Created intentionally or spontaneously, cyberworlds are information spaces and communities that immensely augment the way we interact, participate in business and receive information throughout the world. Cyberworlds seriously impact our lives and the evolution of the world conomy by taking such forms as social networking services, 3D shared virtual communities and assively multiplayer online role-playing games. The international conferences on Cyberworlds have being organized annually since 2002 with the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society and special issues published in The Visual Computer and other research journals.

The 2012th International Conference on Cyberworlds will address a wide range of research and development topics, but not limited to the following topics:

Shared virtual worlds
Virtual collaborative spaces
Shape modeling for cyberworlds
Virtual humans and avatars
Intelligent talking agents
Networked collaboration
Haptic interaction and rendering
Computer vision, augmented, mixed and virtual reality
Human-computer interfaces
Cognitive informatics
Brain-computer interfaces
EEG-based emotion recognition
E-learning in virtual collaborative spaces
Multi-user web games
Art and heritage in cyberspace, cyber-museums
Cyberworlds and their impact on the real worlds
Cyberethics and cyberlaws
Cybersecurity
Data mining and warehousing in cyberworlds
Social networking

Publication

The conference proceedings are planned to be published by the IEEE, placed in the IEEE Xplore and Computer Society digital libraries, and submitted for indexing through INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services.

Special issues of the following international journals will be formed from the full papers:

The Visual Computer
International Journal of Art, Culture and Design Technologies

To be included in the conference proceedings and special journal issues, at least one author of the accepted paper must register and present the paper at the conference.

Important Dates

Paper submission 2 April 2012
Authors notification 4 May 2012
Authors registration 1 Jun 2012
Camera-ready paper 9 Jun 2012