This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2006, held in Cambridge, UK in September 2006, held under the auspices of IFIP.

The 17 revised full papers, 17 revised short papers and 28 poster papers presented together with one keynote paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 95 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on agents, cultural and psychological metrics, transforming broadcast experience, culture, place, play, display technology, authoring tools, object tracking, edutainment, and network games.