Call for contributions - Technical papers
We invite researchers, professionals, and innovators specializing in VR, AR, MR, and AI to submit their original work to our program. Submissions should focus on integrating, applying, and advancing XR/VR with AI technologies and vice versa, demonstrating novel ideas, addressing current challenges, or exploring future directions for these dynamic fields.
The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Submissions will undergo a thorough peer review by members of the international program committee. New in this edition: Contributions of distinguished quality will be selected for best paper awards and to be extended for a special section in the Computers & Graphics journal (Elsevier) and International Journal of Semantic Computing.
Important Dates:
Given several requests and to avoid conflicts with other conferences’ deadlines, we decided to extend the deadline for technical papers by two weeks until September 24, 2024, AoE. This is the final deadline. No further extensions will be applied.
Deadline for the second call (short papers, posters/work in progress, demo tracks): TBD (mid-October).
AREAS OF INTEREST
We encourage submissions across a broad spectrum of topics, including but not limited to:
Integration of AI in XR: Assessing the current state and future potential of AI technologies within XR to create more immersive, interactive, and responsive environments.
Innovation at the Intersection of AI and XR: Opportunities for AI to enhance XR experiences, including photorealistic avatars, dynamic environments, and anticipatory user interactions.
XR for AI: Using XR to train and simulate AI, offering controlled yet realistic environments for AI learning and evolution: visualizing and interacting with complex AI models, enhancing understanding, and facilitating innovative training environments.
Technical and Human Challenges: Addressing the obstacles and human factors critical to the advancement of AI in XR, including system performance, user engagement, and intuitive interfaces.
Ethical Considerations in AI-driven XR: Exploring the implications of AI advancements in XR on privacy, agency, digital identity, and broader societal impacts.
Industry Relevance: Highlighting technologies, methodologies, applications, prototypes or experiences of clear industry relevance.
Concrete areas of interest for the technical program include but are not limited to:
Systems, including techniques, performance, and implementation: System components, virtual reality platforms, AI platforms for VR/AR, cloud-based platforms, Data generation, manipulation, analysis, and validation, Tracking, physical environment mapping, registration, Vision for VR/AR, deep learning for VR/AR, Standards and theoretical models for AI and/or VR
Content creation and modeling: Generation of immersive environments and virtual worlds, Environments for gaming, simulation, training, Visualisation, optimized and realistic rendering, Geometric modeling and design in immersive settings, Animations, crowd-simulation, character modeling, Customisation and personalization (e.g., for training)
Cognitive aspects, perception, user behavior: Semantic and cognitive aspects of virtual reality, Depth perception, multimodal perception, Behaviour and activity generation, Representations of self (avatars), embodiment, presence, Virtual agents, conversational non-player characters (NPCs), Understanding and modeling human behavior, emotions
AI technologies for VR/AR: Search, planning, reasoning, Knowledge representation, Natural language processing, Robotics and perception, Multi-agent systems, Statistical learning, Deep learning
XR for AI: Visualizing Complex AI models in XR; training AI Models through XR simulations of synthetic data; enhancing human-AI synergy with XR; XR as a testbed for AI Ethics and behavior; AI-driven content creation in XR; XR for AI-driven Robotics and Autonomous systems.
Interactions / interactive and responsive environments: Multimodal interaction and experiences in VR/AR, Machine learning for multimodal interaction, generative AI and LLMs in virtual environments, Human-virtual user/agent interaction, Human to human communication in virtual environments, collaboration and communication, Dialogue modeling and generation, conversational and natural language interfaces, speech interaction for AR/VR, Navigation and spatial orientation in VR, Interaction devices, Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI)
Applications and use cases: Data and knowledge representation, problem-solving, Visualization concepts (including, e.g., spatial visualization, multimodality for visualization) and domains (e.g., scientific visualization), Arts, leisure, and entertainment, Gaming and game narratives, immersive storytelling and gameplay, Education, training, simulation, Business, prototyping, productivity, design and architecture, evaluation, Telepresence and collaboration, social interactions, Healthcare and therapy, Evaluation metrics and methodologies, Quality of Experience (QoE)
Ethical and societal aspects of AI and VR/AR: Sensory vulnerability, Privacy and data, Social isolation, desensitization, Overestimation of abilities, psychiatric, Unpalatable fantasies, torture/virtual criminality, Manipulation, appropriate roaming, and re-creation
Industry-focused contributions: Technologies, methodologies, applications, prototypes, and experiences of clear industry relevance
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS (Technical papers)
This track constitutes the conference's core and presents new and innovative research in AI and VR/AR. The maximum number of pages allowed is 8 plus references, but shorter submissions are welcome, and the length should match the contribution.
Authors should submit their manuscripts in double-column IEEE format following the official IEEE Manuscript Formatting guidelines and considering the page limits of the related track as indicated below. All papers should be double-blind. Submissions will undergo a thorough peer review by at least three (long papers) or two (short papers) international program committee members regarding their scientific value and contribution. For accepted contributions, one author must register at the full conference rate and present the work at the conference. Also, consider the IEEE policies for publications (i.e., you must own copyright to all parts, and the manuscript must be original work and not currently under review elsewhere).
Submissions will be thoroughly reviewed by at least three members of the international program committee regarding their scientific value and contribution.