Awards

ISMAR Career Impact Award

• Bruce Thomas In recognition for the significant impact his lifelong research has had to the field of Mixed and Augmented Reality.

ISMAR Paper Impact Award

• Scene modelling, recognition and tracking with invariant image features Iryna Skrypnyk and David G. Lowe

Best Paper Award

• Negotiated User-to-Group Teleportations in Social VR Wen-Tong Shu, Yi-Jun Li, Hao-Zhong Yang, Zi-Nan Han, Frank Steinicke, and Miao Wang
• Detecting Visual Information Manipulation Attacks in Augmented Reality: A Multimodal Semantic Reasoning Approach Yanming Xiu and Maria Gorlatova
• Ada: A Distributed, Power-Aware, Real-Time Scene Provider for XR Yihan Pang, Sushant Kondguli, Shenlong Wang, and Sarita Adve
• Viewpoint-Tolerant Depth Perception for Shared Extended Space Experience on Wall-Sized Display Dooyoung Kim, Jinseok Hong, Heejeong Ko, and Woontack Woo
• A Handheld Stiffness Display with a Programmable Spring and Electrostatic Clutches for Haptic Interaction in Virtual Reality Ke Shi, Quan Xiong, Maozeng Zhang, Aiguo Song, and Lifeng Zhu
• When LLMs Recognize Your Space: Research on Experiences with Spatially Aware LLM Agents Seungwoo Oh, Nakyoung An, Youngwug Cho, Myeongul Jung, and Kwanguk (Kenny) Kim
• Visuo-Tactile Feedback with Hand Outline Styles for Modulating Affective Roughness Perception Minju Baeck, Yoonseok Shin, Dooyoung Kim, Hyunjin Lee, Sang Ho Yoon, and Woontack Woo

Honorable Mention - Best Paper Award

• Exploring and Modeling the Effects of Eye-Tracking Accuracy and Precision on Gaze-Based Steering in Virtual Environments Xuning Hu, Yichuan Zhang, Yushi Wei, Liangyuting Zhang, Yue Li, Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, and Hai-Ning Liang
• LiteAT: A Data-Lightweight and User-Adaptive VR Telepresence System for Remote Education Yuxin Shen, Wei Liang, and Jianzhu Ma
• p-Blend: Privacy- and Utility-Preserving Blendshape Perturbation Against Re-identification Attacks in Virtual Reality Jingwei Liu, Lai Wei, Yan Hu, Guangrong Zhao, Qing Yang, Guangdong Bai, and Yiran Shen
• Portable Silent Room: Exploring VR Design for Anxiety and Emotion Regulation for Neurodivergent Women and Non-Binary Individuals Kinga Skiers, Yun Suen Pai, Marina Nakagawa, Kouta Minamizawa, and Giulia Barbareschi
• "I was truly able to express the image of myself that I have within": Exploring VR Group Therapy Approaches with the LGBTQIA+ community Kinga Skiers ́, Danyang Peng, Anish Kundu, Tanner Person, Kenkichi Takase, Tamii Nagoshi, Sawako Nakayama, Yano Yuichiro, Tomoyuki Miyazaki, Kouta Minamizawa, and Giulia Barbareschi
• How Do We Read Texts in VR?: The Effects of Text Segment Quantity and Social Distraction on Text Readability in Virtual Museum Contexts Jungmin Lee, Hyuckjin Jang, and Jeongmi Lee
• Visceral Notices and Privacy Mechanisms for Eye Tracking in Augmented Reality Nissi Otoo, Kailon Blue, G. Nikki Ramirez, Evan Selinger, Shaun Foster, and Brendan David-John
• Handows: A Palm-Based Interactive Multi-Window Management System in Virtual Reality Jin-Du Wang, Ke Zhou, Haoyu Ren, Per Ola Kristensson, and Xiang Li
• Casual-VRAuth: A Design Framework Bridging Focused and Casual Interactions for Behavioral Authentication in Virtual Reality GuanYu Ye, BoYu Gao, and Huawei Tu
• Facilitating the Exploration of Linearly Aligned Objects in Controller-Free 3D Environment with Gaze and Microgestures Jihyeon Lee, Jinwook Kim, and Jeongmi Lee
• Impact of Avatar-Locomotion Congruence on User Experience and Identification in Virtual Reality Omar Khan, Hyeongil Nam, and Kangsoo Kim
• The AI of the Beholder: Experience of Healthcare AI Robots is Shaped by User-Centred Factors, Not Their Visual Appearance Jinha Yoon, Patrycja Zajac, Lauren Pococke, Anisia Jicol, Christopher Clarke, Eamonn O'Neill, Karin Petrini, Christof Lutteroth, and Crescent Jicol
• MetaRoundWorm: A Virtual Reality Escape Room Game for Learning the Lifecycle and Immune Response to Parasitic Infections Xuanru Cheng, Xian Wang, Chi-lok Tai, and Lik-Hang Lee
• The Effect of Hand Visibility in AR: Comparing Dexterity and Interaction with Virtual and Real Objects Jakob Hartbrich, Stephanie Arévalo Arboleda, Steve Göring, and Alexander Raake
• Extended Reality Check: Evaluating XR Prototyping for Human-Robot Interaction in Contact-Intensive Tasks Tonia Mielke, Mareen Allgaier, Christian Hansen, and Florian Heinrich
• Influence of Object Height, Shadow and Adapting Luminance on Outdoor Depth Perception in Augmented Reality Shining Ma, Chaochao Liu, Jingyuan Wang, Yue Liu, Yongtian Wang, and Weitao Song
• The Impact of AI-Based Real-Time Gesture Generation and Immersion on the Perception of Others and Interaction Quality in Social XR Christian Merz, Niklas Krome, Carolin Wienrich, Stefan Kopp, and Marc Erich Latoschik

Best Poster Award - Regular Posters

• Adaptive Augmented Reality Pathfinding for Parkinson's Disease: Integrating Visual Cueing with User-Directed Navigation Dimah Bassal and Daniel Medeiros

Best Poster Award - Posters from Conference Papers

• ExciteVR: Effective Cybersickness Mitigation in Virtual Reality using Explainable Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models Ripan Kumar Kundu, Istiak Ahmed, John Quarles, and Khaza Anuarul Hoque

Honorable Mention - Best Poster Award - Regular Posters

• Reducing Visual Fatigue in XR via Peripheral Chromatic Blur Eunbeen Jeong and Uijong Ju
• Your Eyes Hold Your Mind: Gaze-Based Inference of Human Decision-Making in Conditionally Automated Driving Minseo Choi, Hoe Sung Ryu, Haechan Lee, and Uijong Ju

Honorable Mention - Best Poster Award - Posters from Conference Papers

• Impact of Target and Tool Visualization on Depth Perception and Usability in Optical See-Through AR Yue Yang, Xue Xie, Xingkai Wang, Hui Zhang, Chiming Yu, Xiaoxian Xiong, Lifeng Zhu, Yuanyi Zheng, Jue Cen, Bruce Daniel, and Fred Baik
• cARdefender: a Mixed Reality Game for Vehicle Passengers Simone Spera, Otino Pio Santosuosso, Aurelio Sepe, Giuliana Vitiello, Andrea Antonio Cantone, and Stephen Brewster

Best Demonstration Award

• Demonstration of Multisensory In-Car VR: Repurposing the Vehicle's HVAC System and Power Seat for Immersive Haptic Feedback Dohyeon Yeo, Gwangbin Kim, Minwoo Oh, Jeongju Park, Bocheon Gim, Seongjun Kang, Ahmed Elsharkawy, and SeungJun Kim

Honorable Mention - Best Demonstration Award

• Avacard: Exercise Data-Driven AI-Generated Cards to Enhance Interactivity for Extended Reality Exergame Through Metagame Kuan-Ning Chang, Yu-Hin Chan, Jung Shen, Meng-Wei Lu, Tse-Yu Pan, and Ping-Hsuan Han

Best Doctoral Consortium Presentation Award

• Toward Safe, Trustworthy and Realistic Augmented Reality User Experience Yanming Xiu

Honorable Mention - Best Doctoral Consortium Presentation

• Thinking Outside the Eyebox: Evaluation of Perceptual Effects Deriving from Pupil Swim Distortions in Head-Mounted Displays Hunter Finney

Best Student Volunteer Award

• Seo Young Oh
• Adamay Mann