Program Overview

Day 1 - September 22nd

Time (GMT) Event Location
12:00Welcome and opening remarks TBA
12:15Poster Fast Forward
12:30Keynote 1: Rachel McDonnell
13:30Break
13:45Session 1: Attention, Visual and Speech Perception
14:45Session 2: Virtual Humans and Applications
16:15Break
16:30Poster Session

Day 2 - September 23rd

Time (GMT) Event Location
12:00Keynote 2: Shunichi KasaharaTBA
13:00Break
13:15Session 3: Spatial Judgments
14:20Session 4: Hands and InteractionTBA
15:30Closing and Social
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Full program


Day 1 - September 22nd

Time (GMT) Event Duration Title
12:00  Opening remarks 15  
12:15 Poster Fast Forward    
12:30 Keynote 60 Rachel McDonnell: Photorealistic virtual humans have arrived and are here to stay, but do we have a deep enough understanding of how humans perceive them?
13:30 Break 15  
13:45 Session   Session 1: Attention, Visual and Speech Perception
13:45 25 On the influence of dynamic illumination in the perception of translucency. Dario Lanza, Adrian Jarabo and Belen Masia
14:10 15 Attentional synchrony in films: A window to visuospatial characterization of events. Vipul Nair, Jakob Suchan, Mehul Bhatt and Paul Hemeren.
14:25 15 Erosion as a novel Approach for removing Semantics and Comparison of different State-of-Art-Methods. Martin T. Schorradt and Douglas Cunningham.
14:45 Session   Session 2: Virtual Humans and Applications
14:45 25 Human Latent Metrics: Perceptual and Cognitive Response Correlates to Distance in GAN Latent Space. Naoto Ienaga, Kye Shimizu, Kazuma Takada, MakiSugimoto and Shunichi Kasahara. 
15:10 25 Impact of Manikin Display on Perception of Spatial Planning. Mathew Schwartz, Brandon Haworth, Muhammad Usman, Mubbasir Kapadia and Petros Faloutsos.
15:35 25 Virtual Nature: Investigating The Effect of Biomass on Immersive Virtual Reality Forest Bathing Applications For Stress Reduction Rachel Masters, Victoria Interrante, Madeline Watts and Francisco Ortega.
16:00 15 Facial Emotion Recognition of Virtual Humans with Different Genders, Races, and Ages. Funda Babur and Jiehyun Kim
16:15 Break 15  
16:30 Poster Session 60  
17:30 End    

Day 2 - September 23rd

Time (GMT) Event Duration Title
12:00  Keynote 60 Shunichi Kasahara: Superception: Exploring a new ‘Self’ in the integration of humans and computers.
13:00 Break    
13:15 Session Session 3: Spatial Judgments
13:15 25 Experience Matters: Longitudinal Changes in Sensitivity to Rotational Gains in Virtual Reality. Andrew Robb, Kristopher Kohm and John Porter. (TAP)
13:40 25 The influence of body orientation relative to gravity on egocentric distance estimates in virtual reality. Claudia Martin Calderon and Michael Barnett-Cowan.
14:05 15 VR Distance Judgments are Affected by the Amount of Pre-Experiment Blind Walking. Soheil Sepahyar and Scott Kuhl
14:20 Session
14:20 25 Sensitivity to Hand Offsets and Related Behavior in Virtual Environments Over Time. Kristopher Kohm, John Porter and Andrew Robb. (TAP)
14:45 25 Investigating a Combination of Input Modalities, Canvas Geometries, and Inking Triggers on On-Air Handwriting in VR. Rohith Venkatakrishnan, Roshan Venkatakrishnan and Sabarish Babu. (TAP)
15:10 15 FauxThrow: Exploring the Effects of Incorrect Point of Release in Throwing Motions. Goksu Yamac and Carol O'Sullivan.
15:30 Closing and Social 60