[AISWorld] Cfp: 1st Workshop on advanced virtual environments and education (WAVE2 2018)

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Call for Papers
1st Workshop on advanced virtual environments and education (WAVE2 2018)
http://wave.cin.ufpe.br/2018/
Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
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The WAVE2 is a joint organization of the Special Commission on  
Informatics in Education of the Brazilian Society of Computing (SBC)  
and the Brazilian Association of Distance Education (ABED). With it,  
they aim to bring together world-class research that addresses, with a  
high standard of quality, issues relevant to open education and  
Brazilian distance in order to effectively contribute to the  
advancement of international knowledge about the themes and their  
impact on Brazilian practice.
Considering the transdisciplinary nature of the phenomena of open and  
distance education, the two scientific societies understand that  
collaboration between researchers from related communities  
progressively improve research on aspects related to  
technology-mediated education.
This year, WAVE2 2018 will take place in Florianópolis, Santa  
Catarina, Brazil. Its organization will be shared with the Cognitive  
Sciences and Educational Technologies Group (CCTE), at the Federal  
University of Pernambuco (UFPE).
Target audience to the workshop brings together educational  
researchers, technologists and experts in an multidisciplinary forum  
to collaboratively define the various skills, methods, techniques,  
processes and frameworks needed for fostering the adoption of learning  
design and thus to stimulate targeted research.
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Topics of Interest
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We invite submissions that may include the following topics, but are  
not limited to:
   - ubiquitous learning
   - adaptive learning
   - mobile learning
   - social learning
   - smart learning
   - learning on demand
   - continuous learning
   - semantic LMS services
   - learning as a service
   - cloud learning environments
   - annotation-based learning
   - design and experiments of intelligent user interfaces for education
   - linked-data enhanced learning
   - semantically-enhanced cloud services
   - learning analytics for improving teaching and learning
   - technology-enhanced learning in developing countries
   - 1:1 learning
   - m-gaming
   - technology-enhanced learning
   - Web 2.0 educational resources and tools
   - game-based learning
   - t-learning
   - social networks and learning
   - augmented reality and learning
   - virtual reality
   - learning analytics
   - massively open online courses (MOOCs)
   - personal learning environments
   - collective intelligence, the internet of things (IoT)
   - natural user interfaces (NUIs)
   - wearable technology
   - smart city learning or learning cities

They are also topics of this conference, Smart Education:
   - Conceptual frameworks for smart education
   - Innovative smart teaching and learning technologies
   - Smart pedagogy
   - Smart classroom (features, characteristics, infrastructure, etc.)
   - Smart curriculum and courseware design and development
   - Smart assessment and testing
   - Smart education analytics
   - Faculty development and instructor's skills for smart education
   - University-wide smart systems for teaching, learning, research,  
collaboration, communication, management, security
   - Smart blended, distance, online and open education
   - Smart e-learning: concepts, strategies and approaches
   - Smart e-learning teaching strategies
   - Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)
   - Small Personal Online Courses (SPOC)
   - Assessment and testing in smart e-learning
   - Serious games-based smart e-learning
   - Courseware design and development for smart e-learning
   - Smart e-learning environments
   - Smart e-learning pedagogy
   - Smart e-learner modeling
   - Smart e-learning management, analytics, and quality assurance
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Submission Information
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English is the language of the conference and of all submissions.  
There are only two formats:
   - Research paper (full paper)
   - Research-in-progress (short paper)
   - Plenary Lectures
Authors interested that their article is considered for a later  
publication of the highlighted works must present their works in  
English. All submissions must be written in English and contain author  
names, affiliations, and email addresses. Submissions should follow  
the standard SBC format (Microsoft Word and LaTeX templates are  
available at) and submitted via SBC JEMS  
(https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/wave2018)
All proposals for articles must be anonymous, not containing the name  
of the author(s) or institution(s) of the author(s). These data should  
be reported only in the online submission form. We invite proposals of  
the following kind addressing conference themes:
   - Research paper (full paper)
   - Research-in-progress (short paper)
   - Plenary Lectures
Papers presented in the Research report category (full paper) should  
show results with substantial progress in empirical or theoretical  
research, ongoing projects, discussions on the state of the art,  
relevant aspects, case studies, implemented experiments,  
methodologies, innovations and other products that to foster the  
academic discussion of WAVE2's areas and lines of work.
Each individual paper proposal should take the form of a Research  
report (full paper) of up to 8 pages maximum (including references).  
The WAVE2Organisers collects all papers from the authors, and precedes  
them with an outline of the symposium, stating title/theme and  
providing a rationale for the symposium. Symposia organizers are free  
to decide on how their Symposium is run e.g. as an interactive  
panel-participants discussion; ?traditional? presentation of papers  
with short questions and answers; some other method.
The papers presented in the Concept and main idea category (short  
paper) should analyze or describe innovative research in progress and  
work with preliminary results. All work in this category should follow  
the recommendations that are published on the Conference website.
Each short paper proposal should take the form of a Full Paper with a  
minimum of 2 pages and maximum of 4 pages (including references).
An invited Plenary Lectures consists of a mini-conference. We invite  
senior scientists who have a special interest in a specific conference  
topic to take responsibility for an invited session, gathering papers  
from a range of research expertise around the world.
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Important Dates
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   - Paper Submission: 30 April 2018
   - Peer evaluation: May 1 to June 3, 2018
   - Notification of authors: 04 to 20 June 2018
   - Camera-ready version due: July 20, 2018
   - Workshop dates: 04 to 05 October 2018
   - Paper Submission: June 7, 2018
   - Acceptance notice: July 9, 2018
   - Camera-Ready Submission: July 23, 2018
   - Early Bird Registration deadline: September 7, 2018

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