ARTS,DESIGN & VIRTUAL WORLDS 2012

Calls for Papers: ARTS,DESIGN & VIRTUAL WORLDS
http://artsvirtualworlds.artsmachine.com

CYBERWORLDS 2012 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE SPECIAL SESSION
25-27 SEPTEMBER 2012, DARMSTADT, GERMANY
Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research
http://www.gris.tu-darmstadt.de/cw2012

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

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 29, 2012

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 assively 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 2012 International Conference on Cyberworlds
(CYBERWORLDS 2012, http://artsvirtualworlds.artsmachine.com).

PUBLICATIONS
- Arts,Design & Virtual Worlds papers will be published within the CYBERWORLDS 2012 Conference proceedings and related international journal special issues.
http://www.gris.tu-darmstadt.de/cw2012

- 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

To be included in the Arts,Design & VirtualWorlds Cyberworlds 2012 special session at least one author of
the accepted paper must register and present the paper at the Cyberworlds 2012 conference.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
- Download your paper template from http://www.artsmachine.com/doc/template.doc

- Send your paper to: [email protected]

Dr.Gianluca Mura
Arts,Design & Virtual Worlds, Cyberworlds 2012, Chair
E-mail: [email protected]

RECOMMENDED TOPICS:
Topics to be discussed include (but are not limited to) the following:
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