Update: Book published in 2016.

Update: The book will be published in 2016.

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Call for book chapters

Handbook on 3D3C Virtual Worlds:
Applications, Technologies and Policies
for Three Dimensional Systems for Community, Creation and Commerce

Editor: Prof. Yesha Sivan, JVWR Managing editor; Metaverse Labs Ltd.

Publisher: Springer-Verlag, Germany

Introduction:

The field of virtual worlds / Augmented Reality / 3D / etc. is vast, interconnected and expanding. In that respect “3D3C Worlds” is defined as a combination of four factors:

• 3D stands for the three dimensional representation of worlds as seen in Google Earth, Augmented Reality, 3D printing and the like;
• Community as in a collection of people work, play and act together. Consider Facebook and Twitter as one example, and enhance it by the dynamics of World of Warcraft guilds;
• Creation is the ability to create new artifacts, as seen for example in Second Life or in Open Source movement;
  Commerce is the ability to harness these previous factors to gain monetary real value (consider Bitcoin, exchanges, etc.)

Objective of the Book:

• Become the official “handbook” on 3D3C Virtual Worlds
• Highlight and enhance some earlier work conducted for the Journal
• Further advance and augment the field with “topical reviews”

A “topical review” means a review of a corpus of knowledge of one aspect of the field. It can be a classic literature review, a more formal statistical meta-analysis or other forms suggested by authors.

Topics we already have chapters on:

• Collaboration >> Virtual Worlds as Innovative Collaboration Media for Distributed Work
• Taxation >> Taxation of Virtual World Economies: An Empirical Review
• Medical >> Overview: Virtual Reality in Medicine
• Education >> An Exploratory Research Agenda for 3-D Virtual Worlds as Collaborative Learning Ecosystems: Extracting Evidences from Literature
• Art >> 1993-2013: A Survey of Two Decades of Artistic Works using Computational Ecosystems
• Geography >> An Aspatial Economics? The Economic Geography
• of Virtual WorldsCreativity >> Fostering Team Creativity in Virtual Worlds
• Money >> Virtual Currencies, Micropayments and Fiat Money: Where Are We Coming From and Where Does the Industry Stand?
• Legal >> Privacy, Law, and Virtual Worlds
• Multilinguality >> Multilingual issues in virtual worlds: a general review
• Money >> Blazing Trails: A New Way Forward for Virtual Currencies and Money Laundering
• Collaboration >> Virtual Collaboration Spaces: Bringing Presence to Distributed Collaboration

Topics of interest that we are looking for include, but are not limited to:

• Case studies
• Augmented Reality
• 3D Printing
• Commerce / business
• History
• Security
• Design
• Military
• Users
• Standards
• Social behaviors
• Gender
• Cases of projects, constellations, and “islands” — Could be visual depiction (as the book will be in color)
• Cases of firms, and business endeavors
• Impact on special audiences for virtual worlds
• Technical review of research trends in the field (metrics)
• Measurements and evolution of usage in virtual worlds.
• Defense Related Virtual worlds
• Devices for virtual life
• Mobility

How to submit:

The final chapter length should be 15-25 pages in the Springer format. Initially please email your 2-3 page chapter proposals including:

• Chapter title
• uthor names, current affiliation, and email addresses
• Short author/s bio
• Chapter intent / purpose / abstract
• Chapter structure outline
• List some key publication(s) on which your chapter will be based

Editorial process: All accepted chapters will undergo a rigorous peer-review process.
Email submissions to [email protected].

Dates:

Authors are encouraged to send proposals as early as possible to get a quick response.

March 28, 2014: Book chapter proposal submission deadline.
April 30, 2014: Notification of chapter proposal acceptance.
July 30, 2014: Full chapter submission.
September 15, 2014: Peer-review results returned.
October 15, 2014: Camera-ready chapter submission.
Q1 2016: Planned publication.