CW 2017: 2017 International Conference on Cyberworlds University of Chester Chester, UK, September 20-22, 2017

Cyberworlds are information spaces and communities that use computer technologies to augment the way we interact, participate in business and receive information throughout the world. Cyberworlds have ever-growing impact on our lives and the evolution of the world economy. Examples include social networking services, 3D shared virtual communities and massively multiplayer online role-playing games. As the University of Chester is hosting the 2017 conference we particularly invite submissions based on our specialist areas of virtual and augmented reality, and cybersecurity. However, abroad range of topics will be accepted for CW2017.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

Full papers (up to 8 pages), short papers (up to 4 pages), and poster papers (up to 4 pages). The papers must be written in good English, carefully proofread, and formatted to IEEE Manuscript Template.  Full papers and short papers will be scheduled for oral presentation (25 min full papers, 15 min short papers). Posters/demos will have to be displayed by the authors during the poster session and will also require 1 min fast-forward slide presentation. All three categories of papers will participate in the competition for the Best Paper awards.

List of Topics

• Applications of augmented and mixed reality
• Networked and shared virtual worlds
• Virtual collaborative spaces
• Shape modeling for cyberworlds
• Virtual humans and avatars
• Multimodal interaction and rendering
• Computer vision for augmented and mixed reality
• Cognitive informatics
• Brain-computer interfaces
• Affective computing
• Social computing
• Online communities
• E-learning in cyberworlds
• Multi-user web games
• Art and heritage in cyberspace, cyber-museums
• Cyberethics and cyberlaws
• Cybersecurity
• Welfare in cyberworlds
• Data mining and warehousing in cyberworlds
• Visual analytics in cyberworlds

Committees

Program Committee

• Ap Cenydd, Llyr (Bangor University)
• Ayiter, Elif (Sabanci University, Turkey)
• Balcisoy, Selim (Sabanci University)
• Brunnett, Guido (Chemnitz University of Technology)
• Chen, Yung Fu (Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology)
• Doroz, Rafal (University of Silesia)
• Earnshaw, Rae (University of Bradford)
• Eze, Thaddeus (Unviersity of Chester)
• Fujishiro, Issei (Keio University)
• Galvez-Tomida, Akemi (University of Cantabria)
• Gavrilova, Marina (University of Calgary)
• Goesele, Michael (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
• Hamann, Bernd (University of California, Davis)
• Headleand, Christopher (University of Lincoln)
• Hughes, Chris (Salford University)
• Iglesias Prieto, Andres (Universidad de Cantabria)
• Ihara, Masayuki (NTT Service Evoluation Labs.)
• Jin, Xiaogang (State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University)
• John, Nigel (University of Chester)
• Jorge, Joaquim A (Computers & Graphics)
• Kankanhalli, Mohan (National University of Singapore)
• Klimenko, Stanislav (Institute of Computing for Phycics and Technology)
• Konno, Kouichi (Iwate University)
• Kotenko, Igor (SPIIRAS)
• Kuijper, Arjan (TU Darmstadt)
• Kunii, Tosiyasu (Morpho, Inc.)
• Li, Ling (Curtin University of Technology)
• Mao, Xiaoyang (University of Yamanashi)
• Miyata, Kazunori (JAIST)
• Miyazaki, Shinya (Chukyo University)
• Morris, Jeff (Texas A&M University)
• Nakajima, Masayuki (Uppsala University)
• Ohmori, Kenji (Hosei University)
• Pan, Zhigeng (Digital Media and HCI Research Center, Hangzhou Normal University)
• Pang, Ming- Yong (Nanjing Normal University)
• Pop, Serban (University of Chester)
• Prakoonwit, Simant (Bournemouth University)
• Raskin, Victor
• Rayz, Julia (Purdue University)
• Ritsos, Panagiotis
• Samet, Refik (Ankara University)
• Shinya, Mikio (Toho University)
• Shiraishi, Michio (Toho University)
• Sourin, Alexei (Nanyang Technological University)
• Sourina, Olga (Fraunhofer IDM@NTU)
• Speakman, Lee (University of Chester)
• Sugimoto, Maki (Keio University)
• Takahashi, Hiroki (The University of Electro-Communications)
• Tang, Wen (Bournemouth University)
• Thalmann, Daniel (Institute for Media Innovations, NTU)
• Toyoura, Masahiro (University of yamanashi)
• Ugail, Hassan (University of Bradford)
• Urban, Bodo (Fraunhofer IGD Rostock)
• Vidal, Franck (Bangor University)
• Walczak, Krzysztof (Poznan University of Economics)
• Wang, Guoping (Peking University)
• Westerski, Adam (Universidad Politecnica De Madrid)
• Wyvill, Brian (University of Victoria)
• Xie, Ning (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC))
• Yampolskiy, Roman (University of Louisville)
• Yang, Zheng (Chongqing University of Technology)
• Yoshida, Norimasa (Nihon University)
• Yuan, Qingshu (Nanjing Normal University)
• Zara, Jiri (Czech Technical University in Prague)
• Zha, Hongbin (Peking University)
• Zheng, Jiang Yu (Indiana University Purdue Unviersity Indianapolis)

Organizing committee

• Serban Pop (University of Chester, UK)
• Nigel John (University of Chester, UK)
• Alexei Sourin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Invited Speakers

• Prof. Min Chen, University of Oxford, “Myths and Promises of Data Intelligence”.
• Dr. Rafal Mantiuk, University of Cambridge

Publication

CW 2017 proceedings will be published by IEEE Conference Publishing Services as well as submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, IEEE Computer Society Digital Library and reference databases of all major referencing indices (e.g., see the proceedings listed at SCI, Scopus, etc.).

Special journal issues referenced by SCI and other major indices are currently being confirmed for full papers.

Venue

Chester is one of the most historic cities in the UK and many tourist attractions are nearby. CW2017 will be held in the heart of the city at the Riverside Innovation Centre, University of Chester. There is a wide selection of hotels at a range of prices available to book in Chester – see www.visitchester.com. Manchester International Airport is 30 miles from Chester and can be reached in 40 minutes by road or 1hr 30 mins by rail. Liverpool Airport is 25 miles from Chester and can be reached in 35 minutes by road. Chester is also well served by the railway network and has frequent, fast rail links to London and major cities in the UK.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Dr serban Pop (s.pop@chester.ac.uk)

Links to previous conferences in the Cyberworlds series can be found here.