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CfP: Assembled 2020

A Quick Turnaround Call for Papers – Assembled 2020 issue

Published: July 26, 2020

 
This is a good opportunity for authors seeking a quick turnaround of papers with September 2020 decisions and October 2020 publication.

 

Issue Editors: TBD

 

 

Motivation and Scope

The 2020 Assembled issue is part of the special JVWR Assembled series – a place for various papers on the topic of the journal, collected during the year, and typically published annually.

Submission Instructions

Authors are invited to submit original scholarly papers of 3000-5000 words including footnotes, references, and appendices. Interested authors should submit a full paper by the deadline indicated below. All submissions should be made via the JVWR publishing system – see https://jvwr.net/for-authors/ for instructions. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published online in Volume 13, Number 3 (2020) of the Journal.

Deadlines and Timetable

August 27, 2020: Authors submit full paper
September 24, 2020: Editors final decision
October 9, 2020: Authors submit final revision
October 23, 2020: Camera-ready
October 30, 2020: Publication

Possible Topics Include:

  • 3D fun
  • Mini robots
  • Social networks that change our mind
  • Artificial limbs
  • New forms of hardware
  • Augmented and mixed environments
  • Wearable
  • User-generated content
  • 3D printing
  • Visual data streaming
  • Immersive technologies
  • Shopping from home
  • Projections of the real
  • Wireless people
  • Portable friends
  • The Internet of Things
  • Virtual currencies
  • E-readers
  • … and more

See past Assembled issues
Assembled 2019
Assembled 2018
…and more

Further Information

The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (https://jvwr.net) is an online, open-access academic journal that engages a wide spectrum of scholarship and welcomes contributions from the various disciplines and approaches that intersect with virtual worlds research. Virtual worlds ignite a continuously evolving area of study that spans multiple disciplines and the JVWR editorial team looks forward to engaging a wide range of creative and scholarly research.

Anything else? Please contact: [email protected]

Even as we continue to adjust to the “new normals,” we nevertheless wish you all a quick return to healthy normality.


Prof. Yesha Y. Sivan
Editor-in-Chief
 
The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research
www.jvwr.net

Call For Editors

Issue editors role includes managing the review process, supervise the final publications, and distribute the news about the release – all using our internal state of the art publishing process

If you have an interest and background in a specific Virtual World sub-field, as well as experience in academic editing, please reply not later than the end of August 2020, to [email protected] with an academic CV and a cover letter listing your target subject, and publishing and editing experience.

If you have colleagues who may be interested in becoming editors or co-editors, please feel free to forward this call further.

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