[AISWorld] CFP:HICSS-56-Minitrack: Opportunities and challenges in the Metaverse

[Xusen Cheng]

Dear Colleagues,

HICSS-56 Call for papers for the mini-track on: " *Opportunities and
challenges in the Metaverse* " Part of the Collaboration Systems and
Technologies Track in Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences
(HICSS)

Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa

January 3-6, 2023



The Metaverse refers to an interactive, immersive, and collaborative
virtual world environment that is shared among the online crowds. With the
development of advanced technologies, the Metaverse offers an infusion of
physical, virtual, and augmented reality to afford socialization, play, and
work. Aspiring to replicate the real world, Metaverse is characterized by a
three-dimensional (3D) virtual world that allows social connection through
avatars.



With embodied avatars, individuals in the metaverse can self-present
themselves to engage in distributed collaboration, voice their
self-recognitions, and socialize in different scenarios. Online
interactions in the Metaverses are featured by dynamic participation from
mass crowds with diverse avatars. Individuals in the Metaverse can design
fancy creations combining reality and imagination. Due to the above new
features, Metaverse has brought about several opportunities as well as
challenges.



This mini-track invites contributions from a variety of conceptual and
theoretical perspectives. We particularly welcome behavioral studies that
address the opportunities and challenges Metaverse presents, explore the
new interaction and collaboration modes in the Metaverse, provide
multidisciplinary perspectives, and/or adopt mixed-methods research
approaches.



The mini-track will focus on a wide range of topics including but not
limited to:

•      Team management in distributed virtual world collaboration

•      Engagement influencing factors in the Metaverse

•      Artifact design for an immersive virtual world

•      User behaviors in the virtual world

•      Business model innovation in the Metaverse

•      Online interaction patterns in the Metaverse

•      Digital marketing strategies in the Metaverse

•      Trust and distrust in the Metaverse

•      Value co-creation and co-destruction in the Metaverse

•      Negative impacts of the Metaverse on individuals, organizations, and
society

•      User misbehavior in the Metaverse

•      Addiction and overuse/misuse of the Metaverse

•      Information security, privacy and ethical issues in the Metaverse



*Best papers will be invited to submit for a special issue on "**Opportunities
and challenges in the Metaverse**" to be published with Internet Research.*



*Mini-track Co-Chairs*

Xusen Cheng (Primary Contact)

School of Information

Renmin University of China

Email: xusen.cheng at ruc.edu.cn



Jian Mou

School of Business, Pusan National University,

Email: jian.mou at pusan.ac.kr



Xiao-Liang Shen

School of Information Management, Wuhan University

Email: xlshen at whu.edu.cn



Triparna de Vreede

Muma College of Business, University of South Florida

Email: tdevreede at usf.edu



Instructions to Authors:

The purpose of HICSS is to provide a forum for the interchange of ideas,
research results, development activities, and applications among
researchers and practitioners in computer-based systems sciences. The
conference consists of tutorials, advanced seminars, presentations of
accepted papers, open forum, tasks forces, and plenary and distinguished
guest lectures. There is a high degree of interaction and discussion among
the conference participants because the conference is conducted in a
workshop-like setting.



Instructions for submitting papers:

1. Submit an electronic copy of the full paper, 10 pages including title
page, abstract, references and diagrams using the review system available
at the HICSS site, make sure that the authors’ names and affiliation
information has been removed to ensure an anonymous review.

2. Do not submit the paper to more than one mini-track. The paper should
contain original material and not be previously published or currently
submitted for consideration elsewhere.

3. Provide the required information to the review system such as title,
full name of all authors, and their complete addresses including
affiliation(s), telephone number(s) and email address(es).

4. The first page of the paper should include the title and a (max)
150-word abstract.





DEADLINES:



·        May 15: OPTIONAL: Abstracts submitted to Mini-track Chairs for
guidance, indication of appropriate content and to receive instructions on
submitting full paper.

·        June 15: Full papers uploaded to the mini-track through the
submission system at hicss.hawaii.edu.

·        August 17: Notification of accepted papers mailed to authors.

·        September 4: Deadline for A-M Authors to Submit Revised Manuscript
for Review.

·        September 22: Deadline for Authors to Submit Final Manuscript for
Publication

·        October 1: Deadline for at least one author of the accepted
manuscript to register for HICSS-54



For more information, please see www.hicss.org
Kind Regards

Xusen Cheng, Ph.D
Professor of Information Systems
School of Information, Renmin University of China
Beijing, China, 100872
Email: xusen.cheng at gmail.com



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