Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality - Program

S036: Enhanced Learning, Rehabilitation, and User Interactions
Chair: Hanfu He, P.R. China

• Enhancing Spatial Design Pedagogy: An Empirical Investigation of VR Technology in Environmental Design Education
  Jie Ling, Li Ou Yang, Weilin Su, Dan Li, P.R. China
  
• Motion-sensing Interactive Game Design of Wuqinxi for Hearing-impaired People
  Xiaowen Yu, Rongrong Fu, P.R. China
  
• Navigating Real-to-Virtual Onboarding: A Holistic Exploration and Framework for Immersive Transitions
  Priyanka Bharti, Sanika Bhide, Chirag Savaliya, India
  
• Enhancing Cognitive Rehabilitation with Augmented Reality: The Role of Virtual Characters in Attention Restoration
  Hanfu He, Wei Cui, Yu Wang, P.R. China
  
• Evaluation of the Effect of Three-dimensional Shape in VR Space on Emotion Using Physiological Indexes
  Takato Kobayashi, Japan; Narumon Jadram, Thailand; Midori Sugaya, Japan
  
• Research on the Multisensory Feedback Representation of the Menu Cards in VR Home Interface
  Shangge Li, Taiwan; Jing Zhang, Xingcheng Di, Chengqi Xue, P.R. China
  

S073: Analysing User Engagement in XR Environments
Chair(s): To be announced

• Bridging Tradition and Innovation: Exploring the Factors Influencing Students’ Intention to Use Metaverse Technology for Chinese Calligraphy Learning
  Yang Li, Zhuoning He, Yi Yang, P.R. China
  
• Identifying Influencing Factors of Immersion in Remote Collaboration
  Yifan Yang, Xu Sun, Jie Gao, Ziqi Zhou, Sheng Zhang, Canjun Yang, P.R. China
  
• Perceived Playfulness: Factors Affecting the VR Display Experience in Museums
  Zehui Zhao, Ruisi Liu, Junjie Chu, P.R. China
  
• Affecting Audience Valence and Arousal in 360 Immersive Environments: How Powerful Neural Style Transfer Is?
  Yanheng Li, Long Bai, Yaxuan Mao, Hong Kong; Xuening Peng, United States; Zehao Zhang, Canada; Antoni Chan, Jixing Li, Hong Kong; Xin Tong, P.R. China; Ray LC, Hong Kong
  
• XR Smart Environments Design and Fruition: Personalizing Shared Spaces
  Meng Li, P.R. China; Flora Gaetani, Lorenzo Ceccon, Federica Caruso, Italy; Yu Zhang, P.R. China; Armagan Albayrak, Daan Van Eijk, Netherlands
  
• Analyzing the Interplay of Visual and Auditory Stimuli on Human Physiology and Stress Levels in Virtual Environment
  Yik Junn Kuan, Malaysia; Mahdiyeh sadat MOOSAVI, Christophe Guillet, France; Angelina Seow Voon Yee, Malaysia; Frederic Merienne, France
  

S084: Designing Optimized XR Experiences
Chair(s): To be announced

• Comparing Different Methods for Remote Configuration of Pervasive Augmented Reality Experiences: A User Study in Logistics Procedures
  Rafael Maio, Bernardo Marques, Paulo Dias, Beatriz Sousa Santos, Portugal
  
• Z3VR - An Interactive VR Learning Environment for One of the First Computers (Konrad Zuse’s Z3)
  Lukas Moersler, David A. Plecher, Christian Eichhorn, Gudrun Klinker, Germany
  
• Optimizing XR User Experiences through Network-Based Asset Bundles
  Maurizio Vergari, Tanja Kojic, Maximilian Warsinke, Sebastian Möller, Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons, Osama Abboud, Xun Xiao, Germany
  
• A Novel Approach for Software 3D-Debugging in Virtual Reality
  Sven-Tizian Mauer, Laura Ködel, Lukas Ertl, David Flaig, Germany; Martin Hedlund, Sweden; Gerrit Meixner, Germany
  
• Augmenting Self-Presentation: Augmented Reality (AR) Filters Use Among Young Adults
  Pitch Sinlapanuntakul, Mark Zachry, United States
  
• LimberUI: A Model-Based Design Tool for 3D UI Layouts Accommodating Uncertainty in Context of Use and User Attributes
  Jamie W. Lee, Kwang Lee, United States
  

S101: VR and AR in Cultural Heritage, and Interactive Training
Chair: Zeyu Zhou, United States

• Design and Implementation of a Virtual Reality Tennis Serve Practice System for Creative Tennis Serve Practice
  Yuichiro Hiramoto, Japan; Mohammed Al-Sada, Qatar; Tatsuo Nakajima, Japan
  
• Designing Immersive Music Visualization Experience for Preschoolers Based on MR
  Xin Hu, Macau
  
• Exploration of Cultural IP Image and Common Pattern Gene Extraction in Virtual Reality Design Interaction
  Junyu Zhou, Ruiyang Chen, P.R. China
  
• Enhancing Ancient Architecture Virtual Learning Tour Through Virtual Embodiment: Impact on Immersion, Engagement, and Learning Outcomes
  Yuetong Chen, Shuhan Shen, Min Hua, P.R. China
  
• Game Engine Technology in Cultural Heritage Digitization Application Prospect–Taking the Digital Cave of the Mogao Caves in China as an Example
  Ruiguang Tan, Bingnan Jiang, Shujie Liu, Jie Zhang, P.R. China
  
• Research on Immersive Virtual Reality Interactive Design for Dyeing and Weaving Process in Tang Dynasty
  Chenchen Ge, P.R. China
  

S132: Enhancing User Perception, Presence, and Comfort in VR
Chair: Angelos Barmpoutis, United States

• Exploring User Preferences for Walking in Virtual Reality Interfaces through an Online Questionnaire
  Ata Otaran, Germany; Ildar Farkhatdinov, United Kingdom
  
• The influence of the level of detail and interactivity of 3D elements on UX in XR applications
  Maurizio Vergari, Maximilian Warsinke, Tanja Kojic, Sebastian Möller, Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons, Osama Abboud, Xun Xiao, Germany
  
• An Analysis of the Sense of Presence and Cybersickness in Virtual Reality: The Influence of Content Type, Exposure Time, and Gender
  Pedro Reisinho, Catia Silva, Maria Ferreira, Rui Raposo, Mario Vairinhos, Nelson Zagalo, Portugal
  
• Scientific Knowledge Database to Support Cybersickness Detection and Prevention
  Milton Franca, Angelo Amaral, Ferrucio de Franco Rosa, Rodrigo Bonacin, Brazil
  
• Assessing the Influence of Passive Haptics on User Perception of Physical Properties in Virtual Reality
  Logan Kemper, Juan Lam, Matthew Levine, Aiden White Pifer, Seung Hyuk Jang, Markus Santoso, Angelos Barmpoutis, United States
  
• The Correlations of Scene Complexity, Workload, Presence, and Cybersickness in a Task-Based VR Game
  Mohammadamin Sanaei, Stephen B. Gilbert, Nikoo Javadpour, Hila Sabouni, Michael C. Dorneich, Jonathan W. Kelly, United States
  
• Working in extended reality: a study on the relationship between concentration and work in immersive environments.
  Yuri Inhamuns, Fernanda Pimentel, Marcos Silbermann, Brazil
  

S155: PANEL: The WHAT, the WHEN and the HOW of using extended vs. diminished reality in aviation
Room: Columbia1
Chair: Daniela Kratchounova, United States

• Effects of Augmented and Diminished Reality (AR/DR) on the User’s Cognition: A Survey of Empirical Findings and Predictions
  HeeSun Choi, United States
  
• Balanced use of Augmented Reality and Diminished Reality in Head-Worn Devices
  Kyle Morrison, United States
  
• Use of Extended Reality and Diminished Reality in Aviation Training
  Florian Jentsch, United States
  
• Use of Synthetic Vision on Head-Down and Head-Up Displays to Enhance Reality Perception
  Thea Feyereisen, United States
  

S170: PANEL: Human-Centered VAMR for Military Applications: Successes and Challenges
Room: Columbia1
Chair: Sarah Garcia, United States

• Soldiers’ Unique Mixed Reality User Needs: Insights from Lab and Field
  Aaron L. Gardony, United States
  
• Enhancing Virtual Reality Experience: Multimodal Interaction Techniques
  Chao Peng, United States
  
• Effectively Leveraging Virtual Reality Affordances to Support Military Training
  Matthew Marraffino, United States
  
• Is VAMR Right for Your Training Game?
  Tabitha Dwyer, United States
  

S182: Modeling & Simulation Techniques, Methods, and Processes for Effective Multi-Agent Coordination
Room: Columbia1
Chair: Kristin E. Schaefer, United States

• Modeling and Simulation Technologies for Effective Multi-Agent Research
  Kristin E. Schaefer, Ralph W. Brewer, Joshua Wickwire, Rosario Scalise, Chad C. Kessens, United States
  
• AWARESCUES: Awareness Cues Scaling with Group Size and Extended Reality Devices
  Vera M. Memmesheimer, Jannik Löber, Achim Ebert, Germany
  
• Augmented Virtuality – A Simplified, Scalable, and Modular Open-Source Unity Development System for Tangible VR with the Meta Quest 2
  Bjarke Kristian Maigaard Kjaer Pedersen, Patricia Bianca Lyk, Daniel Alexander Auerbach, Denmark
  
• Enhancing Remote Collaboration Through Drone-Driven Agent and Mixed Reality
  Shihui Xu, Japan; Like Wu, Wenjie Liao, P.R. China; Shigeru Fujimura, Japan
  
• Investigation of the Impression Given by the Appearance and Gestures of a Virtual Reality Agent Describing a Display Product
  Michiko Inoue, Shouta Hioki, Fuyuko Iwasaki, Shunsuke Yoneda, Masashi Nishiyama, Japan
  
• Augmented Reality Compensatory Aid for Improved Weapon Splash-Zone Awareness
  Domenick M. Mifsud, Chris D. Wickens, Richard Rodriguez, Francisco R. Ortega, Mike Maulbeck, United States
  

S210: VR Applications for Transporation, Health, Rehabilitation, and Education
Room: Lincoln West
Chair: Jung Hyup Kim, United States

• Assessing Body Dissatisfaction and Attentional Bias Towards the Body Using Eye-Tracking Technology in Virtual Reality
  Jose Gutierrez-Maldonado, Alejandra Rueda-Pina, Mariarca Ascione, Franck-Alexandre Meschberger-Annweiler, Marta Ferrer-Garcia, Maria-Teresa Mendoza-Medialdea, Spain; Bruno Porras-Garcia, United States
  
• SpaceXR: Virtual Reality and Data Mining for Astronomical Visualization
  Mikhail Nikolaenko, Ming Tang, United States
  
• VR-Enhanced Teleoperation System for a Semi-Autonomous Mulitplatform All-Terrain Exploration Vehicle
  Daniel Scholl, Jannis Meier, Michael Reke, Germany
  
• Design, Development, and Evaluation of a Virtual Reality-based Distance Learning Application in Manual Medicine and Therapy
  Laura Steffny, Nils Ove Beese, Kevin Gisa, Nina Christine Peters, Jan Spilski, Thomas Lachmann, Dirk Werth, Germany
  
• A Virtual Reality based Therapeutic Approach for Stuttering Intervention
  J. Cecil, John A Tetnowski, Sriram Kumar Tentu, United States
  
• Stepping Into Recovery with an Immersive Virtual Reality Serious Game for Upper Limb Rehabilitation: A Supermarket Experience for Stroke Survivors
  Sergio Oliveira, Bernardo Marques, Paula Amorim, Paulo Dias, Beatriz Sousa Santos, Portugal
  

S223: Evaluating Player Dynamics, Embodiment, and Interaction in VR Environments
Room: Jefferson East
Chairs: Shih-Yi Chien, Taiwan; Patrick Hung, Canada

• Does It Look Real? Visual Realism Complexity Scale for 3D Objects in VR
  Rahel Schmied-Kowarzik, Lina Kaschub, Thore Keser, Rebecca Rodeck, Gerko Wende, Germany
  
• The Effects of a Virtual Instructor with Realistic Lip Sync in an Augmented Reality Environment
  Madeline Easley, Jung Hyup Kim, Siddarth Mohanty, Ching-Yun Yu, Varun Pulipati, Sara Mostowfi, Fang Wang, Kangwon Seo, Danielle Oprean, United States
  
• The Impact of Different Levels of Spatial Cues on Size Perception: A Spatial Perception Study of Altered Conditions
  Faezeh Salehi, Fatemeh Pariafsai, Manish K. Dixit, United States
  
• Exploring VR Wizardry: A Generic Control Tool for Wizard of Oz Experiments
  Tabea Runzheimer, Stefan Friesen, Sven Milde, Johannes-Hubert Peiffer, Jan-Torsten Milde, Germany
  
• Games That Move You: A Cinematic User Experience Evaluation of VR Games
  Andrew Bedard, Kevin Bedard, Qiping Zhang, United States
  
• “Not in Kansas Anymore” Exploring Avatar-Player Dynamics through a Wizard of Oz Approach in Virtual Reality
  Adam Palmquist, Izabella Jedel, Chris Hart, Victor Manuel Perez Colado, Aedan Soellaart, Norway
  

S237: Human Interaction Principles for the Design of XR-Based Environments
Room: Jefferson East
Chairs: Inki Kim, Avinash Gupta, J. Cecil, United States

• Study of Perception and Cognition in Immersive Digital Twins for Robotic Assembly Processes
  J. Cecil, Vasavi Gannina, Sriram Kumar Tentu, United States
  
• Evaluation of Large Language Model Generated Dialogues for an AI Based VR Nurse Training Simulator
  Nimit Kapadia, Shreekant Gokhale, Anthony Nepomuceno, Wanning Cheng, Samantha Bothwell, Maureen Mathews, John S. Shallat, Celeste Schultz, Avinash Gupta, United States
  
• HoloLens 2 Technical Evaluation as Mixed Reality Guide
  Prabhakaran Balakrishnan, United States; Hung-Jui Guo, Taiwan
  
• Conceptualizing Collaborative Team Learning in XR for Medical Education and Training
  Chris Hartman, Inki Kim, United States; Jeeheon Ryu, Korea
  

S238: Strategies for Optimizing Design and Testing of XR Applications
Room: Jefferson West
Chair: Matthew Marraffino, United States

• Effects of Redirected Walking on Cybersickness in an Applied Virtual Environment
  Matthew Marraffino, Kristen Schmidt, Allison Garibaldi, Nicholas Fraulini, United States
  
• Effects of Avatar Design on Alarm Resolution in a Virtual Reality Physical Security Scenario
  Aaron Jones, Michael Trumbo, Andrew McFarland, Allen Bagwell, Bradley Robert, Aundre Marzulli, Stephanie Roldan, David Band, United States
  
• Optimizing AR Application Testing: Integrating Metamorphic Testing to Address Developer and End-User Challenges
  Dibyendu brinto Bose, Brendan David-John, Chris Brown, United States
  
• Conceptual Design Ease of Use MR-PACS
  Zeyu Zhou, Yidan Cong, Lingjing Liu, United States
  

S260: Analyzing Human Performance in Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality Applications
Room: Georgetown West
Chairs: Simon Su, Lap-Fai Yu, United States

• HoloAAC: A Mixed Reality AAC Application for People with Expressive Language Difficulties
  Liuchuan Yu, Huining Feng, Rawan Alghofaili, Boyoung Byun, Tiffany O'Neal, Swati Rampalli, Yoosun Chung, Vivian Genaro Motti, Lap-Fai Yu, United States
  
• Are We There Yet? Unravelling Usability Challenges and Opportunities in Collaborative Immersive Analytics for Domain Experts
  Fahim Arsad Nafis, Alexander Rose, Simon Su, Songqing Chen, Bo Han, United States
  
• HoloCook: A Real-Time Remote Mixed Reality Cooking Tutoring System
  Liuchuan Yu, Bo Han, Songqing Chen, Lap-Fai Yu, United States
  
• Thirteen Hongs of Canton: An Immersive Virtual Reality Game for Exploration of Cultural Heritage
  Guangdai Chen, Xintong Xie, Zhimin Chen, P.R. China; Chaoguang Wang, United Kingdom
  
• Mixed-Integer Programming for Adaptive VR Workflow Training
  Yongqi Zhang, Chuan Yan, Haikun Huang, Simon Su, Lap-Fai Yu, United States
  
• An Effective Design on Locomotion and View Management for An Immersive Analytics Platform in Everyday Use
  Bo Sun, Benjamin Weidner, United States
  

S273: Haptic and Gesture-based Interaction in XR
Room: Monroe
Chair: Ali Israr, United States

• Factors of Haptic Feedback in a VR Experience using Virtual Tools: Evaluating the Impact of Visual and Force Presentation
  Kairyu Mori, Masayuki Ando, Kouyou Otsu, Tomoko Izumi, Japan
  
• A Literature Review and Proposal Towards the Further Integration of Haptics in Aviation
  Rudy D. De Lange, Netherlands
  
• Proof-of-concept MARG-based Glove for Intuitive 3D Human-Computer Interaction
  Pontakorn Sonchan, Neeranut Ratchatanantakit, Nonnarit O-larnnithipong, Malek Adjouadi, Armando Barreto, United States
  
• Collecting and Analyzing the Mid-Air Gestures Data in Augmented Reality and User Preferences in Closed Elicitation Study
  Jieqiong Li, Adam S. Coler, Zahra Boarhani, Francisco R. Ortega, United States
  
• A Stereohaptics Accessory for Spatial Computing Devices
  Ali Israr, Asad Tirmizi, United States; Bo Zhu, Dehao Zhao, Erting Cheng, P.R. China; Zachary Schwemler, United States
  
• Study and development of machine learning models designed for extended reality interactivity in real-time
  GEOVANA ABENSUR, AGUSTIN ALEJANDRO ORTIZ DIAZ, Sergio Cleger Tamayo, Delrick Nunes de Oliveira, Brazil
  

S285: XR as a Tool for Discovery and Learning
Room: Monroe
Chair: Yinghsiu Huang, Taiwan

• Research on the Benefits of Biophilia Effects in Virtual Environments
  HsinChiao Chan, Yinghsiu Huang, Taiwan
  
• Breaking Barriers for Classical Chinese: Tang Poetry in Virtual Reality
  Carrie Ching, Germany
  
• Interactive Visualizations for Crime Data Analysis by Mixed Reality
  Sharad Sharma, Sri Chandra Dronavalli, Maruthi Prasanna Chellatore, Rishitha Reddy Pesaladinne, United States
  
• Field Trials of an AI-AR-based System for Remote Bridge Inspection by Drone
  Jean-Francois Lapointe, Mohand Said Allili, Nadir Hammouche, Canada
  
• Advantages of Virtual Reality Tool for Helping Personal Sketch Modeling
  Ming-Huang Lin, Yun-Wen Lee, Yun-Wen Lee, Yu-Cheng Lin, Taiwan; Hao-Xuan Lu, Netherlands