[ACT-R-users] ViWo 2009-IMCL2009 Call for Papers

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	** Apologies for Cross Postings ** 

CALL FOR PAPERS
1st Special Track on
Virtual Worlds for Academic, Organizational, and Life-Long Learning
(ViWo 2009)
http://www.iicm.edu/ViWo2009

In conjunction with the 4th  International Conference on
Interactive Mobile and Computer Aided Learning, (IMCL2009)
Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Amman, Jordan,  
April 23, 2009
www.imcl-conference.org 

Online Information: http://www.iicm.tugraz.at/viwo2009  
This CfP is also available as PDF: http://www.iicm.tugraz.at/ViWo2009/ViWo2009-CfP.pdf 
This special track will take place during IMCL 2009 in Amman, Jordan (22-24 April 2009) as a special programme item. 
The Special Track ViWo 2009 provides an interdisciplinary forum for international scientists and practitioners to discuss various aspects of learning and training in virtual worlds.
The 4th International Conference on Interactive Mobile and Computer Aided Learning, IMCL2009, which will be hosted by Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Amman, Jordan. The conference is part of an international initiative to promote technology-enhanced learning and online engineering world-wide organized under the umbrella of the International Association of Online Engineering.

Background 
Our society of the 21st century makes great demands on its members caused by rapid developing and ever-changing political, social, economical and technological situations. Consequently, it is expected that members of the society keep pace with these mutable situations, adapt their skills and expertise. As a result, modern instructional design, learning goals and processes as well as appropriate learning environments must support the development of the aforementioned skills and expertises. Consequently, educational approaches have changed dramatically over time from less formal schooling in the agrarian society to remedial repetitive learning in the industrialization age to learning with an understanding in today’s knowledge society. Based on that, different modern educational strategies have been developed which includes aspects such as self-directed learning, collaborative learning, experiential-based learning and actively participating. Educational approaches have also been influenced by technology but have also increasingly applied technology over the last decades, such as motion pictures, radio, television, computers and other emerging information and communication technologies (ICT).
Last year’s hype surrounding the virtual world “Second Life” has also generated significant interest in the education community. Although virtual worlds have been an active research topic for a long time, technology was not ready for complex application scenarios since recent years. New interesting and powerful platforms and tools, such as Second Life, Active Worlds, Multiverse, Open Croquet, OpenSim and Sun’s 3D Wonderland, have been emerged applicable to complement or even replace other knowledge transfer and learning settings. Modern virtual worlds are seen from an optimistic viewpoint as a disruptive and transformative technology. However, it still remains unclear to some extent where the real benefits and limitations of using virtual worlds as knowledge transfer and learning environments are when compared to more traditional methods. In order to avoid the same pitfalls of past e-learning solutions by just applying traditional learning approaches to a new technology, this special track is indented to offer a multidisciplinary platform which brings together international researchers from different organizations in order to share their experience with this technology.
The special track will bring together international researchers as well as practitioners from different organisations who will have plenty of time for networking and real-world knowledge sharing. 
We invite submissions of papers in the categories research, development, evaluation and best practices that deal with virtual worlds for academic, organizational, and life-long learning issues including, but not limited to:
Technological approaches, their limitations and how to overcome them 
Virtual worlds and mobile learning 
Virtual learning space design and architecture 
Modern learning settings 
Didactic and cognitive aspects 
New learning and teaching activities 
Interaction and behavior patterns 
Distance and blended learning 
Organizational learning, vocational training and certification 
Academic learning, assessment and feedback 
Collaborative and social learning 
Mixed Virtual world and classroom learning 
Knowledge Transfer and Collaboration 
Artificial Intelligence Approaches 
Usability and Human-Computer-Interaction

Important Dates
15 November 2008: Submission of the full papers (6 pages) 
15 December 2008: Notification of acceptance 
15 January 2009: Author Registration Deadline 
15 February 2009: Camera ready version (6 pages) 
22 - 24 April 2009: IMCL 2008 Conference 

Submission Procedure 
File Types: DOC, RTF or PDF-file
Language: English (British or US)
Style Guides & Template: http://209.61.205.141/form/IMCL2009%20Template.doc 
Paper Submission System: Please use the Electronic Submission Page http://www.conftool.net/imcl-conference  
In case of problems or questions concerning the submission of papers, please contact the track chairs at ViWo2009 at iicm.edu. 

Notification of Acceptance and Publishing 
Accepted papers will be published within the proceedings CD of the IMCL2009 conference. At least one author has to register until January 15th 2009 after the notification of acceptance to be included into the conference program. Authors fee is applicable only once per paper! 
Some authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their paper for publication in a special issue in J.UCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science, http://www.jucs.org/. 

CAF 2008 Chair 
Christian Gütl, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Frank Kappe, Graz University of Technology, Austria 

CAF 2008 Organization Team 
Alexander Nussbaumer, University of Graz, Austria 
Mohammad Smadi, Graz University of Technology, Austria 

CAF 2008 Program Committee (preliminary, to be extended)
Dietrich Albert, University of Graz, Austria 
Vanessa Chang, Curtin University of Technology, Australia 
Baltasar Fern?ndez-Manj?n, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain 
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany 
Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer, University Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia 
Guido Lang, City University of New York, USA 
Stephanie Linek, Universit?t Graz, Austria 
Michelle Lucey-Roper, Federatoin of American Scientists, USA 
Maggie A. McPherson, University of Leeds, UK 
Stephe Quinton, Curtin University of Technology, Australia 
Lalita Rajasingham , Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand 
Torsten Reiners, University of Hamburg, Germany 
Diane Salter, University of Hong Kong, China 
Bernd Schmitz, Rheinische Fachhochschule K?ln, Germany 
Marc Spaniol, Max-Planck-Institut, Germany 

Further Information:
Information about IMCL 2008: http://www.imcl-conference.org  
Travel Information: http://209.61.205.141/travel_info.shtm  
Tourist Information: http://www.visitjordan.com  

Dr. Christian Guetl
Assistant Professor and Key Researcher
Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media
Graz University of Technology, AUSTRIA
phone: +43 316 873 5639
fax  : +43 316 873 5699
personal website: http://www.iicm.tugraz.at/guetl