GHItaly18: Game-Computer Interaction in research

The 2nd Workshop on Games-Human Interaction (GHItaly18), held jointly with AVI 2018 (International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces), maintained its original spirit. Its aim was twofold. The first goal was to offer a common ground for scholars and practitioners either working on the topic or interested in approaching it. The second, long term goal was to establish a meeting venue to be held on a regular basis for researchers in a field that is still too underestimated in Italy, and that still presents high fragmentation also at international level. Of course, the intended scope of the workshop is not limited to a national event. Rather, the hope is to extend the international participation, to support wider collaboration in research activities and projects. GHItaly18 extended the scope of GHItaly17 (held in conjunction with CHItaly17 in Cagliari) by focusing on the aspects related to the design and development of visual interfaces, a highly relevant issue for creating an engaging and satisfactory user experience in deeply multidimensional artefacts such as video games. Moreover, as for the former edition, the application range of video games that the workshop invited to explore had to be intended in its broadest sense: both entertainment and applied finalities.