<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><pre class="gmail-_3rGPyS-T4z661D_PbTU36A gmail-allowTextSelection" style="text-align:left;color:rgb(50,49,48);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">TLDR: A workshop on hosting virtual conferences as a means to reduce carbon impact of academic conferences. We are interested in a range of topics from technical platforms through social impact to discussion of the future of IEEE VR itself. You are also invited to present and participate remotely from a social VR platform on the day.
<a href="https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1Hq7YtN0F5ozdTKqa5UIxcegrfouKuDoxHjwijz7Td2g-1941588608&key=YAMMID-89438082&link=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fview%2Fvrinvr2020">https://sites.google.com/view/vrinvr2020</a>
Deadline for submissions extended to January 31st 2020.
Note1: We have an option to present remotely and still have your paper in the workshop proceedings.
Note2: All papers will appear in the workshop proceedings that will be hosted on the IEEE Xplore Digital Library
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Call for Papers Virtual Conference Workshop (VR in VR) at IEEE VR 2020
In recent years, academic and non-academic communities are taking the climate impact of flying more seriously, from the anti-flying movement known as "flight shame" - or flygskam in Swedish, where the movement began - to the "flying less" movement in academia (<a href="https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1Hq7YtN0F5ozdTKqa5UIxcegrfouKuDoxHjwijz7Td2g-1941588608&key=YAMMID-89438082&link=https%3A%2F%2Facademicflyingblog.wordpress.com">https://academicflyingblog.wordpress.com</a>). Travel for academic conferences has an impact on the environment and also prevents access for certain groups.
The VR community is well placed to take a lead in developing alternatives to the face to the conference because our community has a long history of implementing and evaluating key pieces of collaborative technology that might facilitate new types of online meeting. It is perhaps time to 'eat our own dogfood' and start to plan a substantive future for the IEEE VR Conference that is online.
With VR technology we can reduce flying by supporting virtual conferencing, from pure virtual conferences to remote attendance at physical conferences to providing the glue that supports multi-site events. Beyond climate impact, remote and distributed conferences offer the potential for many more people to get the benefits of attending academic conferences they would not otherwise have access to, due to personal, financial or political constraints.
Important Dates
January 31st, 2020: Proposals due
February 4th, 2020: Notification of results
February 12th, 2020: Camera-ready submission for inclusion in the Workshop Proceedings
March 22nd: Workshop
Overview
We are calling for short and full papers exploring topics related to hosting, attending, and supporting conferences in virtual worlds as well as the social and cultural issues that revolve around the conference itself and how we want it to evolve in the future. We use the terms virtual worlds so as not to limit this workshop to immersive, head-worn-display-based VR and AR. Desktop and phone-based interfaces to 3D worlds, immersive VR, and AR are all appropriate technologies for discussion, especially when we consider how to support access by less affluent participants. Beyond just the technology, we encourage a diverse range of interdisciplinary approaches and perspectives. Works in progress and position papers are also encouraged.
We invite individuals, teams, and organizations to submit on the following topics:
- The benefits and challenges of attending conferences in person and/or virtually.
- Experiences with and evaluations of current social VR platforms.
- Interaction between presenters and audiences.
- Interaction between audience members in virtual spaces.
- Mixed local / remote system design, especially interactions between physical and virtual venues.
- Proposals of how to support multi-site events.
- Hybrid formats with participation in both physical locations and VR.
- Managing massive communities in shared conference spaces.
- Design of effective social AR and VR spaces and formats.
- The design, process, and production of compelling presentations and performances in social VR.
- Developing and designing effective spaces for conferences.
- Integrating live video and other media into VR conferences and presentations.
- Solutions to challenges related to timezones, languages, and regional participation.
- New ways to think about conferences beyond once-per-year events.
- Radical ideas about the future of academic publishing and the role of the conference and journal papers.
Further details, including proposals for panels and detail of the potential to remotely participate at:
<a href="https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1Hq7YtN0F5ozdTKqa5UIxcegrfouKuDoxHjwijz7Td2g-1941588608&key=YAMMID-89438082&link=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fview%2Fvrinvr2020">https://sites.google.com/view/vrinvr2020</a>
Organisers
- Blair MacIntyre
- Anthony Steed
- Rob Lindeman
<a href="mailto:vrinvr2020@gmail.com">vrinvr2020@gmail.com</a></pre><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div>
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