The program during the morning of the 13th of Oct 2025 (Monday):
8:30-10:00
Opening
Presentations (approx. 14 min and 3 min Q&A)
1. Mental Workload Wars: Audio-based XR Awakens
Emma Jane Pretty, Renan Guarese
2. Reconstructing Empathy: How VR Users Perceive Simulated Challenges through Design Dimensions
Xinhui Hu, Hernan Casakin, Georgi V. Georgiev
3. Intuitive Gesture Elicitation and Tangible Interaction for Virtual Reality-based Design Reviews
Konstantinos Petrakis, Andrew Wodehouse
4. Designing Future Human-Space Interaction: An Embodied Cognition Framework for Next-Generation Virtual Reality Experiences
Zhixin Cai, Yibo Meng, Siyuan Li
5. Designing for Empathy in VR: Navigating the Temporal Tension Between State and Trait-Oriented Approaches
Xinhui Hu, Georgi V. Georgiev, Iva Georgieva
10:00-10:30
Coffee break
10:30-12:00
Discussion session