Program

August 29, 2024

Time (GMT+0) Event Duration
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Registration (early)
Trinity Long Room Hub Lobby
3 hours
7:00 PM Welcome Event
Informal drinks at Idle Wild

Day 1: August 30, 2024

Time (GMT+0) Event Duration
8:30 AM Registration
9:30 AM Welcome and Opening Remarks 30 minutes
10:00 AM Keynote Speaker
Tina Iachini, University of Campania Vanvitelli, Italy
"Virtual reality and the humanity attribution: the roots of the feeling of presence"
1 hour
11:00 AM Session 1 1 hour 30 minutes
GazeFusion: Saliency-guided Image Generation
Yunxiang Zhang, Nan Wu, Connor Lin, Gordon Wetzstein and Qi Sun.
20 minutes
A method for estimating roadway billboard salience (short paper)
Zuzana Berger Haladova, Michal Zrubec and Zuzana Cernekova.
15 minutes
Designing 3D Object Rendering Techniques for Ultrasound Mid-Air Haptics using Intersection Strategies
Lendy Mulot, Thomas Howard, Sarah Emery, Claudio Pacchierotti and Maud Marchal.
20 minutes
Investigating the Perception of Facial Anonymization Techniques in 360° Videos
Leslie Wöhler, Satoshi Ikehata and Kiyoharu Aizawa.
20 minutes
12:30 PM Lunch Break 1 hour 30 minutes
2:00 PM Session 2
1 hour 20 minutes
Comparative Effectiveness of an Omnidirectional Treadmill versus Natural Walking for Navigating in Virtual Environments
Soumyajit Chakraborty, Amanda Kane, Holly Gagnon, Timothy McNamara and Bobby Bodenheimer.
20 minutes
Measuring Velocity Perception Regarding Stimulus Eccentricity
Timon Scholz, Colin Groth, Susana Castillo, Martin Eisemann and Marcus Magnor.
20 minutes
"Together with who?" Recognizing Partners During Collaborative Avatar Manipulation
Kenta Hashiura, Takayoshi Hagiwara, Giulia Barbareschi, Sohei Wakisaka and Kouta Minamizawa.
20 minutes
Motor Skill Learning by Virtual Co-embodiment with an AI Teacher Trained in Human Teaching Behavior
Haruto Takita, Daiki Kodama, Yuji Hatada, Takuji Narumi and Michitaka Hirose.
20 minutes
3:20 PM Coffee Break 25 minutes
3:45 PM Session 3
1 hour 15 minutes
The Effect of Dynamic Facial Asymmetries on the Perceived Believability, Appeal, and Naturalness of Animated Agents
Klay Hauser, Christos Mousas, Nicoletta Adamo, Minsoo Choi, Richard Mayer and Fangzheng Zhao.
20 minutes
Investigating the Effects of Changing the Appearance of Screen-Based Avatars on Audience Memory
Takato Mizuho, Takuji Narumi and Hideaki Kuzuoka.
20 minutes
Inter-Pupillary Distance Mismatch Does Not Affect Distance Perception in Action Space
Soumyajit Chakraborty, Hunter Finney, Holly Gagnon, Sarah Creem-Regehr, Jeanine Stefanucci and Bobby Bodenheimer.
20 minutes
Blinded by the light: Does portait lighting design affect perception of realistic virtual humans? (short paper)
Pisut Wisessing and Rachel McDonnell.
15 minutes
5:00 PM Poster Fast Forward
6:00 PM Poster Session and Reception Dinner
The Rose Room at The Clarence Hotel

Accepted Posters:

Directed Views in Virtual Reality: A Semantic Approach to Volumetric Video Storytelling
Colm O'Fearghail, Nivesh Gadipudi, Gareth W. Young and John Dingliana

Effects of Temporal Load on Attentional Engagement: Preliminary Outcomes with a Change Detection Task in a VR Setting
Vasiliki Kondyli and Mehul Bhatt

Feeling Uneasy in VR? Measuring User Perception of Data Collection Practices in Extended Reality
Helen Husca

How We Perceive Places: Measuring Biomarkers of Stress in Urban Environments Using Personal Exposure Sensors, Deep Learning and Functional Data Analysis
Tadeáš Dvořák, Markéta Marakarová, Devashish Khulbe, Radim Lískovec, Ondřej Malina, David Gorný, Pavel Morcinek, Tomáš Pompa, Ondřej Mikeš, Veronika Eclerová, Filip Zlámal, Stanislav Sobolevsky, Ondřej Mulíček, and Julie Bienertová-Vašků.

Pedestrians' motion Through the Eyes of Road
Martin Bossard, Régis Lobjois, Jean-Marie Pergandi, Mehdi Pierron, Stéphane Caro, Nguyen-Thong Dang, Gilles Montagne, Remy Casanova, and Anne-Hélène Olivier

Towards Optimizing Spatial Perception of Embedded-Object Visualizations in Optical See-Through Mixed Reality
Priyansh Jalan, Xuyu Li and John Dingliana

Virtual Reality: The Future of Visual Field Testing
Kacper Błażej Gąsior, Mark Bo Jensen, Jonas Maare, Kevin Doherty and Fiona Bríd Mulvey

Day 2: August 31, 2024

Time (GMT+0) Event Duration
9:30 AM Registration
10:15 AM Welcome 15 minutes
10:30 AM Session 4
1 hour 30 minutes
Effects of Human and Animal Partner-Avatars on Profile Memory in Virtual Reality
Shun Takenaka, Takato Mizuho, Takuji Narumi and Hideaki Kuzuoka.
20 minutes
AR-in-VR simulator: A toolbox for rapid augmented reality simulation and user research
Jacob Elliott Hadnett-Hunter, Benjamin Lundell, Ian Ellison-Taylor, Michaela Porubanova, Tapani Alasaarela and Maria Olkkonen.
20 minutes
The Restorative Influence of Virtual Reality Environment Design
Jalynn Nicoly, Rachel Masters, Vidya Gaddy, Victoria Interrante and Francisco Ortega.
20 minutes
Enhancing Food Coldness Perception via Synchronous Posterior Neck Cold Stimulus During Swallowing
Shin'Ichi Komiya, Ryota Nitto, Yuki Ban, and Shin'Ichi Warisawa
20 minutes
12:00 PM Lunch Break
1:30 PM Session 5
1 hour 30 minutes
Collision avoidance behaviours of young adult walkers: Influence of a virtual pedestrian's age-related appearance and gait profile
Sheryl Bourgaize, Michael Cinelli, Pierre Raimbaud, Ludovic Hoyet and Anne-Hélène Olivier.
20 minutes
Entropy and Speed: Effects of Obstacle Motion Properties on Avoidance Behavior in Virtual Environment
Yuliya Patotskaya, Ludovic Hoyet, Katja Zibrek and Julien Pettre.
20 minutes
Exploring the Effects of Self-Overlapping Spaces on Distance Perception and Action Judgments
Jordan Payne and Andrew Robb.
20 minutes
Exploring Shooter Bias through Virtual RealityElham Ebrahimi, Brennon Treadwell, Jessica Reich and Andrew Lawson 20 minutes
3:00 PM Coffee Break 30 minutes
3:30 PM Keynote Speaker
Qi Sun, New York University, USA
"Toward Human-Centered XR: Bridging Cognition and Computation"
1 hour
4:30 PM Awards and Closing

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