Welcome to the Second International IFIP Entertainment Computing
Symposium on st Cultural Computing (ECS 2010), which was part of the 21
IFIP World Computer Congress, held in Brisbane, Australia during
September 21-23, 2010. On behalf of the people who made this conference
happen, we wish to welcome you to this inter- tional event. The IFIP
World Computer Congress has offered an opportunity for researchers and
practitioners to present their findings and research results in several
prominent areas of computer science and engineering. In the last World
Computer Congress, WCC 2008, held in Milan, Italy in September 2008,
IFIP launched a new initiative focused on all the relevant issues
concerning computing and entertainment. As a - sult, the two-day
technical program of the First Entertainment Computing Symposium (ECS
2008) provided a forum to address, explore and exchange information on
the state of the art of computer-based entertainment and allied
technologies, their design and use, and their impact on society. Based
on the success of ECS 2008, at this Second IFIP Entertainment Computing
Symposium (ECS 2010), our challenge was to focus on a new area in
entertainment computing: cultural computing.