FAVE 2009 - First ICST conference on Facets of Virtual Environments FaVE 2009

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Category FAVE 2009

Deadline: February 13, 2009 | Date: July 27, 2009

Venue/Country: Berlin, Germany

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Call For Papers - CFP

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July 27-29, 2009, Berlin

http://www.fave-conference.org

FaVE (Facets of Virtual Environments) 2009 is a refereed international

academic conference devoted to persistent, multi-user virtual environments.

The recent rise of World of Warcraft, Second Life and similar applications

has caught the imagination of the public and scholars alike, yet until now

the study of virtual environments has been subordinated to a collection of

subtopics of established academic disciplines. FaVE 2009 seeks to establish

virtual environments as a research field in its own right. The conference

brings together under one academic umbrella current research and emerging

developments in the social, technical, legal, economic, design and cultural

aspects of virtual environments. To this end, FaVE 2009 invites researchers

and practitioners to participate in its interdisciplinary exchange of

knowledge and experience. It should be fun!

FaVE 2009 welcomes contributions relating to virtual environments, from

all fields. Topics include, but are not limited to:

Space & Place (theory of virtuality & space; virtual geography; geospatial

web, Web3D & location-based media; mixed & augmented reality; non-euclidean

geometries)

Virtual Societies (communities & networks; interaction patterns & social

dynamics; reputation, prestige & peer pressure; produsage; governance &

politics)

Law & Ethics (virtual government; application of real-world laws &

regulations; EULA & ToS; intellectual & virtual property; virtual crime &

ethics of virtual behavior)

History & Culture (history & historiography of VEs; archiving & preserving

VEs; cultural heritage; VEs as art; culture and acceptance)

Technology (scalability & distributed peer-to-peer architectures;

interoperability; open standards & the metaverse; security; availability,

logging & recovery)

Human-Computer Interaction (interfaces & interaction devices; usability &

user experience; accessibility; art direction & design; enabling user-

generated content)

Productive Uses (serious games; education; collaborative virtual environments;

virtual laboratories & experiments)

Economy (business models; virtual economy & currency; taxation & financial

regulation; branding, in-game advertising & franchising)

Play & Games (game mechanics; storytelling; virtual agents; balancing,

realm and quest design)

Uses & Effects (presence; avatars & identity; cybersickness & the uncanny

valley; effects on real-life behavior)

Users & Players (user demographics; diversity & gender)

Paper Submissions

Papers presenting original, previously unpublished research or design work,

not currently under review by another conference or journal are solicited.

Publication

All submitted papers will be subjected to double-blind peer review by the

international technical program committee on the basis of technical quality,

relevance, significance, and clarity. All accepted papers will be included in

the printed and electronic FaVE 2009 Conference Proceedings to be published

in the ICST Lecture Notes Series by Springer (LNICST).

Important Dates

Full Papers Due: February 13th, 2009

Notification of Acceptance: April 10th, 2009

Camera Ready Manuscripts Due: April 30th, 2009

Conference Dates: July 27th -- July 29th, 2009

Location and Venue

FaVE 2009 will take place in Berlin, Germany, at the Steigenberger Hotel

(www.steigenberger.com/berlin). Hundreds of world-class museums, as well as

cinemas, theatres, concert halls, shopping hotspots and fine international

restaurants make Berlin an exciting place to visit during summer. We are

planning an extensive social program for anyone interested in experiencing the

city and its many cultural highlights.

Conference Committees

Organizing Committee:

General Conference Chair Richard A. Bartle (University of Essex)

General Conference Vice Chair Sven Grottke (University of Stuttgart)

Technical Program Chair Jan Sablatnig (Technische Universitaet Berlin)

Workshops Chair Jessica Mulligan

Panels Chair Julian Kuecklich (University of the Arts London)

Local Arrangements Chair Sabine Cikic (Technische Universitaet Berlin)

Publicity Chair Sebastian Deterding (Universiteit Utrecht)

Publication Chair Fritz Lehmann-Grube (Technische Universitaet Berlin)

Web Chair Sharon Boensch (Technische Universitaet Berlin)

Sponsorship Chair Sabina Jeschke (University of Stuttgart)

Conference Coordinator Robert Varga (ICST)

Steering Committee:

Imrich Chlamtac (Create-Net)

Sabine Cikic (Technische Universitaet Berlin)

Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger (Harvard University)