Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Games Based Learning : ECGBL 2012

These proceedings represent the work of researchers participating in the 6th European Conference on Games-Based Learning, which is being organised and hosted this year by University College Cork and the Waterford Institute of Technology. The Co-Conference Chairs are Professor Grace Neville and Dr. Sabin Tabirca, both from University College Cork, Ireland. The Programme Chair is Dr. Patrick Felicia from Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland.

The conference will be opened with a keynote from Dr. Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen from Serious Games Interactive. The topic of Simon’s presentation is "The potential of tablets to game-based learning." The Keynote address on the second day is byStephen Hagarty from Big Fish Games, Cork, Ireland.

The Conference is a valuable platform for individuals to present their research findings, display their work in progress and discuss conceptual advances in many different areas and specialties within Games-Based Learning. It also offers the opportunity for like minded individuals to meet, discuss and share knowledge.

ECGBL continues to evolve and develop, and the wide range of papers and topics will ensure an interesting two-day confercence. In addition to the main streams of the conference, there are mini tracks focusing on the areas of Multi-User Virtual Environments, Content and Assessment Integration, User Profiling and Barriers and Opportunities for the introduction of GBL in Educational Settings

With an initial submission of 159 abstracts, after the double blind peer review process, there are 68 research papers, 4 PhD research papers and 11 work-in-progress paperspublished in these Conference Proceedings. These papers represent research from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, Norway, Phillipines, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, The Netherlands, UK and the USA.

We hope that you have an enjoyable conference.

Dr Patrick Felicia

Programme Chair

October 2012