GALA Conf 2026

Gala 2026 Proceedings

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Proceedings

Welcome to the official publication repository for the 15th Games and Learning Alliance Conference (GALA 2026), held in L’Aquila, Italy. Explore the peer-reviewed conference volumes published in collaboration with Springer.

🎮 Serious Games Society 📘 Springer LNCS 📗 Springer CCIS 🔍 Scopus Indexed 🏛️ University of L’Aquila
🔓 Author & Participant Access

The conference participants are granted access to the Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) proceedings for 4-6 weeks.

Registered attendees and authors can freely view and download all papers included in the volume during this access window.

Conference Proceedings Volumes

Peer-Reviewed Publications
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Main Track Published LNCS Volume 17165

Games and Learning Alliance (GALA 2026)

15th International Conference, GALA 2026 • L’Aquila, Italy (November 17–20, 2026) • Proceedings

Editors

Antonio Bucchiarone, Barbara Göbl, Simon Hoermann, Sander Bakkes, Angela Pasqualotto, Pierpaolo Dondio

Series & Volume

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)

Volume 17165

ISBN & Publisher

ISBN: 978-3-032-43524-8

Springer International Publishing

Indexing & Access

Scopus, EI Compendex, DBLP, ISI (CPCI)

Free 4-6 weeks for participants

Volume Overview

This volume constitutes the peer-reviewed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Games and Learning Alliance (GALA 2026). The conference brings together researchers, practitioners, educators, and game designers from around the world to present and debate the most recent discoveries and applied advances in serious games.

Contributions in this volume span educational science, pedagogical integration, affective computing, virtual and mixed reality, personalized learning environments, serious game analytics, and evaluation frameworks for learning impact and behavioral change.

WiP & PhD Tracks TBD Springer CCIS

Work in Progress (WiP) & PhD Symposium Proceedings

15th Games and Learning Alliance Conference • L’Aquila, Italy (November 2026)

TBD

Publication Update: The proceedings for the Work in Progress (WiP) and PhD Symposium tracks will arrive shortly as a single volume published in the Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series.

Publication Series

Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS)

Springer Nature

Track Coverage

Work in Progress (WiP) & PhD Symposium

Single volume collection

Indexing

Scopus, EI Compendex, DBLP

Full international citation indexing

Availability

TBD

Arriving shortly

About the WiP & PhD Volume

This combined volume brings together preliminary experimental studies and innovative game prototypes from the Work in Progress (WiP) track, alongside doctoral dissertations and research frameworks presented during the PhD Symposium. The direct SpringerLink URL and volume details will be posted in this section as soon as published by Springer.

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Complete GALA Conference Collection

Complete collection of all GALA conference volumes is available on SpringerLink.

📌 How to Cite the Proceedings

To reference the official GALA 2026 conference proceedings, please cite as follows:

Bucchiarone, A., Göbl, B., Hoermann, S., Bakkes, S., Pasqualotto, A., & Dondio, P. (Eds.). (2026). Games and Learning Alliance: 15th International Conference, GALA 2026, L’Aquila, Italy, November 17–20, 2026, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, Vol. 17165). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://link.springer.com/book/9783032435248

GALA Conf 2026

About

GALA Conference 2026 (15th edition) is an event organized by the Serious Games Society in collaboration with the University of L’Aquila.