Special Issue Call for Papers -Advances in Transmedia Character Personality Design

2025-06-19

This special issue of AFIMEC invites contributions that examine character personality as a central concern in the creative process of designing transmedia narratives across media platforms such as Interactive Media, Animation, Games, and Interactive Networked Environemts (IMAGINE platforms). It aims to advance both theoretical and practice-based understandings of character design in digital storytelling ecosystems. Emphasis is placed on frameworks that support the integration of personality models and embodied user performance across interconnected media environments.In the proposed Special Issue on Advances in Transmedia Character Personality Design, we are willing to invite researchers and practitioners to share with the digital creative community their novel approaches, practices, and experiences in unveiling the personality of digital characters in transmedia worlds.

Topics of Interest

  • Character personality design in IMAGINE platforms
  • Transmedia production pipelines considering character personality
  • Transmedia Worlds designed as characters
  • Case studies in character personality design
  • Human versus non-human character design
  • VUP (Viewer-User-Player) role as a character in transmedia narratives
  • VUP evaluation of transmedia characters' personality
  • Bodily interactions with transmedia characters
  • Confronted versus immersive experiences in transmedia narratives
  • Transmedia storytelling and character design
  • AI in artistic creation and design workflows
  • Embodied interaction, performance, and motion capture
  • Game design as artistic research
  • Networked and hybrid interactive environments with live coding
  • Character design and development using advanced design documents

Dates to consider

June 21st, 2025: Call for Special Issue Papers

August 31, 2025: Deadline for Submission of Papers

September 30, 2025: Notification of acceptance

October 31, 2025: Final Version for the Special Issue

December 2025: Special Issue publication

Guest editors

Panagiotis Kyriakoulakos, Assistant Professor in Computer Animation, University of the Aegean, pank@aegean.gr

Modestos Stavrakis, Assistant Professor in Interaction Design, University of the Aegean, modestos@aegean.gr

How to submit

Follow the instructions at https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/AFIMEC/about/submissions

For any request on submissions process, please contact the guest editors via email.

 

Scientific Committee

Miguel Almiron, Professor, University of Paris 1                                      

Panagiotis Koutsabasis, Professor, University of the Aegean

Giorgos Papakonstantinou, Professor Emeritus, University of Thessaly

Konstantinos Tiligadis, Professor, Ionian University

Iannis Zannos, Professor, Ionian University

Khaldoun Zreik, Professor, University of Paris 8

Mathieu Quiniou, Associate Professor, University of Paris 8

Samuel Szoniecky, Associate Professor, University of Paris 8

Spyros Vosinakis, Associate Professor, University of the Aegean

Katerina El Raheb, Assistant Professor, University of the Peloponnese

Panagiotis Kyriakoulakos, Assistant Professor, University of the Aegean

Modestos Stavrakis, Assistant Professor, University of the Aegean

Tassos Theodoropoulos, Assistant Professor, University of the Peloponnese

Vilelmini Kalampratsidou, Adjunct Lecturer, University of the Aegean

Prodromos Tsiavos, Board member, A. Onassis Foundation