Guest Editorial Preface. Applied Playfulness – 5th Vienna Games Conference (FROG11)

Konstantin Mitgutsch is researcher in the field of education science, game studies, learning theories and applied humanities. At present he is working as a Post Doctoral Researcher at the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and as a Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna.

Jeffrey Wimmer is assistant professor for communication science at the Ilmenau University of Technology and currently visiting professor at the Leuphana University Lüneburg. He is chair of the ECREA-section ‘communication and democracy’ and the DGPuK-section ‚sociology of media communication’. His main research fields are sociology of media communication especially digital games/virtual worlds, public/counterpublic spheres and media cultures. His all time favorites are Bundesliga Manager Professional and Speedball (both on Amiga). Contact: jeffrey.wimmer@tu-ilmenau.de

Herbert Rosenstingl holds a master degree in Applied Game Studies. He works as a civil servant at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Economy, Family and Youth and is manager of the Federal Office for the Positive Assessment of Videogames. His favorite game is currently Angry Birds. Contact: www.bupp.at, herbert.rosenstingl@bupp.at