IEEE VR 2025 3rd Annual Workshop on Multi-modal Affective and Social Behavior Analysis and Synthesis in Extended Reality (MASSXR)
March 8, 2025
SAINT-MALO, FRANCE
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NEWS
NEWS
The workshop will be co-located with IEEE VR 2025 at the Palais du Grand Large in Saint-Malo, in Room Surcouf.
Please check out the workshop program.
The MASSXR 2025 Workshop will take place on March 8, 2025.
Check out the website of the MASSXR Workshop @IEEE VR 2023 and @IEEE VR 2024 for the previous years' programs.
The workshop will feature keynote speakers and a panel discussion.
Introduction
Introduction
We propose the 3rd Annual Workshop on Multi-modal Affective and Social Behavior Analysis and Synthesis in Extended Reality, with a theme extending beyond techniques for analyzing and synthesizing affective and social behaviors in XR to also focus on security and privacy in these environments. This year, the workshop aims to explore the intersection of XR technologies and socio-technical security, focusing on the challenges and advancements in building secure, privacy-conscious, and trustworthy XR systems. It aims to cover both technical safeguards and how users interact with and perceive XR technologies in a social context.
As XR continues to evolve, we aim to address key research questions and emerging topics, such as:
How can we generate and analyze affective and social behaviors in XR? What are the latest techniques in this area?
What are the latest advancements in safeguarding XR systems against privacy breaches and security vulnerabilities? How can we improve detection and mitigation strategies for reliable user protection?
What are the current best practices for responsibly collecting, managing, and securing user interaction data within XR environments? How can data security be balanced with personalized experiences, and what privacy-aware innovations (e.g., for privacy-sensitive data recording, compression, or other management techniques) are emerging to support this?
How can we enhance trust in XR applications through transparent data practices and robust identity management? What roles do authentication protocols, encryption, and user control mechanisms play in establishing trustworthy systems?
What approaches (e.g., tools, techniques, methodologies) are emerging for providing secure, privacy-preserving, and resilient interactions in XR environments? How can AI-based solutions support dynamic risk assessment and personalized security controls?
How XR systems could be used to increase the security of other systems? What are the latest methods for using XR technologies in threat detection, authentication, and real-time security monitoring?
The workshop's objective is to foster collaborative efforts and advance the state of secure social interactions within XR, setting a foundation for future innovations in the field. To that end, we aim to bring together researchers and practitioners from fields including cybersecurity, human-computer interaction, computer graphics/animation, multi-modal machine learning, AI, data privacy, and socio-technical studies to discuss the state of security in XR, future directions, and opportunities to improve system robustness and user trust. We wish to particularly emphasize the integration of AI with XR for adaptive, context-aware security measures that are both technically robust and aligned with user trust and understanding. We thus encourage submissions that offer innovative approaches, experimental results, and theoretical insights into the security, privacy, and trustworthiness of XR systems.
We look forward to contributions and another year of insightful discussions.
Location and date
Location and date
The workshop IEEE-MASSXR will take place on the first day of the conference of the 32nd IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR) to be held on March 8-12, 2025 in SAINT-MALO, FRANCE.
IEEE-MASSXR is planned to be a half-day and in-person workshop.
Scope
Scope
The workshop invites researchers to submit original, high-quality research, survey, or position papers related to multi-modal affective and social behavior analysis and synthesis in XR. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
Security and trustworthy interaction design
Cybersecurity threats in XR
Privacy in XR environments
Secure cross-platform and cross-device communication
AI and machine learning for security in XR
Trustworthy social interactions and user collaboration in XR
Ethics and compliance for data collection in XR
Applications of XR for security and privacy
Important Dates
Important Dates
Submission deadline: December 23, 2024 January 4, 2025 (Anywhere on Earth)
Notifications: January 9, 2025
Camera-ready deadline: January 14, 2025 January 27, 2025 (Anywhere on Earth)
Conference date: March 8-12, 2025
Workshop date: March 8, 2025
Workshop format
Workshop format
The workshop will have presentations of the accepted research papers, keynote speakers, and a panel discussion, which will include the keynote speakers, organizers, and the audience in an interactive manner.
KEYNOTE Speakers
KEYNOTE Speakers
Name: Lorenzo Sabattini (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Title: Robots Teaming with Robots and Humans: Social Acceptance and Coordinated Control
Abstract: This talk will present some recent results in the field of collaboration among robots, possibly including human users. The concept of social acceptance will be emphasized as a key to human-robot teaming. This will be connected to decentralized control for the multi-robot system. Different communication modalities will be reviewed, to ensure proper exchange of information, which is fundamental to achieving common objectives for teams of robots deployed in the environment. Building upon these concepts, the talk will delve into how to exploit the information exchanged among robots to achieve a common goal, in a decentralized manner.
Bio: Lorenzo Sabattini received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in mechatronic engineering from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, in 2005 and 2007, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in control systems and operational research from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2012. In 2010, he was a Visiting Researcher with the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. He has been an Associate Professor with the Department of Sciences and Methods for Engineering, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, since 2018. His research interests include multi-robot systems, decentralized estimation and control, and mobile robotics. He was the Founding Co-Chair of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Multi-Robot Systems and served as the corresponding co-chair from 2014 to 2021. He is the coordinator of the Horizon Europe SERMAS project, focusing on the social acceptance of robotics and extended reality technologies. He served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters from 2015 to 2018 and IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine from 2017 to 2019. He has also served as an Editor for IEEE ICRA and IEEE/RSJ IROS conferences and as an Associate Editor for The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR).
Name: Friederike Eyssel (Bielefeld University)
Title: Trusting Social Robots
Abstract: This talk will mainly focus on the notion of trust in human-robot interaction, highlighting theoretical and applied challenges for research with social robots. Relatedly, it will address privacy and transparency as important factors for trust in social robots, emphasizing the importance of clearly defining and measuring trust and transparency, respectively. The talk will offer a perspective informed by psychological and empirical-experimental research, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to developing trustworthy and transparent social robots.
Bio: Friederike Eyssel is Professor of Psychology and Head of the research group “Applied Social Psychology and Gender Research” at the Center for Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC), Bielefeld University, Germany. Friederike earned her Masters in Psychology from the University of Heidelberg in 2004. She received her PhD in Psychology from Bielefeld University in 2007. Between 2010 and 2015, Dr. Eyssel has held visiting professorships in social psychology at the University of Münster, the Technical University of Dortmund, the University of Cologne, and the New York University Abu Dhabi. Friederike is passionate about basic and applied social psychological research that is mostly experimental and primarily laboratory-based. She is interested in various research topics ranging from social robotics, social agents, and ambient intelligence to research on attitudes, their measurement and change, and gender research.
Friederike enjoys multidisciplinary collaborations – she has co-authored various textbooks on social robots, e.g., “Human-Robot Interaction” (Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed., 2024), “Robots in Education” (Routledge, 2021) and “Theory and practice of sociosensitive and socioactive systems” (Springer, 2022), among others. She serves as Associate Editor for ACM Transactions in Human-Robot Interaction, and Section Editor for Robotics. Friederike Eyssel has attracted third-party funding for various projects at the national and EU levels. This way, she has been able to explore antecedents of robot-related trust, the impact of robot design, and psychological determinants of robot acceptance, and successful social HRI.
PROGRAM
PROGRAM
(Room: Surcouf)
14:00 - 14:10 Welcome and Introduction to MASSXR 2025
14:10 - 14:50 Invited Speaker 1: Lorenzo Sabattini (30 mins talk + 10 mins Q&A)
14:50 - 15:50 Paper presentations (15 mins presentations + 5 mins Q&A)
14:50 - 15:10 Security and privacy for VR in non-entertainment sectors: a practice-based study of the challenges, strategies and gaps; Authors: Camille Sivelle, David Palma, and Katrien De Moor
15:10 - 15:30 The Dilemma of Privacy Protection for Developers in the Metaverse; Authors: Argianto Rahartomo, Leonel Merino, Mohammad Ghafari, and Yoshiki Ohshima
15:30 - 15:50 User identification based on conversational gestures; Authors: Aline Normoyle and Sophie Jörg
15:50 - 16:20 Coffee Break (Room: Rotondes Jacques Cartier & Cézembre)
16:20 - 16:40 Paper presentations (15 mins presentations + 5 mins Q&A)
16:20 - 16:40 Emotion Recognition in Interactive VR tasks and in 360VR Videos with Transformer-Based Approaches and Multimodal Sensing; Authors: Bharat KC, Bhoj Karki, Adil Khokhar, Jason W Woodworth, and Christoph W Borst
16:40 - 17:20 Invited Speaker 2: Friederike Eyssel (30 mins talk + 10 mins Q&A)
17:20 - 17:50 Panel discussion with keynote speakers, organizers, and audience
17:50 - 18:00 Closing
All times are Saint-Malo, France local time (UTC+1)
Submission Instructions
Submission Instructions
Authors are invited to submit research, survey, work-in-progress, or position papers:
Research or survey papers: 4-6 pages + references (upto 2 pages)
Work-in-progress papers: 2-3 pages + references (1 page)
Position papers: 1-2 pages + references (1 page)
Papers will be included in the IEEE Xplore library. Authors are encouraged to submit videos to aid the program committee in reviewing their submissions. Please anonymize your submissions, as the workshop uses a double-blind review process. Authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present their papers at the workshop.
Papers should use the IEEE VR formatting guidelines and be submitted through the IEEE VR 2025 Precision Conference System (PCS).
When starting your submission, please make sure to select the relevant track for the workshop "IEEE VR 2025 Workshop: MASSXR".
Organizing Committee
Organizing Committee
King's College London, UK
Purdue University, USA
CWI and TU Delft, The Netherlands
University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
Bryn Mawr College, USA
TU Delft, The Netherlands
King's College London, UK
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Contact
Contact
If you have any questions or remarks regarding this workshop, please contact Megha Quamara (megha.quamara[at]kcl.ac.uk), Oya Celiktutan (oya.celiktutan[at]kcl.ac.uk), or Luca Viganò (luca.vigano[at]kcl.ac.uk).
This workshop is partially supported by the Horizon Europe program under the Grant Agreement 101070351 (“SERMAS: Socially-acceptable eXtended Reality Models and Systems”) and by Innovate UK.
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