[AISWorld] CfP (extended deadline: March 8, 2024): CHI 2024 Workshop on "Building a Metaverse for All: Opportunities and challenges for inclusive and accessible virtual environments

[Callum Parker]

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CHI 2024 Workshop: “Building a Metaverse for All: Opportunities and challenges for inclusive and accessible virtual environments”
May 11, 2024 – Hybrid (In-person at CHI’24 in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, USA and Online via Zoom)

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Position paper submission:  March 1, 2024 (extended) March 8, 2024
Notification of acceptance: March 22, 2024
Workshop date: Saturday, May 11, 2024 (full day workshop)

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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The Metaverse is proposed as a collection of interconnected virtual worlds allowing people to seamlessly access and traverse through them. It offers an opportunity to remove physical boundaries and borders present in our reality with the potential to bring together people from all walks of life. The development of a Metaverse or a ``new world'' offers a compelling opportunity to establish a space that is both all-encompassing and accessible to everyone. However a key challenge is understanding how the Metaverse can be designed from the ground up to be inclusive and accessible. This workshop aims to gain further understanding of how to create an open and inclusive Metaverse for all, while also exploring methods for its evaluation. The key outcomes of this workshop outline new opportunities for improving the inclusivity of the Metaverse, evaluation methodologies, and key considerations for designing accessible Metaverse environments and interactions.

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PARTICIPATION AND SUBMISSION
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Building on our successful workshop at CHI'23, "Towards an Inclusive and Accessible Metaverse", this workshop intends to work towards a broad understanding of how the Metaverse can be designed in order to achieve this, along with understanding how the success of this can be evaluated. To achieve this, our workshop focuses on three core themes:
1.     Conceptualisation and prototyping
2.     Methods and metrics for evaluating inclusivity and accessibility
3.     Future considerations for the Metaverse

We welcome submissions from interested researchers and practitioners for position papers (maximum 6 pages in single-column CEUR-WS Format<https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART>, excluding references) which address at least one of the key theme(s) of the workshop and present original material. The paper should also include a statement on the potential goals of the research and the problem(s) it aims to address. Submissions will be made via EasyChair. For more information visit our website<https://sites.google.com/view/accessiblemetaverse>.

Papers will be peer-reviewed by an international program committee and selected based on relevance to the workshop themes and quality of the work. At least one author of each accepted position paper must attend the workshop, and all participants must register for both the workshop and for at least one day of the conference.

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WORKSHOP ORGANISERS
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Callum Parker, The University of Sydney
Soojeong Yoo, University College London (UCL)
Joel Fredericks, The University of Sydney
Minh Thi Minh Tran, The University of Sydney
Julie R. Williamson, University of Glasgow
Youngho Lee, Mokpo National University
Woontack Woo, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

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CONTACT
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Web:  https://sites.google.com/view/accessiblemetaverse
Email: callum.parker at sydney.edu.au<mailto:callum.parker at sydney.edu.au>


Dr Callum Parker | Lecturer in Interaction Design |
Director of the Urban Interfaces Lab

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