This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 1st IFIP Entertainment Computing Symposium held in Milan, Italy on September 7-10, 2008.

The papers in this volume were peer-reviewed and carefully selected

Enhancing Artificial Intelligence in Games by Learning the Opponent's Playing Style.- Using Game Engines for Visualization in Scientific Applications.- An Interactive Visual Canon Platform.- Physical Emotion Induction and Its Use in Entertainment: Lessons Learned.- Networked Virtual Marionette Theater.- Entertainment Computing in the Orbit.- A Collaborative Science Learning Game Environment for Informal Science Education:DinoQuest Online.- Construction and Evaluation of a Robot Dance System.- Context-aware fun and games with Bluetooth.- Comic Layout for Automatic Comic Generation from Game Log.- Computing Inspiration: i.plot.- Analysis and Generation of Japanese Folktales Based on Vladimir Propp's Methodology.