-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CfP:HICSS-56 minitrack: Opportunities and challenges in the Metaverse Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 09:52:26 +0800 From: Xusen Cheng xusen.cheng@gmail.com To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

Dear Colleagues,

HICSS-56 Call for papers for the mini-track on: " *Opportunities and challenges in the Metaverse* " Part of the Collaboration Systems and Technologies Track in Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS)

Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa

January 3-6, 2023

The Metaverse refers to an interactive, immersive, and collaborative virtual world environment that is shared among the online crowds. With the development of advanced technologies, the Metaverse offers an infusion of physical, virtual, and augmented reality to afford socialization, play, and work. Aspiring to replicate the real world, Metaverse is characterized by a three-dimensional (3D) virtual world that allows social connection through avatars.

With embodied avatars, individuals in the metaverse can self-present themselves to engage in distributed collaboration, voice their self-recognitions, and socialize in different scenarios. Online interactions in the Metaverses are featured by dynamic participation from mass crowds with diverse avatars. Individuals in the Metaverse can design fancy creations combining reality and imagination. Due to the above new features, Metaverse has brought about several opportunities as well as challenges.

This mini-track invites contributions from a variety of conceptual and theoretical perspectives. We particularly welcome behavioral studies that address the opportunities and challenges Metaverse presents, explore the new interaction and collaboration modes in the Metaverse, provide multidisciplinary perspectives, and/or adopt mixed-methods research approaches.

The mini-track will focus on a wide range of topics including but not limited to:

• Team management in distributed virtual world collaboration

• Engagement influencing factors in the Metaverse

• Artifact design for an immersive virtual world

• User behaviors in the virtual world

• Business model innovation in the Metaverse

• Online interaction patterns in the Metaverse

• Digital marketing strategies in the Metaverse

• Trust and distrust in the Metaverse

• Value co-creation and co-destruction in the Metaverse

• Negative impacts of the Metaverse on individuals, organizations, and society

• User misbehavior in the Metaverse

• Addiction and overuse/misuse of the Metaverse

• Information security, privacy and ethical issues in the Metaverse

*Best papers will be invited to submit for a special issue on "**Opportunities and challenges in the Metaverse**" to be published with Internet Research.*

*Mini-track Co-Chairs*

Xusen Cheng (Primary Contact)

School of Information

Renmin University of China

Email: xusen.cheng@ruc.edu.cn

Jian Mou

School of Business, Pusan National University,

Email: jian.mou@pusan.ac.kr

Xiao-Liang Shen

School of Information Management, Wuhan University

Email: xlshen@whu.edu.cn

Triparna de Vreede

Muma College of Business, University of South Florida

Email: tdevreede@usf.edu

Instructions to Authors:

The purpose of HICSS is to provide a forum for the interchange of ideas, research results, development activities, and applications among researchers 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 mini-track. 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 email address(es).

4. The first page of the paper should include the title and a (max) 150-word abstract.

DEADLINES:

· May 15: OPTIONAL: Abstracts submitted to Mini-track Chairs for guidance, indication of appropriate content and to receive instructions on submitting full paper.

· June 15: Full papers uploaded to the mini-track through the submission system at hicss.hawaii.edu.

· August 17: Notification of accepted papers mailed to authors.

· September 4: Deadline for A-M Authors to Submit Revised Manuscript for Review.

· September 22: Deadline for Authors to Submit Final Manuscript for Publication

· October 1: Deadline for at least one author of the accepted manuscript to register for HICSS-54

For more information, please see www.hicss.org

Kind Regards

Xusen Cheng, Ph.D Professor of Information Systems School of Information, Renmin University of China Beijing, China, 100872 Email: xusen.cheng@gmail.com

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