Special Track on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access and Social Justice (IDEAS) in XR environments

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Overview
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The Special Track on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access and Social justice (IDEAS) at the iLRN 2020 Conference will focus on XR environments’ use, implementation and design with historically disadvantaged, systemically oppressed and underrepresented populations. These groups include women, people with disabilities, racial and ethnic minorities, culturally and linguistically diverse groups, older adults, LGBTQ+, or people from low-middle income countries or low-resource/rural areas.

This Special Track will prioritize proposals which emphasize social justice, as well as the equitable participation and inclusion of disempowered, vulnerable and low- resource populations in all phases of research, development, use, and evaluation of immersive technologies.

This special track will consider the following types of proposals: a) empirical and emergent research; b) Immersive software and hardware design; and c) technical, pedagogical, and theoretical frameworks and workflow processes.

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List of Topics
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The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Equitable participation and inclusion of different groups into research, creation, design, implementation, and evaluation of immersive environments
Requirements and skills for instructional design in immersive learning environments
Future vision on technology applications to support representation of these groups
Barriers to accessibility of immersive equipment and software for different populations
Research on design decisions of immersive technologies and their impact on outcomes
Critical and other research methodologies in immersive learning research
Adoption and diffusion of immersive technologies by members of different populations
Ethical instructor and researcher decisions with immersive technologies and environments
Advance the use of immersive technologies to reduce barriers or increase equity.

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PUBLICATION & INDEXING
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Accepted and registered papers presented at iLRN 2020 will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to the IEEE Xplore® digital library. IEEE makes Xplore content available to its abstracting & indexing partners, including Elsevier (Scopus, Ei Compendex) and Clarivate Analytics (CPCI - part of Web of Science).

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Author Info
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Submitted papers must follow the same guidelines as the main conference submissions. Please visit https://immersivelrn.org/ilrn2020/call-for-papers-proposals/ for guidelines and templates.

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Available formats for this special track:
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Full paper (6-8 pages) for oral presentation
Short paper (4-6 pages) for oral presentation

For submitting a paper to this special track, please use the submission system https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ilrn2020 , log in with an account or register, and select the track “ST3: Special Track on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access and Social Justice (IDEAS) in XR environments” to add your submission.

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Special Track Chairs
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Erica L. Troncoso, MA; Technical Advisor, Innovations and Technology Solutions, Jhpiego
Dennis E. Beck, PhD. Associate Professor of Educational Technology, University of Arkansas
Noah Glaser, PhD Candidate, University of Cincinnati
Don McMahon, PhD; Assistant Professor Special Education Technology,
Washington State University

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Program Committee
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Erica L. Troncoso, MA; Technical Advisor, Innovations and Technology Solutions, Jhpiego
Dennis E. Beck, PhD; Associate Professor of Educational Technology, University of Arkansas
Noah Glaser, PhD Candidate; University of Cincinnati
Don McMahon, PhD; Assistant Professor Special Education Technology, Washington State University

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Contact
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For more information, please contact :

Erica L. Troncoso, erica.troncoso@jhpiego.org
Dennis E. Beck, debeck@uark.edu
Noah Glaser, glasernh@ucmail.uc.edu
Don McMahon, don.mcmahon@wsu.edu