponsored by ACM Chapter (Singapore) in cooperation with VRSJ SIG-A+E and IPSJ SIG-EC.

The purpose of this conference is to bring together academic and industry researchers, artists and designers and computer entertainment developers and practitioners, to address and advance the research and development issues related to computer entertainment.

ACM, the world's leading computer science society will be publishing all accepted papers, and the conference is fully in-cooperation with the prestigious ACM SIGCHI (main sponsor is ACM Chapter Singapore). The best papers of the conference will be published in the ACM Computers in Entertainment magazine, and the Transactions on Edutainment journal.

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! The Winners of the ACE2008 Paper Category and Demo Category have been announced! Congratulations! Special thanks to all participants who have helped greatly making ACE2008 a special and successful conference! Thank you all!

* ACE 2008 Paper Category *

1ST PRIZE
IncreTable, a mixed reality tabletop game experience-
Jakob Leitner, Michael Haller, Kyungdahm Yun, Woontack Woo, Maki Sugimoto, and Masahiko Inami

2ND PRIZE
Evaluation of a pervasive game for domestic energy engagement among teenagers-
Anton Gustafsson and Magnus Bång

3RD PRIZE
BragFish: Exploring physical and social Interaction in co-located handheld augmented reality games-
Yan Xu, Maribeth Gandy, Sami Deen, Brian Schrank, Kim Spreen, Michael Gorbsky, Timmy White, Evan Barba, Iulian Radu, Jay Bolter, and Blair MacIntyre

* ACE 2008 Demo Category *

1ST PRIZE
VisualHaptics: Generating haptic sensation using only visual cues-
Keita Watanabe and Michiaki Yasumura

2ND PRIZE
"Structured Creature": A prototype for interactive architecture-
Yosuke Ushigome, Kunihiro Nishimura, and Michitaka Hirose

3RD PRIZE
SEI-
Makoto Danjo and Hiroko Uchiyama