The end of early bird registration is fast approaching for CHI PLAY! You can register for the conference here <https://www.regonline.com/register/checkin.aspx?EventId=1790696&MethodId=0&EventSessionId=&startnewreg=1> <https://mail.google.com/>. --- CHI PLAY is an international and interdisciplinary conference (by ACM SIGCHI) for researchers and professionals across all areas of play, games and human-computer interaction (HCI). We call this area “player-computer interaction”. The goal of the conference is to highlight and foster discussion of current high quality research in games and HCI as foundations for the future of digital play. To this end, the conference will feature streams that blend academic research and games with research papers, interactive demos, and industry case studies. CHI PLAY grew out of the increasing work around games and play emerging from the ACM annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) as well as smaller conferences such as Fun and Games and Gamification. CHI PLAY is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group for Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI). --- Our keynote speakers include: *Jamie Madigan* (PhD, Psychology of Games) - Things I wish Game Researchers Would Do (Or Do More): A View from an Occasional Scientist and Hardcore Gamer) *Annika Waern* (PhD, Uppsala University) - Play, Participation and Empowerment: Design Strategies and Dilemmas *Nick Yee* (PhD, Quantic Foundry) - The Gamer Motivation Profile: What We Learned from 250,000 Gamers -- Nicole Crenshaw PhD Candidate Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine http://sites.uci.edu/nicolecrenshaw/