WISP 2026 Program

Saturday, March 21st from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm in Conference Room 322B

2:00 pm - 2:10 pm | Opening and Welcome

2:10 pm - 2:55 pm | Keynote Talk

Dr. Jean-Rémy Chardonnet

Prevention is Better Than Cure – Shifting Cybersickness Issues to a Next Level

Abstract: It is well known that cybersickness is a form of motion sickness affecting a large proportion of the population in immersive environments, leading to possible rejection of XR technologies. While there are strong debates on theories explaining cybersickness occurrence mechanisms, a huge body of literature has focused on mitigation techniques in XR environments. Though, these techniques generally do not consider the wide inter-individualities existing in cybersickness occurrences and usually do not totally prevent cybersickness from occurring. Recently, with the development of AI, a trend has emerged in predicting cybersickness occurrences, although often limited to algorithm efficiency concerns. This talk proposes to move from mitigation to prevention by truly recentering cybersickness issues on users, considering them not as the output but as the input of the immersive loop, and developing a new paradigm of immersive experiences. By showing examples of work conducted at our lab, this presentation intends to encourage the XR community to shift cybersickness issues to a next level.
Bio: Jean-Rémy Chardonnet received a Ph.D. degree in robotics from the Montpellier University, France, in 2009. After being an Expert Engineer at INRIA Rhône-Alpes, he became an Associated Professor in 2011 with the LISPEN laboratory, Arts et Métiers Institute of Technology, France. In 2019, he was a visiting professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Since 2023, he is a Full Professor at Arts et Métiers Institute of Technology, and Deputy Director of the LISPEN laboratory where he leads a team dedicated to XR. He is also responsible for the French-German Institute for the Industry of the Future, a strategic collaboration between Arts et Métiers and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. His research interests include predicting cybersickness and proposing individualized immersive experiences, as well as multisensory immersion and collaborative XR. He is the co-author of more than 100 publications. He is involved in different international conference committees, e.g., IEEE VR, DSC, CASA.

2:55 pm - 3:30 pm | Session 1

Extending Motion Complexity Reduction with Eye Gaze Data to Evaluate Cybersickness

Stephen J. Fieffer, Stephen B. Gilbert, Dr. Michael Dorneich, Jonathan W. Kelly, and Jundi Liu, Iowa State University

Objective Estimation of Cybersickness Using Spatially Resolved Visual Motion Metrics

Mahfujur Rahman and Isayas Berhe Adhanom, Texas State University

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Catered Break

4:00 pm - 4:45 pm | Session 2

Invited Talk: Field Dependence as a Predictor of Cybersickness

Wallace Santos Lages, Northeastern University

Lightning Talk 1: Do Not Immerse and Drive? Prolonged Effects of Cybersickness on Physiological Stress Markers and Cognitive Performance

Daniel Zielasko, Technical University of Denmark

Lightning Talk 2: Velocity Storage Dynamics as Objective Measures for Cybersickness in Virtual Reality

Jungha Kim, Korea University

4:45 pm - 5:45 pm | Interactive Session

From Fragmented Studies to Shared Evidence: A Multi-Site Vision for Cybersickness Research

5:45 pm - 6:00 pm | Closing and Socializing

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