The sessions will take place on Tuesday, 9 December at Maison de la Poste, Workshop Room 2, Orangerie from 9:00 to 13:00.

Description

9:00–9:05
Welcome & Introduction by Oliver Schreer (Fraunhofer HHI, Germany)

“Social XR and Presence”

Moderated by Oliver Schreer (Fraunhofer HHI, Germany)

9:05–9:30
"Detrended Fluctuation Analysis as a Unified Measure of Presence Across Immersion, Coherence, and Embodiment" by J. Harris, R. F.A. Cox, S. Van der Stigchel, T. Nijboer

9:30–9:55
"TRANSMIXR – new workflows based on AI and Social XR to support Europe’s cultural and creative sector" by P. Cesar, N. Murray

9:55–10:20
"Bits and bites: Commensality in Social XR" by S. Cabrero, A. Santos, R. Perisé, M. Zorrilla

10:20–10:45
"Interaction vs. Immersion: intentional break or enhancing moment?" by L. Blaschke, L. Erkus, A. Mönig, M. Quent, S.L. Vogl

10:45–11:10
"PRESENCE: Advancing Immersive XR through Holoportation, Haptics, and Virtual Humans for Enhanced Human Interaction" by F. Steinicke

11:10–11:25 – BREAK

“XR Design, Evaluation and Behaviour”

Moderated by Jelle Demanet (Chief Innovation Officer, Entertainment Association (Ent.A), Belgium)

11:25–11:50
"Co-designing XR features with off-highway vehicle operators – Case study for a unifying approach to useful, safe, ethical and impactful XR technology innovation" by S. Bacher, T. Brodbeck, M. Kulzer, M. Burmester, S. Doublet, A. Sergeeva

11:50–12:15
"Beyond the Pilot: Scaling and Evaluating XR Training for Emergency Services" by L. Pietschmann, R. Weigel, F. Pickhardt, W. Hüttenhofer, A. Sacher

12:15–12:40
"Stealth Assessment of Complex Skills in Immersive Virtual Reality" by G. Obourdin, P. Van den Bossche, S. de Maeyer, T. van Daal

12:40–13:00
"Deriving Behavioural Insights from Life Skills Training in Neurodivergent Children through Immersive XR" by M. Sen, A. Prajapati, K. Sridharan

SEE FULL AGENDA HERE

In the 2025, the Academic & Research Track of UnitedXR Europe – the 1st edition of the unification of AWE EU and Stereopsia – we aim to bring academia together with professionals from creative media and industry and offer XR professionals easier access to recent advances in applied research.

The conference is organised in a single track, focusing on the following topics:

• Capture and creation of audio-visual immersive content
• Novel 3D rendering techniques for ultra-realistic content (including holography) and/or real-time rendering
• Advances in interactive sensors and rendering devices for virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), and extended reality (XR)
• Advances in novel input sensor systems for XR (haptics, tracking, biometrics etc.)
• Advances in spatial computing
• Advances in interoperability for interactive technologies
• User experience considerations in design of XR (Sensory/Perceptual/Emotion sciences)
• Social and psychological aspects of VR (Avatars, embodiment, sense-of-agency, collaboration, etc.)
• Use of XR for interpreting human data and behavioural insights (e.g., through VR assessments, cognitive modelling, or psychometric evaluation)

Product presentations are excluded.

Conditions and deadlines

We ask for a PDF document containing the following:

• Title of the presentation
• Author names and affiliation
• A 500-word abstract addressing the scientific aim or technical approach, the methods, results, and conclusion
• Two (2) illustrations or figures describing the approach and content of the talk
• A statement on the novelty of the submission

All submitted proposals will be evaluated by an expert committee. Accepted presenters will receive a free THREE-DAY PASS for UnitedXR Europe 2025.

Deadlines

Track Organisation

Dr. Oliver Schreer, Associate Professor TU Berlin, Head of Research Group at Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Germany
David Grogna, VR Expert, Cubic Space Technologies Inc., Belgium/Canada

Scientific Committee

Dr. Carlo Campagnoli, Lecturer, School of Psychology of University of Leeds, United Kingdom, Head of Immersion, Cognition and Neuroscience (ICON) Research Group
Dr. Jelle Demanet, Chief Innovation Officer, Entertainment Association (Ent.A), Belgium
Dr. Lene A. Hagen, Associate Professor of Optometry & Visual Science, University of South-Eastern Norway
Dr. Omar A. Niamut, Director of Science, TNO ICT, The Netherlands
Jan Pflueger, Consultant, advisXR, Germany
Dr. Oliver Schreer, Associate Professor TU Berlin, Head of Research Group at Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Germany
Dr. Athanasia Symeonidou, Innovation Engineer - Medical XR, Materialise, Belgium
Georg Thallinger, Research Manager Smart Media Solutions, DIGITAL - The Institute for Information and Communication Technologies, JOANNEUM RESEARCH, Austria
Dr. Zerrin Yumak, Associate Professor at the Human-Centered Computing Group, Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Stefano Guerrieri, Director of Industry and Consumer Sector at IMEC, Belgium