CLOSED Call for Papers: Special Issue on the Pervasive Multiverse

Important Dates

Full Manuscripts due: 30 June 2023

Publication: April-June 2024

The vision of a future in which users can seamlessly interact with the physical and virtual worlds has been around for decades. The advent of high-resolution, networked HMDs, augmented with sensors close to the human body has triggered a new wave of excitement lately. Not only does state-of-the-art technology allow content to be rendered in real-time and at such a high resolution that the real world becomes indistinguishable from the virtual world but also does the proliferation of the environment, personal devices, and wearables with sensors enable new forms of implicit and explicit interaction.

At the same time, many research challenges are lying ahead in order to realize the notion of a pervasive multiverse: which novel, multi-modal techniques are required to enable interaction with the physical and virtual world? Which novel applications become possible? Which security and privacy challenges emerge?

Relevant topics of this special issue include but are not limited to the following:

Applications in the Pervasive Multiverse

Interaction Techniques for the Pervasive Multiverse

New input/output devices and modalities for the Pervasive Multiverse

New ways of connecting to the real world via the Pervasive Multiverse

Where the Multiverse meets the Internet of Things

Methods, techniques, and technologies for conducting user studies in the pervasive multiverse

Technologies for (remote) data collection in the pervasive multiverse

Behavioural Analysis and Social Signal Processing in the Pervasive Multiverse

User Experience in the Pervasive Multiverse

Security and privacy issues in the Pervasive Multiverse

Social, physiological, and ethical challenges in the Pervasive Multiverse

Spatial computing techniques in the Pervasive Multiverse

The roles of AIs in the Pervasive Multiverse

Scalable presence and dynamic levels of immersion

Interacting through Digital Twins under a pervasive multiverse

Situated gaming in the Pervasive Multiverse

The guest editors invite original and high-quality submissions addressing all aspects of this field, as long as the connection to pervasive computing and/or the Internet of Things is clear and central to the paper. Review or summary articles — for example, critical evaluations of the state of the art, or insightful analysis of established and upcoming technologies — may be accepted if they demonstrate academic rigor and relevance.

Submission Guidelines

Articles submitted to IEEE Pervasive Computing should not exceed 6,000 words, including all text, the abstract, keywords, bibliography, biographies, and table text. The word count must include 250 words for each table and figure. References should be limited to at most 20 citations (40 for survey papers).

Note that the magazine always welcomes submissions into its regular queue that cover the role of computing in the physical world – as characterized by visions such as the Internet of Things and Ubiquitous Computing. Topics of interest are, e.g., hardware design, sensor networks, mobile systems, human-computer interaction, industrial design, machine learning, data science, but also societal issues including privacy and ethics. Simply select the “Regular” option when submitting at the submission site (submissions are possible at any time; no need for prior abstract by email).