[Infovis] Conferences: IEEE VR 2022 - 2nd Call for Journal Papers - Abstracts Due Sept 1!

[IEEE VR Publicity]

IEEE VR is the premier conference for all things related to virtual reality
user interfaces.
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Call for Journal PapersImportant Dates

   - *September 1, 2021*: Abstracts due *(REQUIRED)*
   - *September 6, 2021*: Submissions due
   - *October 29, 2021*: Notification of first review cycle results
   - *December 3, 2021*: Revised paper submissions due to second review
   cycle
   - *January 7, 2022*: Final notifications
   - *January 22, 2022*: Camera-ready material due from authors of accepted
   papers

Links

   - Both abstracts and complete papers must be submitted electronically
   through PCS: https://new.precisionconference.com/~vr
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   - All VR Journal Papers submissions must be formatted using the IEEE
   Computer Society TVCG journal format described at
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Overview

IEEE VR 2022 seeks original, high-quality papers in all areas related to
virtual reality (VR), including augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR),
and 3D user interfaces (3DUIs).

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Submission Guidelines

Paper abstracts and complete papers must be submitted electronically
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Each research paper should provide a validated contribution covering one or
more of the following categories: methodological, technology, applications,
and systems.


   - *Methodological papers* should describe advances in theories and
   methods of AR/VR/MR and 3DUI, such as ethical issues, theories on presence,
   or human factors.
   - *Technology papers* should describe advancements in algorithms or
   devices critical to AR/VR/MR and 3DUI development such as input, display,
   user interaction, or tracking.
   - *Application papers* provide an important insight to the community by
   explaining how the authors built upon existing ideas and applied them to
   solve an interesting problem in a novel way. Each paper should include an
   evaluation of the success of the use of AR/VR/MR and/or 3DUI in the given
   application domain.
   - *System papers* should indicate how the developers integrated
   techniques and technologies to produce an effective system, and convey any
   lessons learned in the process.

Each paper should include an evaluation of its contributions such as user
studies, benchmarking, and/or comparisons with existing
systems/techniques/methods. We appreciate that due to the COVID-19
situation, in-person user studies may not be possible to perform in the
necessary timescale for submission. We encourage authors to think about
other ways to validate their contribution, such as qualitative studies with
fewer users, expert reviews, online studies, etc. We encourage potential
authors to engage the ongoing community discussions around these topics as
they are common to many of us.

*Further Details Regarding Submissions.* We welcome paper submissions not
exceeding 9 pages, excluding references. References may not exceed two
additional pages. Continuing our cooperation with the IEEE Transactions on
Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), all accepted paper submissions
will automatically be published in a special issue of IEEE TVCG. To meet
TVCG standards, papers recommended for inclusion to TVCG will undergo a
two-stage review process (see SUBMISSION DEADLINES below). Authors of
papers that are determined to be acceptable to the journal subject to minor
revisions during the first review cycle will be invited to submit a revised
version for a second review cycle. Only papers that are accepted in this
second cycle will appear in the journal issue. Papers that fail to pass the
second round of reviews may proceed through further revisions to appear in
a future regular issue of TVCG.

*Review Duties for Authors.* The increasing number of submissions for IEEE
VR makes us all dependent on a large number of good reviewers who are
willing to provide expert feedback and engage with authors on their work.
To expand the reviewing pool and promote quality reviews, one author will
be required to register to review up to three papers through PCS at the
time of submission. Additionally, senior authors are encouraged to ask
experienced junior authors to register in PCS to review papers, and then to
mentor the junior author during the review process.

*Ethics and Responsibility.* All submissions describing research
experiments with human participants must follow the appropriate ethical
guidelines required by your institution, and authors are required to secure
and report their approval by the relevant ethics committee. An approval by
any ethical review board, if required by your affiliation, needs to be
indicated via the submission system.

*Conference Presentation.* All accepted papers must be orally presented at
the conference. We are actively monitoring the COVID-19 situation to
determine if the in-person IEEE VR experience will be safe as well as
feasible due to international travel rules. We expect that travel
restrictions will enable all authors to join us at the conference. In the
case that the sanitary situation does not allow it, we will support authors
to present their work remotely. There is also the possibility for authors
of relevant previously published TVCG papers (accepted within the last
year) to present their work at IEEE VR 2022. Interested authors should
contact the program chairs for more details.

*Abstract Submission.* Note that a paper abstract must be uploaded a week
prior to the actual paper submission deadline. This facilitates the process
of assigning reviewers, as the review process operates on a very tight
schedule.
Topics

IEEE VR 2022 seeks contributions in VR/AR/MR and 3DUI including, but not
limited to, the following topics:

   - 3D and volumetric display and projection technology
   - 3D authoring
   - 3D user interaction
   - 3DUI metaphors
   - Accessibility of immersive interfaces
   - Audio interfaces and rendering
   - Collaborative interactions
   - Computer graphics techniques
   - Crowd simulation
   - Diversity and gender issues
   - Embodied agents, virtual humans and (self-)avatars
   - Ethical issues
   - Evaluation methods
   - Haptic interfaces and rendering
   - Human factors and ergonomics
   - Immersive / 360° video
   - Immersive analytics and visualization
   - Immersive games
   - Input devices
   - Locomotion and navigation
   - Mediated and diminished reality
   - Mobile, desktop or hybrid 3DUIs
   - Modeling and simulation
   - Multi-user and distributed systems
   - Multimodal capturing and reconstruction
   - Multimodal/cross-modal interaction and perception
   - Multisensory interfaces and rendering
   - Perception and cognition
   - Presence, body ownership, and agency
   - Scene description and management issues
   - Software architectures, toolkits, and engineering
   - Teleoperation and telepresence
   - Therapy and rehabilitation
   - Touch, tangible and gesture interfaces
   - Tracking and sensing
   - User experience and usability

Additional Submission Guidelines

All paper submissions must be in English.

Paper submissions must not have been previously published. A manuscript is
considered to have been previously published if it has appeared in a
peer-reviewed journal, magazine, book, or meeting proceedings that is
reliably and permanently available afterward in print or electronic form to
non-attendees, regardless of the language of that publication. A paper
identical or substantially similar in content (in its entirety or in part)
to one submitted to VR should not be simultaneously under consideration for
another conference or journal during any part of the VR review process,
from the submission deadline until notifications of decisions are emailed
to authors.

In some situations, a submission may build upon prior work. In order to
fully explain the relationship between the submitted paper and prior work,
authors may upload additional papers as well as a non-anonymous letter of
explanation that highlights the significant changes or advances; these
materials will only be seen by the primary reviewer.

Submissions will be checked for plagiarism using IEEE Crosscheck. Detection
of significant plagiarism will lead to rejection. For more information
about definitions of plagiarism and IEEE policies in this area, please see
the Introduction to the Guidelines for Handling Plagiarism Complaints
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*IEEE VR uses a DOUBLE-BLIND review process.* This means that both the
authors and the reviewers must remain anonymous to each other.
Submissions (*including
citations and optional videos*) must not contain information that
identifies the authors, their institutions, funding sources, or their
places of work. Relevant previous work by the authors must be cited in the
third person to preserve anonymity. Authors should work diligently to
ensure that their submissions do not expose their identities either
intentionally or through carelessness. Authors that have questions/issues
around the double-blind submission policy should contact the program chairs.

*Failure to make reasonable attempts to adhere to the double-blind policy
will result in desk rejection.*

*Videos.* Authors are encouraged to submit videos to aid the program
committee in reviewing their submissions. Videos must be submitted
according to the instructions on the submission website. Videos submitted
with papers will automatically be considered for possible inclusion in the
video proceedings (video submissions may also be made independently, as
described in the separate Call for Videos). When submitted as supporting
material, videos must be free of any identifying information prior to
reviewing as per the double-blind submission policy. If accepted for the
video proceedings, a revised version of the materials will be requested.
Submission Deadlines

Each deadline is 23:59:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) == GMT/UTC-12:00 on the
stated day, no matter where the submitter is located. A convenient tool to
see when AoE is for your local time is setting your location at 1 and Baker
Island (which uses AoE) for:
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*The submission deadlines will be strictly enforced. Requests for
extensions will not be honored.*


   - *September 1, 2021*: Abstracts due *(REQUIRED)*
   - *September 6, 2021*: Submissions due
   - *October 29, 2021*: Notification of first review cycle results
   - *December 3, 2021*: Revised paper submissions due to second review
   cycle
   - *January 7, 2022*: Final notifications
   - *January 22, 2022*: Camera-ready material due from authors of accepted
   papers

Paper abstracts and complete papers must be submitted electronically
through PCS: https://new.precisionconference.com/~vr
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All VR Journal Papers submissions must be formatted using the IEEE Computer
Society TVCG journal format described at
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Contacts

Journal Papers Chairs:

   - Luciana Nedel (lead chair), Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul -
   UFRGS, Brazil
   - Jeanine Stefanucci (TVCG liason), University of Utah, USA
   - Ferran Argelaguet, Inria Rennes, France
   - Daisuke Iwai, Osaka University, Japan
   - Lili Wang, Beihang University, China

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