[AISWorld] [CFP] HICSS-56 Mini-Track: Opportunities and Challenges in the Metaverse (Deadline: June 15)

[Xiao-Liang Shen]

Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-56)
Maui, Hawaii, January 3-6, 2023
https://hicss.hawaii.edu/

HICSS-56 Track: Collaboration Systems and Technologies
HICSS-56 Mini-Track: Opportunities and Challenges in the Metaverse

Mini-Track Co-Chairs:
Xusen Cheng (Renmin University of China, xusen.cheng at ruc.edu.cn)
Jian Mou (Pusan National University, jian.mou at pusan.ac.kr)
Xiao-Liang Shen (Wuhan University, xlshen at whu.edu.cn)
Triparna de Vreede (University of South Florida, tdevreede at usf.edu)

Mini-Track Description:
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

Important Dates for Paper Submission:
* April 15: Paper Submission System Reopened for HICSS-56
* June 15: Paper Submission Deadline
* 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 to register for the conference

Sponsoring Journal: 
The mini-track co-chairs organized a special issue "Opportunities and Challenges in the Metaverse" in Internet Research (https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/opportunities-and-challenges-metaverse). Authors interested in this special issue are encouraged to submit papers to HICSS mini-track first, and this provides potential authors an opportunity to receive developmental feedback and suggestions. However, authors who are unable to attend HICSS will not be disadvantaged, and all papers will go through a full peer-review process to decide which papers to include in this special issue. 

Please refer to more information about this track at: 
https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-55/collaboration-systems-and-technologies/#opportunities-and-challenges-in-the-metaverse-minitrack

Instructions for Authors: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/




Xiao-Liang Shen, Professor
School of Information Management
Wuhan University, P.R.China
Email: xlshen at whu.edu.cn