[Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward it to interested candidates.]

Due to many requests from authors, the Abstract & Paper submission deadline has been extended.

New deadline is 8 June 2014 (strict final deadline).
---------------------------------------------------

I would like invite you to participate sending your papers to
the ARTS,DESIGN & VIRTUAL WORLDS SANTANDER 2014
http://artsvirtualworlds.artsmachine.org

at CYBERWORLDS 2014 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
http://www.cw2014.unican.es/home

6-8 OCTOBER 2014, SANTANDER, SPAIN
University of Cantabria, Spain

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 8 JUNE,2014 (strict final deadline)

Submit your paper to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cw2014

More information from http://www.cw2014.unican.es/submission or
http://artsvirtualworlds.artsmachine.org/

Info: [log in to unmask] (AD&VW 2014 Chair)

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Submission include full paper (up to 8 pages), short paper (up to 4 pages) and poster (1 page, abstract).
The papers must be written in English, carefully proofread, and formatted to Conference Publishing Services Manuscript Formatting Guidelines
from http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting

Please use the following template for preparing your papers from:
http://www.artsmachine.org/web/docs/IEEECS_CPS.zip or
http://www.artsmachine.org/web/docs/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX.zip

By submitting a paper the authors confirm that their papers represent
original previously unpublished work, and if accepted, the author will
register for the conference and present the papers.

INTRODUCTION
Virtual Worlds are information spaces and communities that immensely augment the way we interact,
participate and receive information throughout the world.
Virtual Worlds seriously impact our lives and the evolution of the world economy by taking such forms
as social networking services, 3D shared virtual communities, and assively multiplayer online role-playing games.

OBJECTIVE
The goal of the Arts,Design and Virtual Worlds is to analyze and trace the advancements of new Art and Design theories and practices in Virtual Worlds.
Arts,Design and Virtual Worlds is a special session at the 2014 International Conference on Cyberworlds
http://artsvirtualworlds.artsmachine.org/

PUBLICATIONS
- Arts,Design & Virtual worlds papers will be published within the CYBERWORLDS 2014 Conference proceedings
by IEEE Computer Society (through CPS) and submitted to the IEEE Xplore and Computer Society digital library,
and for indexing through INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI,and other indexing services.

- Arts,Design & Virtual Worlds Selected Papers will be asked to write an article for a Special Issue
of the IJACDT International Journal of Art,Culture and Design Technologies

The ARTS,DESIGN & VIRTUAL WORLDS CYBERWORLDS 2014 Special Session
will address a wide range of research and development topics,but not limited to the following topics:
    Aesthetics and semantics
    Art and heritage in cyberspace, cyber-museums
    Artworks, performances, and installations
    Brain-computer interfaces
    Cognitive informatics
    Computer vision, augmented, mixed and virtual reality
    Creative and innovative media arts concepts and projects
    Cultural heritage within the Web
    Cyberethics and cyberlaws
    Cybernetics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive-based concepts and practices
    Cybersecurity
    Cyberworlds and their impact on the real worlds
    Data mining and warehousing in cyberworlds
    Digital art, digital culture, net art, and digital design
    E-learning in virtual collaborative spaces
    Edutainment
    EEG-based emotion recognition
    Haptic interaction and rendering
    Human-computer interaction studies and applications
    Human-computer interfaces
    Human issues/impacts
    Information visualization in art and design issues
    Imaginary and creative concepts and applications
    Innovative Web, Web3D, and multimedia studies and applications
    Intelligent talking agents
    Multi-user web games
    Networked collaboration
    Psychology and cognition studies
    Shape modeling for cyberworlds
    Shared virtual worlds
    Social and ethical issues
    Social networking
    Technologies for teaching art and design
    Virtual architecture and heritage
    Virtual, augmented, and mixed realities in art and design
    Virtual collaborative spaces
    Virtual humans and avatars
    Visual languages
    Virtual metaplasticity, metaplastic virtual worlds

Looking forward to seeing you in Santander!
Best Regards,

Prof.Dr.Gianluca Mura
Arts&Design Virtual Worlds Chair
http://artsvirtualworlds.artsmachine.org