PROGRAMME

The programme may be subject to changes.

Day 1: Thursday 30th January 2025

8.45-9.15 Registration – Welcome desk at the hall

9.15-9.30 Opening Proceedings by Olga Torres, Dean of the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting – Room 4

9.30-10.30 Keynote Lecture – Room 4

Xiaochun Zhang, University College London. Advancing Game Accessibility for Visually Impaired Players through Audio Description

10.30-11.30 PANEL 1: Game accessibility I, Room 4

Jared Téllez Quirós, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Accessibility Options in PC Point-and-Click Games
Yunke Deng, University College London. Understanding the Accessible Game Experience of Chinese Visually Impaired Gamers in “Dou Dizhu for All”
María Eugenia Larreina-Morales & Carme Mangiron, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Present and Future of Game Accessibility: Interviewing Players with Visual Disabilities

11.30-12.00 Coffee break – Japanese Garden

12.00-13.20 PANEL 2: Game accessibility II, Room 4

Miguel Ángel Oliva-Zamora, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Coding Recommendations for Cognitive Accessibility in Video Games
Pedro Fernandes & Cátia Casimiro, Lusófona University, HEI-Lab. Building an accessible game around Augmentative and Alternative Communication to promote the inclusion of neurodivergent individuals
Marco Pirrone, eCampus University, Italy. Localization, accessibility and inclusivity in racing games: the case of Mario Kart 8.
Will Noonan, Université de Bourgogne. From parody to accessibility? The case of Joe Richardson’s The Procession to Calvary

13.20-14.30 LUNCH BREAK

14.30-15.30 PANEL 3: Game accessibility and game localisation training, Room 4

Estel·la Oncins, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. InclusiVRity: Accessible VR social storytelling in learning environments
Hakim Boussejra, Université de Bourgogne. Video Game Accessibility in the Elementary School Classroom.
Dominik Kudła, University of Warsaw. Training Video Game Localizers in Poland – An Overview and Look Forward

15.30-16.30 PANEL 4: Game Localisation: Reception Studies, Room 4

Krzysztof W. Hejduk & Mikołaj Deckert, University of Lodz. “Those are rarely translated, I don’t recall much” – a reception study on diegetic text translation.
Jemma Louise Stafford, University of Leeds. Do words matter? The influence of translated text in Chinese videogames on player reception
Haiting Lang, Macquarie University. Subtitle Processing in Video Games: A Case Study in a Desert Herding Game.

16.30-17.00 Coffee break- Japanese Garden

17.00-18.00 PANEL 5: Game localisation – Case studies, Room 4

Melik Ahmet Erol, Istanbul University. Reinterpreting mythological stories through game localization: a case study of the game: God of War (2018)
Alice Ray, Université d’Orléans. Localising Pop Culture References: The Case of Starcraft II.
Paolo D’Indinosante, Sapienza University of Rome & University of Silesia in Katowice. ‘By Toutatis, I didn’t know they said that in Hibernia!’: The Representation and Localisation of Otherness in Asterix Video Games.

18.00-18.30 Book presentation: User-Centric Studies in Game Translation and Accessibility by Krzysztof W. Hejduk & Mikołaj Deckert. Room 4

20:00 Conference dinner in Les quinze nits (Barcelona).

9.30–10.30 PANEL 1: Game Localisation – AI and Machine Translation, Room 4

Mariazell Eugènia Bosch Fábregas, University of Lleida. Going bananas! AI Spanish translation proposal for Donkey Kong Country’s level map names: a comparison between the SNES and GBA version of the game
Pierre-Yves Houlmont, Haute École Albert Jacquard, & Damien Hansen, Université libre de Bruxelles – Liège Game Lab. A Snapshot into the Limits and Risks of Video Game Machine Translation
Judith Brenner, University of Eastern Finland – Cologne University of Applied Sciences. Effects of machine translation post-editing in video games on the translator, the translation process and the translation

10.30- 11.30 PANEL 2: Game Localisation – LLMs and Crowdsourcing, Room 4

Marián Kabát, Comenius University, Bratislava, & Mária Koscelníková, Constantine the Philosopher University, Nitra. Use cases of LLM usage during video game localization
Loïc de Faria Pires, Université de Mons. NMT and LLM Post-Editing Process in Videogame Localization: How Can Students’ Productions Help Us Become Better Localisation Lecturers?
María Isabel Rivas Ginel, Dublin City University, Pierre Voué, Textgain, Pierre-Yves Houlmont, Haute École Albert Jacquard, Damien Hansen, Université libre de Bruxelles & Université de Liège. A Game for the Crowds: Neutral Mode on!

11.30-12.00 Coffee break

12.30-13.10 PANEL 3: Dubbing and Subtitling in Video Games, Room 4

Laura Mejías-Climent, Universitat Jaume I. Experimenting with Voices: How Technology is Redefining Dubbing in Video Game Localization
Mikołaj Deckert & Krzysztof W. Hejduk, University of Lodz. Translation, no translation, or worse? – a user-centric perspective on video game subtitling

13.10-14.30 LUNCH BREAK

14.30-15:10 PANEL 4: Gender Issues in Game Localisation, Room 4

Çağla Gurbet Erol & Arsun Uras, Istanbul University. The role of feminism in video game localization: “Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice”
Silvia Pettini, Roma Tre University. “I didn’t decide anything. I’ve been like this my whole life”: Keeping the Trans in Game Translation

15.10-15.50 PANEL 5: Game Localisation – Immersion and Multimodality, Room 4

Jiaqi Liu, University of Manchester. The non-intrusive approach to game localisation: Facilitating passive immersion
Guo Yu, University of Nottingham. The Square Model as an Analytical Tool – Videogame Localisation from a Multimodal and Interdisciplinary Perspective

15.50-16.20 Coffee break – Japanese Garden

16.20–17.00 PANEL 5: Game Localisation – Language of Gaming and Transmedia Studies – Room 4

Sam Strong, University of Bristol. Systems theory, Cultural Adaptation, and Videogame Transcreation: Situating the language of gaming in Translation Studies.
Zoe Cong & Haina Jin, Communication University of China. Toward a Transmedia Translation: League of Legends in the Chinese Context.
Simon Copet, University of Mons. Alice in Localisationland: An English-French Translation and Transmedia Study of Disney Character’s Speech in Films and Video Games

17.00–18.00 Coffee Break

17.30 – 18.30 Game Localisation Round Table Discussion – Chair: Carme Mangiron – Room 4

18.30 Closing remarks – Room 4