Generative AI meets eXtended Reality (GenAI-XR) Workshop
colocated with IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces
Date: 08:30-12:30 CET, March 8, 2025
Location (in-person): Room Maupertuis (floor L2), Palais du Grand Large in Saint-Malo, France
Link: https://cnrs.zoom.us/j/95791537300?pwd=53liJDpyWJebSahHCcmtkmZq3bCPLc.1
Paper presentations should be 15mins talk + 5 mins Q&A for longer papers and 10mins talk + 5 mins Q&A for shorter papers.
Schedule [Tentative]
08:30 Workshop intro
Pasquale Cascarano (University of Bologna, Italy), Anne-Gwenn Bosser (ENIB, Lab-STICC CNRS UMR, France), Jérémy Lacoche (Orange, France), Shirin Hajahmadi (University of Bologna, Italy), Ana Stanescu (Graz University of Technology, Austria), Gábor Sörös (Nokia Bell Labs, Hungary)
08:40 Keynote: A fabricated reality
Mar Gonzalez-Franco (Google, USA)
09:25 RAG-VR: Leveraging Retrieval-Augmented Generation for 3D Question Answering in VR Environments
Shiyi Ding and Ying Chen (Kennesaw State University, USA)
09:45 Generative AI for Personalized Multisensory Immersive Experiences: Challenges and Opportunities for Stress Reduction
Marilia Karla Soares Lopes and Tiago Henrique Falk (Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université du Québec, Canada)
10:00 Towards Supporting Literary Studies Using Virtual Reality and Generative Artificial Intelligence
Jens Grubert (Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany), Dieter Schmalstieg, Kirsten Dickhaut (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
10:15 coffee break (catered, on floors L1 and L3)
10:45 Keynote: Human-AI Synergy with Generative AI and XR
Frank Steinicke (University of Hamburg, Germany)
11:30 Generative Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Integration for Virtual Reality Language Learning
Long Cheng (ETH Zurich & RhySearch, Switzerland), Joy Gisler, Kenli Lao, Andreas Kunz (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
11:50 From Voices to Worlds: Developing an AI-Powered Framework for 3D Object Generation in Augmented Reality
Majid Behravan, Denis Gracanin (Virginia Tech, USA)
12:10 Advancing the Understanding and Evaluation of AR-Generated Scenes: When Vision-Language Models Shine and Stumble
Lin Duan, Yanming Xiu, Maria Gorlatova (Duke University, USA)
12:30 Lunch (not catered)