[AISWorld] HICSS55- Actors, Agents, and Avatars: Visualizing Digital Humans in E-Commerce and Social Media

[Yuan, Lingyao [ISBA]]

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to submit to the minitrack,  Actors, Agents, and Avatars: Visualizing Digital Humans in E-Commerce and Social Media
HICSS-55 conference.

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The focus of this mini track is the visualization and application of digital human characters in the context of E-commerce and social media disciplines. As visualization technology advances in recent years, these digital humans have been transforming the way we work, live, play, and learn. As a technology category they comprise both computer generated models, and virtual people generated by GANs and other AI technology that have evolved from Deep Fake statistical methods. Realistic digital humans have been deployed in multiple areas, including e-commerce and social media. In social media, human realistic digital agents have become virtual influencers. In electronic commerce, virtual agents have been deployed as digital sales assistants, fashion advisers, financial consultants and personal shoppers. In particular, digital humans will become more relevant as social media is further integrated into the retail customer experience.

We would like to position this mini-track as a place for researchers and practitioners from diverse background to share their research and ideas. There are a variety of important issues and topics of importance, such as new technology and visual design advancements to digital humans, the behavioral, emotional, and even physical responses of the users while interacting with digital humans, the underlying cognitive processes underlying the interactions, the impact of digital humans on the firm level or industry level, and ethical issues and societal considerations of the application of digital humans. Research could be wide ranging, such as rich descriptive statistics, theories, emergent and innovative topics, models and frameworks related to technologies and their impact on marketing, case studies, methods, qualitative research, etc. The topics include but are not limited to:


  *   Visualization technology to advance digital humans
  *   Challenges and problems with creating digital humans or scanning and sampling users.
  *   Human computer interactions, instilled with digital humans, including affective computing issues.
  *   Design of digital humans by combining human and computer cognitive power.
  *   Use of GANs and VAEs to infer digital human faces, including approaches building on ‘Deep Fakes’ technology.
  *   Analysis of machine learning, big data, data mining, and other underlying technologies and algorithms of digital humans
  *   Taxonomy of digital humans
  *   Virtual influencers and YouTube digital celebrities
  *   Impact of digital humans on the individual level (decision making, problem solving, negotiation, and creativity/innovation)
  *   Psychological and emotional effects of interacting with realistic digital humans
  *   Biases in interacting with digital humans and biases in the digital humans deployed
  *   The use of digital humans beyond individuals and its consequences in organizations
  *   Management of digital human deployment (e.g., corporate governance, data management)
  *   Case studies on industry adoption of digital humans
  *   Use and economic implications of digital humans in e-commerce, social media, and the combinations of multiple industries involving e-commerce and social media.
  *   Social impact and ethics related to digital humans and their use
  *   Philosophical questions surrounding the idea of ‘using’ digital humans

Minitrack Co-Chairs:

Mike Seymour
Discipline of Business Information Systems
The University of Sydney Business School
mike.seymour at sydney.edu.au<mailto:mike.seymour at sydney.edu.au>

Lingyao (Ivy) Yuan
Department of Information System and Business Analytics
Iowa State University
lyuan at iastate.edu<mailto:lyuan at iastate.edu>

Kai Riemer
Discipline of Business Information Systems
The University of Sydney Business School
kai.riemer at sydney.edu.au<mailto:kai.riemer at sydney.edu.au>


Important Deadlines:
April 15               Paper submission system open for HICSS-55
June 15               Papers due
August 17           Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
September 22   Deadline for Authors to Submit Final Manuscript for Publication
October 1           Deadline for at least one author of each paper toregister for HICSS-55
Conference Website:  http://hicss.hawaii.edu/
Author Guidelines:  http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-and-minitracks/authors/

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