[IMMER-SENSE] The 1st Interational Workshop on Immersion and Sensing for XR Experiences 

The growing adoption of Extended Reality (XR) across domains such as education, healthcare, training, and accessibility has created a demand for more immersive, adaptive, and human-aware experiences.

Recent advances in sensing technologies—including physiological, behavioral, and environmental sensing—offer powerful means to achieve this. These technologies enable XR systems to perceive and respond to users and their contexts in real time. By tracking gaze, motion, biosignals, and contextual cues , sensing data has the potential to enable more adaptive, embodied, and inclusive immersive experiences that can respond to users' bodies, contexts, and emotions.

Despite this potential, the integration of sensing into XR remains fragmented and in its initial stages. Technical challenges in interoperability, sensor fusion, data latency, and calibration coexist with human-centered concerns, including privacy, accessibility, and ethical data use.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from XR, sensing, and HCI to explore this convergence. We will explore both the opportunities and the challenges of using sensing for building more intelligent, embodied, and context-aware XR systems. The workshop seeks to identify key opportunities, challenges, and design frameworks for sensing-driven XR and aims to establish a recurring community forum that advances the creation of intelligent, embodied, and ethically responsible immersive systems.

Workshop Goals

1. To take the pulse of the community—understanding current practices, challenges, and aspirations around sensing-driven immersion in XR.

2. To spotlight the transformative potential of adaptive and affective XR experiences powered by biosignals and contextual awareness.

3. To celebrate ongoing innovation in sensing, embodiment, and presence while encouraging critical reflection on ethics, privacy, and accessibility.

4. To equip researchers and practitioners with methods, frameworks, and collaborations that foster responsible and human-centered XR design.

5. To unite diverse perspectives from engineering, psychology, design, and HCI toward a shared vision of immersive, adaptive, and inclusive XR futures.

The workshop invites contributions and discussions on (but not limited to) the following themes:

• Adaptive and Affective XR: Leveraging biosignals (EEG, GSR, heart rate, gaze) to personalize learning, training, and entertainment applications.

• Sensing for Embodiment and Presence: Physiological and behavioral sensing for enhancing immersion, empathy, and co-presence.

• Context and Environment Awareness: Integration of spatial and environmental sensors for intelligent, context-sensitive XR systems.

• Data Fusion and Interoperability: Challenges in synchronizing, standardizing, and interpreting multimodal sensor data.

• Ethics, Privacy, and Accessibility: Ensuring transparent, responsible, and inclusive use of sensing data in XR.

• Future Directions: Open research questions, benchmarking efforts, and opportunities for collaboration between academia and industry.

For any questions related to the workshop or submission process, please contact us via email at manshulb@iiitd.ac.in