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FG-MV Workplan, structure and list of deliverables

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​FG-MV Workplan, structure, list of approved deliverables and work items that were not completed​​

This table contains the FG-MV structure, the list of deliverables along with information concerning the designated Chairs and Vice-Chairs for the Working Groups (WGs) and Task Groups (TGs).


FG/ ​​WGs​Subgroup
Leadership positions​ToRTypeTitle of deliverable
​Editors​​Approved
​ FG​​
metavers​e 


Template  
[Approved at the second FG-MV meeting]
Use case template  
Wook HYUN (ETRI, Korea (Republic of)), FG Chair and WG Chairs
July 2023
​​WG 1​​

General  

Co-Chairs:
Vice-Chair:

Technical Report
[Approved at the seventh FG-MV meeting]
Younghwan CHOI (ETRI, Korea (Republic of))​June 2024
Technical Report
[Approved at the second FG-MV meeting]
Exploring the metaverse: opportunities and challenges​ ​
Leonidas ANTHOPOULOS (University of Thessaly, Greece)​July 2023
​TG-terminology & definitionsChair:

Technical Specification
[Approved at the seventh FG-MV meeting]
Glossary for metaverse
Xiaomi AN, Jie HUANG, Rui WANG, Xiaoshuang JIA (Renmin, University of China)
Jie SONG (State Grid Corporation of China)
Radia FUNNA (Build n Blaze)
Leonidas ANTHOPOULOS (University of Thessaly, Greece)
Xing ZHAO (Fudan University)
Shin-Gak KANG (ETRI, Korea (Republic of.))
Heung Youl YOUM (Soonchunhyang University, Korea (Republic of.))
June 2024
​Technical Report
[Approved at the fourth FG-MV meeting]
​Principles for building concepts and definitions related to metaverse
Xiaomi AN (Renmin University of China)​​
Rui WANG (Remin University of China)
Jie HUANG (Remin University of China)
Leonidas ANTHOPOULOS (University of Thessaly, Greece)​​
December 2023
Technical Report
[Approved at the third FG-MV meeting]​

Metaverse: An analysis of definitions Leonidas ANTHOPOULOS (University of Thessaly, Greece)
​October 2023
Technical Specification​
[Approved at the fourth FG-MV meeting]
Definition of metaverse​
Leonidas ANTHOPOULOS (University of Thessaly, Greece)
Xiaomi AN (Renmin University of China)
Radia FUNNA (Build n Blaze)
Christina Yan ZHANG (The Metaverse Institute)
December 2023​
Technical Report
[Approved at the seventh FG-MV meeting]
Definition of CitiVerse​
Radia FUNNA (Build n Blaze)

June 2024
TG-pre-standardization for the CitiVerse ​​
Co-Chairs:

 
Technical ​Report
Pre-standardisation roadmap for an inclusive and sustainable CitiVerse
Cristina MARTINEZ
Miguel Alvarez RODRIGUEZ (European Commission)
Not completed
​Technical ​Report
[Approved at the seventh FG-MV meeting]
​Building a People-centred CitiVerse
​Christina Yan ZHANG (The Metaverse Institute)
Nicholas YOU (Guangzhou Institute for Urban Innovation)
Teppo T Rantanen (The City of Tampere)
Leonidas ANTHOPOULOS (University of Thessaly, Greece)
Irina KARAGYAUR (BQ9 Sl)
Radia FUNNA (Build n Blaze)
June 2024
TG-​implications for people in the metaverse
​​
​Chair:

​​
Technical Report​
[Approved at the fifth FG-MV meeting]
Near-term and long-term Implications for people in the metaverse​
​Radia FUNNA (Build n Blaze)​
March 2024​
Technical Report​
[Approved at the fifth FG-MV meeting]
A framework for confidence in the metaverse​​​Radia FUNNA (Build n Blaze)
March 2024​
​​W​G​ 2 ​​
Applications & Services​
Co-Chairs:Vice-Chairs: ​Technical Report
[Approved at the sixth FG-MV meeting]
Overview of the application requirements of metaverse on emergency management in chemical industrial parks
Ziqin SANG 
Keng LI
Hao WU (CICT, China)

April 2024
T​G-media co​ding
Co-Chairs:
​     Tech​nical Specification
[Approved at the seventh FG-MV meeting]
 Use case and requirements for virtual and real fusion coding in metaverse application
Zekun WANG (China Telecom)June 2024
Tech​nical Specification
Use cases and requirements on immersive audio coding for metaverse applications and services
Marcelo MORENO (Fraunhofer IIS, Germany)​
​Not completed
​TG- Generative Artificial Intelligence in the metaverse  


​Chair:
​Vice-Chair:

​ ​
 ​
​​
​ ​

Technical Specification
[Approved at the seventh FG-MV meeting]
Framework and requirements for the construction of human-driven 3D digital human application system for metaverse
Qiuhong ZHENG (China Telecom)
Liang WANG (ZTE)

​ 
June 2024
​Technical Specification
[Approved at the fourth FG-MV meeting]
Capabilities and requirements of Generative Artificial Intelligence in metaverse applications and services
Qiuhong ZHENG (China Telecom)
Liang WANG (ZTE)

December 2023
Technical Specification

Requirements and framework for extended reality content creation system based on artificial intelligence​ ​
​Jiaxin WEI (China Unicom)
Liya YUAN (ZTE)
Zehua HU (China Telecom)

​ ​ 
Not completed
​TG-metaverse tourism


Chair:
​Vice-Chair:

​​
Technical Report​
[Approved at the seventh FG-MV meeting]
 The future of travel in the metaverse: landscape and use casesSalma ARAFA (UN Tourism)​ 
​​June 2024
​Technical Report
Use case and requirements for remote amusement service with automatic movable robot (AMR) with multimedia functions on metaverse
​Hideki YAMAMOTO (Oki, Japan)
​​Not completed
​TG-medical metaverse 
Chair:
Technical Report​​Medical metaverse: Use-case Relevant to Medical Training and Hospital
Robin ROWE (Heroic Robots)​
Not completed
​TG-power metaverse


Chair:
​​
​Technical Report
[Approved at the third FG-MV meeting]
​Power metaverse: Use cases relevant to grid side and user side
​Jie SONG , Xingang YANG, Weiqiang YAO, Aiqiang PAN, Yi WU, Mengyuan ZHANG, Tangyun XU, Qin QIN, Yingjie TIAN, Hong GUAN (State Grid Corporation of China, China)
Xing HE, Shuyan MA (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Yuntao WANG (CAICT, China)
Qingsong ZHANG, Juan YAN, Haiyang CHEN, Yan YANG, Fujin ZHONG (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Guofeng WANG (Shanghai EBang Information Technology Co., Ltd, China)
Juntao LIU (NARI, China)
Qibin ZHOU, Si HUANG (Shanghai University, China)
Xiaoyan BIAN (Shanghai University of Electric Power, China)​
October 2023
​Technical Report
[Approved at the fifth FG-MV meeting]
Guidelines for metaverse application in power system
​Dong WANG, Da LI, Mingyang LEI, Bin HUA, Chenda ZHANG, Jun YAN, Tong LI, Ping SONG, Qiyu LU (State Grid Corporation of China)
Yuntao WANG, Yihui ZHANG (CAICT, China)
Tao WANG (CSG Electric Power Research Institute
Md. Selim REZA (Internal Resources Division, Bangladesh)​
March 2024
TG-Industrial metaverse
Chair:
​Technical Report​
[Approved at the seventh FG-MV meeting]
Landscape and Use cases for the Industrial metaverse
Julien MAISONNEUVE (Nokia, Finland)​June 2024
​​WG 3 ​  ​​Architecture & Infrastructure​​Chair:
Vice-Chairs:

Technical ReportRequirements and challenge associated with network infrastructure to enable the metaverseMeiling DAI, Jingwen LI, Xingyu SHANG, Xiaoou LIU (China Telecom, China)
Not completed
Technical Specification
[
Approved at the sixth FG-MV meeting]
Requirement, functional framework and capability of IoT for metaverse​
Yi XIE, Jie CHENG, Minshi CHEN, Yue WANG, Dong CHEN (China Mobile, China)
Chao MA, Ye SUN (CAICT, China)
April 2024​
Technical Specification
[Approved at the seventh FG-MV meeting]
The reference framework of industrial metaverseCheng CHI, Zihang YIN, Can LUO (CAICT, China)June 2024
Technical Specification
Settin​g the framework for an ICT architecture to enable the metaverse
Sophia PAPATHANASOPOULOU (General Secretariat of Telecommunications and Post of the Ministry of Digital Governance, Greece)
Leonidas ANTHOPOULOS (University of Thessaly, Greece)
Not completed
​Technical Specification
[Approved at the seventh FG-MV meeting]
​Multimedia aspect of metaverse architecture
​Hideki YAMAMOTO (OKI, Japan)
June 2024
WG 4
Virtual/Real World IntegrationChair:
Vice-Chair:

Technical Specification
[Approved at the fifth FG-MV meeting]
Requirements for the metaverse based on digital twins enabling integration of virtual and physical worlds
Changkyu LEE (ETRI, Korea (Republic of))
March 2024
​Technical Specification
[Approved at the fifth FG-MV meeting]
Reference model for the metaverse based on a digital twin enabling integration of virtual and physical worlds
Haksuh KIM, Changkyu LEE (ETRI, Korea (Republic of))​
​March 2024
WG ​5​
InteroperabilityChair:
Vice-Chair:

Technical Specification
[Approved at the fourth FG-MV meeting]
Service scenarios and high-level requirements for metaverse cross-platform interoperability
Jungha HONG (ETRI, Korea (Republic of))
Wook HYUN (ETRI, Korea (Republic of))
 MiYoung HUH (ETRI, Korea (Republic of)) 
Xiaojun MU (China Unicom)
December 2023​
Technical Report
[Approved at the seventh FG-MV meeting]
Interoperability of identity of things across metaversesXiongwei JIA (China Unicom)
Ziqin SANG (CICT, China)
Keng LI (CICT, China)
Xiaojun MU (China Unicom)
MiYoung HUH (ETRI, Korea (Republic of)) 
June 2024​
​Technical Specification
[Approved at the seventh FG-MV meeting]​​
​High-level interoperability architecture for cross-platform metaverse
Wook HYUN (ETRI, Korea (Republic of))
Xiongwei JIA (China Unicom)​
Hideki YAMAMOTO (Oki, Japan)​
​June 2024
​​​​​W​G 6​​​Security, Data & PII Protection
​​ Chair:
Vice-Chairs:
    
​​​​TG-cybe​rsecurity





​​​​Co-Chairs

​ ​ ​ ​ ​
​​​​ 
​ ​ ​ ​ ​
Technical Specification
[Approved at the seventh FG-MV meeting]
Security for things across metaverses in aspects of data processing and management
Xiongwei JIA, Xiaojun MU (China Unicom)
Keng LI (CICT, China)
Heung Youl YOUM (Soonchunhyang University, Korea (Republic of.))
June 2024​
Technical Report
[Approved at the fourth FG-MV meetin​g]
Cyber risks, threats, and harms in the metaverse​
Aljawharah ALSALEM (NCA, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
​ Hussain ALDAWOOD (NEOM, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
​December 2023
TG-building confidence ​and security in the metaverse
Chair:

 

​Technical Report
[Approved at the third FG-MV meeting]
​Guidelines for consideration of ethical issues in standards that build confidence and security in the metaverse
​Radia FUNNA (Build n Blaze) 
Gayoung PARK 
(The State University of New York, Korea (Korea, (Republic of)) 
October 2023
Technical Report
[Approved at the fourth FG-MV meeting]
 Embedding safety standards and the user control of Personally Identif​iable Information (PII) in the development of the metaverse
​Jan EISSFELDT (Wikimedia Foundation)
Sarah Nicole 
(Project Liberty Institute)
Neha VIJAY
(Radix)
December 2023
 Technical Report
[Approved at the fifth FG-MV meeting]
 Considering online and offline implications in efforts to build confidence and security in the metaverse
Radia FUNNA (Build n Blaze)
Araba Sey (Research ICT Africa, South Africa)

​March 2024
​TG-child online protection​





​Chair

​ ​
​​
​ ​
​Techn​​ical Report
[Approved at the fourth FG-MV meeting]
​​​Responsible Use of AI for Child Protection in the metaverse
​Muhammad Khurram KHAN (King Saud University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
Zaheema IQBAL (Global Foundation for Cyber Studies and Research)
Paul GRAINGER (University College London)
Farhan KHAN (Metaronical)
December 2023
​Tech​nical Report
[Approved at the fourth FG-MV meeting]
​Children age verification in the metaverse​
​Yazeed ALABDULKARI
Muath ALDUHISHY Bushra ALAHMADI Louai ALARABI
 (SITE, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) 

December 2023
TG-issues on trustworthiness related to the metaverse 

​Chair: 

​ Technical Report
Specification
[Approved at the seventh FG-MV meeting]
Challenges to achieving trustworthy metaverse
Gyu Myoung LEE (Kyungnam University)
 Woojoo PARK (ETRI (Republic of))
 Xiaojia SONG (China Mobile) 
Xiongwei JIA (China Unicom)
​June 2024
​Technical Report
The framework of building a trustworthy digital human​
Naying HU (CAICT, China)
Sumin GUO (Beijing Normal University, China)

Not completed
Technical Report
[Approved at the seventh FG-MV meeting]
The essential components of trusted data use in building a trustworthy metaverse
Xiaoshuang JIA, Xiaomi AN, Jinfa Li (Renmin University of China)
Gyu Myoung LEE (Kyungnam University)

June 2024​
​WG 7​


Economic, regulatory & competition aspects ​ ​​Co-Chairs:
Vice-Chair:

​ ​
 Technical Report
[Approved at the seventh FG-MV meeting]
 Economic Value Creation and Competition in metaverse​​
 Okan GERAY (Digital Dubai, UAE)
June 2024​
​Technical Report​
[Approved at the fourth FG-MV meeting]
Regulatory and economic aspects in the metaverse: Data protection
Ahmed SAID (MCIT, Egypt)
Hedaia NABIL (MCIT, Egypt)
December 2023
​Technical Report
[Approved at the third FG-MV meeting]
Policy and regulation opportunities and challenges in the metaverse
Andrey PEREZ (Anatel, Brazil)
Okan GERAY (Digital Dubai, UAE)​
​October 2023
​​​​​​​WG 8​











Sustainability, Accessibility & Inclusion​Co-Chairs:
​Vice-Chairs:

 
 
TG-sustainability
Chair:
Technical Report
[Approved at the seventh FG-MV meeting]
Metaverse Sustainability: Driving energy efficiency and GHG emissions reductionShuguang QI, Mengdi WANG (CAICT, China)
​June 2024
​Technical Specification
[Approved at the seventh FG-MV meeting]
Methodology on assessment of GHG emissions of metaverse
Shuguang QI, Mengdi WANG (CAICT, China)
Anders ANDRAE, Paolo GEMMA (Huawei, China)
​June 2024
​​​​​TG-accessi​bility & inclusion ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​​​​​​Co-Chairs:
​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

 

​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​
​Technical Specification
[Approved at the fourth FG-MV meeting]
Accessibility requirements for metaverse services supporting IoT​
Yong Jick LEE (Center for Accessible ICT, Korea (Republic of))
Hark SOHN (SCE Korea, Inc., Korea (Republic of))  
Jee-In KIM (Konkuk University, Korea (Republic of))
December 2023
​Technical Report
[Approved at the fourth FG-MV meeting]
Guidelines and requirements on interpreting in the metaverse
Binhua WANG (University of Leeds)
Yong Jick LEE (Center for Accessible ICT, Rep. of Korea)
 Fei GAO (Chongqing University of Posts and Communications)
Lihong PAN (University of Leeds)
December 2023
​Technical Report
[Approved at the third FG-MV meeting]
Guidelines to assess inclusion and accessibility in metaverse standard development
Gayoung PARK (The State University of New York, Korea (Republic of))
Neal DREAMSON (The State University of New York, Korea (Republic of))
October 2023
Technical Specification
[Approved at the third FG-MV meeting]
Requirements of accessible products and services in the metaverse: Part I – System design perspective​
Estella ONCINS (UAB, Spain)
Carlo EUGENI (University of Leeds)
Anna Matamala
(UAB, Spain)
Octobe2023
Technical Specification
[Approved at the third FG-MV meeting]
​Requirements of accessible products and services in the metaverse: Part II – User perspective​
​Estella ONCINS (UAB, Spain)
Carlo EUGENI (University of Leeds)
Anna Matamala
(UAB, Spain)
Octobe2023
Technical Report​
[Approved at the fourth FG-MV meeting]
Accessibility in a sustainable metaverse​
Sarah Anne MCDONAGH (UAB, Spain)​
December 2023
​Technical Report
[Approved at the fourth FG-MV meeting]
​Guidance on how to build a metaverse for all – Part I: Legal Framework​
Christina Yan ZHANG (The Metaverse Institute)
Pilar ORERO (UAB, Spain)​

December 2023
​Technical Report
[Approved at the seventh FG-MV meeting]
Guidance on how to build a metaverse for all: Part II​ - Survey and framework
Christina Yan ZHANG (The Metaverse Institute)
Pilar ORERO (UAB, Spain)​
June 2024​ ​
​Technical Specification
[Approved at the fifth FG-MV meeting]
Requirements for communication between human-avatar languages in the metaverse​
​Pilar ORERO (UAB, Spain)
Rahel LUDER, Louis AMARA (SwissTxt)​

March 2024
​TG-sustainable metaverse design​


​Chair: ​ ​​​
​ ​
​Technical Specification
[Approved at the third FG-MV meeting]
Design criteria and technical requirements for sustainable metaverse ecosystems​
Daniela TULONE (CNIT, Italy)

October 2023
​Technical Specification
Incentive strategies to boost high-impact sustainable metaverse applications​​
Daniela TULONE (CNIT, Italy)

Not completed
​Technical Specification
​Metrics and indicators to drive the design of sustainable metaverse applications
Daniela TULONE (CNIT, Italy)

Not completed
​TG-metaverse social safety
Chair:
​Technical Report
Metaverse social safety: mitigating harassment in the metaverse​
Gabrielle PANTERA (Heroic Robots)​​
Not completed

WG 9​Collaboration​

Co-Chairs:
​Technical Report
[Approved at the seventh FG-MV meeting]
​Standardization roadmap for metaverse
​Ziqin SANG, Hao WU (CICT, China)
​June 2024
TG-gap analysis
Co-Chairs:
​​T​echnical Report
[Approved at the seventh FG-MV meeting]
Metaverse standardization landscape for gap analyses​
​Jungha HONG (ETRI, Korea (Republic of))
​June 2024
 





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