Early Registration Deadline at favourable prices expires on June 30th, 2008.

Innovations, new research approaches and practices will be presented in focused technical sessions, which will offer a wide coverage of the DIMEA 2008 scientific and technological areas, as well as be exhibited and demonstrated during its Digital Art Exhibition hosting digital interactive rich-media works in art and entertainment, co-located and run in parallel with the technical sessions. The exhibition will be open to all interested visitors during September 10-14, 2008.

Submissions of both technical full papers for oral presentation (max. 8 pages) as well as short descriptions of artworks, games or demos for exhibition (max. 1 page) are invited up to the submission deadline of May 12th, 2008. Submissions should be made electronically at the online submission system found at the Conference Web site (www.dimea2008.org), adhering to the submission guidelines. The DIMEA 2008 conference proceedings, expected to be widely read and cited, will be available both as a bound volume and via the ACM Digital Library. The Conference Organizing Committee is currently negotiating the publication of high quality papers to Special Issues of relevant internationally known Journals.

Special sessions, tutorials, seminars and workshops as well as industrial exhibitions, will offer further opportunities for a wider exposure to and appreciation of the challenges presented by the convergence of Arts, Entertainment and Digital Interactive Media Technologies. Three Special Sessions have already been selected to be organized during DIMEA 2008 in the areas of Cultural Heritage Games, Mobile Mixed Reality Games and User Centric and Personalized Multimedia Service Platforms. Furthermore, a significant number of Tutorials proposals as well as Seminars and Workshop proposals have already been submitted for evaluation, their thematic areas spanning the fields of Live Participative Online Cyberformance, Authoring Tools for Web Comics, User Experience Design for Interactive TV, Pervasive Awareness, Live Art Installations, etc. Workshops and Tutorials will provide a unique opportunity especially to students and young researchers to explore and develop their research interests or artistic practices in focused areas.

DIMEA 2008 will bring together academics, technologists, artists, designers, and industry representatives, to meet, discuss and share opinions and practices. Participants will have the unique opportunity to benefit from the Keynote Talks given by internationally distinguished speakers, such as Prof. Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Miralab, University of Geneva, and Dr. Roberto Cencioni, Head of Unit INFSO.E2 Content and Knowledge, European Commission.