Program

9:00 - 9:15 am

Registration

9:15 - 9:30 am

Welcome from the organizers

9:30 - 10:15 am

Opening Keynote: Dieter Schmalstieg (University of Stuttgart)

Augmented Reality Guidance with Semantic Scene Graphs

AI (artificial intelligence)is revolutionizing many aspects of working with digital data. However, away from the desktop, it is not so clear how interaction with AI will work. Augmented reality (AR) offers a compelling option. It can present visual guidance for activities while the user is acting in the real world, rather than just relying on textual or spoken instructions. The engine that drives this application scans the user's environment and extracts a semantic scene graph that can be queried by large language models. This talk summarizes recent work in this area and lays out a path for future applications in industry.

10:15 - 10:30 am

Break

10:30 - 10:50 am

Industry Keynote #1: Selin Kampa (XR Product Owner, Siemens Engergy) 

Ways of Building Industrial XR @ Siemens Energy: A Comparative Perspective on Outcomes and Learnings

 
XR at Siemens Energy has been developing through multiple parallel paths; in-house applications, partnerships, platform integrations, XR Arenas, cross-divisional communities, and structured formats, activities and methods driving it into day-to-day work. This keynote presents a selection of use cases across engineering design reviews, BIM, on-site inspections, remote assistance, onboarding, training and examines how the chosen approach shapes the technical architecture & implementation, user experience, adoption, and business value of XR at scale. It also looks ahead to XR as a natural interface to AI, emerging potentials of this convergence, and the critical role of data as its foundation.

10:50 - 12:20 pm

Paper Session #1 AI-Enhanced XR Systems and Human–AI Assistance in Smart Production 

• Matching Scaling Techniques to Task Precision and Rescaling Frequency in Smart Production
  Kyoungwhan Mheen(KAIST), Jinwook Kim(KAIST) and Sang Ho Yoon (KAIST)

• From XR-Captured Demonstrations to Evidence-Grounded Operator Assistance: A Reasoning Layer for Human-AI Symbiosis
  Kaveh Amouzgar (Uppsala University), Eric Dario Marquez Leon (Uppsala University), Masoud Rahimigorji (Uppsala University) and Cedric Kaneza (Uppsala University)

• Digital Model, Shadow, Twin: Why XR Solutions for Smart Production Resist Single-Point Classification
  Robert Fellner (UAS Technikum Wien), Horst Orsolits (UAS Technikum Wien) and Martin Potocnik (TÜV Austria)

• AI-Enhanced XR for Smart Production: A Structured Review and Industrial Design Guidelines
  Ingrid Winkler (SENAI Cimatec University Salvador), Jana Jost (Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics ), Joao Marcelo Teixeira (Federal University of Pernambuco), Manoela Oliveira da Silva (University of Pernambuco), Thiago Malheiros Porcino (National Laboratory for Scientific Computing), Evelyn Reinmuth (University of Hohenheim)  and Arlindo Galvao (Federal University of Goias) 

• Situated Explainability for Safety-Critical Mixed Reality: Design Positions from an MR-XAI Firefighting Prototype
  Elias Panner (TU Wien), Sara Scheffer (TU Wien) and Kurt Matyas (TU Wien)

12:20 - 2:00 pm

Lunch at your own

2:00 - 2:20 pm

Industry Keynote #2: Oscar Thuang - AugmentedRealm (Online)
Human First: How to keep the Human competitive in the Age of Robotics and AI

2:20 - 3:50 pm 

Paper Session #2 XR Interaction, Robot Collaboration, and Immersive Training 

• Towards Open-Ended Manufacturing Training: A Preliminary Analysis of VR Systems for Edge Finding Task with Varying Open-Endedness Levels
  Slawomir Tadeja (MIT) , Kachina Studer (MIT), Marialice Mastronardi (MIT), Dishita Turakhia (Emory University), Christian Gabbianelli (MIT) and John Liu (MIT)

• MetaMove: Bare-Hand Mixed-Reality Teleoperation of a Collaborative Robot with a Distance-Based Speed-Scaling Safety Layer
  Elias Bitsch (UAS Technikum Wien), Viktoriia Ovdiienko (UAS Technikum Wien), Philip Stix (UAS Technikum Wien), Alexandra Saliger (UAS Technikum Wien), Nikolaus Angel (UAS Technikum Wien) and Horst Orsolits (UAS Technikum Wien) 

• A Non-Intrusive XR Interaction Stack for Monitoring, Programming, and Simulating Collaborative Robots in Smart Production
  Kaveh Amouzgar (Uppsala University), Simon Arnestrand (Uppsala University), Oscar Rosengren (Uppsala University), Elis Amcoff (Uppsala University) and Erik Hultman (Uppsala University)

• What Each Step Demands: A Preliminary Multimodal (EEG + Gaze) Characterization of Sub-Steps in VR Machining Training
  Xichen He (Emory University) , Bhavya Matam (New York University), Yinqi Huang (New York University), Kachina Studer (New York University), Christian Gabbianelli (MIT), Claudio Silva (New York University), John Liu  (MIT), Ziheng Li (Columbia University) and Dishita Turakhia (Emory University)

• Designing for Industrial Troubleshooting: Exploratory Insights on Conversational AI for In-Situ Support
  Miruna Maria Vasiliu (KTH Stockholm) , Jonas Jaantien (AstraZeneca ), Benjamin Edvinsson (AstraZeneca ), Mario Romero (Linköping University )and Renan Guarese (Maynooth University )

3:50 - 4:00 pm

Group Photo

4:00 - 4:15 pm

Break

4:15 - 4:45 pm

Hands-On Demo Session

• Elias Bitsch, Viktoriia Ovdiienko, Philip Stix, Alexandra Saliger, Nikolaus Angel and Horst Orsolits  -
  MetaMove: Bare-Hand Mixed-Reality Teleoperation of a Collaborative Robot with a Distance-Based Speed-Scaling Safety Layer

• Kyoungwhan Mheen, Jinwook Kim and Sang Ho Yoon -
  Matching Scaling Techniques to Task Precision and Rescaling Frequency in Smart Production

• Kaveh Amouzgar -
  A Non-Intrusive XR Interaction Stack for Monitoring, Programming, and Simulating Collaborative Robots in Smart Production

4:45 - 5:00 pm

Wrapup & Closing