On behalf of the organising committee, we would like to welcome you to the Joint International Conference on CyberGames and Interactive Entertainment 2006 (CGIE2006), held on 4-6 December 2006 in Western Australia. CGIE2006 is a special joint conference between CyberGames: International Conference and Exhibition on Games Research and Development, and Interactive Entertainment 2006: The Third Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment, and is being held in parallel at the same venue in Western Australia. We hope that this arrangement will result in synergy and collaboration between researchers and academics from the two areas. With tremendous support from the authors, program chairs, special sessions chairs, and technical program committee, we have been able to put together an outstanding program for the Joint Conference. There were many high quality submissions and we are pleased to accept 55 full papers, 1 abstract and 2 demos. These submissions have been received from all corners of the world, including Canada, France, Japan, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sweden, Taiwan, United Kingdom, and the United States of America, as well as Australia. All full paper submissions have been peer-reviewed by at least two international technical program committee members. |