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PhD in Visual Analytics of Virtual Reality for Enriched Visual Rehabilitation
by Behrisch, M. (Michael) 18 Jul '24

18 Jul '24

Dear colleagues, I would like to steer your attention to the following job opening at the Utrecht University, NL. The department of Information and Computing Sciences of Utrecht University has currently one PhD opening: https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/phd-in… Application deadline is 1 September 2024. In this PhD project, several teams (clinical centers, serious game developers, and academic institutions) combine their multidisciplinary skills to create and deploy a solution for rehabilitating patients having visual impairments by offering them training scenarios using a virtual reality (VR) setup. As PhD candidate in this project, you will conduct independent high-quality research resulting in a doctoral dissertation. Your research will focus on developing a gamified VR application to collect eye tracking data to measure and treat hemianopsia (partial blindness). Additionally, you will design a Visual Analytics solution for exploring complex data recorded from the training patients including eye tracking, task progress, and success rates. This will enable therapists to monitor and improve patients’ visual rehabilitation progress. You will collaborate with a diverse project team of academics, clinicians, and software developers to realize the goals of the project. With best regards, Peter Vangorp, Alex Telea and Michael Behrisch https://vig.science.uu.nl [https://www.uu.nl/sites/default/files/ogp/cm_hs_avatar_corporate_200px.jpg?…]<https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/phd-in…> PhD in Visual Analytics of Virtual Reality for Enriched Visual Rehabilitation<https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/phd-in…> Are you interested in Virtual Reality and do you want to develop a solution to measure and treat visual impairments? This PhD project may be for you www.uu.nl [cid:56e4822e-cc58-462c-89b5-860fa0ee5344]<https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/0034b5896a2e45ed85bf29354702fb0a…> Book time to meet with me<https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/0034b5896a2e45ed85bf29354702fb0a…>

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[CfP] Deadline extension SUMAC'24 @ACMMM'24 ---> July 23, 2024
by Valerie Gouet 16 Jul '24

16 Jul '24

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] Call for Papers SUMAC 2024 6th ACM International workshop on analySis, Understanding and proMotion of heritAge Contents Advances in machine learning, signal processing, multimodal techniques and human-machine interaction 28 Oct or 1 Nov, 2024 Melbourne, Australia (attendance mode TBA) In conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2024 Workshop: [ https://sumac-workshops.github.io/2024/ | https://sumac-workshops.github.io/2024/ ] Main Conference: [ https://2024.acmmm.org/ | https://2024.acmmm.org/ ] *** Aims and scope The ambition of SUMAC is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to share ideas and methods on current trends in the analysis, understanding and promotion of heritage contents. These challenges are reflected in the corresponding sub-fields of machine learning, signal processing, multi-modal techniques and human-machine interaction. We welcome research contributions for the following (but not limited to) topics: * Monomodal analysis: text, structured referentials, image, video, 3D, music, sensor data * Information retrieval for multimedia heritage * Automated archaeology and heritage data processing * Multi-modal deep learning and time series analysis for heritage data * Heritage modeling, visualization, and virtualization * Smart digitization and reconstruction of heritage data * Open heritage data and bench-marking The scope of targeted applications is extensive and includes: * Analysis, archaeometry of artifacts * Diagnosis and monitoring for restoration and preventive conservation * Geosciences / Geomatics for cultural heritage * Education * Smart and sustainable tourism * Architecture * Urban planning * Digital Twins *** Important dates (AoE) * Paper submission: July 19, 2024 ---> July 23, 2024 * Author acceptance notification: August 5, 2024 * Camera-Ready: August 19, 2024 * Workshop date: TBA (28 Oct - 1 Nov, 2024) *** Keynote speakers * Dr. Jing Zhang (School of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia): talk "From Pixels to Preservation: The Power of Large Vision Models in Heritage Content Understanding" * Dr. Vera Moitinho de Almeida (Centre for Digital Culture and Innovation, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto, Portugal): talk "God or the devil are in the details too - Reusing 3D digital resources for cultural heritage research" *** Special Highlights Best Paper Award. Following tradition, SUMAC 2024 will also be awarding a best paper award, accompanied with a certificate and a trophy. *** Submission guidelines Submission format. All submissions must be original work not under review at any other workshop, conference, or journal. The workshop will accept papers describing completed work (full paper) as well as work in progress (short paper). Two submission formats are accepted: a) 4 pages plus 1-page reference (short paper); or b) 8 pages plus up to 2-page reference (full paper). They must be encoded as PDF using the ACM Article Template of the main conference ACM Multimedia 2024 (https://2024.acmmm.org/regular-papers) Peer Review and publication in ACM Digital Library. Paper submissions must conform with the “double-blind” review policy. All papers will be peer-reviewed by experts in the field, they will receive at least two reviews. Acceptance will be based on relevance to the workshop, scientific novelty, and technical quality. Depending on the number, maturity and topics of the accepted submissions, the work will be presented via oral or poster sessions. The workshop papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. *** Organizers Valerie Gouet-Brunet (LaSTIG Lab / IGN - Gustave Eiffel University, France) Ronak Kosti (Picsart AI Research Lab, Germany) Li Weng (Zhejiang Financial College, China) Looking forward to hearing from you at SUMAC! The workshop organizers -- Valerie Gouet-Brunet Senior researcher / DR1 Ministère de la Transition Ecologique LASTIG Lab. / Univ. Gustave Eiffel / IGN (French mapping agency) https://www.umr-lastig.fr/vgouet/

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IEEE VR 2025 - CALL FOR 3DUI CONTEST ENTRIES
by IEEE VR Publicity 09 Jul '24

09 Jul '24

IEEE VR 2025: the 32nd IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces March 8-12, 2025, Saint-Malo, France https://ieeevr.org/2025/ <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2duneGb95euclrjPVra0KBj2…> Important Dates - All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE) Submission of two-page abstract and video - January 13, 2025 Notification of which entries are accepted - January 21, 2025 Camera-ready version - January 28, 2025 Overview This year, the IEEE VR conference will host the 16th annual 3DUI Contest. It is open to anyone interested in 3D User Interfaces (3DUIs) and Virtual Reality, from researchers to students, enthusiasts, and professionals. The purpose of the contest is to stimulate innovative and creative solutions to challenging 3DUI problems. The topic of this year is “United for Planet Earth: Promoting Environmental Sustainability in Collaborative Virtual Environments”. Given the increasing importance of an ecologically friendly lifestyle, collaborative virtual environments provide a promising meeting platform to simulate real-world encounters without the need for physical travel. What’s more, meeting in an immersive 3D space offers a large variety of novel opportunities to educate oneself, teach each other, and explore the complex relationships that altogether affect today’s and tomorrow’s climate. This year’s 3DUI contest asks participants to suggest novel forms of teaching, understanding, and/or promoting environmental sustainability collaboratively as a team in Extended Reality (VR/AR/MR/XR). Participants are asked to propose a 3DUI project in which at least two collaborators can work on an environmental issue together. Submissions will be evaluated through the following criteria: 1. 1. Efficiency and convenience of user operations 2. Complexity of collaborative interaction 3. Novelty of the 3DUI design 4. Enjoyment and engagement (fun) Selected contestants will be required to provide a software demonstration of their solutions using the OpenXR standard, ensuring compatibility with consumer mixed-reality hardware. Eligibility The 3DUI Contest is open to anyone interested in 3DUIs — researchers, students, hobbyists, professionals, or anyone else. Requirements for the selection and presentation are specified below. Rules The submitted solutions should fulfill the following rules to be considered for acceptance and presentation during IEEE VR 2025: - Submissions should present a collaborative 3DUI solution, which …: - … covers the topics of “United for Planet Earth: Promoting Environmental Sustainability in Collaborative Virtual Environments”. … describes which 3DUI techniques have been created and/or extended. … is documented with a video (between 3 and 5 minutes) as well as a standalone executable. … is compatible with the OpenXR standard (https://www.khronos.org/openxr/ <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2R-ZkK2Qk3g1nTQ9t7EvLJrl…> ) - The developed collaborative 3DUI should … - … be innovative and technically sound. … provide high usability … be aesthetically pleasing. … be enjoyable and thought-provoking. Teams Teams of up to ten people may submit solutions. Paper Teams must submit a short paper of two pages, including a description of the solution, details about the software developed, a brief description of the closest related work and how the system is novel, and a description of how they iterated upon the design. If the submission is accepted, this paper will be included in the IEEE VR Conference proceedings as a two-page extended abstract describing the contest solution. Therefore, it must be formatted using the IEEE Computer Society format as specified for VR conference papers. Video Teams will also submit a video that presents the solution to the public, including an explanation of the equipment, software, and interaction techniques used to solve the problem. If the submission is accepted, the video will be made publicly available. Videos should have a length of between 3 and 5 minutes and should include the title along with the names and affiliations of the contestants. The submitted file should be a high-quality compressed video with a size of no more than 300 MB and submitted directly via the submission system or via a link to an unlisted video on an online platform like YouTube. On-Site Demonstration If the submission is accepted, authors will participate in a demo session at the conference, where they will showcase their work to the IEEE VR community. The winner of the contest will be determined at IEEE VR, for which various judges from the community will try out and rate the presented 3DUIs. The judging criteria are novelty, usability, fun, and the relevance of the topic. Furthermore, we will offer an on-site voting platform for all conference attendees. The final score will be the combination of the expert judges’ scores and the audience scores. Please note that at least one author of each accepted work should be registered for the conference and present on-site during the dedicated 3DUI sessions. Submission of Abstract and Video - due January 13, 2025 Teams should submit their abstract paper and a high-quality video through the online submission system: <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2fzbNLrEX1TFo8tAmklj63F9…> https://new.precisionconference.com/~vr <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2Fk8Vyj63etvZuor-2YP44ti…> Submissions must be in English and must be prepared in the IEEE Computer Society VGTC format (https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/conference/ <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2pERE1vHioaOzgZZXBwvmO6n…>) and submitted as PDF. We highly encourage authors to use the provided LaTeX template. Authors who choose to use the Word template need to ensure that their PDF submission matches the format. Contact Feel free to contact us at contest2025(a)ieeevr.org if you have any further questions. 3DUI Contest Chairs Jean-Rémy Chardonnet, Arts et Métiers Institute of Technology, France Manuela Chessa, University of Genoa, Italy Jean-Marie Normand, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France Tim Weissker, RWTH Aachen University, Germany [image: beacon]

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IEEE VR 2025 Call for Papers - Abstracts due September 11, 2024
by IEEE VR Publicity 08 Jul '24

08 Jul '24

IEEE VR 2025: the 32nd IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces March 8-12, 2025 | Saint-Malo, France https://ieeevr.org/2025/contribute/papers/ <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2nOpV9wzK5yjr5J6ogRwzMMu…> <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2fkUcZG6dwRbiNS6ERhymbHE…> Overview IEEE VR 2025 seeks original, high-quality papers in all areas related to virtual reality (VR), including augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), and 3D user interfaces (3DUIs). This year, there is again a SINGLE submission deadline for a unified review process for both the IEEE TVCG and the conference only papers. The possible outcomes of this unified process are: 1. Accept as IEEE TVCG paper, with presentation at IEEE VR 2025 2. Accept as IEEE VR 2025 conference paper, with presentation at IEEE VR 2025 3. Accept as IEEE VR 2025 poster 4. Reject Inquiries: program2025 [at] ieeevr.org <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2rBZxgSU0Alf6_TTCg_e7pP9…> Important Dates Each deadline is 23:59:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) == GMT/UTC-12:00 on the stated day, no matter where the submitter is located. The submission deadlines will be strictly enforced. Requests for extensions will not be honored. - September 11 Wednesday, 2024: Abstracts due (REQUIRED) - September 18 Wednesday, 2024: Submissions due - December 10 Tuesday, 2024: Initial notifications - January 2 Thursday, 2025: Revised submissions due - January 9 Thursday, 2025: Final notifications - January 16 Thursday, 2025: Camera-ready materials due Submission Guidelines Submissions will be accepted through Precision Conference Solutions this year. https://new.precisionconference.com/vr <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2QBaU82mAn-t03m3j8ZbjU9w…> IMPORTANT: IEEE VR 2025 uses a DOUBLE-BLIND review process. Failure to anonymize submissions will result in desk rejection. Each research paper should provide a contribution covering one or more of the following categories: methodological, technical, applications, and systems. - Methodological papers should describe advances in theories and methods of AR/VR/MR and 3DUI, such as ethical issues, theories on presence, or human factors. - Technical papers should describe advancements in algorithms or devices critical to AR/VR/MR and 3DUI development such as input, display, user interaction, or tracking. - Application papers provide an important insight to the community by explaining how the authors built upon existing ideas and applied them to solve an interesting problem in a novel way. Each paper should include an evaluation of the success of the use of AR/VR/MR and/or 3DUI in the given application domain. - System papers should indicate how the developers integrated techniques and technologies to produce an effective system, and convey any lessons learned in the process. Each paper should include an evaluation of its contributions, such as user studies, benchmarking and/or comparison with existing systems/techniques/methods. We welcome paper submissions between 4 and 9 pages, not including references. Authors are encouraged to submit videos to aid the program committee in reviewing their submissions. All paper submissions must be formatted using the IEEE Computer Society TVCG conference format ( https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/conference/ <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/21uhVDdwSZbnWRU4awuxNpDo…>). Accepted papers and posters will have to be formatted by the authors according to the relevant camera-ready guidelines. Topics IEEE VR 2025 seeks contributions in VR/AR/MR and 3DUI, including, but not limited to, the following topics: - 360° video - 3D and volumetric display and projection technology - 3D authoring - 3D User Interfaces - Accessibility of immersive interfaces - Audio interfaces and rendering - Collaborative interactions - Computer graphics techniques - Crowd simulation - Cybersickness - Diversity and gender issues - Embodied agents, virtual humans, and (self-)avatars - Ethical issues - Evaluation methods - Haptic interfaces and rendering - Human factors and ergonomics - Immersive analytics and visualization - Immersive applications and games - Input devices - Locomotion and navigation - Mediated and diminished reality - Mobile, desktop, or hybrid 3DUIs - Modeling and simulation - Multi-user and distributed systems - Multimodal capturing and reconstruction - Multimodal/cross-modal interaction and perception - Multisensory interfaces and rendering - Perception and cognition - Presence, body ownership, and agency - Redirection - Software architectures, toolkits, and engineering - Teleoperation and telepresence - Therapy and rehabilitation - Touch, tangible, and gesture interfaces - Tracking - User experience and usability - XR technology infrastructure Review process The review process will have two cycles. Review Cycle I (Submission to Initial notification) Submissions will be assigned to two members of the VR 2025 International Program Committee (IPC): a coordinator (primary) and a secondary reviewer. Submissions that violate the submission guidelines or that receive low review scores from the coordinator and the secondary reviewer will be early rejected. This stage of the review process will be double blind. We will strive to have all other submissions receive a total of at least three reviews. Based on the reviews and in consultation with a subset of the IPC, the Program Chairs will make one of the following initial recommendations for each submission: - Conditionally accept as IEEE TVCG paper. Continuing our cooperation with the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), these submissions with substantial contribution will be considered for publication in a special issue of IEEE TVCG. - Conditionally accept as conference paper. These submissions will be considered for inclusion in the Proceedings of IEEE VR, archived in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. - Recommend as a two-page poster. Authors of a submission receiving this recommendation have the option of condensing their submission into a two-page poster, including references. Subject to a final approval by the Posters chairs, accepted posters will be included in the IEEE VR Abstracts and Workshops proceedings and will be archived in the IEEE Digital Library. Note that IEEE VR does not consider posters as a final disclosure of research results. Thus, work accepted as an IEEE VR poster might be eligible for inclusion in future publications. - Reject. Review Cycle II (Initial notification to Final decision) The revision of each conditionally accepted paper will be reviewed by its coordinator, who will make a final recommendation regarding acceptance. Should the conditions for acceptance not be met, the paper will be rejected. Additional Guidelines Abstract Submission. Note that a paper abstract must be uploaded seven days prior to the actual paper submission deadline. This facilitates the process of assigning reviewers, as the review process operates on a very tight schedule. Ethics and Responsibility. All submissions describing research experiments with human participants must follow the appropriate ethical guidelines required by the authors’ institution(s), and authors are required to secure and report their approval by the relevant ethics committee prior to collecting data. An approval by any ethical review board, if required by your institution, needs to be indicated via the submission system. Authors will be required to submit the name of the ethical review board, approved protocol title and number, and date that ethical approval was obtained prior to running human participants. Authors must be able to provide proof of ethical approval upon request. Incorrect reporting of ethical approval will result in desk rejection. Participant Diversity. To support high-quality research, all submissions describing research with human participants should strive for participant diversity. As first steps toward this goal, VR 2025 is encouraging the following: - Research that aims to benefit a general population should be representative of that population. (e.g. balanced across gender or age). Research that claims to benefit a specific population should clearly state and justify its focus on that population (e.g. pilots, surgeons). - All submissions must report participant demographics (gender, age, etc.). Notes about recruiting representative populations: - Recruiting more diverse samples does not imply that the research must treat these data as independent variables and analyze differences in independent variables between demographic groups. - Recruiting more diverse samples does not increase the number of participants required for adequate statistical power given an effect size. - Many ethics review boards and funding sources already require participant diversity for inclusive and unbiased research. The VR 2025 program committee and external reviewers will be strongly encouraged to consider participant diversity in relation to the generality of the claims made by a submission as a first-order reviewing concern. Submissions that make general claims yet rely on a severely imbalanced participant groups may be negatively impacted by the reviewing process. Review Duties for Authors. The increasing number of submissions for IEEE VR makes us all dependent on a large number of good reviewers who are willing to provide constructive feedback and engage with authors on their work. Every paper needs three quality reviews. To expand the reviewing pool and to promote quality reviews, for each submitted paper, one author will be required to register to review up to three papers through PCS at the time of submission. For example, if the same author group submits two papers, they need to commit to reviewing six papers. Additionally, senior authors are encouraged to ask experienced junior authors to register in PCS to review papers, and then to mentor the junior authors during the review process. Presentation at the Conference. All accepted submissions must be presented orally at the conference. An in-person presentation is expected, and online presentations will be accommodated only in exceptional cases. Requests for online presentations due to exceptional cases must be made at least one month before the conference. Submission Language. All paper submissions must be in English. Previous Publication and Plagiarism. Submitted manuscripts must not have been previously published. A manuscript is considered to have been previously published if it has appeared in a peer-reviewed journal, magazine, book, or meeting proceedings that is reliably and permanently available afterward in print or electronic form to non-attendees, regardless of the language of that publication. A manuscript identical or substantially similar in content (in its entirety or in part) to one submitted to VR should not be simultaneously under consideration for another conference or journal during any part of the VR review process, from the submission deadline until notifications of decisions are emailed to authors. In some situations, a submission may build upon prior work. In order to fully explain the relationship between the submitted paper and prior work, authors may upload additional papers as well as a non-anonymous letter of explanation that highlights the significant changes or advances; these materials will only be seen by the primary reviewer. Specifically, this treatment is applied to the following cases: - non peer-reviewed works that are publicly available (on arXiv, as a technical report, etc.) - non-archival publications presented in past IEEE VR conferences (posters, demos, etc.) Submissions will be checked for plagiarism using IEEE Crosscheck. Detection of significant plagiarism will lead to rejection. For more information about definitions of plagiarism and IEEE policies in this area, please see the Introduction to the Guidelines for Handling Plagiarism Complaints <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2OoVwnxLYiV3zI8oK8HEwC_Z…> and the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board Operations Manual <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2_xzuzm2clx3bBgrxiyDhd7R…> . AI-generated Text. Large-scale language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT can only be used by the authors to edit grammar of their own text. Submission Anonymity. * IEEE VR uses a DOUBLE-BLIND review process * This means that both the authors and the reviewers must remain anonymous to each other. Submissions (including citations and optional videos) must not contain information that identifies the authors, their institutions, funding sources, or their places of work. Relevant previous work by the authors must be cited in the third person to preserve anonymity (exceptions were described above). Authors should work diligently to ensure that their submissions do not expose their identities either intentionally or through carelessness. Authors that have questions/issues around the double-blind submission policy should contact the program chairs. * Failure to make reasonable attempts to adhere to the double-blind policy will result in desk rejection. * Pre-dissemination through public online repositories. Uploading the submitted manuscript to an online repository (e.g., arXiv) before the end of the review process does not constitute a reason for rejecting the manuscript. However, the authors should be advised that doing so can compromise the anonymity of their manuscript and therefore bias its double-blind review. Videos. Videos must be submitted according to the instructions on the submission website. Videos submitted with papers will automatically be considered for possible inclusion in the video proceedings (video submissions may also be made independently, as described in the separate Call for Videos). When submitted as supporting material, videos must be free of any identifying information prior to reviewing as per the double-blind submission policy. If accepted for the video proceedings, a revised version of the materials will be requested. Contactsprogram2025 [at] ieeevr.org <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2ygL1uPBT7tY01Mtj0z1npPZ…> Technical Papers Chairs: - Daisuke Iwai, University of Osaka, Japan - Luciana Nedel, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - Tabitha Peck, Davidson College, USA - Voicu Popescu, Purdue University, USA [image: beacon]

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Job Announcement: Associate Director in Visual Communication of the Center for Academic & Professional Communication, Rice University, Houston, TX
by Kyung-Hee Bae 01 Jul '24

01 Jul '24

Dear INFOVIS, I hope this email finds you all well. My name is Kyung-Hee Bae, and I am the director of the Center for Academic and Professional Communication at Rice University in Houston, TX. I am writing to see if I could post the following announcement via your listserv. We are currently seeking to fill the position of associate director in visual communication at the Center for Academic and Professional Communication at Rice University. This is a full-time, 12-month staff position. Please see attached for more information about the position. Thank you so much for posting this announcement, and please let me know if I can provide you with any further information about the position. Best wishes, Kyung-Hee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Associate Director in Visual Communication of the Center for Academic and Professional Communication at Rice University Position Summary: The role of Associate Director of Visual Communication at CAPC (Center for Academic and Professional Communication) is a leadership position that involves designing and implementing visual and multimodal communication initiatives within the organization. The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing workshops and resources for faculty and students, consulting with individuals, especially those in STEM fields, on visual projects, organizing a biennial symposium, managing in-house visual projects, assisting with CAPC's visual communication assessment, and potentially teaching a credit-bearing course on visual and multimodal communication on an annual basis. This is a full-time, benefits-eligible position, and the salary depending on qualifications and experience begins at $75,000 a year. Link to read the full job description and to apply online <https://emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2…>here <https://emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2…>. Education required: Master’s degree Skills preferred: Demonstrated experience working with STEM researchers is highly desirable, demonstrating the ability to effectively communicate complex ideas visually to diverse audiences. Demonstrated expertise in teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, with a specialization in visual communication principles and practices. Proven track record of developing and maintaining partnerships between academic departments and programs, with a particular emphasis on integrating visual communication into curriculum and pedagogy. Exceptional leadership and project management skills, with the ability to effectively guide and mentor staff and faculty in utilizing visual tools and techniques. Strong problem-solving abilities, with a proactive approach to addressing challenges related to visual communication initiatives. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders, including faculty, students, and external partners. Prior experience in supervising and managing student workers is desirable, particularly in the context of visual communication projects. Expertise with visual tools and software, such as Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop), and experience in visual communication, including graphic design, multimedia production, data visualization, and visual storytelling, is highly preferred. Additional skills: Demonstrated experience working with STEM researchers is highly desirable, demonstrating the ability to effectively communicate complex ideas visually to diverse audiences. Demonstrated expertise in teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, with a specialization in visual communication principles and practices. Proven track record of developing and maintaining partnerships between academic departments and programs, with a particular emphasis on integrating visual communication into curriculum and pedagogy. Exceptional leadership and project management skills, with the ability to effectively guide and mentor staff and faculty in utilizing visual tools and techniques. Strong problem-solving abilities, with a proactive approach to addressing challenges related to visual communication initiatives. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders, including faculty, students, and external partners. Prior experience in supervising and managing student workers is desirable, particularly in the context of visual communication projects. Expertise with visual tools and software, such as Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop), and experience in visual communication, including graphic design, multimedia production, data visualization, and visual storytelling, is highly preferred. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kyung-Hee Bae Pronouns: she, her, hers Director, Center for Academic and Professional Communication (CAPC) Senior Lecturer, Program in Writing and Communication 200A Fondren Library, MS 625 Rice University 713-348-4915 capc.rice.edu kbae(a)rice.edu

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Conferences: CFP: Fourth Workshop on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, Transparency and Ethics in XR (IDEATExR)
by IEEE VR Publicity 01 Jul '24

01 Jul '24

CFP: Fourth Workshop on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, Transparency and Ethics in XR (IDEATExR) To be held in conjunction with the 2024 International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality October 21-25, 2024 | Greater Seattle Area, Washington, USA ABSTRACT The potential benefits of XR should be for all, regardless of their cultural background, gender identity, race, neurodiversity, ethnicity, economic status, age, etc. However, our community is still facing challenges preventing equal involvement. Most research within this space relies on the M-WEIRD user populations and is done by M-WEIRD researchers (Male, White, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic), effectively missing most of the world’s population [1], thus hindering generalizability of findings and diversity of ideas. In fact, approximately 95% of the global population is excluded from VR research [1] and only 15% of first-paper authors at ISMAR and IEEEVR are women [2]. Moreover, the ethics informing XR research have been identified as one of the grand challenges facing human-computer interaction research today, with the replication crisis featuring transparency as a critical step for remediation. These factors make *formal discussions surrounding inclusion, diversity, equity, accessibility, transparency, and ethics in XR not only timely – but necessary. **And we want you to be a part of them.* It’s important to note that these concerns are also relevant to technical work not involving human participants as they also play a role in research teams, ideas, proposed solutions, conduct, etc. Due to the important, evolving, and shifting nature of inclusion, diversity, equity, accessibility, transparency, and ethics in XR, this workshop has five main goals: 1. To provide a vehicle through which to understand better the pulse of the community surrounding issues of inclusion, diversity, equity, accessibility, transparency, and ethics in XR, 2. To shine a spotlight on these issues for community members who perhaps haven’t seen or given them much consideration, 3. To celebrate those that are engaging in research either true to the spirit of inclusion, diversity, equity, accessibility, transparency, and ethics in XR, or those engaging in research about these topics specifically, 4. To help researchers better understand how to ensure their work are more inclusive, diverse, equitable, accessible, transparent, and ethical, particularly in their software and study design, 5. To spotlight how people are represented in XR technologies (or not) as researchers, designers, participants, and users, 6. And to bring together disparate perspectives and research foci together under a shared goal to be inclusive, diverse, equitable, accessible, transparent, and ethical in XR. This goal can be shared by software, hardware, and human-focused researchers. Participants in this workshop will have the opportunity to provide their insights on what is working for our community, as well as what isn’t – effectively helping to shape the future of IEEEVR and XR research. TOPICS OF INTEREST This workshop has six facets: inclusion, diversity, equity, accessibility, transparency, and ethics. We expect researchers to submit early work that has already shown a commitment to one or more of these aforementioned facets. These could include work with diverse participants, work examining skin-tone rendering in AR, computer vision algorithms for differently-abled hands, testing of accessibility and usability of a VR app for those with different sensory abilities, etc. Further, while we anticipate this next type of paper to be rarer, we anticipate papers that feature research explicitly regarding the realm of diversity in XR. Finally, position papers informed by either survey of the literature or profound experience in the facets of this workshop are also well within our scope. IMPORTANT DATES - *Paper Submission Deadline: Monday July 29th, 2024 (23:59 AoE)* - *Notification: Monday August 12th, 2024 (23:59 AoE)* - *Camera-ready version: Monday August 26th, 2024 (23:59 AoE)* SUBMISSION We welcome paper submissions from 2-4 pages, excluding references. Authors should also provide a brief explanation (At least one paragraph; no more than 1 page attached in supplementary materials) of how they feel their paper fits into this workshop or achieves the workshop’s facets. Paper quality versus length will be assessed according to a contribution-per-page judgment. Papers will be considered in relation to their intended scientific merit AND their contribution or adherence to inclusion, diversity, equity, accessibility, transparency, and ethics in XR. 7. Submissions must be written in English and follow the IEEE Computer Society VGTC format described at: https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/conference/ <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2ffWST9hb0W5gXv-kCq1kIpB…> To submit to the workshop, authors must use the form here. <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2I924zMi1AsXion2i0F5vEjq…> Submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 program committee members following a single-blind review process. Accepted papers will be given guidelines for preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. Check out our website <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2Q70xalL1XVGYIyZuMzmppMR…> for more information! Please direct any questions to Lee Lisle at llisle(a)vt.edu ORGANIZERS Lee Lisle, Ph.D., Virginia Tech, llisle(a)vt.edu Cassidy R. Nelson, Virginia Tech, cassidynelson(a)vt.edu Matt Gottsacker, University of Central Florida, mattg(a)ucf.edu Missie Smith, Meta Reality Labs Research, missie.smith(a)gmail.com CITATIONS [1] T. C. Peck, K. A. McMullen, J. Quarles, K. Johnsen, C. Sandor, and M. Billinghurst, “DiVRsify: Break the Cycle and Develop VR for Everyone,” *IEEE Comput. Graph. Appl.*, vol. 41, no. 6, pp. 133–142, 2021, doi: 10.1109/MCG.2021.3113455. [2] T. C. Peck, L. E. Sockol, and S. M. Hancock, “Mind the Gap: The Underrepresentation of Female Participants and Authors in Virtual Reality Research,” *IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph.*, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 1945–1954, 2020, doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2020.2973498. [image: beacon]

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[CfP] SUMAC'24 @ACMMM'24: the 6th ACM International workshop on analySis, Understanding and proMotion of heritAge Contents ---> July 19, 2024
by Valerie Gouet 01 Jul '24

01 Jul '24

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] Call for Papers SUMAC 2024 6th ACM International workshop on analySis, Understanding and proMotion of heritAge Contents Advances in machine learning, signal processing, multimodal techniques and human-machine interaction 28 Oct - 1 Nov, 2024 Melbourne, Australia (attendance mode TBA) In conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2024 Workshop: [ https://sumac-workshops.github.io/2024/ | https://sumac-workshops.github.io/2024/ ] Main Conference: [ https://2024.acmmm.org/ | https://2024.acmmm.org/ ] *** Aims and scope The ambition of SUMAC is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to share ideas and methods on current trends in the analysis, understanding and promotion of heritage contents. These challenges are reflected in the corresponding sub-fields of machine learning, signal processing, multi-modal techniques and human-machine interaction. We welcome research contributions for the following (but not limited to) topics: - Monomodal analysis: text, structured referentials, image, video, 3D, music, sensor data - Information retrieval for multimedia heritage - Automated archaeology and heritage data processing - Multi-modal deep learning and time series analysis for heritage data - Heritage modeling, visualization, and virtualization - Smart digitization and reconstruction of heritage data - Open heritage data and bench-marking The scope of targeted applications is extensive and includes: - Analysis, archaeometry of artifacts - Diagnosis and monitoring for restoration and preventive conservation - Geosciences / Geomatics for cultural heritage - Education - Smart and sustainable tourism - Urban planning - Digital Twins *** Important dates (AoE) - Paper submission: July 19, 2024 - Author acceptance notification: August 5, 2024 - Camera-Ready: August 19, 2024 - Workshop date: TBA (28 Oct - 1 Nov, 2024) *** Keynote speakers - Dr. Jing Zhang (School of Computer Science, The University of Sydney): talk on Large Vision Models in Heritage Content Understanding. - Dr. Vera Moitinho de Almeida (Centre for Digital Culture and Innovation, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto): talk on Reusing 3D Models of Cultural Heritage Objects for Research and Conservation. *** Special Highlights Best Paper Award. Following tradition, SUMAC 2024 will also be awarding a best paper award, accompanied with a certificate and a trophy. *** Submission guidelines Submission format. All submissions must be original work not under review at any other workshop, conference, or journal. The workshop will accept papers describing completed work (full paper) as well as work in progress (short paper). Two submission formats are accepted: a) 4 pages plus 1-page reference (short paper); or b) 8 pages plus up to 2-page reference (full paper). They must be encoded as PDF using the ACM Article Template of the main conference ACM Multimedia 2024 (https://2024.acmmm.org/regular-papers) Peer Review and publication in ACM Digital Library. Paper submissions must conform with the “double-blind” review policy. All papers will be peer-reviewed by experts in the field, they will receive at least two reviews. Acceptance will be based on relevance to the workshop, scientific novelty, and technical quality. Depending on the number, maturity and topics of the accepted submissions, the work will be presented via oral or poster sessions. The workshop papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. *** Organizers Valerie Gouet-Brunet (LaSTIG Lab / IGN - Gustave Eiffel University, France) Ronak Kosti (Picsart AI Research Lab, Germany) Li Weng (Zhejiang Financial College, China) Looking forward to hearing from you at SUMAC! The workshop organizers -- Valerie Gouet-Brunet Senior researcher / DR1 Ministère de la Transition Ecologique LASTIG Lab. / Univ. Gustave Eiffel / IGN (French mapping agency) https://www.umr-lastig.fr/vgouet/

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IEEE EduVis 2024 cfp [Deadline extension]
by Fateme Rajabiyazdi 29 Jun '24

29 Jun '24

The submission deadline for the 2nd IEEE EduVis workshop has been extended to July 8th. We welcome submissions in the form of full papers or education reports that share opinions or teaching reflections. Submissions will focus on special topics relevant to the EduVIS community: * Visualization for Education [Vis4Ed]: use of visualization in educational settings of any discipline or topic * AI for Visualization Education [AI]: integrate or limit tools like ChatGPT and generative AI into visualization education * Generic Topics in Visualization and Education [General]: includes any other submission relevant to the workshop For more information, please view: https://ieee-eduvis.github.io/ [cid:image001.png@01DAC9FB.7A33A470] Fateme Rajabi, PhD, PEng Assistant Professor Systems and Computer Engineering Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada http://healthvisfutures.sce.carleton.ca/ This email contains links to content or websites. Always be cautious when opening external links or attachments. Please visit https://carleton.ca/its/help-centre/report-phishing/ for information on reporting phishing messages. When in doubt, the ITS Service Desk can provide assistance. https://carleton.ca/its/chat -----End of Disclaimer-----

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[Deadline Extension] First IEEE VIS Workshop on Progressive Data Analysis and Visualization (PDAV)
by Jean-Daniel Fekete 28 Jun '24

28 Jun '24

The submission deadline is extended to the 15th of July. Take the chance to submit your late-breaking research results, or give your planned submission the final touch! https://ieee-vis-pdav.github.io/ We solicit contributions that focus on progressive visualization and visual analytics The increasing amount of data is a long-standing challenge for data analysis systems. Although building interactive systems has been a central focus of the visualization community, when applied to large-scale data and complex algorithms, most current visualization systems suffer from long, unmanaged computation delays between user interactions and system responses, rendering the systems unusable. The critical challenge we face here is to make a system’s latency manageable, ultimately ensuring it remains below the golden limits of human latency regardless of the amount of input data and complexity of algorithms. Progressive Data Analysis and Visualization (PDAV) is a novel programming paradigm to control latency by replacing long computations with a series of smaller computations with bounded latency, improving iteratively until the whole computation is completed or until the user is satisfied with the latest iteration and stops. Thus, PDAV computations also need to inform the user about the quality of the result to allow early decisions with controlled quality. With PDAV, visual exploration systems can scale to large data sizes and use complex algorithms interactively, provided they are adapted to run progressively. This new paradigm is promising but will require important research and technical work to become mainstream. This workshop is aimed at explaining and accelerating the development of the paradigm. The workshop will present state-of-the-art research and work-in-progress to design and implement PDAV systems. We encourage late-breaking work, research in progress, and position papers; for example, topics of interest to the workshop include (but are not limited to): Progressive Techniques for Information and Scientific Visualization Progressive Visual Analytics Systems Progressive Algorithms and Data Structures Progressive Databases and Data Management Systems Progressive Machine Learning Progressive Artificial Intelligence Progressive Data Science User Interfaces for Progressive Systems Languages and Toolkits for Progressive Systems Uncertainty in Progressive Systems Infrastructure for Progressive Systems Human Factors in Progressive Data Analysis Applications of Progressive Visual Data Analysis Theories for Progressive Visual Data Analysis Evaluation of Progressive Systems Important Dates Submission Deadline: 1st July 2024 Notification of Acceptance: 19th July 2024 Camera Ready Paper and Poster: 26th August 2024 Workshop (1/2 Day, Morning): 14th October 2024 Organizers Alex Ulmer, Fraunhofer IGD Jaemin Jo, Sungkyunkwan University Michael Sedlmair, University of Stuttgart Jean-Daniel Fekete, Inria & Université Paris-Saclay More info: https://ieee-vis-pdav.github.io/ For questions, please email the workshop chairs directly: pdav-chairs(a)ieeevis.org Alex, Jaemin, Michael & Jean-Daniel -- Jean-Daniel Fekete Jean-Daniel.Fekete(a)inria.fr Aviz Team Leader Inria, Université Paris-Saclay INRIA Saclay Centre www.aviz.fr/~fekete Bat 660, Université Paris-Saclay tel: +33 1 69156551 F91405 ORSAY Cedex, France fax: +33 1 69154240

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IEEE VR 2025 Call for Papers - Abstracts due September 11, 2024
by IEEE VR Publicity 27 Jun '24

27 Jun '24

IEEE VR 2025: the 32nd IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces March 8-12, 2025 | Saint-Malo, France https://ieeevr.org/2025/contribute/papers/ <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2kguxk3NB9N4AqYJmj_yyoSr…> <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2hy2if9tcQB8N-lxQ5nahPrF…> Overview IEEE VR 2025 seeks original, high-quality papers in all areas related to virtual reality (VR), including augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), and 3D user interfaces (3DUIs). This year, there is again a SINGLE submission deadline for a unified review process for both the IEEE TVCG and the conference only papers. The possible outcomes of this unified process are: 1. Accept as IEEE TVCG paper, with presentation at IEEE VR 2025 2. Accept as IEEE VR 2025 conference paper, with presentation at IEEE VR 2025 3. Accept as IEEE VR 2025 poster 4. Reject Inquiries: program2025 [at] ieeevr.org <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2Uq2u5ja6VB7ljZdWOLnSHkR…> Important Dates Each deadline is 23:59:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) == GMT/UTC-12:00 on the stated day, no matter where the submitter is located. The submission deadlines will be strictly enforced. Requests for extensions will not be honored. - September 11 Wednesday, 2024: Abstracts due (REQUIRED) - September 18 Wednesday, 2024: Submissions due - December 10 Tuesday, 2024: Initial notifications - January 2 Thursday, 2025: Revised submissions due - January 9 Thursday, 2025: Final notifications - January 16 Thursday, 2025: Camera-ready materials due Submission Guidelines Submissions will be accepted through Precision Conference Solutions this year. https://new.precisionconference.com/vr <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2lIJY-lbFWEdpVmDJelE4eXE…> IMPORTANT: IEEE VR 2025 uses a DOUBLE-BLIND review process. Failure to anonymize submissions will result in desk rejection. Each research paper should provide a contribution covering one or more of the following categories: methodological, technical, applications, and systems. - Methodological papers should describe advances in theories and methods of AR/VR/MR and 3DUI, such as ethical issues, theories on presence, or human factors. - Technical papers should describe advancements in algorithms or devices critical to AR/VR/MR and 3DUI development such as input, display, user interaction, or tracking. - Application papers provide an important insight to the community by explaining how the authors built upon existing ideas and applied them to solve an interesting problem in a novel way. Each paper should include an evaluation of the success of the use of AR/VR/MR and/or 3DUI in the given application domain. - System papers should indicate how the developers integrated techniques and technologies to produce an effective system, and convey any lessons learned in the process. Each paper should include an evaluation of its contributions, such as user studies, benchmarking and/or comparison with existing systems/techniques/methods. We welcome paper submissions between 4 and 9 pages, not including references. Authors are encouraged to submit videos to aid the program committee in reviewing their submissions. All paper submissions must be formatted using the IEEE Computer Society TVCG conference format ( https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/conference/ <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2SJ7b3TB64yWDm5tc7LQrApC…>). Accepted papers and posters will have to be formatted by the authors according to the relevant camera-ready guidelines. Topics IEEE VR 2025 seeks contributions in VR/AR/MR and 3DUI, including, but not limited to, the following topics: - 360° video - 3D and volumetric display and projection technology - 3D authoring - 3D User Interfaces - Accessibility of immersive interfaces - Audio interfaces and rendering - Collaborative interactions - Computer graphics techniques - Crowd simulation - Cybersickness - Diversity and gender issues - Embodied agents, virtual humans, and (self-)avatars - Ethical issues - Evaluation methods - Haptic interfaces and rendering - Human factors and ergonomics - Immersive analytics and visualization - Immersive applications and games - Input devices - Locomotion and navigation - Mediated and diminished reality - Mobile, desktop, or hybrid 3DUIs - Modeling and simulation - Multi-user and distributed systems - Multimodal capturing and reconstruction - Multimodal/cross-modal interaction and perception - Multisensory interfaces and rendering - Perception and cognition - Presence, body ownership, and agency - Redirection - Software architectures, toolkits, and engineering - Teleoperation and telepresence - Therapy and rehabilitation - Touch, tangible, and gesture interfaces - Tracking - User experience and usability - XR technology infrastructure Review process The review process will have two cycles. Review Cycle I (Submission to Initial notification) Submissions will be assigned to two members of the VR 2025 International Program Committee (IPC): a coordinator (primary) and a secondary reviewer. Submissions that violate the submission guidelines or that receive low review scores from the coordinator and the secondary reviewer will be early rejected. This stage of the review process will be double blind. We will strive to have all other submissions receive a total of at least three reviews. Based on the reviews and in consultation with a subset of the IPC, the Program Chairs will make one of the following initial recommendations for each submission: - Conditionally accept as IEEE TVCG paper. Continuing our cooperation with the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), these submissions with substantial contribution will be considered for publication in a special issue of IEEE TVCG. - Conditionally accept as conference paper. These submissions will be considered for inclusion in the Proceedings of IEEE VR, archived in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. - Recommend as a two-page poster. Authors of a submission receiving this recommendation have the option of condensing their submission into a two-page poster, including references. Subject to a final approval by the Posters chairs, accepted posters will be included in the IEEE VR Abstracts and Workshops proceedings and will be archived in the IEEE Digital Library. Note that IEEE VR does not consider posters as a final disclosure of research results. Thus, work accepted as an IEEE VR poster might be eligible for inclusion in future publications. - Reject. Review Cycle II (Initial notification to Final decision) The revision of each conditionally accepted paper will be reviewed by its coordinator, who will make a final recommendation regarding acceptance. Should the conditions for acceptance not be met, the paper will be rejected. Additional Guidelines Abstract Submission. Note that a paper abstract must be uploaded seven days prior to the actual paper submission deadline. This facilitates the process of assigning reviewers, as the review process operates on a very tight schedule. Ethics and Responsibility. All submissions describing research experiments with human participants must follow the appropriate ethical guidelines required by the authors’ institution(s), and authors are required to secure and report their approval by the relevant ethics committee prior to collecting data. An approval by any ethical review board, if required by your institution, needs to be indicated via the submission system. Authors will be required to submit the name of the ethical review board, approved protocol title and number, and date that ethical approval was obtained prior to running human participants. Authors must be able to provide proof of ethical approval upon request. Incorrect reporting of ethical approval will result in desk rejection. Participant Diversity. To support high-quality research, all submissions describing research with human participants should strive for participant diversity. As first steps toward this goal, VR 2025 is encouraging the following: - Research that aims to benefit a general population should be representative of that population. (e.g. balanced across gender or age). Research that claims to benefit a specific population should clearly state and justify its focus on that population (e.g. pilots, surgeons). - All submissions must report participant demographics (gender, age, etc.). Notes about recruiting representative populations: - Recruiting more diverse samples does not imply that the research must treat these data as independent variables and analyze differences in independent variables between demographic groups. - Recruiting more diverse samples does not increase the number of participants required for adequate statistical power given an effect size. - Many ethics review boards and funding sources already require participant diversity for inclusive and unbiased research. The VR 2025 program committee and external reviewers will be strongly encouraged to consider participant diversity in relation to the generality of the claims made by a submission as a first-order reviewing concern. Submissions that make general claims yet rely on a severely imbalanced participant groups may be negatively impacted by the reviewing process. Review Duties for Authors. The increasing number of submissions for IEEE VR makes us all dependent on a large number of good reviewers who are willing to provide constructive feedback and engage with authors on their work. Every paper needs three quality reviews. To expand the reviewing pool and to promote quality reviews, for each submitted paper, one author will be required to register to review up to three papers through PCS at the time of submission. For example, if the same author group submits two papers, they need to commit to reviewing six papers. Additionally, senior authors are encouraged to ask experienced junior authors to register in PCS to review papers, and then to mentor the junior authors during the review process. Presentation at the Conference. All accepted submissions must be presented orally at the conference. An in-person presentation is expected, and online presentations will be accommodated only in exceptional cases. Requests for online presentations due to exceptional cases must be made at least one month before the conference. Submission Language. All paper submissions must be in English. Previous Publication and Plagiarism. Submitted manuscripts must not have been previously published. A manuscript is considered to have been previously published if it has appeared in a peer-reviewed journal, magazine, book, or meeting proceedings that is reliably and permanently available afterward in print or electronic form to non-attendees, regardless of the language of that publication. A manuscript identical or substantially similar in content (in its entirety or in part) to one submitted to VR should not be simultaneously under consideration for another conference or journal during any part of the VR review process, from the submission deadline until notifications of decisions are emailed to authors. In some situations, a submission may build upon prior work. In order to fully explain the relationship between the submitted paper and prior work, authors may upload additional papers as well as a non-anonymous letter of explanation that highlights the significant changes or advances; these materials will only be seen by the primary reviewer. Specifically, this treatment is applied to the following cases: - non peer-reviewed works that are publicly available (on arXiv, as a technical report, etc.) - non-archival publications presented in past IEEE VR conferences (posters, demos, etc.) Submissions will be checked for plagiarism using IEEE Crosscheck. Detection of significant plagiarism will lead to rejection. For more information about definitions of plagiarism and IEEE policies in this area, please see the Introduction to the Guidelines for Handling Plagiarism Complaints <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2gV13m8ERUbLRagVpHL5bsw7…> and the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board Operations Manual <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/28ghcITD8lWGwVuuOb_cM1SQ…> . AI-generated Text. Large-scale language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT can only be used by the authors to edit grammar of their own text. Submission Anonymity. * IEEE VR uses a DOUBLE-BLIND review process * This means that both the authors and the reviewers must remain anonymous to each other. Submissions (including citations and optional videos) must not contain information that identifies the authors, their institutions, funding sources, or their places of work. Relevant previous work by the authors must be cited in the third person to preserve anonymity (exceptions were described above). Authors should work diligently to ensure that their submissions do not expose their identities either intentionally or through carelessness. Authors that have questions/issues around the double-blind submission policy should contact the program chairs. * Failure to make reasonable attempts to adhere to the double-blind policy will result in desk rejection. * Pre-dissemination through public online repositories. Uploading the submitted manuscript to an online repository (e.g., arXiv) before the end of the review process does not constitute a reason for rejecting the manuscript. However, the authors should be advised that doing so can compromise the anonymity of their manuscript and therefore bias its double-blind review. Videos. Videos must be submitted according to the instructions on the submission website. Videos submitted with papers will automatically be considered for possible inclusion in the video proceedings (video submissions may also be made independently, as described in the separate Call for Videos). When submitted as supporting material, videos must be free of any identifying information prior to reviewing as per the double-blind submission policy. If accepted for the video proceedings, a revised version of the materials will be requested. Contactsprogram2025 [at] ieeevr.org <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/209hfx8FieJdmIeERcjTMMGj…> Technical Papers Chairs: - Daisuke Iwai, University of Osaka, Japan - Luciana Nedel, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - Tabitha Peck, Davidson College, USA - Voicu Popescu, Purdue University, USA [image: beacon]

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