Best Paper Award
Recipients: Negotiated User-to-Group Teleportations in Social VR — Wen-Tong Shu, Yi-Jun Li, Hao-Zhong Yang, Zi-Nan Han, Frank Steinicke, and Miao Wang
Best Paper Award
Recipients: Detecting Visual Information Manipulation Attacks in Augmented Reality: A Multimodal Semantic Reasoning Approach — Yanming Xiu and Maria Gorlatova
Best Paper Award
Recipients: Ada: A Distributed, Power-Aware, Real-Time Scene Provider for XR — Yihan Pang, Sushant Kondguli, Shenlong Wang, and Sarita Adve
Best Paper Award
Recipients: Viewpoint-Tolerant Depth Perception for Shared Extended Space Experience on Wall-Sized Display — Dooyoung Kim, Jinseok Hong, Heejeong Ko, and Woontack Woo
Best Paper Award
Recipients: A Handheld Stiffness Display with a Programmable Spring and Electrostatic Clutches for Haptic Interaction in Virtual Reality — Ke Shi, Quan Xiong, Maozeng Zhang, Aiguo Song, and Lifeng Zhu
Best Paper Award
Recipients: When LLMs Recognize Your Space: Research on Experiences with Spatially Aware LLM Agents — Seungwoo Oh, Nakyoung An, Youngwug Cho, Myeongul Jung, and Kwanguk (Kenny) Kim
Best Paper Award
Recipients: Visuo-Tactile Feedback with Hand Outline Styles for Modulating Affective Roughness Perception — Minju Baeck, Yoonseok Shin, Dooyoung Kim, Hyunjin Lee, Sang Ho Yoon, and Woontack Woo
Best Paper Awards Honorable Mention
Recipients: Exploring and Modeling the Effects of Eye-Tracking Accuracy and Precision on Gaze-Based Steering in Virtual Environments — Xuning Hu, Yichuan Zhang, Yushi Wei, Liangyuting Zhang, Yue Li, Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, and Hai-Ning Liang
Best Paper Awards Honorable Mention
Recipients: LiteAT: A Data-Lightweight and User-Adaptive VR Telepresence System for Remote Education — Yuxin Shen, Wei Liang, and Jianzhu Ma
Best Paper Awards Honorable Mention
Recipients: p-Blend: Privacy- and Utility-Preserving Blendshape Perturbation Against Re-identification Attacks in Virtual Reality — Jingwei Liu, Lai Wei, Yan Hu, Guangrong Zhao, Qing Yang, Guangdong Bai, and Yiran Shen
Best Paper Awards Honorable Mention
Recipients: Portable Silent Room: Exploring VR Design for Anxiety and Emotion Regulation for Neurodivergent Women and Non-Binary Individuals — Kinga Skierś, Yun Suen Pai, Marina Nakagawa, Kouta Minamizawa, and Giulia Barbareschi
Best Paper Awards Honorable Mention
Recipients: "I was truly able to express the image of myself that I have within": Exploring VR Group Therapy Approaches with the LGBTQIA+ Community — Kinga Skierś, Danyang Peng, Anish Kundu, Tanner Person, Kenkichi Takase, Tamii Nagoshi, Sawako Nakayama, Yano Yuichiro, Tomoyuki Miyazaki, Kouta Minamizawa, and Giulia Barbareschi
Best Paper Awards Honorable Mention
Recipients: How Do We Read Texts in VR?: The Effects of Text Segment Quantity and Social Distraction on Text Readability in Virtual Museum Contexts — Jungmin Lee, Hyuckjin Jang, and Jeongmi Lee
Best Paper Awards Honorable Mention
Recipients: Visceral Notices and Privacy Mechanisms for Eye Tracking in Augmented Reality — Nissi Otoo, Kailon Blue, G. Nikki Ramirez, Evan Selinger, Shaun Foster, and Brendan David-John
Best Paper Awards Honorable Mention
Recipients: Handows: A Palm-Based Interactive Multi-Window Management System in Virtual Reality — Jin-Du Wang, Ke Zhou, Haoyu Ren, Per Ola Kristensson, and Xiang Li
Best Paper Awards Honorable Mention
Recipients: Casual-VRAuth: A Design Framework Bridging Focused and Casual Interactions for Behavioral Authentication in Virtual Reality — GuanYu Ye, BoYu Gao, and Huawei Tu
Best Paper Awards Honorable Mention
Recipients: Facilitating the Exploration of Linearly Aligned Objects in Controller-Free 3D Environment with Gaze and Microgestures — Jihyeon Lee, Jinwook Kim, and Jeongmi Lee
Best Paper Awards Honorable Mention
Recipients: Impact of Avatar-Locomotion Congruence on User Experience and Identification in Virtual Reality — Omar Khan, Hyeongil Nam, and Kangsoo Kim
Best Paper Awards Honorable Mention
Recipients: The AI of the Beholder: Experience of Healthcare AI Robots is Shaped by User-Centred Factors, Not Their Visual Appearance — Jinha Yoon, Patrycja Zajac, Lauren Pococke, Anisia Jicol, Christopher Clarke, Eamonn O’Neill, Karin Petrini, Christof Lutteroth, and Crescent Jicol
Best Paper Awards Honorable Mention
Recipients: MetaRoundWorm: A Virtual Reality Escape Room Game for Learning the Lifecycle and Immune Response to Parasitic Infections — Xuanru Cheng, Xian Wang, Chi-lok Tai, and Lik-Hang Lee
Best Paper Awards Honorable Mention
Recipients: The Effect of Hand Visibility in AR: Comparing Dexterity and Interaction with Virtual and Real Objects — Jakob Hartbrich, Stephanie Arévalo Arboleda, Steve Göring, and Alexander Raake
Best Paper Awards Honorable Mention
Recipients: Extended Reality Check: Evaluating XR Prototyping for Human-Robot Interaction in Contact-Intensive Tasks — Tonia Mielke, Mareen Allgaier, Christian Hansen, and Florian Heinrich
Best Paper Awards Honorable Mention
Recipients: Influence of Object Height, Shadow and Adapting Luminance on Outdoor Depth Perception in Augmented Reality — Shining Ma, Chaochao Liu, Jingyuan Wang, Yue Liu, Yongtian Wang, and Weitao Song
Best Paper Awards Honorable Mention
Recipients: The Impact of AI-Based Real-Time Gesture Generation and Immersion on the Perception of Others and Interaction Quality in Social XR — Christian Merz, Niklas Krome, Carolin Wienrich, Stefan Kopp, and Marc Erich Latoschik
Best Student Volunteer Award
Recipient: Seo Young Oh
Best Student Volunteer Award
Recipient: Adamay Mann