Program

Awards

Congratulations to all the authors for the quality of their papers, posters and presentations. The following contributions have been awarded respectively for:

Best Paper Award

How does motion-to-photon latency influences the perception-action loop Sony Saint-Auret, Franck Multon, Ronan Gaugne, Ludovic Hoyet, Richard Kulpa and Valérie Gouranton.

Best Paper Award - Honorable Mention

Facing Yourself: A Proxemic Approach to Self-Dyadic Interactions Tony Wolff, Anne-Hélène Olivier, Katja Zibrek, Julien Pettre and Ludovic Hoyet..

Best Paper Presentation Awards

Visual Search Strategies in Dense Virtual Reality Scenes Depend on Inter-Object Spacing Rivo Andriamanalina, Steven Le Moan and Mohamed-Chaker Larabi.

Visual Data Consistency in Cartoon Poses Governs Pose Interpretation in Professional Animators Rachael Schwartz and Rachel McDonnell.

Best Poster Award

Effects of Virtual Agent Gender and Gaze While Waiting in a Confined VR Space Jefta de Leeuw van Weenen, Tom Vierjahn, Torsten W. Kuhlen, Anne-Hélène Olivier and Andrea Bönsch

August 25, 2026

	Time (CEST)	Event	Duration
	18:00	Ice-breaker Event Informal drinks at Origines, 2 Rue de l'Hotel Dieu, Rennes	2 hours 30 min

Day 1: August 26, 2025

	Time (CEST)	Event	Duration
	8:15	Welcome coffee and Registration at the Inria centre	30 minutes
	8:45	Opening Session Conference room: Inria Amphitheater	15 minutes
	9:00	Keynote Speaker Conference room: Inria Amphitheater (ground floor) Marc O. Ernst, Ulm University, Germany "Two Ears, One Space: Locating Natural Sounds in Real and Virtual Worlds"	1 hour
	10:00	Coffee Break	30 minutes
	10:30	Session 1: Virtual Humans & Robots Conference room: Inria Amphitheater (ground floor) Session Chair: Julien Pettré	2 hours
		(TAP paper) When the Audience Laughs with You: Effects of Virtual Audience Laughter Modality and Synchrony on Comedy Viewing in VR Ryo Ohara, Chi-Lan Yang, Takuji Narumi and Hideaki Kuzuoka.	20 minutes
		(TAP paper) Don't Just Fill the Silence: Exploring Conversational Filler Strategies in Embodied Virtual Agents Yikuan Liu, Siqi Guo and Christos Mousas.	20 minutes
		Perceptions of Appearance, Voice, and Motion Familiarity in Virtual Agents Magzhan Mukanova, Fu-Chia Yang, Nicoletta Adamo-Villani and Christos Mousas (online presentation).	20 minutes
		What Makes Virtual Crowds Feel Real? Sound, Sociality, and Movement in Virtual Reality Andrea Bönsch, Julian Koska, Konstantin Wilfried Kühlem, Andrew Steven Puika and Torsten Wolfgang Kuhlen.	15 minutes
		Tsukkomi Agent: Mediating Critical Feedback for Intergenerational Dyads through Humorous Robotic Intervention Kohei Murayama, Ryo Ohara, Yusuke Koseki, Chi-Lan Yang, Takuji Narumi and Hideaki Kuzuoka.	20 minutes
		Visual Data Consistency in Cartoon Poses Governs Pose Interpretation in Professional Animators Rachael Schwartz and Rachel McDonnell.	15 minutes
	10:30	Session 2 (parallel session): Visual Perception Conference room: Petri-Turing (upstairs) Session Chair: Jeannine Stefanucci	2 hours
		Virtual Reality and the Perception of Non-Euclidean Geometry: How Expert Mathematicians Evaluate Its Research Potential Maé Mavromatis, Rémi Coulon, Ronan Gaugne, Bruno Arnaldi and Valérie Gouranton.	20 minutes
		(TAP paper) How does motion-to-photon latency influences the perception-action loop How does motion-to-photon latency influences the perception-action loop Sony Saint-Auret, Franck Multon, Ronan Gaugne, Ludovic Hoyet, Richard Kulpa and Valérie Gouranton	20 minutes
		(TAP paper) Investigating Environment–Beverage Matching: Effects on Expected and Perceived Palatability Kento Kawada, Shin'Ichi Komiya, Ryota Nitto, Shin'Ichi Warisawa and Yuki Ban.	20 minutes
		Spatial Updating in VR Navigation: Effects of Locomotion Action Fidelity and Visual Fidelity Yu Wang, Philipp Wintersberger and Matteo Bosco.	15 minutes
		Semantics Drive Noticing Rates in Realistic Change Blindness Scenarios Muhammad Ramish, Matti Pouke, Steven LaValle, Timo Ojala and Evan Center.	20 minutes
		Human Strategies for Semantic-Based Colors Representing Multi-Label Classes Laura Pelchmann, Lena Jacobi, Sebastian Bremm and Tatiana von Landesberger.	20 minutes
	12:30 PM	Lunch Break (Hall)	1 hour 30 minutes
	14:00	Session 3: Augmented Reality Conference room: Inria Amphitheater (ground floor) Session Chair: Sarah Creem-Regehr	1 hour 20 minutes
		Guiding Safe Pedestrian Navigation with Virtual Cues Ashley Buzard, Emily Tighe, Yu Zhao, Sodabe Bandali, Bobby Bodenheimer, Jeanine Stefanucci and Sarah Creem-Regehr.	20 minutes
		Real-World Clutter Improves Egocentric Distance Judgments in Optical See-Through Augmented Reality Sodabe Bandali, Yuanhao Lyu, Soumyajit Chakraborty, Jeanine Stefanucci, Sarah Creem-Regehr and Bobby Bodenheimer.	20 minutes
		Interaction Over Appearance: A Psychophysical Investigation of Presence Factors in Augmented Reality Bobby Bodenheimer, Nishan Shehadeh and Richard Skarbez.	20 minutes
		Comparing Ground-Anchored Augmented Reality Visualizations of Waste Heat Redistribution Tania Krisanty and Stefan Gumhold.	20 minutes
	14:00	Session 4 (parallel session): Gaze & Eye Tracking Conference room: Petri-Turing (upstairs) Session Chair: Eakta Jain	1 hour 20 minutes
		Effects of Geometric Distortions on Visual Attention and Scanpath Dynamics in 3D Meshes Sonain Jamil, Julien Pettré, Sébastien Iksal and Erwan David.	20 minutes
		Eyes on the Curve: Visual Constraints and Steering Accuracy in a VR Driving Simulator Obaida Alrazouk, Hichem Arioui and Amine Chellali.	20 minutes
		Visualizing Hypotheses: Perception of Reconstructed Heritage Buildings in Virtual Reality Maxime Dumonteil, Theophane Nicolas, Marc Macé, Valérie Gouranton and Ronan Gaugne.	20 minutes
		(TAP paper) Visual Search Strategies in Dense Virtual Reality Scenes Depend on Inter-Object Spacing Rivo Andriamanalina, Steven Le Moan and Mohamed-Chaker Larabi.	20 minutes
	15:20	Poster Fast Forward Conference room: Inria Amphitheater (ground floor)	15 minutes
	15:35	Coffee Break + Poster Session Conference room: Petri-Turing (upstairs)	1 hour
	16:35 PM	Session 5: Time and Depth Conference room: Inria Amphitheater (ground floor) Session Chair: Etienne Peillard	1 hour
		Estimating the Curvature of Visual Space in Virtual Reality Using an Exocentric Pointing Task Alexis Chambers, Alizée Pinet, Evan Center, Timo Ojala, Steven LaValle and Nicoletta Prencipe.	20 minutes
		High-Precision Assessment of Stereoacuity in Virtual Reality with STRIVE (STereo Random-dot Interactive Virtual Environment) Triya Belani, Chengyi Ma and Gabriel J. Diaz.	20 minutes
		Let’s get the ball rolling: Implementing the use of immersive virtual reality in space and time perceptual estimates Alex Detrich, Emma Butner, Sarah Creem-Regehr and Jeanine Stefanucci.	15 minutes
	16:35 PM	Session 6 (Parallel Session): Audio Conference room: Petri-Turing (upstairs) Session Chair: Marc Ernst	1 hour
		Spatial Audio Feedback for Discrete Rotation Technique in Virtual Reality Neil Roy, Madelein Olivan Villegas, Jeeeun Kim and Jong-in Lee.	20 minutes
		Effects of Audiovisual Environmental Stimuli on Humidity Perception Without Changing Actual Humidity Kei Takanohashi, Shin'Ichi Komiya, Shin'Ichi Warisawa and Yuki Ban.	20 minutes
		A Tale of Two Sounds: Audiovisual Localization in Depth with Physical and Virtual Sound Sources Maggie McCracken, Adhithya Narayanan, Jeanine Stefanucci and Sarah Creem-Regehr.	15 minutes
	17:35	Free time
	19:30	Social Event at Le Grand Huit, 20 rue Pierre Martin, Rennes

Day 2: August 27, 2026

Time (CEST)	Event	Duration
8:30	Welcome coffee and Registration at the Inria centre
9:00	Session 7: Haptics Conference room: Inria Amphitheater (ground floor) Session Chair: Claudio Pacchierotti	1 hour 40 minutes
	Planar haptics: A wireless haptic glove using interwoven nitinol actuators for accelerated feedback response Michael Efraimidis and Katerina Mania.	20 minutes
	Temperature vs Heat Flow: How Thermal Control Modality Influences Perception and Haptic Experience in VR Sophie Villenave, Matthieu Mesnage, Matthieu Blanchard, Pierre Raimbaud, Bertrand Massot and Guillaume Lavoué.	20 minutes
	Investigating Two-Point Discrimination Using a Fixed-Amplitude Vibrotactile Pin Array Aoi Yamada, Hiroto Sasaki, Hiroaki Yano, Vibol Yem and Hiroyuki Kajimoto.	20 minutes
	Perceptual Threshold of Round-Trip Delay in TPTA Systems during Viscoelastic Object Interaction Ravi Prakash Meghwanshi, Amit Bhardwaj and Himanshu Kumar.	20 minutes
	Perceptual Study of Vibro-Thermal Stimulations Interactions Across the Hand Using a Modular Haptic Stylus Lisa Bachini, Guillaume Gicquel and Maud Marchal.	20 minutes
10:40	Coffee Break	30 minutes
11:10	Session 8: Body Perception Conference room: Inria Amphitheater (ground floor) Session Chair: Victoria Interrante	1 hour 20 minutes
	Effect of visuo-motor adaptation on the detection threshold of hand-redirection in virtual reality Qihang Zhu, Gilles Bailly, Emmanuel Guigon and Julien Gori	20 minutes
	What Drives Detection in Hand Redirection? Qihang Zhu, Gilles Bailly, Emmanuel Guigon and Julien Gori	20 minutes
	Do motion retargeting and AI-generated motion preserve anticipatory visual information in boxing animation? Annabelle Limballe, Ahmed Abdourahman Mahamoud, Guillaume Claude, Simon J. Bennett, Richard Kulpa and Franck Multon.	20 minutes
	(Invited TAP paper) Investigating Self-Body Perception and Its Effect on Affordance in Augmented RealityÉtienne Peillard, Marie-Cécile Leculier, Malena Joly, and Nathalie Le Bigot	20 minutes
12:30	Lunch Break (Hall)	1 hour 30 minutes
14:00	Session 9: Gravity and Movement Conference room: Inria Amphitheater (ground floor) Session Chair: Keigo Matsumoto	1 hour
	Persistent Biases in Gravity Perception at Altered Scale in Virtual Reality Despite Interactive Priming Matti Pouke, Aleksi Sierilä, Evan Center, Alexis Chambers, Timo Ojala and Steven LaValle.	20 minutes
	Users rely on a body-centric model to assess gravity in virtual reality Max Garcia Hinojosa, Evan Center, Timo Ojala, Steven Lavalle and Matti Pouke	20 minutes
	Not only Scale, but also Natural Mapping: Exploring Micro-Movement Locomotion for Embodiment in VR Mingyo Kim, Takashi Ota and Takuji Narumi.	20 minutes
14:00	Session 10 (parallel session): Deitic & Non-Verbal Communication Conference room: Petri-Turing (upstairs) Session Chair: Andrea Bönsch	1 hour
	(TAP paper) Facing Yourself: A Proxemic Approach to Self-Dyadic Interactions Tony Wolff, Anne-Hélène Olivier, Katja Zibrek, Julien Pettre and Ludovic Hoyet.	20 minutes
	Deictic and Communicative Behavior Changes with Switching-Based Multi-Hand Avatars in Collaborative VR Naoki Fujimoto, Reigo Ban, Amane Yamaguchi, Takuji Narumi and Hideaki Kuzuoka.	20 minutes
	Understanding Collision Avoidance Cues in Virtual Humans Reiya Itatani, Tairan Yin, Kexiang Huang, Jose Luis Ponton, Oscar Argudo and Nuria Pelechano.	20 minutes
15:00	Coffee Break	30 minutes
15:30	Keynote Speaker Conference room: Inria Amphitheater (ground floor) Victoria Interrante, University of Minnesota, USA "Harnessing the Potential of Virtual Reality Nature Immersion to Improve Well-Being"	1 hour
16:30	Concluding remarks Conference room: Inria Amphitheater (ground floor)	15 minutes

Posters

Title and Authors
Modulation of the Pleasantness of Brush-Stroking Stimuli with an External Virtual Agent Expressing Pleasant Affect in VR Koki Honda, Juro Hosoi, Rui Zhang and Yuki Ban
A Theory-Informed Roadmap Towards Multimodal Ocular-based Agnes Widera, Torsten Wolfgang Kuhlen and Andrea Bönsch
Dissociable Perceptual Effects of Rendering and Animation in Expressive VR Avatars Jan Spindler, Sina Kitz, Joshua Smallberg, Bardia
Effects of Virtual Agent Gender and Gaze While Waiting in a Confined VR Space Jefta de Leeuw van Weenen, Tom Vierjahn, Torsten W. Kuhlen, Anne-Hélène Olivier and Andrea Bönsch
Phase-Based Latency Mitigation in LLM-Driven VR Agents Konstantin Wilfried Kühlem, Ying Zhou, Torsten W. Kuhlen and Andrea Bönsch
Perceive More By Seeing Less Daniel Pillis, Pawan Sinha, Ken Zolot, Seth Riskin, Yuriy Reznik and Cayden Pierce
Perceived Distraction and Annoyance in a VR Listening Task Konstantin Wilfried Kühlem, Aaron S. Welker, Agnes Widera, Sabine J. Schlittmeier, Janina Fels and Andrea Bönsch
Exploratory fNIRS Measures During Redirected Hand Interaction Keigo Matsumoto, Koki Ono and Takuji Narumi
Multi-Channel Perception Control for Electrotactile Stimulation Using Waveform-Based Threshold Estimation and Adaptive Feedback Yuta Kurimata, Hiroaki Yano, Hiroyuki Kajimoto and Vibol Yem
Exploring the Affective Potential of Vibrotactile Feedback in Extended Reality Noelia Gonzalez, Arturo S. Garcia, Antonio Fernandez Caballero and Jose P. Molina
Multisensory Perception of Virtual Human Groups: Effects of Sensory Modality on Group Size Estimation and Induced Discomfort Marine Taffou, Lise Hobeika and Isabelle Viaud-Delmon
Probability of experiencing visual discomfort with a 3D AR-HUD Antoine Morice, Mathieu Thomas, Anthony Guillaud, Mélanie Mahieu, David Vrinat, Julien Murias, Aldighieri Paul, Emmanuelle Diaz, Clément Bougard and David Barat
How much fidelity is needed? Toward evaluating the impact of thermal model complexity on virtual reality realism Matthieu Mesnage, Sophie Villenave and Bertrand Massot
The Nocturnity Scale: Measuring the Sense of Being at Night in Virtual Urban Environments Anthony Le Gourriérec, Etienne Peillard, Nicolas Houel and Myriam Servières
Towards the Perception of Motion Style in Photorealistic 3DGS Avatars for Virtual Reality Sports Applications Oumaima Badi, Xiaoran Jiang and Luce Morin
Actively tracking ship heave for helicopter deck-landing Mathieu Thomas, Jayson Helluin-Bastide and Antoine Morice
Congruency-Dependent Gaze Allocation to Avatar Facial Expressions during Shared Video Viewing in Immersive VR Joshua Smallberg, Sina Kitz, Jan Spindler, Bardia Ardakanian, Leif Van Holland, Nils Wandel and Reinhard Klein
A Preliminary Study of Physiological Priming for Competition-like Tension in a Virtual Reality Basketball Task Lingshan Ye, Koki Honda, Shin'Ichi Warisawa and Yuki Ban
What Makes Virtual Experiences Meaningful? Individual and Experiential Factors in Virtual Heritage Experience Sunghyun Lee, Joohye Lee and Sowon Hahn
Nunchi-Aware AI: A Computational Framework for Hesitation Detection and Socially Calibrated Intervention in Dyadic Interaction Hoyoung Maeng, Joohye Lee and Sowon Hahn
Preliminary Investigation of Viewpoint Movement Gain for Modulating Perceived Load during Bodyweight Exercise Ren Nagata, Kai Guo, Shin'Ichi Warisawa and Yuki Ban
BLUR: Enabling Translucent Information Representation Maëlle François, Elodie Bouzekri, Gilles Coppin and Thierry Coye de Brunélis
Effect of Locomotion Mode and Speed on Visual Motion Extrapolation in a Micromobility Context: a Pilot Study Pierre Vauclin, Agathe Bilhaut, Martin Bossard, Ludovic Hoyet and Anne-Hélène Olivier
Usability of Integrated Eye-Tracking HMDs for Real-Time Unreal Engine Applications Agnes Widera, Torsten Wolfgang Kuhlen and Andrea Bönsch
Effects of Prior Knowledge and Self-Reflection on Curiosity and Exploration in Virtual Reality Narratives Joohye Lee, Sunghyun Lee and Sowon Hahn
A Preliminary Study of Handheld Haptic Breathing Guidance Using Vibrotactile Feedback Synchronized with Breathing Sounds and Delayed Expansion and Contraction Motion Taro Kurashima, Shin'Ichi Warisawa and Yuki Ban
Investigating the impact of image content and ambient light levels on preferred gamma Claire Mantel, Hui Wang, Carsten Dam-Hansen and Søren Forchhammer