[AISWorld] CFP HICSS44 Minitrack: Collaboration in Virtual Worlds and Metaverses

Thu Mar 25 11:41:23 EDT 2010

HICSS-44 Call for papers for the minitrack on: 
"COLLABORATION IN VIRTUAL WORLDS AND METAVERSES" 
Part of the Collaboration Systems and Technology Track 
of the Forty-Fourth Annual 
Hawai'i International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS) 
Kauai - January 4-7, 2011 
 <http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_44/44tracks.htm#CL>
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_44/44tracks.htm#CL 

Please note that submissions to this minitrack will also be considered in
extended form for the JAIS Special Issue (see details below)

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). 

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. 

This minitrack provides one of the key international platforms on which the
following issues can be discussed: 

1.      The design, application, and evaluation of virtual world
environments and applications. 
2.      The impact of virtual world characteristics on individual and team
behavior. 
3.      Collaboration methods, techniques, patterns, and best practices to
support productive (a)synchronous collaboration between individuals and
groups. 
4.      Theoretical foundations and practical approaches to understand,
model, and design collaboration in virtual worlds and metaverses. 

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. 

Themes and topics of relevance to this minitrack include, but are not
limited to (related topics not listed are especially welcome): 

Organizational perspectives on virtual world collaboration 

*         The impact of virtual world collaborations on organizational
performance 
*         Change management using virtual world environments 
*         Success factors for virtual world collaboration 
*         Factors influencing virtual world adoption, adaptation, and
diffusion 
*         Introducing virtual world collaboration technologies and processes
in organizations and groups 

Individual and group perspectives on virtual world collaboration 

*         Management and leadership styles in virtual worlds 
*         Motivation for individual and team performance in virtual worlds 
*         Skills, knowledge, and abilities to collaborate successfully in
virtual worlds 
*         Personality characteristics and traits and their influence on
virtual world collaboration 
*         Team size and composition in virtual world collaboration 

Work and process perspectives concerning virtual world collaboration 

*         Different tasks and task types in virtual worlds 
*         Creativity and innovation in virtual world collaboration 
*         Approaches and processes for repeatable tasks in virtual worlds,
e.g. focus groups, recruitment, strategy planning, and requirements
specification & analysis 
*         Identifying, measuring, and evaluating patterns of virtual world
collaboration, e.g. generation, reduction, clarification, organization,
evaluation, and commitment building. 
*         Best practices, collaboration techniques (thinkLets) and pattern
languages for virtual world collaboration 

Design perspectives on virtual world collaboration 

*         Theories, guidelines and strategies for designing collaboration
processes, technologies and systems for virtual world collaboration 
*         Enhancing robustness, flexibility, and longevity of virtual world
applications, processes and technologies 
*         Modeling techniques and frameworks to support virtual world
collaboration processes and applications 
*         Embedded technologies for virtual worlds 
*         Information access, processing, and dissemination in virtual world
collaboration 

Social issues concerning virtual world collaboration 

*         Facilitation in virtual world environments 
*         Collaboration styles in virtual worlds 
*         Cultural perspectives on virtual world collaboration 
*         Approaches to training virtual world collaboration skills 
*         Ethical issues surrounding virtual world collaboration 

SPECIAL ISSUE IN THE JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS 

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 not required to submit a paper to the HICSS minitrack to be considered
for the JAIS issue. 

More information on the JAIS issue can be found at: 

<http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/First_Call_for_Papers_-_JAIS_Special_Issue_on_
Team_Collaboration_in_Virtual_Worlds.pdf>
http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/First_Call_for_Papers_-_JAIS_Special_Issue_on_T
eam_Collaboration_in_Virtual_Worlds.pdf 

MINITRACK COORDINATORS: 

Gert-Jan de Vreede (primary contact) 
University of Nebraska at Omaha & Delft University of Technology 
Department of Information Systems & Quantitative Analysis 
Managing Director, The Center for Collaboration Science 
1110 South 67th street, Omaha, NE 68182-0116 USA 
phone: (402) 554-2026  fax: (402) 554-3400 
e-mail:  <mailto:gdevreede at unomaha.edu> gdevreede at unomaha.edu 

Moez Limayem 
Chair, Information Systems Department 
Sam M. Walton College of Business 
University of Arkansas 
e-mail:  <mailto:MLimayem at walton.uark.edu> MLimayem at walton.uark.edu 

Imed Boughzala 
Department of Information Systems 
Telecom Business School 
Institut TELECOM 
9 rue Charles Fourier 91011 Evry Cedex France 
phone: (33) 1 60-76-45-74  fax: (33) 1 60-76-44-93 
email: imed.boughzala at it-sudparis.eu   

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. 

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 minitrack. 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 e-mail address(es). 
4.      The first page of the paper should include the title and a (max)
300-word abstract. 

DEADLINES: 

*         May 15:                    OPTIONAL: Abstracts submitted to
Minitrack Chairs for guidance, indication of appropriate content and to
receive instructions on submitting full paper. 
*         June 15:                  Full papers uploaded in the directory of
the appropriate minitrack. 
*         August 15:               Notification of accepted papers mailed to
authors. 
*         September 15:         Accepted manuscripts, camera-ready,
uploaded; author(s) must register by this time. 

Send all correspondence related to this minitrack to: 

Gert-Jan de Vreede (primary contact) 
University of Nebraska at Omaha & Delft University of Technology 
Department of Information Systems & Quantitative Analysis 
Managing Director, The Center for Collaboration Science 
1110 South 67th street, Omaha, NE 68182-0116 USA 
phone: (402) 554-2026  fax: (402) 554-3400 
e-mail:  <mailto:gdevreede at unomaha.edu> gdevreede at unomaha.edu 

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