Calls for Papers: ARTS,DESIGN & VIRTUAL WORLDS SPECIAL SESSION

at CYBERWORLDS 2013 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
http://www.vc.media.yamanashi.ac.jp/cw2013/
21-23 OCTOBER 2013, YOKOHAMA, JAPAN
Keio University, Faculty of Science and Technology

Chair: Dr. Gianluca Mura, Politecnico di Milano University, Italy

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 18, 2013
Send your paper to: gianluca.mura@polimi.it
More information from http://artsvirtualworlds.artsmachine.org/

Full papers up to 8 pages and short papers up to 5 pages have to be submitted electronically in MS Word data formats. The papers must be written in English.

Please use the following template for preparing your papers from:
http://www.artsmachine.org/web/docs/cwtemplate.doc

By submitting a paper the authors confirm that their papers represent original previously unpublished work, and if accepted, the author will register for the conference and present the papers.

INTRODUCTION

Virtual Worlds are information spaces and communities that immensely augment the way we interact, participate and receive information throughout the world. Virtual Worlds seriously impact our lives and the evolution of the world economy by taking such forms as social networking services, 3D shared virtual communities, and massively multiplayer online role-playing games.

OBJECTIVE

The goal of the Arts,Design and Virtual Worlds is to analyze and trace the advancements of new Art and Design theories and practices in Virtual Worlds. Arts,Design and Virtual Worlds is a special session at the 2013 International Conference on Cyberworlds (http://artsvirtualworlds.artsmachine.org/)

PUBLICATIONS

• Arts,Design & Virtual Worlds papers will be published within the CYBERWORLDS 2013 Conference proceedings and related international journal special issues. (http://www.vc.media.yamanashi.ac.jp/cw2013/)
• Arts,Design & Virtual Worlds selected papers will be asked to write an article for a special issue of the IJACDT International Journal of Art,Culture and Design Technologies. (http://www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers-special/international-journal-art-culture-design/41032)

The ARTS,DESIGN & VIRTUAL WORLDS CYBERWORLDS 2013 Special Session will address a wide range of research and development topics, but not limited to the following topics:

• Aesthetics and semantics
• Art and heritage in cyberspace, cyber-museums
• Artworks, performances, and installations
• Brain-computer interfaces
• Cognitive informatics
• Computer vision, augmented, mixed and virtual reality
• Creative and innovative media arts concepts and projects
• Cultural heritage within the Web
• Cyberethics and cyberlaws
• Cybernetics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive-based concepts and practices
• Cybersecurity Cyberworlds and their impact on the real worlds
• Data mining and warehousing in cyberworlds
• Digital art, digital culture, net art, and digital design
• E-learning in virtual collaborative spaces
• Edutainment
• EEG-based emotion recognition
• Haptic interaction and rendering
• Human-computer interaction studies and applications
• Human-computer interfaces Human issues/impacts
• Information visualization in art and design issues Imaginary and creative concepts and applications
• Innovative Web, Web3D, and multimedia studies and applications
• Intelligent talking agents
• Multi-user web games
• Networked collaboration
• Psychology and cognition studies
• Shape modeling for cyberworlds
• Shared virtual worlds
• Social and ethical issues
• Social networking
• Technologies for teaching art and design
• Virtual architecture and heritage
• Virtual, augmented, and mixed realities in art and design
• Virtual collaborative spaces
• Virtual humans and avatars
• Visual languages
• Virtual metaplasticity, metaplastic virtual worlds

Looking forward to seeing you in Yokohama!
Kind Regards,

Prof.Gianluca Mura
Arts&Design Virtual Worlds Chair