Conference Chairs

Cindy Grimm, Oregon State University
Peter Willemsen, University of Minnesota Duluth

Program Chairs

Joseph Kearney, University of Iowa
Bernhard Riecke, Simon Fraser University

Poster Chair

Betsy Sanders, Rhodes College

Preface
It is our great pleasure to present the proceedings of the international ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP), held on August 11-12, 2018 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. As is customary for SAP, conferences held in even years are co-located with SIGGRAPH. The conference chairs are Cindy Grimm and Peter Willemsen, program chairs are Joseph Kearney and Bernhard Riecke.

SAP, formerly known as APGV, aims to broadly support and promote interdisciplinary research at the intersection of perception and computer science, focusing on disciplines such as computer graphics, virtual reality, vision science, haptics and acoustics. Our fifteenth annual event features exciting new research touching all of these disciplines.

This year's program includes 24 papers selected from 53 total submissions via rigorous double-blind peer review by our 60-member International Program Committee. Four of these 24 papers were selected to appear in a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Applied Perception; the other 20 papers are published here in these proceedings. Our conference program this year includes 15 posters presented in a dedicated session, organized by Posters Chair Betsy Sanders.

We are looking forward to welcoming Sarah H. Creem-Regehr & William B. Thompson as our keynote speakers to discuss their experience as longtime collaborations in their talk titled: “Working Together: Do's, don'ts, and success stories of multidisciplinary research”.

We are deeply grateful to Stephen Spencer, chair of the ACM SIGGRAPH Publications Committee, whose diligence and effort brought these proceedings successfully together as a coherent whole. We thank the ACM publications board for supporting the idea of fast-tracking select publications directly into TAP, and the TAP editorial staff for working closely with us to ensure that the papers were available in the Digital Library by the time of the symposium.

Finally, the proceedings represent a snapshot of a fast-moving interdisciplinary field at one moment in time. We wholeheartedly thank those members of the field who invested time and energy in the symposium by submitting their work, or by reviewing the submitted work. We saw the work over the course of the submission and review process, and are proud of its quality and the resulting volume.

SAP 2018 Chairs

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Final Program in PDF Format (ProgramSAP18_Final.pdf)

Friday August 10

8:00 - 9:00

Registration

9:00 - 9:10

Opening remarks

9:10 - 10:10

Keynote

10:10 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:00

Session 1: Avatars

11:00

Virtual Shadows for Real Humans in a CAVE: Influence on Virtual Embodiment and 3D Interaction

Guillaume Cortes, Ferran Argelaguet, Eric Marchand and Anatole Lécuyer

11:20

Effects of Anthropomorphic Fidelity of Self-Avatars on Reach Boundary Estimation in Immersive Virtual Environments

Elham Ebrahimi, Andrew Robb, Leah S. Hartman, Christopher C. Pagano and Sabarish V. Babu

11:40

The Role of Avatar Fidelity and Sex on Self-Motion Recognition

Anne Thaler, Anna C. Wellerdiek, Markus Leyrer, Ekaterina Volkova-Volkmar, Nikolaus F. Troje and Betty J. Mohler

Chair:

12:00 - 14:00

Lunch (on your own)

14:00 - 16:00

Session 2: Perception & Self-Movements

14:00

Perception of Height in Virtual Reality - A Study of Climbing Stairs

Noorin Asjad, Haley Adams, Richard Paris and Bobby Bodenheimer

14:20

Comparing Input Methods and Cursors for 3D Positioning with Head-Mounted Displays

Junwei Sun, Wolfgang Stuerzlinger and Bernhard E. Riecke

14:40

Judging Action Capabilities in Augmented Reality

Grant Pointon, Chelsey Thompson, Sarah Creem-Regehr, Jeanine Stefanucci, Miti Joshi, Richard Paris and Bobby Bodenheimer

15:00

Evaluating the Cognitive Effects of Four VR Locomotion Methods: Joystick, Arm-Cycling, Point-Tugging, and Teleporting

Noah Coomer, Sadler Bullard, Will Clinton and Betsy Williams

15:20

Comparison of Unobtrusive Visual Guidance Methods in an Immersive Dome Environment

Steve Grogorick, Georgia Albuquerque, Jan-Philipp Tauscher and Marcus Magnor (TAP paper)

15:40

Gender Difference in Detecting Curvature Redirection

Anh Nguyen, Yannick Rothacher, Bigna Lenggenhager, Peter Brugger and Andreas Kunz (short paper)

Chair:

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 17:00

Posters fast forward

17:00 - 19:00

Poster session & finger food

Aeshah Almutairi, Toni Saarela and Ioannis Ivrissimtzis "A Perceptual Difference Scaling Study on Quantized 3D Models"

Lauren E. Buck, Sohee Park, and Bobby Bodenheimer "Delimitation of Peripersonal Space via Multisensory Interaction Using the HTC Vive"

Lauren E. Buck, Richard Paris and Bobby Bodenheimer "Distance Perception in the HTC Vive Pro"

Benjamin J. Chihak, James Bordwell and Brody Stanford "Gap Size and Speed Affect How Pedestrians Cross Bicycle Traffic"

Ylva Ferstl and Rachel McDonnell "A Preliminary Study on Trait Judgements in Virtual Human Faces"

Sara Leary and Michael Murdoch "Manipulating Object Lightness in Augmented Reality"

Antara Mishra and Joe Geigel "Tone Reproduction for Virtual Reality Applications"

Gayathri Narasimham, Haley Adams, John Rieser, Sarah Creem-Regehr, Jeanine Stefanucci and Bobby Bodenheimer "Spatial Memory of Children and Teens in Virtual Environments"

Parinya Punpongsanon, Daisuke Iwai and Kosuke Sato "A Preliminary Study on Altering Fabric Bending Stiffness Perception using Augmented Image Optical Flows"

Alberto Scicali, Ifeoma Nwogu and Joe Geigel "Mobile Facial Emotion Recognition Engine"

R Calen Walshe and Wilson Geisler "Optimal Detection of Occluding Targets in Natural Scenes."

Christiane B. Wiebel-Herboth, Matti Krüger and Martina Hasenjäger "Inter- and Intra Individual Differences in Gaze Behavior in a Visual Search Task"

Emily Wilson, Emma Goff, Leah Borsari and Betsy Williams Sanders "The Effect of Basic Foot Representation on the Navigation of Virtual Obstacles"

Pisut Wisessing, Katja Zibrek, Douglas Cunningham, John Dingliana and Rachel McDonnell "The Proximity Structure of Perceived Brightness and Shadow in Lighting Design for Stylized Virtual Characters"

Kanami Yamagishi, Takuya Kato, Shintaro Yamamoto, Ayano Kaneda and Shigeo Morishima "How Makeup Experience Changes how we see Cosmetics?"

Saturday August 11

8:30 - 9:00

Registration

9:00  - 10:20

Session 3: Haptics

9:00

Touch with Foreign Hands: The Effect of Virtual Hand Appearance on Visual-Haptic Integration

Valentin Schwind, Lorraine Lin, Massimiliano Di Luca, Sophie Jörg and James Hillis

9:20

Expanding the Sense of Touch Outside the Body

Christopher Berger and Mar Gonzalez-Franco

9:40

Learning to Feel Words: A Comparison of Learning Approaches to Acquire Haptic Words

Jennifer Chen, Robert Turcott, Pablo Castillo, Wahyudinata Setiawan, Frances Lau and Ali Israr

10:00

Interaction Between Static Visual Cues and Force Feedback on Perception of Mass of Virtual Objects

Wenyan Bi, Jonathan Newport, and Bei Xiao (short paper)

Chair:

10:20 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:00

Session 4: Perception

11:00

Analysis of Hair Shine Using Rendering and Subjective Evaluation

Girish Ramesh, Martin Turner, Franz Wortmann and Bjoern Schroeder (TAP paper)

11:20

Investigating Perception Time in the Far Peripheral Vision for Virtual and Augmented Reality

Xuetong Sun and Amitabh Varshney

11:40

An Appearance Uniformity Metric for 3D Printing

Michael Ludwig, Gary Meyer, Ingeborg Tastl, Nathan Moroney and Melanie Gottwals

Chair:

12:00 - 14:00

Lunch (catered)

14:00 - 15:20

Session 5: Speech Perception & Eye movement

14:00

The Semantic Space for Emotional Speech and the Influence of Different Methods for Prosody Isolation on its Perception

Martin Schorradt, Susana Castillo and Douglas W. Cunningham

14:20

Effects of virtual acoustics on target-word identification performance in multi-talker environments

Atul Rungta, Nicholas Rewkowski, Carl Schissler, Philip Robinson, Ravish Mehra and Dinesh Manocha

14:40

Analysis of Neural Correlates of Saccadic Eye Movements

Jan-Philipp Tauscher, Fabian Wolf Schottky, Steve Grogorick, Marcus Magnor and Maryam Mustafa

15:00

A Comparison of Eye-Head Coordination Between Virtual and Physical Realities

Kevin Pfeil, Eugene M. Taranta II, Arun Kulshreshth, Pamela Wisniewski and Joseph J. Laviola Jr.

Chair:

15:20 - 16:00

Coffee break

16:00 - 17:20

Session 6: Selective Rendering & Virtual Characters

16:00

Foveated Depth-of-Field Filtering in Head-mounted Displays

Martin Weier, Thorsten Roth, Andre Hinkenjann and Philipp Slusallek  (TAP paper)

16:20

Assessing Vignetting as a Means to Reduce Simulator Sickness During Amplified Head Rotations

Nahal Norouzi, Gerd Bruder and Greg Welch

16:40

Deep Learning of Biomimetic Visual Perception for Virtual Humans

Masaki Nakada, Honglin Chen and Demetri Terzopoulos

17:00

Perceptual Adjustment of Eyeball and Pupil Diameter Jitter Amplitudes for Virtual Characters

Sophie Jörg, Andrew Duchowski, Krzysztof Krejtz and Anna Niedzielska  (TAP paper)

Chair:

17:20 - 18:30

Closing Remarks, Awards and Farewell; Business meeting