Entertainment Computing publishes original, peer-reviewed research articles and serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating innovative research ideas, emerging technologies, empirical investigations, state-of-the-art methods and tools in all aspects of digital entertainment, new media, entertainment computing, gaming, robotics, toys and applications among researchers, engineers, social scientists, artists and practitioners. Theoretical, technical, empirical, survey articles and case studies are all appropriate to the journal.

Specific areas of interest include:

    Computer, video, console and internet games
    Cultural computing and cultural issues in entertainment
    Digital new media for entertainment
    Entertainment robots and robot like applications
    Entertainment technology, applications, application program interfaces, and entertainment system architectures
    Human factors of entertainment technology
    Impact of entertainment technology on users and society
    Integration of interaction and multimedia capabilities in entertainment systems
    Interactive television and broadcasting
    Interactive art and entertainment
    Methodologies, paradigms, tools, and software/hardware architectures for supporting entertainment applications
    Mixed, augmented and virtual reality systems for entertainment
    New genres of entertainment technology
    Serious Games used in education, training, and research
    Simulation/gaming methodologies used in education, training, and research
    Social media for entertainment

In the area of empirical and experimental studies we are looking for contributions which are very well documented, innovative, and tested or evaluated in a particular entertainment domain.

Software publication
We invite you to convert your open source software into an additional journal publication in Software Impacts, a multi-disciplinary open access journal. Software Impacts provides a scholarly reference to software that has been used to address a research challenge. The journal disseminates impactful and re-usable scientific software through Original Software Publications which describe the application of the software to research and the published outputs.

For more information contact us at: software.impacts@elsevier.com