Special session on "Collaboration and Communication in Virtual Worlds"

Special session on "Collaboration and Communication in Virtual Worlds"

Part of 6th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference
CCNC 2009, 10 - 13 January 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/

The conference is sponsored by IEEE Communications Society

Paper Deadline: July 31, 2008.

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Call for Papers
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Special Session on Collaboration and Communication in Virtual Worlds

Virtual worlds combine 3D web technologies with social networking
techniques to offer new models of user interactions, collaborative
learning, information sharing, and present new business opportunities.
Collaboration and communication in virtual worlds are key to the success
of these models. Using advances from various studies on virtual reality
environments, existing virtual worlds provide a rich environment for
users to provide new and innovative end user services.

These end user services depend on multiple users collaborating in
shared spaces, interaction with other users and with other worlds, real
time nature of user interactions in virtual environments, collaboration
and communication tools in virtual environments, scalability, and
security. The goal of this special session on Collaboration and
Communication in Virtual Worlds is to provide a forum for researchers,
architects, and practitioners for discussing these and other related
issues to collaboration and communication in virtual worlds and virtual
environments.

We solicit papers covering various topics that include (but not limited
to) the following:

* Sharing Spaces in VR environments
* User Interactions in VR
* Real-time or immediacy of interactions
* Chat, voice, or video communication in virtual worlds
* Collaboration tools and techniques in VR applications
* Social networking in VR environments
* Collaborative learning in Virtual Worlds
* Consumer-business interactions
* Enterprise collaboration in VWs
* Scalability, security, and persistence of VR

Submission Instructions

Authors are invited to submit regular technical papers or position
papers. The position papers should present novel technologies at an
early stage of development or share future vision. All submissions
should describe original, previously unpublished research, not currently
under review by another conference or journal. Manuscripts should not
exceed five (5) pages in double-column IEEE format. Please submit the
paper through EDAS. Formatting details can be found under Author
Information on the CCNC web site.

Important Dates:
Papers submission: July 31, 2008
Notification of acceptance: Sep 12, 2008
Camera-ready versions: Oct 10, 2008


Session Organizer:
Krishna Kishore Dhara
Avaya Labs Research
1N275, 307 Middletown-Lincroft Rd
Lincroft, NJ, USA.
dhara@research.avayalabs.com