Technical Paper Sessions

All paper sessions will take place in FIPKE 204

Tuesday, May 27th

Paper Session 1 – Design and Interaction

Chair: Dr. Brennan Jones

  • Investigating Digital, Tangible, and Paper-Based Room Design at a Small Scale
    • Junhyeok Kim and Mark Hancock
  • Snap! snap! SNAP! Acoustic Finger Snapping Ability for Interaction
    • Yen-Ting Yeh, and Daniel Vogel
  • Exploring Users’ Perceptions on Position, Gaze Direction, and Gender of Virtual Agents in Augmented Reality
    • Rodrigo Calvo, Heting Wang, Alexander Barquero, and Jaime Ruiz
  • Bill Buxton Award Talk: Designing Assistive Technologies for Blind or Low Vision Music Learners
    • Leon Lu

Paper Session 2 – Visualization & Visual Analytics

Chair: TBA

  • Connecting the Dots: Synergy in Visualization Comprehension
    • Maryam Rezaie, Melanie Tory, and Sheelagh Carpendale
  • Design and Evaluation of Visual Summaries to Improve Readability of Large Network Visualizations
    • Rezwana Mahfuza, Debajyoti Mondal, and Carl Gutwin
  • Interaction Techniques for Stacked-Dimension Visualizations
    • Morgan Beattie, Carl Gutwin, and Charles Perin
  • iTrace: Interactive tracing of Cross-View Data Relationships
    • Abdul Rahman Shaikh, Maoyuan Sun, Xingchen Liu, Hamed Alhoori, Jian Zhao, and David Koop
  • MRISA: A Visual Analytics Approach of Locomotion Policies Comparison for Robotics Training
    • Nan Li, Fan Shi, Xiaoyu Zhang, and April Wang
  • Exploring Comparative Visual Approaches for Understanding Model Trade-offs in Adversarial Machine Learning
    • Yuzhe You and Jian Zhao

Paper Session 3 – Physicalization

Chair: Dr. Shariff Faleel

  • Can Young Children Make Sense of their Own Data through Constructive Physicalization? A Qualitative Study
    • Andrea Castaneda, Sowmya Somanath, and Charles Perin
  • Collaboration Dynamics in Constructive Physicalization of Shared Personal Data
    • Dibya Prokash Sarkar, Sowmya Somanath, and Charles Perin
  • Exploring Feedforward in Data Physicalization Authoring Tools: Supporting Design Exploration Before Fabrication
    • Foroozan Daneshzand, Charles Perin, and Sheelagh Carpendale
  • Computer Graphics ECR Award Talk: Robust Geometry Processing for Physical Simulation
    • Teseo Schneider

Wednesday, May 28th

Paper Session 4 – User Attention & Perception

Chair: TBA

  • An Exploratory Study of User Perceptions of Information Across Social Media Platforms
    • Zoe Loh, Ghazal Zand, and Ahmed Arif
  • Designing for Response Tasks: An Empirical Evaluation of Response Tasks in a Video Game Context
    • Naia Kamawar-MacLeod, and Robert Teather
  • Detecting lapses of attention while reading using EEG signals
    • Eranga De Saa, Denise Alonso-Vázquez, Charles-Olivier Dufresne-Camaro, Yumiko Sakamoto, Javier M. Antelis, Randy Gomez, and Pourang Irani

Paper Session 5 – XR Interfaces

Chair: Dr. Md. Sami Uddin

  • Influence of Hand Constraints on User-Defined Gestures in Mixed Reality
    • Alexander Barquero, Niriksha Regmi, Oluwatomisin Obajemu, Rohith Venkatakrishnan, Christina Boucher, Lisa Anthony, and Jaime Ruiz
  • Challenges of Precueing Instructions for Compound Task Procedures in Mixed Reality
    • Ahmed Rageeb Ahsan, Andrew W. Tompkins, Eric Ragan, Jaime Ruiz, and Ryan P. McMahan
  • Fly the Moon to Me: Bimanual 3D Locomotion in Virtual Reality By Manipulating the Position of the Destination Object
    • Futian Zhang, Jiawen Zhu, Edward Lank, Keiko Katsuragawa, and Jian Zhao
  • Investigating Augmented Reality for Adaptive Motor-Skill Training
    • Dishita Turakhia, Mark Parent, Tovi Grossman, Michael Glueck, and Ben Lafreniere
  • Rethinking VR Input: Co-Designing Accessible VR Interactions for Gamers with Upper Limb Motor Impairments
    • Manya Kakkar, Shanel Wu, Audrey Girouard, and Robert Teather
  • What’s the Thumb Doing? Improving Precision for Thumb-to-Finger Interactions on Hand Proximate User Interfaces
    • Shariff Faleel, Rishav Banerjee, Omang Baheti, Khalad Hasan, and Pourang Irani

Paper Session 6 – Command Access

Chair: TBA

  • Enhancing Spatial Learning of Large Command Sets in Two FastTap Menus with Artificial Landmarks
    • Sayeem Md Abdullah, and Md. Sami Uddin
  • Investigating Aggregated vs. Sequential Command Recommendation in Graphical User Interfaces
    • Ben Lafreniere, Zachary Davis, Michelle Li, Junmeng Han, Tovi Grossman, Stephanie Santosa, and Daniel Wigdor
  • Drum Menu: Bimanual Controller Command Access Techniques in Virtual Reality
    • Futian Zhang, Paul Kokhanov, Edward Lank, Keiko Katsuragawa, and Jian Zhao
  • HCI ECR Award Talk: Talk title: TBA
    • Fateme Rajabiyazdi

Thursday, May 29th

Paper Session 7 – Graphics & Rendering

Chair: TBA

  • Map Visualizations for Graphs with Group Restrictions
    • Md Iqbal Hossain, Ehsan Moradi, Debajyoti Mondal, and Stephen Kobourov
  • Computing Geodesic Path Distances in Toggleable Regular Grid
    • Seung-Tak Noh
  • Interactive Multilayer Gaussian Garments for Low-Cost Try-On
    • Ryan Zesch, I-Chao Shen, Haoran Xie, Bo Zhu, Shinjiro Sueda, and Takeo Igarashi
  • Textured-GS: Gaussian Splatting with Spatially Defined Color and Opacity
    • Zhentao Huang and Minglun Gong
  • Controllable Modular Trees
    • Suzuran Takikawa, Riccardo Tinchelli, Mike Davison, Curtis Andrus, James Drown, and Alla Sheffer

Paper Session 8 – Conversational Agents & Language Interfaces

Chair: Dr. Debajyoti Mondal

  • GazeQ-GPT: Gaze-Driven Question Generation for Personalized Learning from Short Educational Videos
    • Benedict Leung, Mariana Shimabukuro, Matthew Chan, and Christopher Collins
  • SenseSync: Supporting Collaborative Information-Seeking with the Involvement of Large Language Models
    • Mohammad Hasan Payandeh, and Jian Zhao
  • What is Jiaozi: Exploring User Control of Language Style for Mixed-Initiative Multilingual Conversational Agents
    • Jiawen Zhu and Jian Zhao
  • Alain Fournier Dissertation Award: Talk Title: TBA
    • Silvia Sellán