Well, as a matter of fact Im already in Hollywood, I just forgot to blog it, before I left. It's the first day of the ACE2006 conference, and Im sitting in the backrow next to Markus Montola, listening to a paper on how to distinugish between human players and bots through traffic checking. It appears we have landed ourselves in a rather tech oriented conference. Mirjam Eladhari and Staffan Bjørk is here too, so there is a nice little community of lost games researchers with a humanities background around, and most likely I will meet more along the way :). And there is an interesting section this afternoon on mobile entertainment development coming up, that looks good.

Staying at the Bel Age hotel, just around the corner from Santa Monica boulevard where gay couples of both gender promenade happily hand-in-hand (nice to see that are places in the world where gay couples can really do that, despite the socalled openness of Copenhagen, gay couples rarely display any relational affection in public spaces) & I can see palms from the balcony of my suite, neonsigns and fancy looking buildings - Rodeo drive is not far away either. Im only here for a short while, but Im bound for an experience, no doubt about that!

Oh and the reason why Im here is also to present a full paper titled "Death Matters - Understanding Gameworld Experiences".

Back at ITU/Cph next week, where more exams beckons. Will take a short weekend break in San Diego, where a very close of friend is now living.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 20:28