1st Global Conference

VIRTUALOSITY
Gaming, Interaction and the Digital Arts

Monday 4th February – Wednesday 6th February 2013
Sydney, Australia

The conference will commence at 13.30 on Monday 4th February and finish at 18.00 on Wednesday 6th February 2013. Registration will be from 12.30 on the opening day of the conference.

Important – Please Note: The ethos of the Digital Interfaces project emphasises dialogue with the issues raised by the conference as a whole and engagement with the people attending the conference. These two elements are essential to the inter- and multi-disciplinary nature of the event. Over the past few years the success of our projects has rested on the continual interaction between delegates for the duration of the conference and beyond. The Steering Group feel it is essential that delegates should be present for the duration of the conference so as to facilitate the exchange of perspectives for which the conference strives, and which any publication should clearly demonstrate. Failure to attend for the duration of the meeting will automatically exclude eligibility for inclusion in any of the project publications.

Papers and presentations, unles previously agreed, should be of no more than 20 minutes duration 3000 words max). Responses to Papers should be of no more than 10 minutes duration. Work-in-Progress presentations should be of no more than 15 minutes duration. The time allotted to workshops will be considered on an individual basis. Other forms of presentation will be considered on request.

Please note: Power point presentations are neither encouraged nor desired. Power point has been banned from all the projects we organise. Data projectors are, however, provided for showing images only. You are advised to take note of this as you prepare your submission. Presenters are also strongly encouraged not to read their papers verbatim: draft papers will be available on the web site prior to the conference beginning. We hope that presenters will instead speak to the significant points raised in their papers.

300 abstracts are to be submitted by Friday 26th October 2012. These should be emailed either as an attachment or in the body of an email to the Organising Chairs: Adam Ruch and Rob Fisher. Attachments may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats. Papers will be minimally double blind peer reviewed (where appropriate); in practice our procedures usually entail that by the time an abstract is accepted, it will have been triple and quadruple blind peer reviewed.

Both the 300 word abstract and the draft paper will be available on this web site before the conference commences. Papers will be available in downloadable .pdf format.

All conference papers will be eligible (subject to conditions) for publication in an ISBN eBook with the Inter-Disciplinary Press.

Selected papers may be invited to go forward for development into 20-25 page chapters for publication in a themed ISBN hard copy volume. Our standard model is for such volumes to be strongly dialogical, with chapters showing awareness of and interacting with each other. The decision whether to proceed to hard copy publication will be taken by the Organising Chairs and Steering Group within three weeks of the conference close.

All papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook.  Selected papers may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s).

Style Sheets
In preparing your papers, please pay strict attention to the following style sheets

• Download Full Style Sheet Version v7.3c (pdf)
• Download Chicago Style Reference Sheet v1.2c
• Download Template Document (Word)

The February conferences will be held in the Mercure Hotel, Sydney, Australia. The hotel is located in the heart of the city, and not far from the train station.

Discounted rates have been negotiated at the hotel for conference delegates. Delegates should book directly with the hotel using the special conference code which we will supply on submission of booking form to access these rates.

The details of the registration fee are as follows;

The cost for attending the conference is £285. This includes;

• conference registration fee
• a copy of the eBook
• discounted rate for an edition of the hard copy themed volume or volumes (should one emerge)
• Monday afternoon coffee break with coffee, tea, fruit juice, fresh fruits, cakes
• Monday evening Wine Reception
• Tuesday morning coffee break with coffee, tea, fruit juice, short cakes.
• Tuesday buffet lunch
• Tuesday afternoon coffee break with coffee, tea, fruit juice, fresh fruits, cakes
• Wednesday morning coffee break with coffee, tea, fruit juice, short cakes.
• Wednesday buffet lunch
• Wednesday afternoon coffee break with coffee, tea, fruit juice, fresh fruits, cakes

All registration and accommodation costs are to be paid by Friday 7th December 2012.

Delegates must complete the online booking form by 16th November 2012 at the latest. After the deadline has expired, an invoice will be drawn up and sent to you; the invoice will contain all the necessary information for you to pay by bank transfer, cheque or credit card. The invoice must be settled by Friday 7th December 2012. It is the responsibility of delegates to ensure that payment is made by this date. Failure to receive payment will result in your booking being cancelled.

There are a number of ways payment can be made.

Cheque
Payment can be made by cheque, in pounds sterling (gbp) or in Euro. The Euro rate will be fixed at the bank buy-back rate current at the point of issuing the invoice. Cheque’s in pound sterling must be drawn against a bank with headquarters in the United Kingdom; cheque’s may also be in Euro currency. Cheque’s should be made payable to ‘Inter-Disciplinary.Net’ and sent, with the booking form, to:

Dr Rob Fisher
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Priory House
149b Wroslyn Road
Freeland
Oxfordshire. OX29 8HR
United Kingdom

We cannot and will not accept cheques made payable in currencies other than GBP Sterling or Euros.

Bank Transfer
Payment may be made using bank transfer. Full details to enable a bank transfer are made available on your conference invoice. If paying by this method, you must agree to pay all charges at the sending and receiving banks.

By Invoice
You may request that an invoice be sent to you and/or your institution. It is your responsibility to ensure that the invoice is paid prior to the start of the conference.

Credit Card
Payment may also be made using credit card. Please note: a 3.5% charge applies to all items and services paid for in this way: this is the amount we are charged by the credit card company.

Paypal
Payment may also be made using Paypal. Please note: a 4% charge applies to all items and services paid for in this way: this is the amount we are charged by Paypal. If paying by this method please send us the email account connected with your Paypal account and we will forward you a request for payment.

All fees are payable in advance. No delegate will be permitted entry to the conference if an invoice is still unpaid