WEVR 2022

8th Workshop on Everyday Virtual Reality

13 March 2022 11-14.00 NZT

The Workshop on Everyday Virtual and Augmented Reality focuses on the investigation of well-known VR/AR/MR (XR) research themes in everyday contexts and scenarios other than research laboratories and specialist environments.

Keynote

Christoph Borst, professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and past WEVR author and co-organiser will give the opening keynote at the workshop.

Abstract: Virtual reality is gaining recognition as a medium for remote classes or meetings when in-person meetings are difficult or risky. This talk will summarize: 1) two recent case studies of VR for remote education, 2) ongoing research to enhance remote educational VR interfaces using enhanced sensing such as eye tracking, and 3) challenges and practical considerations for the long-term success of everyday educational VR.

Bio: Christoph W. Borst is a Professor and the founder of the Virtual Reality Lab in the School of Computing at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He has worked with national and international gigabit initiatives (US Ignite-Ignite SA, Mozilla Gigabit, and various Smart Gigabit Communities) to prototype remotely-guided educational VR approaches on emerging gigabit networks. Dr. Borst's ongoing work considers enhanced VR sensing to detect and respond to student attention levels. Dr. Borst obtained a PhD from Texas A&M University in 2002, for research on naturalistic hand-based interaction in VR.

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Topics

  • Gameplay Design and Player Interaction in consumer VR/AR
  • Overcoming constraints of ordinary environments
  • Tangible and haptics support to interaction
  • Social & Collaborative VR/AR
  • 3DUIs for Desktop or semi-immersive VR
  • VR/AR for home, healthcare and education
  • Effects of prolonged VR use in domestic settings
  • New tracking systems (head, hands, body etc.)
  • Cross-Reality Interaction
  • VR/AR development for non-technical creators

For Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality (XR), in everyday contexts.

Important Dates AOE

  • Paper Deadline
    10 January 2022
  • Notification
    20 January 2022
  • Camera Ready
    29 January 2022
  • Workshop
    TBD

Organisers

  • Adalberto L. Simeone
    KU Leuven, Belgium
  • Svetlana Bialkova
    Liverpool John Moores University, UK
  • Benjamin Weyers
    University of Trier, Germany
  • Xuesong Zhang
    KU Leuven, Belgium
  • Jihae Han
    KU Leuven, Belgium

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