Meaningful XR 2024
May 23-25, Stanford/Palo Alto, CA
CFP here: http://meaningfulxr.org/cfp
Submit here: https://bit.ly/mxf24submit (due 1/24/24)
Vision
Whether designed to entertain or achieve more "serious" purposes, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR)—collectively “XR”—have implications in a wide range of meaningful domains, such as education, physical health, well-being, and social equity.
Meaningful XR 2024 is a conference for scholars and industry professionals about theory, research, design innovations, principles, and practices related to meaningful uses of XR.
The conference will include thought-provoking keynotes from both academic and industry leaders, peer-reviewed paper presentations, panel sessions, "XRbitions," and social mixers in both VR and meatspace.
Planned Timeline
Jan 24 31: Submission Deadline
Feb 2129: Initial Decisions Announced
April 1: Early Bird Registration Deadline
April 14: Attendance Commitment Deadline
May 23-25: Conference Meeting
For more details, please see the CFP: http://meaningfulxr.org/cfp
Partner Special Issue
In collaboration with the Journal of Media Psychology (JMP), full paper submissions that receive a 'top-paper' designation at Meaningful XR will be automatically (with author consent) considered a “Revise and Resubmit” for publication in the journal’s Metaverse-Mediated Communication Special Issue (CFP: https://bit.ly/jmpmetaverse).
After the conference, the revised papers may be resubmitted to JMP to complete the review process, with attempts made to retain at least one original reviewer.
Draft Event Schedule
Thursday (5/23, 9 am-9 pm): Full day of sessions at the Stanford Alumni Center interspersed with breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Friday (5/24, 9 am-5 pm): Full day of sessions at the Stanford Communication Department plus campus/lab tours; breakfast and lunch provided.
Saturday (5/25, 9 am - ): Breakfast session in downtown Palo Alto, then optional group outing to San Francisco
Conference Organizers
You can thank/blame these people for this event
Rabindra (Robby) Ratan, Michigan State University
Lead organizer -- please direct all constructive criticism to him
David Beyea, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
Lead guest editor of the partner special issue at JMP
Maxwell Foxman, University of Oregon
Alex Leith, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Brian Klebig, Bethany Lutheran College
David Jeong, Santa Clara University
Swati Pandita, California Institute of Technology
Vivian Chen, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Jih-Hsuan Tammy Lin, National ChengChi University
Shay Yao, Georgia State University
Joomi Lee, University of Arkansas
Conference Executive Committee
Jeremy Bailenson, Stanford University
Nicholas Bowman, Syracuse University
Magy Seif El-Nasr, University of California, Santa Cruz
Katherine Isbister, University of California, Santa Cruz
Jorge Pena, University of California, Davis
Sponsors
We are grateful to our sponsors for making this conference possible.
Sponsoring Host
Communication Department, Stanford University
Lead Organizing Sponsor
Dept. of Media and Information & SPARTIE Lab, Michigan State University
Partner Journal Sponsor
Journal of Media Psychology (JMP)
Hiro Protagonist Sponsors*
Annenberg Virtual Reality ColLABorative
Wade Watts Sponsors*
Department of Communication, UC Davis
Department of Communication, University of Arkansas
College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida
Department of Communication, Georgia State University
Neo Anderson Sponsors*
* Sponsorship categories named for fictional heroes of Meaningful XR. If you don't recognize a name, you've been missing out!
Hiro Protagonist: Main character in Snow Crash, the novel in which Neal Stephenson introduced the term "metaverse" and popularized the term "avatar".
Wade Watts: Main character in Ready Player One (and Ready Player Two). Read these if you love the (80s and) idea of going school in VR.
Neo Anderson: Main character in the Matrix - maybe you've heard of it. In reality, there is no surname (or spoon), but I added one for parity.
National Science Foundation Grant #2128803 (Ratan, Foxman, Beyea, Leith, Klebig, Winn) is also helping to support student travel for this event
