ゲーム学会について
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About Game Amusement Society
It is said that computer games have become the new culture. Considering culture change in this century through games creates new studies. In this way, it is very important to treat games from the viewpoints of culture, history, philosophy, and art. In addition, investigating game players in a scientific approach must reveal new aspects of humans. On the other hand, the viewpoints of technology and science are necessary for development of computer games using digital technologies and for analysis of human behavior of game playing. GAS strongly encourages researchers and practitioners who study these topics about game and amusement.
To support academic reasearch in game and amusement industry, Game Amusement Society was established in November 2002.
The Japanese Journal of Game Amusement Society is published every year since 2006, and, the Journal of Game Amusement Society (this journal) has been published every year since 2007. Abstracts of papers in the Japanese Journal of Game Amusement Society are introduced on the following pages. Number of the member climed to over 100 in 2008.
There are 6 special interest groups below in Game Amusement Society.
Special Intrest Groups in Game Amusement Society and their typical themes
- "Game and AI"
- Application of Computer Science for Game Software production
- Automatic Animation Generation
- Games with multi-agent technology
- Game Playing AI for GO , Renjyu
- Evaluation of human player in strategic actions
- Interactive Game with Intelligent agent
- "Game and Art"
- History of Art in Games
- Analysis of Computer Graphics technics
- Music Technics
- Story analysis on roll playing games
- Comparative study between game and another contents
- Psychological analysis of games
- Game and modern art theory
- "Game and Education"
- Educational Games (Edutaiment)
- Design method for education games
- Course design with educational games
- Training effect in computer games
- Learning in games
- "Game and Health Science"
- Health Service with games and internet
- Edutainment for health education
- Rehabilitation exercise with games
- "Game and Human Science"
- Evaluation of games with human science
- Human intelligence and Games
- Human cognitve models with games
- Cognitive Psychology with computer games
- Human interface for computer games
- "Game Industry"
- Bussiness models for computer game industry.
- Analysis of games from an industrial viewpoint
- Analysis of games from an economical viewpoint
- Analysis of games from a business administrative viewpoint