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Revisit: SLACTIONS 2010

Introduction

SLACTIONS: Life, Imagination and Work Using Metaverse Platforms 2010, MBS SL Island, 18-19 Nov 2010; Deadline now 15 Aug

* Conference background and goals
SLACTIONS 2010 provides an international forum for presentation and discussion of research on most areas currently enabled by metaverse platforms. We welcome papers from the full spectrum of intellectual disciplines and technological endeavours: from Education to Business, Sociology to Psychology, Media Production to Technology Development, Architecture to Urban Planning, the Arts to Librarianship and Information Science.

* Format of the Conference 

SLACTIONS is an international conference with a unique format held simultaneously in a virtual world (Second Life) and at physical locations in countries around the world on the topic of metaverse platforms. SLACTIONS will thus contribute to the current redefinition of the way we think about hybrid online and on-site scholarly collaborations.All paper presentations and plenary sessions by guest speakers will be held on-line in the Second Life virtual world, but also projected locally for participants that attend the physical Local Chapters. Participants can also follow the proceedings broadcast on Wimba classroom and have the opportunity to ask questions through this platform as well as through SL.

Pre-Conference and Post-conference electronic forums will be held so that session paper abstracts (or full papers) can be read before the conference, and authors can interact during one week before and after the conference. Podcasts, slideshows and links to research websites are also welcome and encouraged.
Contributors of full and short papers are also encouraged to show a poster outlining their paper and time of presentation before and during the conference on the MBS island.
 
If you are interested in organising a local chapter at your institution, please contact us as soon as possible: kathy.keeling@manchester.ac.uk

* Types of submissions
A full paper of up to 8 pages for oral presentation

–          A "work in progress" paper or other short paper of 4 pages for oral presentation
–          Posters (one page or 2-3 page interactive)
–          Proposals for demonstrations (500 words) on all topics concerning virtual worlds.
–          Proposals for workshops (500 words) at Local Chapters or inworld prior to or during the conference are also invited
–          A Flickr image or YouTube video, indexed with the tag “slactions 10” for poster presentations ‘in-world’ or presentation in SL using a creative format
All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.