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ISMAR 2026 - Bari, Italy

ISMAR 2026 - Bari, Italy


The ISMAR 2026 symposium will be held in Bari, Italy.

Dates: Oct 04 - Oct 09 2026.


General Chairs
Joe Gabbard,
Joe Gabbard, Virginia Tech, United States
Michele Fiorentino
Michele Fiorentino Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Daisuke Iwai
Daisuke Iwai University of Osaka, Italy
Antonio E. Uva
Antonio E. Uva Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Woontack Woo
Woontack Woo KAIST, Italy

ISMAR 2025 - Daejeon, South Korea

ISMAR 2025 - Daejeon, South Korea


The ISMAR 2025 symposium was held in Daejeon, South Korea.

Dates: Oct 08 - Oct 12 2025.

Statistics
  • Attendees
    781
  • Number of Submissions
    763
  • Accepted Journal Papers
    60
  • Accepted Conference Papers
    157

General Chairs
Woontack Woo,
Woontack Woo, KAIST, South Korea
Joing-il Park
Joing-il Park Hanyang University, South Korea
Dr. Arindam Dey
Dr. Arindam Dey Facebook, United States
Joseph L. Gabbard
Joseph L. Gabbard Virginia Tech, United States
S&T Program Chairs
Gun Lee
Gun Lee University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Qi Sun
Qi Sun NYU, New York, United States
Ulrich Eck
Ulrich Eck Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
Alexander Plopski
Alexander Plopski TU Graz, Graz, Austria
Missie Smith
Missie Smith Auburn University, Auburn, United States
Markus Tatzgern
Markus Tatzgern Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Salzburg, Austria

Awards

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

Keynotes

Dongkyu Kim CEO, CALIVERSE , Republic of Korea Title: Beyond Words: Beyond Reality [CALIVERSE]’s Vision for the Metaverse
    Kihwan Kim Samsung Electronics , Republic of Korea Title: A Journey to AI x XR: What is the best device for the multi-modal AI era?
      Soonmin Bae KT , Republic of Korea Title: Distributed AI: The Future of Connected Intelligence

        ISMAR 2024 - Greater Seattle Area, United States

        ISMAR 2024 - Greater Seattle Area, United States


        The ISMAR 2024 symposium was held in Greater Seattle Area, United States.

        Dates: Oct 21 - Oct 25 2024.

        Statistics
        • Attendees
          580
        • Number of Submissions
          646
        • Accepted Journal Papers
          44
        • Accepted Conference Papers
          133

        General Chairs
        Dr. Arindam Dey
        Dr. Arindam Dey Facebook, United States
        Prof. Walterio Mayol-Cuevas
        Prof. Walterio Mayol-Cuevas Amazon, United States
        Jeffrey Powers
        Jeffrey Powers Arcturus Industries, United States
        Honorary General Chair
        Dr. David Mizell
        Dr. David Mizell USA
        S&T Program Chairs
        Ulrich Eck
        Ulrich Eck TU Munich, Munich, Germany
        Misha Sra
        Misha Sra UC Santa Barbara, USA
        Jeanine Stefanucci
        Jeanine Stefanucci University of Utah, USA
        Maki Sugimoto
        Maki Sugimoto Keio University, Japan
        Markus Tatzgern
        Markus Tatzgern Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria
        Ian Williams
        Ian Williams Birmingham City University, UK

        Awards

        ISMAR 2024 Career Impact Award Recipient: Nassir Navab
        ISMAR 2024 Career Impact Award Recipient: Gudrun Klinker
        ISMAR 2024 Paper Impact Award Mobile Augmented Reality for Cultural Heritage: A Technology Acceptance Study, ISMAR 2012, pp. 247-255, 2012. IEEE. Recipient: Anne-Cecilie Haugstvedt & John Krogstie
        ISMAR 2024 Best Student Journal Paper VPRF: Visual Perceptual Radiance Fields for Foveated Image Synthesis. In 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality. IEEE. Recipient: Wang, Z., Wu, J., Fan, R., Ke, W., & Wang, L.
        ISMAR 2024 Best Student Journal Paper The Effects of Depth of Knowledge of a Virtual Agent. In 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality. IEEE. Recipient: Yang, F., Duque , K., & Mousas, C.
        Honorable Mention for ISMAR 2024 Best Journal Paper Should I Evaluate my Augmented Reality System in an Industrial Environment? Investigating the Effects of Classroom and Shop Floor Settings on Guided Assembly. In 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality. IEEE. Recipient: Zhang, V., Albers, A., Saeedi-Givi, C., Kristensson, P.O., Bohn, T., & Tadeja, S.
        ISMAR 2024 Best Journal Paper HOIMotion: Forecasting Human Motion During Human-Object Interactions Using Egocentric 3D Object Bounding Boxes. In 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality. IEEE. Recipient: Hu, Z., Yin, Z., Haeufle, D., Schmitt, S., & Bulling, A.
        Honorable Mention for ISMAR 2024 Best Student Conference Paper Do you read me? (E)motion Legibility of Virtual Reality Character Representations. In 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality. IEEE. Recipient: Brandstatter, K., Congdon, B., & Steed, A.
        Honorable Mention for ISMAR 2024 Best Student Conference Paper XR Prototyping of Mixed Reality Visualizations: Compensating Interaction Latency for a Medical Imaging Robot. In 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality. IEEE. Recipient: Plümer, J. H., Yu, K., Eck, U., Kalkofen, D., Steininger, P., Navab, N., & Tatzgern, M.
        ISMAR 2024 Best Student Conference Paper XaiR: An XR Platform that Integrates Large Language Models with the Physical World. In 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality. IEEE. Recipient: Srinidhi, S., Schott, E., Lu, E., & Rowe, A.
        Honorable Mention for ISMAR 2024 Best Conference Paper Speaking with Objects: Conversational Agents’ Embodiment in Virtual Museums. In 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality. IEEE. Recipient: López García, I., Schott, E., Gohsen, M., Bernhard, V., Stein, B., & Froehlich, B.
        ISMAR 2024 Best Conference Paper Spatial Affordance-aware Interactable Subspace Allocation for Mixed Reality Telepresence. In 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality. IEEE. Recipient: Kim, D., Kim, S., Choi, S., & Woo, W.

        Keynotes

        Hrvoje Benko Meta Reality Labs Research , US Title: Beyond Words: Improving Interactions for AI-Assisted AR
          Maud Marchal University of Rennes, INSA , France Title: Exploring novel haptic modalities within mixed environments

            ISMAR 2023 - Sydney, Australia

            ISMAR 2023 - Australia, Sydney


            The ISMAR 2023 symposium was held in Australia, Sydney.

            Dates: Oct 16 - Oct 20 2023.

            Statistics
            • Attendees
              605
            • Number of Submissions
              627
            • Accepted Journal Papers
              45
            • Accepted Conference Papers
              128

            General Chairs
            Dr. Barrett Ens
            Dr. Barrett Ens Monash University, Australia
            Dr. Gelareh Mohammadi
            Dr. Gelareh Mohammadi University of New South Wales, Australia
            Dr. Denis Kalkofen
            Dr. Denis Kalkofen Flinders University, Australia
            Prof. Frank Guan
            Prof. Frank Guan Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore
            Journal Paper S&T Program Chairs
            Prof. Joe Gabbard
            Prof. Joe Gabbard Virginia Tech, USA
            Prof. Michele Fiorentino
            Prof. Michele Fiorentino Politecnico di Bari, Italy
            Prof. Guilame Moreau
            Prof. Guilame Moreau IMT Atlantique, France
            Dr. Gun Lee
            Dr. Gun Lee University of South Australia, Australia
            Conference Paper S&T Program Chairs
            Jens Grubert
            Jens Grubert Coburg University, Germany
            Andrew Cunningham
            Andrew Cunningham University of South Australia, Australia
            Evan Peng
            Evan Peng University of Hong Kong, China
            Gerd Bruder
            Gerd Bruder University of Central Florida, USA
            Anne-Helene Olivier
            Anne-Helene Olivier University of Rennes 2 - Inria, France
            Ian WILLIAMS
            Ian WILLIAMS Birmingham City University, UK

            Awards

            ISMAR 2023 Career Impact Award Recipient: Kato, Hirokazo
            ISMAR Paper Impact Award Experiences with handheld augmented reality. In 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (pp. 3-18). IEEE. Recipients: Schmalstieg, D., and Wagner, D.
            Best IEEE ISMAR 2023 Journal Paper Award Understanding Effects of Visual Feedback Delay in AR on Fine Motor Surgical Tasks Recipients: Talha Khan, Toby S. Zhu, Thomas Downes, Lucille Cheng, Nicolás M. Kass, Edward G. Andrews, and Jacob T. Biehl
            Best IEEE ISMAR 2023 Journal Paper Award Multi-layer Scene Representation from Composed Focal Stacks Recipients: Reina Ishikawa, Hideo Saito, Denis Kalkofen, and Shohei Mori
            Best IEEE ISMAR 2023 Conference Paper Award Point & Portal: A New Action at a Distance Technique For Virtual Reality Recipients: Daniel Ablett, Andrew Cunningham, Gun A. Lee, and Bruce H. Thomas
            Honorable Mention for Best IEEE ISMAR 2023 Conference Paper Enhancing Seamless Walking in Virtual Reality: Application of Bone-Conduction Vibration in Redirected Walking Recipients: Seokhyun Hwang, YoungIn Kim, Youngseok Seo, and SeungJun Kim
            Best IEEE ISMAR 2023 Poster Award Are You Aroused Enough to See the Difference? The Role of Physiological Arousal in Perceiving Realism of Virtual Scene Recipients: Natalia Lipp, Paweł Strojny, Agnieszka Strojny, Sławomir Śpiewak, Jan K Argasiński, and Przemysław Korzeniowski
            Honorable Mention for Best IEEE ISMAR 2023 Poster Award Interactive Registration Methods for Augmented Reality in Robotics: A Comparative Evaluation Recipients: Tonia Mielke, Fabian Joeres, Danny Schott, and Christian Hansen
            Best IEEE ISMAR 2023 Demo Award Hybrid Cross Reality Collaborative System Recipients: Hyunwoo Cho, Eunhee Chang, Zhuang Chang, Jiashuo Cao, Bowen Yuan, Jonathon D Hart, Gun A. Lee, Thammathip Piumsomboon, and Mark Billinghurst
            Honorable Mention for Best IEEE ISMAR 2023 Demo Award InstantCopresence: A Spatial Anchor Sharing Methodology for Co-located Multiplayer Handheld and Headworn AR Recipients: Botao Hu, Yuchen Zhang, Sizheng Hao, and Yilan Tao
            Best IEEE ISMAR 2023 Doctoral Consortium Presentation How Do Users with Autism Perceive Certain VR Interaction Techniques? An Experience Evaluation through Brainwave Measurement Recipient: Aulia Hening Darmasti
            Honorable Mention for Best IEEE ISMAR 2023 Doctoral Consortium Presentation Investigating Avatars’ Impact on Shopper’s Perception and Behaviour in an Immersive Virtual Store Recipient: Yinshu Zhao
            Best IEEE ISMAR 2023 Design at Student Competition Time Travellers: An Asynchronous Cross Reality Collaborative System Recipients: Hyunwoo Cho, Bowen Yuan, Jonathan Derek Hart, Zhuang Chang, and Jiashuo Cao
            Honorable Mention for Best IEEE ISMAR 2023 Design at Student Competition RealityGit: Cross Reality Version Control of R&D Optical Workbench Recipients: Ke Li and Tim Rolff
            Honorable Mention for Best IEEE ISMAR 2023 Design at Student Competition Reviving Euston Arch: A Mixed Reality Approach to Cultural Heritage Tours Recipients: Ziwen Lu, Jingyi Zhang, Kalila Shapiro, and Nels Numan

            Keynotes

            Gudrun Klinker Technical University of Munich , Germany Title: UI 4.0 – Synergetic Effects between Mixed Reality and Games
              Bruce Hunter Thomas University of South Australia , Australia Title: User Interfaces for AR: The Last Frontier – Us(ers)
                Alvin Wang Graylin HTC , China Title: The Benefits of Immersive Education for Humanoid and Digital Lifeforms

                  ISMAR 2022 - Singapore, Singapore

                  ISMAR 2022 - Singapore, Singapore


                  The ISMAR 2022 symposium was held in Singapore, Singapore.

                  Dates: Oct 17 - Oct 21 2022.

                  Links
                  Statistics
                  • Attendees
                    580
                  • Number of Submissions
                    603
                  • Accepted Journal Papers
                    35
                  • Accepted Conference Papers
                    93

                  General Chairs
                  Prof. Frank GUAN
                  Prof. Frank GUAN Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore
                  Prof. Yiyu CAI
                  Prof. Yiyu CAI Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
                  Prof. Michele FIORENTINO
                  Prof. Michele FIORENTINO Politecnico di Bari, Italy
                  Journal Paper S&T Program Chairs
                  Guilame MOREAU
                  Guilame MOREAU IMT Atlantique, France
                  Prof. Joe GABBARD
                  Prof. Joe GABBARD Virginia Tech, USA
                  Lily WANG
                  Lily WANG Beihang University, China
                  Daisuke IWAI
                  Daisuke IWAI Osaka University, Japan
                  Conference Paper S&T Program Chairs
                  Henry DUH
                  Henry DUH La Trobe University, Australia
                  Jens GRUBERT
                  Jens GRUBERT Coburg University, Germany
                  Jianmin ZHENG
                  Jianmin ZHENG Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
                  Ian WILLIAMS
                  Ian WILLIAMS Birmingham City University, UK
                  Adam JONES
                  Adam JONES Mississippi State University, USA

                  Awards

                  ISMAR Paper Impact Award Perceptual issues in augmented reality revisited. In 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (pp. 3-12). IEEE. Recipients: Kruijff, E., Swan, J. E., and Feiner, S
                  ISMAR Paper Impact Award Going out: robust model-based tracking for outdoor augmented reality. In 2006 IEEE/ACM international symposium on mixed and augmented reality (pp. 109-118). IEEE. Recipients: Reitmayr, G., and Drummond, T. W.
                  Best IEEE ISMAR 2022 Journal Paper Award FoV-NeRF: Foveated Neural Radiance Fields for Virtual Reality Recipients: Nianchen Deng, Zhenyi He, Jiannan Ye, Budmonde Duinkharjav, Praneeth Chakravarthula, Xubo Yang, and Qi Sun
                  Honorable Mention for Best IEEE ISMAR 2022 Journal Paper Content-Aware Brightness Solving and Error Mitigation in Large-Scale Multi-Projection Mapping Recipients: Philipp Kurth, Markus Leuschner, Marc Stamminger, and Frank Bauer
                  Best IEEE ISMAR 2022 Conference Paper Award Evaluating the Object-Centered User Interface in Head-Worn Mixed Reality Environment Recipients: Yihan Li, Yong Hu, Zidan Wang, and Xukun Shen
                  Honorable Mention for Best IEEE ISMAR 2022 Conference Paper Exploring the Impact of Visual Information on Intermittent Typing in Virtual Reality. Recipient: Alexander Giovannelli, Lee Lisle, Doug A. Bowman
                  Best IEEE ISMAR 2022 Poster Award Dynamically Controlling Spatial Taste Location by Extraoral Galvanic Taste Stimulation. Recipients: So Tanaka, Takuji Narumi, Hiromi Nakamura, Tomohiro Amemiya, Hideaki Kuzuoka, and Kazuma Aoyama
                  Best IEEE ISMAR 2022 Demo Award CADET: A Collaborative Agile Data Exploration Tool for Mixed Reality Recipients: Jeremy McDade, Adam Drogemuller, Allison Jing, Nick R Ireland, James A Walsh, Bruce H Thomas, Wolfgang Mayer, and Andrew Cunningham

                  Keynotes

                  Henry Fuchs University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , USA Title: All-day Augmented Reality Glasses: Promises and Problems
                    Marc Pollefeys ETH Zurich , Switzerland Title: Towards the Industrial Metaverse

                      ISMAR 2021 - Bari, Italy

                      ISMAR 2021 - Bari (Virtual), Italy


                      The ISMAR 2021 symposium was held in Bari (Virtual), Italy.

                      Dates: Oct 04 - Oct 08 2021.

                      Links
                      Statistics
                      • Attendees
                        547
                      • Number of Submissions
                        359
                      • Accepted Journal Papers
                        24
                      • Accepted Conference Papers
                        56

                      General Chairs
                      Prof. Joe Gabbard
                      Prof. Joe Gabbard Virginia Tech, USA
                      Prof. Michele Fiorentino
                      Prof. Michele Fiorentino Politecnico di Bari, Italy
                      Prof. Antonello Uva
                      Prof. Antonello Uva Politecnico di Bari, Italy
                      Prof. Veronica Teichrieb
                      Prof. Veronica Teichrieb Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
                      Journal Paper S&T Program Chairs
                      Daisuke Iwai
                      Daisuke Iwai Osaka University, Japan
                      Denis Kalkofen
                      Denis Kalkofen Technische Universität Graz, Austria
                      Guilame Moreau
                      Guilame Moreau IMT Atlantique, France
                      Tabitha Peck
                      Tabitha Peck Davidson College, USA
                      Conference Paper S&T Program Chairs
                      Maud Marchal
                      Maud Marchal Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systèmes Aléatoires, France
                      Anne Helene Olivier
                      Anne Helene Olivier Renne2 University, France
                      Rafael Radowski
                      Rafael Radowski Iowa State University, USA
                      Jonathan Ventura
                      Jonathan Ventura California Polytechnic State University, USA
                      Lily Wang
                      Lily Wang Beihang University, China

                      Awards

                      ISMAR 2021 Career Impact Award Recipient: Doug A. Bowman, Director of the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech
                      ISMAR 2021 Impact Paper Award Kinectfusion: Real-time Dense Surface Mapping and Tracking Recipients: Richard A. Newcombe, Shahram Izadi, Otmar Hilliges, David Molyneaux, David Kim, Andrew J. Davison, Pushmeet Kohi, Jamie Shotton, Steve Hodges, and Andrew Fitzgibbon
                      Best Journal Paper Award Multifocal Stereoscopic Projection Mapping Recipients: Sorashi Kimura, Daisuke Iwai, Parinya Punpongsanon, and Kosuke Sato
                      Journal Paper Honorable Mention Redirected Walking in Static and Dynamic Scenes Using Visibility Polygons Recipients: Niall L. Williams, Aniket Bera, and Dinesh Manocha
                      Best Student-Led Journal Paper Head Mounted Displays with Increased Downward Field of View Improve Presence and Sense of Self-Location Recipients: Kizashi Nakano, Naoya Isoyama, Diego Monteiro, Nobuchika Sakata, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, and Takuji Narumi
                      Best Conference Paper Neural Cameras: Learning Camera Characteristics for Coherent Mixed Reality Rendering Recipients: David Mandl, Peter Mohr, Tobias Langlotz, Christoph Ebner, Shohei Mori, Stefanie Zollmann, Peter M. Roth, and Denis Kalkofen
                      Conference Paper Honorable Mention Redirected Walking Using Noisy Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation Recipients: Keigo Matsumoto, Kazuma Aoyama, Narumi Takuji, and Hideaki Kuzuoka
                      Best Student-Led Conference Paper AlterEcho: Loose Avatar-Streamer Coupling for Expressive VTubing Recipients: Man To Tang, Victor Long Zhu, and Voicu Popescu
                      Best Poster Award Exploring and Slicing Volumetric Medical Data in Augmented Reality Using a Spatially-Aware Mobile Device Recipients: Weizhou Luo, Eva Goebel, Patrick Reipschläger, Mats Ellenberg, and Raimund Dachselt
                      Best Contest Entry Hybrid Conference Experiences in the ARENA Recipients: Nuno Pereira, Anthony Rowe, Michael W Farb, Ivan Liang, Edward Lu, and Eric Riebling
                      Contest Honorable Mention The Owl: Immersive Telepresence Communication for Hybrid Conferences Recipients: Redouane Kachach, Sandra Morcuende, Diego González Morín, Pablo Perez, Ester Gonzalez-Sosa, Francisco Pereira, and Alvaro Villegas
                      Best Demo Augmented Reality for Subsurface Utility Engineering, Revisited Recipients: Lasse H. Hansen, Philipp Fleck, Marco Stranner, Dieter Schmalstieg, and Clemens Arth
                      Demo Honorable Mention Exploring and Slicing Volumetric Medical Data in Augmented Reality Using a Spatially-Aware Mobile Device Recipients: Weizhou Luo, Eva Goebel, Patrick Reipschlager, Mats Ole Ellenberg, and Raimund Dachselt

                      Keynotes

                      Mar Gonzalez-Franco Microsoft Research , USA Title: Metaverse From Fiction to Reality and the Research Behind It
                        Domenico Prattichizzo University of Siena , Italy Title: Wearable Haptics for Virtual and Augmented Reality
                          Doug A. Bowman Virginia Tech , USA Title: User Experience Considerations for Everyday Augmented Reality

                            ISMAR 2020 - Porto De Galinhas, Brasil

                            ISMAR 2020 - Recife/Porto De Galinhas (Virtual), Brasil


                            The ISMAR 2020 symposium was held in Recife/Porto De Galinhas (Virtual), Brasil.

                            Dates: Nov 09 - Nov 13 2020.

                            Links
                            Statistics
                            • Attendees
                              625
                            • Number of Submissions
                              302
                            • Accepted Journal Papers
                              18
                            • Accepted Conference Papers
                              87

                            General Chairs
                            Prof. Veronica Teichrieb
                            Prof. Veronica Teichrieb Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
                            Prof. Henry Duh
                            Prof. Henry Duh La Trobe University, Australia
                            João Paulo Lima
                            João Paulo Lima Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brasil
                            Francisco Simões
                            Francisco Simões Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brasil
                            Science and Technology Chairs
                            Shimin Hu
                            Shimin Hu Tsinghua University, China
                            Denis Kalkhofen
                            Denis Kalkhofen Technische Universität Graz, Austria
                            Jonathan Ventura
                            Jonathan Ventura California Polytechnic State University, USA
                            Stefanie Zollmann
                            Stefanie Zollmann University of Otago, New Zealand

                            Awards

                            Career Impact Award Recipient: Prof. Dieter Schmalstieg, Technical University of Graz
                            Dieter Schmalstieg has had a profound influence on our field, and is most deserving of the ISMAR Career Impact Award.
                            Best Paper Award Mobile3DRecon: Real-time Monocular 3D Reconstruction on a Mobile Phone Recipients: Xingbin Yang, Liyang Zhou, Hanqing Jiang, Zhongliang Tang, Yuanbo Wang, Hujun Bao, and Guofeng Zhang (Sensetime Research / Zhejiang University)
                            Best Paper Honorable Mention Award Spatial Presence, Performance, and Behavior between Real, Remote, and Virtual Immersive Environments Recipients: Nawel Khenak, Jeanne Vézien, and Patrick Bourdot (Université Paris-Saclay)
                            Best Poster Award A Virtual Morris Water Maze to Study Neurodegenarative Disorders Recipients: Daniel Roth, Christian Felix Purps, and Wolf-Julian Neumann (TU-Munich, University of Würzburg, Charité Berlin)
                            Best Poster Honorable Mention Award Evaluate Optimal Redirected Walking Planning Using Reinforcement Learning Recipients: Ko Tsai-Yen, Su Li-Wen, Chang Yuchen, Keigo Matsumoto, Takuji Narumi, and Michitaka Hirose (National Cheng Kung University, National Taiwan University, The University of Tokyo)
                            Best Demo Award RetroActivity: Rapidly Deployable Live Task Guidance Experiences Recipients: Andrey Konin, Shahram Najam Syed, Shakeeb Siddiqui, Sateesh Kumar, Quoc-Huy Tran, and M. Zeeshan Zia (Retrocausal Inc.)
                            Best Presentation Award at Doctoral Consortium Supporting Emergency Medical Services with Head-Worn Displays Recipient: Paul Schlosser (The University of Queensland)

                            Keynotes

                            Paul Debevec Google Research and USC Institute for Creative Technologies , USA Title: Shining Light between Real and Virtual Worlds
                              Ramesh Rakar MIT Media Lab , USA Title: Augmented Surgeons and ‘Anatome’: AI & AR for IA
                                Yvonne Rogers University College London , UK Title: Augmenting Cognition

                                  ISMAR 2019 - Beijing, China

                                  ISMAR 2019 - Beijing, China


                                  The ISMAR 2019 symposium was held in Beijing, China.

                                  Dates: Oct 14 - Oct 18 2019.

                                  Links
                                  Statistics
                                  • Attendees
                                    455
                                  • Number of Submissions
                                    163
                                  • Accepted Journal Papers
                                    14
                                  • Accepted Conference Papers
                                    50

                                  General Chairs
                                  Qinping Zhao
                                  Qinping Zhao Beihang University, China
                                  Yongtian Wang
                                  Yongtian Wang Beijing Institute of Technology, China
                                  Henry BL Duh
                                  Henry BL Duh La Trode University, Australia
                                  S&T Program Chairs
                                  Shimin Hu
                                  Shimin Hu Tsinghua University, China
                                  Joseph L. Gabbard
                                  Joseph L. Gabbard Virginia Tech, US
                                  Jens Grubert
                                  Jens Grubert Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany
                                  Stefanie Zollmann
                                  Stefanie Zollmann University of Otago, New Zealand

                                  Awards

                                  Career Impact Award Recipient: Prof. Mark Billinghurst, University of South Australia
                                  Mark Billinghurst has had a profound influence on our field, and is most deserving of the ISMAR Career Impact Award.
                                  Best Impact Paper Award Recipients: Henderson, S. J., and Feiner, S.
                                  for the paper "Evaluating the benefits of augmented reality for task localization in maintenance of an armored personnel carrier turret."
                                  Best Paper Award ReconViguRation: Reconfiguring Physical Keyboards in Virtual Reality Recipients: Daniel Schneider, Alexander Otte, Travis Gesslein, Philipp Gagel, Bastian Kuth, Mohamad Shahm Damlakhi, Oliver Dietz, Eyal Ofek, Michel Pahud, Per Ola Kristensson, Jörg Müller, and Jens Grubert
                                  Best Paper Honorable Mention Award Animated Stickies: Fast Video Projection Mapping onto a Markerless Plane through a Direct Closed-Loop Alignment Recipients: Shingo Kagami and Koichi Hashimoto
                                  Best Poster Award Compact Light Field Augmented Reality Display with Eliminated Stray Light Using Discrete Structures Recipients: Cheng Yao, Yue Liu, Dewen Cheng, and Yongtian Wang
                                  Best Presentation Award at Doctoral Consortium Social Perception of Pedestrians and Virtual Agents Using Movement Features Recipient: Tanmay Randhavane

                                  Contests

                                  First Place of the VISLAM Challenge Recipient(s): Shaozu Cao, Jie Pan, Jieqi Shi, and Shaojie Shen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
                                  First Place of the VISLAM Challenge Recipient(s): Zike Yan, Pijian Sun, Xin Wang, Shunkai Li, Sheng Zhang, and Hongbin Zha, Peking University
                                  Second Place of the VISLAM Challenge Recipient(s): Xinyu Wei, Zengming Tang, Huiyan Wu, and Jun Huang, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences
                                  Second Place of the VISLAM Challenge Recipient(s): Darius Rueckert, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg
                                  Third Place of the VISLAM Challenge Recipient(s): Jianhua Zhang, Shengyong Chen, Mengping Gui, Jialing Liu, Luzhen Ma, and Kaiqi Chen, Zhejiang University of Technology
                                  Third Place of the VISLAM Challenge Recipient(s): Neo Yuan Rong Dexter, and Toh Yu Heng, Pensees

                                  Keynotes

                                  Wen Gao Peking University , China Title: AVS3 -- A New Generation of Video Coding Standard for Super High Vision and VR/AR
                                    Xiaoou Tang SenseTime , China Title: AI + AR: Magic in the AIR
                                      Dieter Schmalstieg TU Graz , Austria Title: A Research Agenda for Situated Visualization

                                        ISMAR 2018 - Munich, Germany

                                        ISMAR 2018 - Munich, Germany


                                        The ISMAR 2018 symposium was held in Munich, Germany.

                                        Dates: Oct 16 - Oct 20 2018.

                                        Links
                                        Statistics
                                        • Attendees
                                          448
                                        • Number of Submissions
                                          119
                                        • Accepted Journal Papers
                                          15
                                        • Accepted Conference Papers
                                          33

                                        General Chairs
                                        Ulrich Eck
                                        Ulrich Eck TU Munich, Germany
                                        Ottmar Hilliges
                                        Ottmar Hilliges ETH Zurich, Switzerland
                                        S&T Program Chairs
                                        David Chu
                                        David Chu Google, US
                                        Joseph L. Gabbard
                                        Joseph L. Gabbard Virginia Tech, US
                                        Jens Grubert
                                        Jens Grubert Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany
                                        Holger Regenbrecht
                                        Holger Regenbrecht University of Otago, New Zealand

                                        Awards

                                        Career Impact Award Recipient: Prof. Henry Fuchs, UNC Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
                                        Henry Fuchs has had a profound influence on our field, and is most deserving of the ISMAR Career Impact Award.
                                        Impact Paper Award Recipients: Wagner, Daniel and Reitmayr, Gerhard and Mulloni, Alessandro and Drummond, Tom and Schmalstieg, Dieter
                                        for the paper "Pose tracking from natural features on mobile phones"
                                        Best Paper Award FocusAR: Auto-focus Augmented Reality Eyeglasses for both Real and Virtual Recipients: Chakravarthula, Praneeth and Dunn, David and Aksit, Kaan and Fuchs, Henry
                                        Best Paper Honorable Mention Augmented Reality Interface Design Approaches for Goal-directed and Stimulus-driven Driving Tasks Recipients: Merenda, Coleman J and Kim, Hyungil and Tanous, Kyle and Gabbard, Joseph L. and Feichtl, Blake and Suga, Chihiro and Misu, Teruhisa
                                        Best Poster Award CNN-MonoFusion: Online Monocular Dense Reconstruction using Learned Depth from Single View Recipients: Wang, Jiafang and Liu, Haiwei and Cong, Lin and Xiahou, Zuoxin and Wang, Liming
                                        Best Demo Award A Low-Latency, High-Precision Handheld Perspective Corrected Display Recipients: Berard, Francois and Louis, Thibault

                                        Keynotes

                                        Henry Fuchs University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , USA Title: The XR Future - the coming utopia or a gamer's plaything
                                        Hrvoje Benko Oculus Research , USA Title: The Future of AR Interactions

                                        ISMAR 2017 - Nantes, France

                                        ISMAR 2017 - Nantes, France


                                        The ISMAR 2017 symposium was held in Nantes, France.

                                        Dates: Oct 09 - Oct 13 2017.

                                        Links
                                        Statistics
                                        • Attendees
                                          330
                                        • Number of Submissions
                                          113
                                        • Accepted Journal Papers
                                          14
                                        • Accepted Conference Papers
                                          31

                                        General Chairs
                                        Guillaume Moreau
                                        Guillaume Moreau
                                        Anatole Lecuyer
                                        Anatole Lecuyer
                                        Deputy General Chairs
                                        Jean-Marie Normand
                                        Jean-Marie Normand
                                        Myriam Servieres
                                        Myriam Servieres
                                        S&T Program Chairs
                                        Wolfgang Broll
                                        Wolfgang Broll
                                        Holger Regenbrecht
                                        Holger Regenbrecht
                                        J Edward Swan
                                        J Edward Swan

                                        Awards

                                        Career Impact Award Recipient: Prof. Steve K. Feiner, Columbia University
                                        for significant impact over his career to the ISMAR community.
                                        Impact Paper Award Recipients: Georg Klein (Microsoft) and David Murray (University of Oxford)
                                        for the paper "Parallel Tracking and mapping for small AR workspaces"
                                        Best Paper Award SonifEye: Sonification of Visual Information using Physical Modeling Sound Synthesis Recipients: Hessam Roodaki, Navid Navab, Abouzar Eslami, Christopher Stapleton, and Nassir Navab
                                        Best Poster Award Augmented Things: Enhancing AR Applications leveraging the Internet of Things and Universal 3D Object Tracking Recipients: Jason Rambach, Alain Pagani, and Didier Stricker
                                        Best Demo Award 6D Object Pose Estimation with Depth Images: A Seamless Approach for Robotic Interaction and Augmented Reality Recipients: David Joseph Tan, Nassir Navab, and Federico Tombari

                                        Keynotes

                                        Georg Klein Microsoft Corporation , USA Title: Registration on Hololens
                                          Marie-Odile Berger Inria Nancy Grand Est , France Title: Pose estimation for effective AR tasks