ICAT-EGVE 2018 Program

Susanne Schmidt, Gerd Bruder, and Frank Steinicke; Evaluation of Generic and Content – Specific Embodied Virtual Agents as Museum Guides for Historical Exhibitions

Paul Lubos, Gerd Bruder, and Frank Steinicke; SafeWalking Zones: Visual Guidance for Redirected Walking in Confined Real-World Spaces

Ryan Schubert, Gerd Bruder, and Gregory Welch; Adaptive Filtering of Physical-Virtual Artifacts for Synthetic Animatronics

Gregory Welch, Tianren Wang, Gary Bishop, and Gerd Bruder; A Novel Approach for Cooperative Motion Capture (COMOCAP)

Kangsoo Kim, Gerd Bruder, and Gregory F. Welch; Blowing in the Wind: Increasing Copresence with a Virtual Human via Airflow Influence in Augmented Reality

S. Haesler, K. Kim, G. Bruder, and G. Welch, “Seeing is Believing: Improving the Perceived Trust in Visually Embodied Alexa in Augmented Reality,” In Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 2018, pp. xx–xx (Accepted)

The camera-ready version has been submitted.

IVA 2018 Program

Nahal Norouzi, Kangsoo Kim, Jason Hochreiter, Myungho Lee, Salam Daher, Gerd Bruder and Gregory Welch; A Systematic Survey of 15 Years of User Studies Published in the Intelligent Virtual Agents Conference

Salam Daher, Jason Hochreiter, Nahal Norouzi, Laura Gonzalez, Gerd Bruder and Gregory Welch; Physical-Virtual Agents for Healthcare Simulation

Kangsoo Kim, Mark Billinghurst, Gerd Bruder, Henry Been-Lirn Duh, and Gregory F. Welch, “Revisiting Trends in Augmented Reality Research: A Review of the 2nd Decade of ISMAR (2008–2017),” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (In Press)

Kangsoo Kim, Luke Boelling, Steffen Haesler, Jeremy N. Bailenson, Gerd Bruder, and Gregory F. Welch, “Does a Digital Assistant Need a Body? The Influence of Visual Embodiment and Social Behavior on the Perception of Intelligent Virtual Agents in AR,” In Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (In Press)

Congratulations, Myungho.

On June 11, 2018 Myungho Lee presented his Doctorial Dissertation Proposal entitled “MEDIATED PHYSICALITY: INDUCING ILLUSORY PHYSICALITY OF A VIRTUAL HUMAN VIA ENVIRONMENTAL OBJECTS.” Congratulations, Myungho.

Salam Daher is a winner for the NCWIT Collegiate Award 2018. They had 147 total applicants from 91 two and four year institutions in the states, from which they chose 4 winners and the 15 honorable mentions. The awards ceremony was held in Grapevine TX in on 15 May 2018.

Congratulations Salam!

NCWIT 2018 Collegiate Awards Ceremony