CALL FOR PAPERS

2012 International Conference on CyberWorlds

25-27 September 2012, Darmstadt, Germany

http://www.gris.tu-darmstadt.de/cw2012/

PAPER DEADLINE: 2 April 2012

Notification:  4 May 2012

Registration:  1 Jun 2012

Camera-ready paper:  9 Jun 2012

Created intentionally or spontaneously, cyberworlds are information spaces and communities that immensely augment the way we interact, participate in business and receive information throughout the world. Cyberworlds seriously impact our lives and the evolution of the world conomy by taking such forms as social networking services, 3D shared virtual communities and assively multiplayer online role-playing games. The international conferences on Cyberworlds have being organized annually since 2002 with the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society and special issues published in The Visual Computer and other research journals.

Cyberworlds 2012 is organized by Fraunhofer IGD and TU Darmstadt, Germany, in cooperation with EUROGRAPHICS Association and supported by the IFIP Workgroup Computer Graphics and Virtual Worlds.

The 2012th International Conference on Cyberworlds will address a wide range of research and development topics, but not limited to the following topics:

* Shared virtual worlds

* Virtual collaborative spaces

* Shape modeling for cyberworlds

* Virtual humans and avatars

* Intelligent talking agents

* Networked collaboration

* Haptic interaction and rendering

* Computer vision, augmented, mixed and virtual reality

* Human-computer interfaces

* Cognitive informatics

* Brain-computer interfaces

* EEG-based emotion recognition

* E-learning in virtual collaborative spaces

* Multi-user web games

* Art and heritage in cyberspace, cyber-museums

* Cyberworlds and their impact on the real worlds

* Cyberethics and cyberlaws

* Cybersecurity

* Data mining and warehousing in cyberworlds

* Social networking

Special Sessions:

Arts, Design and Virtual World: http://artsvirtualworlds.artsmachine.com

Other special sessions are under negotiation.

Proposals for special sessions can be sent until 31 March 2012 to cyberworlds2012(at)igd.fraunhofer.de

Proceedings:

The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE, placed in the IEEE Xplore and Computer Society digital libraries, and  submitted for indexing through INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services.

Special issues of the following international journals will be formed from extended journal versions of the best papers:

The Visual Computer

International Journal of Art, Culture and Design Technologies

To be included in the conference proceedings and special journal issues, at least one author of the accepted paper must register and present the paper at the conference.

Please email your requests to cyberworlds2012(at)igd.fraunhofer.de.

Honorary Chair

Tosiyasu L. Kunii, University of Tokyo, Japan

General Chair

Dieter Fellner, Fraunhofer IGD and TU Darmstadt, Germany

Program Chair

Arjan Kuijper, Fraunhofer IGD and TU Darmstadt, Germany