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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>HICSS-44
Call for papers for the minitrack on:</span></font><span lang=EN-GB> </span><b><font
size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:bold'><br>
"COLLABORATION IN VIRTUAL WORLDS AND METAVERSES"</span></font></b><span
lang=EN-GB> </span><i><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-style:italic'><br>
Part of the Collaboration Systems and Technology Track</span></font></i><span
lang=EN-GB> </span><i><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-style:italic'><br>
of the Forty-Fourth Annual</span></font></i><span lang=EN-GB> </span><i><font
size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";font-style:italic'><br>
Hawai'i International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS)</span></font></i><span
lang=EN-GB> </span><i><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-style:italic'><br>
Kauai - January 4-7, 2011</span></font></i><span lang=EN-GB> <u><font
color=blue><span style='color:blue'><br>
</span></font></u></span><a
href="http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_44/44tracks.htm#CL"><i><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
font-style:italic'>http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_44/44tracks.htm#CL</span></font></i></a>
<i><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-style:italic'><br>
</span></font></i><span lang=EN-GB><br>
</span><b><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:bold'>Please note that
submissions to this minitrack will also be considered in extended form for the
JAIS Special Issue (see details below)<br>
</span></font></b><b><font face="Trebuchet MS"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>
</span></font><font size=2 color=blue face="Trebuchet MS"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:blue'> </span></font><span
lang=EN-GB> <br>
</span><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Papers are invited for the minitrack on
"COLLABORATION IN VIRTUAL WORLDS AND METAVERSES" as part of the
Collaboration Systems and Technology Track at the Hawaii International
Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). <br>
</span></font> <font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
Collaboration in virtual worlds presents a new area of research. Virtual worlds
and metaverses provide a visual window to a persistent and synthetic world
inhabited by avatars that are deeply involved in social interactions, along
with economic and commercial activities. They are immersive by nature and
reinvent the notions of “being together” and awareness for
distributed teams. Virtual worlds and metaverses present challenges and
opportunities for individuals and groups working together: challenges as groups
using virtual worlds have to overcome limitations originating from not sharing
the same physical space and opportunities as virtual worlds offer possibilities
that are impossible in the real world. To address these challenges and
opportunities, this minitrack invites theoretical and empirical research that
investigates how individuals and teams within and between organizations use
virtual worlds and metaverses to coordinate tasks, share information, simulate
processes, solve problems, make decisions, create and manipulate objects,
innovate, and create value.</span></font> <font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
</span></font> <font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
This minitrack provides one of the key international platforms on which the
following issues can be discussed:</span></font> <br>
<font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
1.</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>The design, application, and evaluation of
virtual world environments and applications.</span></font> <font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
2.</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>The impact of virtual world characteristics
on individual and team behavior.</span></font> <font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
3.</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Collaboration methods, techniques, patterns,
and best practices to support productive (a)synchronous collaboration between
individuals and groups.</span></font> <font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
4.</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Theoretical foundations and practical
approaches to understand, model, and design collaboration in virtual worlds and
metaverses.</span></font> <font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
</span></font> <font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
There are no preferred methodological stances for this minitrack: this
minitrack is open to both qualitative and quantitative research, to research
from a positivist, interpretivist, or critical perspective, to studies from the
lab, from the field, or developmental in nature. <br>
</span></font> <font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
Themes and topics of relevance to this minitrack include, but are not limited
to (related topics not listed are especially welcome):</span></font> <font
size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
</span></font> <u><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
Organizational perspectives on virtual world collaboration</span></font></u> <br>
<font size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><br>
·</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>The impact of virtual world
collaborations on organizational performance</span></font> <font size=2
face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><br>
·</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Change management using
virtual world environments</span></font> <font size=2 face=Symbol><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><br>
·</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Success factors for virtual
world collaboration</span></font> <font size=2 face=Symbol><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><br>
·</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Factors influencing virtual
world adoption, adaptation, and diffusion</span></font> <font size=2
face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><br>
·</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Introducing virtual world
collaboration technologies and processes in organizations and groups</span></font>
<font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
</span></font> <u><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
Individual and group perspectives on virtual world collaboration</span></font></u>
<br>
<font size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><br>
·</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Management and leadership
styles in virtual worlds</span></font> <font size=2 face=Symbol><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><br>
·</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Motivation for individual
and team performance in virtual worlds</span></font> <font size=2 face=Symbol><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><br>
·</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Skills, knowledge, and
abilities to collaborate successfully in virtual worlds</span></font> <font
size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><br>
·</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Personality characteristics
and traits and their influence on virtual world collaboration </span></font><font
size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><br>
·</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Team size and composition
in virtual world collaboration</span></font> <font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
</span></font> <u><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
Work and process perspectives concerning virtual world collaboration</span></font></u>
<br>
<font size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><br>
·</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Different tasks and task
types in virtual worlds</span></font> <font size=2 face=Symbol><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><br>
·</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Creativity and innovation
in virtual world collaboration</span></font> <font size=2 face=Symbol><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><br>
·</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Approaches and processes
for repeatable tasks in virtual worlds, e.g. focus groups, recruitment,
strategy planning, and requirements specification & analysis</span></font> <font
size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><br>
·</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Identifying, measuring, and
evaluating patterns of virtual world collaboration, e.g. generation, reduction,
clarification, organization, evaluation, and commitment building.</span></font>
<font size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><br>
·</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Best practices,
collaboration techniques (thinkLets) and pattern languages for virtual world
collaboration</span></font> <font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
</span></font> <u><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
Design perspectives on virtual world collaboration</span></font></u> <br>
<font size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><br>
·</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Theories, guidelines and strategies
for designing collaboration processes, technologies and systems for virtual
world collaboration</span></font> <font size=2 face=Symbol><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><br>
·</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Enhancing robustness,
flexibility, and longevity of virtual world applications, processes and
technologies</span></font> <font size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><br>
·</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Modeling techniques and
frameworks to support virtual world collaboration processes and applications</span></font>
<font size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><br>
·</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Embedded technologies for
virtual worlds</span></font> <font size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><br>
·</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Information access,
processing, and dissemination in virtual world collaboration</span></font> <font
size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
</span></font> <u><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
Social issues concerning virtual world collaboration</span></font></u> <br>
<font size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><br>
·</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Facilitation in virtual
world environments</span></font> <font size=2 face=Symbol><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><br>
·</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Collaboration styles in
virtual worlds</span></font> <font size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><br>
·</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Cultural perspectives on
virtual world collaboration</span></font> <font size=2 face=Symbol><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><br>
·</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Approaches to training
virtual world collaboration skills</span></font> <font size=2 face=Symbol><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><br>
·</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Ethical issues surrounding
virtual world collaboration</span></font> <font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
</span></font> <font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
SPECIAL ISSUE IN THE JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS</span></font>
<font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
</span></font> <font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
Authors submitting to the HICSS minitrack will be invited to submit an expanded
version for a special issue in the Journal of the Association for Information
Systems (JAIS) on Team Collaboration in Virtual Worlds. The submission deadline
for this issue is 30 October, 2010. Please note that it is <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>not</span></i> required to submit a paper to the
HICSS minitrack to be considered for the JAIS issue. <br>
</span></font> <font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
More information on the JAIS issue can be found at: </span></font><u><font
color=blue><span style='color:blue'><br>
</span></font></u><a
href="http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/First_Call_for_Papers_-_JAIS_Special_Issue_on_Team_Collaboration_in_Virtual_Worlds.pdf"><font
size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/First_Call_for_Papers_-_JAIS_Special_Issue_on_Team_Collaboration_in_Virtual_Worlds.pdf</span></font></a>
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MINITRACK COORDINATORS:</span></font> <font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
</span></font> <font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
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Gert-Jan de Vreede (primary contact)</span></font> <font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
University of Nebraska at Omaha & Delft University of Technology</span></font>
<font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
Department of Information Systems & Quantitative Analysis</span></font> <font
size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
Managing Director, The Center for Collaboration Science</span></font> <font
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1110 South 67<sup>th</sup> street, Omaha, NE 68182-0116 USA</span></font> <font
size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
phone: (402) 554-2026 fax: (402) 554-3400</span></font> <font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
e-mail: </span></font><a href="mailto:gdevreede@unomaha.edu"><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>gdevreede@unomaha.edu</span></font></a>
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Moez Limayem</span></font> <font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
Chair, Information Systems Department</span></font> <font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
Sam M. Walton College of Business</span></font> <font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
University of Arkansas</span></font> <font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
e-mail: </span></font><a href="mailto:MLimayem@walton.uark.edu"><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>MLimayem@walton.uark.edu</span></font></a>
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Imed Boughzala</span></font> <font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
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Department of Information Systems</span></font> <font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
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Telecom Business School</span></font> <font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
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The purpose of HICSS is to provide a forum for the interchange of ideas,
research results, development activities, and applications among academicians
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.</span></font> <font
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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
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review system such as title, full name of all authors, and their complete
addresses including affiliation(s), telephone number(s) and e-mail address(es).</span></font>
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15</span></font></b><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
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Gert-Jan de Vreede (primary contact)</span></font></b> <font size=2
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University of Nebraska at Omaha & Delft University of Technology</span></font>
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Department of Information Systems & Quantitative Analysis</span></font> <font
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