Welcome to PlayIT'11
PlayIT'11 is the 1st International Workshop on Games for Knowledge Acquisition and will take place on March 28 or March 29, 2011 co-located with the WWW'11, India.
Many areas of knowledge acquisition inherently rely on the availability on large quantities of human input. However, in many of these domains, users lack the motivation to contribute the required metadata. At the same time, there is a steady trend of people spending a substantial amount of time in playing games on the Web. As initially proposed by Luis von Ahn in "Games with a Purpose", one can benefit from the vast amount of hours spent on online games by applying mechanisms to extract meaningful information from game inputs. Since then, there have been many proposals to use casual games which capitalize on fun and competition as two key motivators for people, to willingly invest time and effort in knowledge-acquisition related tasks hiding behind an entertaining collaborative game experience.
The PLAYIT workshop will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners in Web technologies to discuss and exchange positions on the topic of using games for acquiring knowledge following the paradigm of human computation.
We note that the workshop is non-archival, that is, submitting to PlayIT’11 does not preclude publication of the same material in a journal or in archival conference proceedings.
News
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January 12, 2011
Contact email address changed to katharina.siorpaes @sti2.at! -
January 11, 2011
Small Updates to the website and the Important dates.
The new submission deadline is February 15, 2011 11.59 PM CET. -
December 17, 2010
The workshop website was launched!