Awards Chairs

Amela Sadagic – Naval Postgraduate School, USA
Henning Pohl – Aalborg University, Denmark
Christian Wallraven – Korea University, Republic of Korea

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Best Papers	Honorable Mentions
Best Posters	Honorable Mentions
Best Research Demos	Honorable Mentions
Best 3DUI Contest Demos
Best Doctoral Consortium	Honorable Mentions
Best XR Gallery	Honorable Mentions

Best Papers Award

Hayeon Kim, Dankook University; In-Kwon Lee, Yonsei University: How Much Is Too Much? Comfort Envelopes for Distortions in Virtual Reality Interaction
Takahiro Okamoto, University of Osaka; Masaki Takeuchi, University of Osaka; Masataka Sawayama, Hokkaido University; Daisuke Iwai, Osaka University: Shadowless Projection Mapping for Tabletop Workspaces with Synthetic Aperture Projector
Yin Wang, Beihang university; Zhiying Leng, Beihang University; Haitian Liu, Beihang University; Frederick W. B. Li, University of Durham; Mu Li, Beihang university; Xiaohui Liang, Beihang University: Dynamic Worlds, Dynamic Humans: Generating Virtual Human-Scene Interaction Motion in Dynamic Scenes
Natalie Hube, University of Stuttgart; Alexander Achberger, University of Stuttgart; Michael Sedlmair, University of Stuttgart: A Large-Scale Quantitative Analysis of Avatars in VR and AR
Haibo Li, Southwest university; Qingyue Deng, Southwest University; Jijiang Li, Southwest university; Haibin Ling, Westlake University; Bingyao Huang, Southwest University: Setup-Independent Full Projector Compensation

Best Papers Award (Honorable Mention)

Hyunmin Ban. The University of Hong Kong; Wenbin Zhou EEE, The University of Hong Kong; Yifan (Evan) Peng, The University of Hong Kong: Towards Edge Holography via Implicit Neural Representation and Compression
Chengzhi Tao, Nanjing University; Yiyang Sun, Nanjing University; Jie Guo, Nanjing University; Tao Zhang, NanJing University; Letian Huang; Nanjing University; Junqiu Zhu, Nanjing University; Daoheng Wang, Nanjing University; Yanwen Guo, Nanjing University: GSReuse: Temporally Adaptive Screen-Space Reuse for Accelerating 3D Gaussian Splatting
Peiyu Zhang, University of Virginia, Charlottesville; Mohamad El Iskandarani, University of Virginia; Sara Riggs, University of Virginia: Multitasking Across Physical and Virtual Displays: The Effect of Spatial Discontinuity and Task Load
Jonathan Tschanter, University of Würzburg; Christian Merz, University of Würzburg, Würzburg; Carolin Wienrich, University of Würzburg, Würzburg; Marc Erich Latoschik, University of Würzburg: How Harassment Shapes Embodiment and SelfIdentification in Social VR: Evidence from a Controlled Lab Study
Kotaro Fujimura, University of Osaka; Hiroki Kusuyama University of Osaka; Masaki Takeuchi, University of Osaka; Daisuke Iwai, University of Osaka: High-Contrast Projection Mapping under Light Field Illumination with LED Display and Aperiodic Lens Array
Ze Wu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Ahmad Alhilal, Aalto University; Yuk Hang Tsui, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Wen Jye Chai, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Matti Mikael Siekkinen, Aalto University; Pan Hui, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology: Saliency-Guided Foveated Video Encoding for Low-Latency and Immersive Cloud VR
Soumyajit Chakraborty, Vanderbilt University; Holly C Gagnon, Vanderbilt University; Timothy P McNamara, Vanderbilt University; Bobby Bodenheimer, Vanderbilt University: Collaborative Navigation Improves Spatial Learning Across Symmetric and Asymmetric Locomotion in Virtual Reality
Jiayuan Wen, University College London; Daniele Giunchi, University of Birmingham; Pasquale Cascarano, University of Bologna; Riccardo Bovo, University of Greenwich; Eyal Ofek, University of Birmingham; Anthony Steed, University College London: Tuning Immersion and Performance with Adaptive Generative Music in VR

Best XR Gallery Award

Târoot
Alma Oskouei, Ronan Gaugne, Valérie Gouranton

Best XR Gallery Award (Honorable Mention)

Year of Cicadas
Kimberly Hieftje, Asher M. Marks, Andrew Schartmann

Distributed Flânerie: Electronic Orbits of Memory as a Spatial Soft Montage
Ying Bing, Angela Chulei Tang, Yuan Zhang, Shuyi Wang, Haoqing Zhang, Ruiyao Zhu

Smell Like Home: An Olfactory-Driven VR Experience through a Scent-Camera Interface
Jiaxuan Olivia Yin, Ziyuan Yin

Best Doctoral Consortium Award

Toward Adaptive and Accessible XR Through User and Context Modeling
Zhiqing Wu

Best Doctoral Consortium Award (Honorable Mention)

Virtual Reality and Beyond: Exploring the Design and User Experience of Augmented Social Touch in VR
Sasha Alexdottir

Best Research Demo Award

ChronoShore: Exploring Short- and Long-Term Environmental Time in a Virtual Coastal Ecosystem
Lucca Troll, Yuen C. Law, Daniel Zielasko

Best Research Demo Award (Honorable Mention)

Fast Digitization in XR of Reality-Linked Gaussian-Splatted Proxies
Benjamin Yang, Shanying Liu, Kirthana Natarajan, Steven Feiner,

Best 3DUI Contest Award

From Slides to Space: Interactive Scale Navigation for XR Presentations
Matthew Gallagher, Mason Szczesniak, Francielly Rodrigues, Nakul Kumar, Jasmine Walker, Hamid Tarashiyoun, Doug Bowman

Best Poster Award

Render-to-Display of Analytic Anti-Aliased Text and Vector Graphics in VR
Varun Kumar Karuppannan

DodgeUI: An Adaptive Interface for Mitigating Attentional Conflict via Implicit Motion Cues in Mobile AR
Yi Zou, Ao Yu, Ziming Li, Hai-Ning Liang, Pan Hui

Best Poster Award (Honorable Mentions)

Enhancing Accommodative Function in XR via Dynamically Modulated Peripheral Chromatic Blur
Chanmin Jeong, Uijong Ju

Perceptually Optimized Chromatic Power Saving in XR Using Binocular Asymmetry
Wooyoung Choi, Uijong Ju