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.
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Statistics
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Attendees
781
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Number of Submissions
763
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Accepted Journal Papers
60
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Accepted Conference Papers
157
General Chairs
Woontack Woo,
KAIST, South Korea
Joing-il Park
Hanyang University, South Korea
Dr. Arindam Dey
Facebook, United States
Joseph L. Gabbard
Virginia Tech, United States
S&T Program Chairs
Gun Lee
University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Qi Sun
NYU, New York, United States
Ulrich Eck
Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
Alexander Plopski
TU Graz, Graz, Austria
Missie Smith
Auburn University, Auburn, United States
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