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Exploring Mental Health Communications among Instagram Coaches
Ehsan-Ul Haq, Lik-Hang Lee, Gareth Tyson +3
There has been a significant expansion in the use of online social networks (OSNs) to support people experiencing mental health issues. This paper studies the role of Instagram inf…
Causal Analysis on the Anchor Store Effect in a Location-based Social Network
Anish K. Vallapuram, Young D. Kwon, Lik-Hang Lee +2
A particular phenomenon of interest in Retail Economics is the spillover effect of anchor stores (specific stores with a reputable brand) to non-anchor stores in terms of customer…
Review of Persuasive User Interface as Strategy for Technology Addiction in Virtual Environments
Fachrina Dewi Puspitasari, Lik-Hang Lee
In the era of virtuality, the increasingly ubiquitous technology bears the challenge of excessive user dependency, also known as user addiction. Augmented reality (AR) and virtual…
Vetaverse: A Survey on the Intersection of Metaverse, Vehicles, and Transportation Systems
Pengyuan Zhou, Jinjing Zhu, Yiting Wang +12
Since 2021, the term "Metaverse" has been the most popular one, garnering a lot of interest. Because of its contained environment and built-in computing and networking capabilities…
Reducing Stress and Anxiety in the Metaverse: A Systematic Review of Meditation, Mindfulness and Virtual Reality
Xian Wang, Xiaoyu Mo, Mingming Fan +3
Meditation, or mindfulness, is widely used to improve mental health. With the emergence of Virtual Reality technology, many studies have provided evidence that meditation with VR c…
Deceiving Audio Design in Augmented Environments : A Systematic Review of Audio Effects in Augmented Reality
Esmée Henrieke Anne de Haas, Lik-Hang Lee
Recently, a lot of works show promising directions for audio design in augmented reality (AR). These works are mainly focused on how to improve user experience and make AR more rea…
Towards Reproducible Evaluations for Flying Drone Controllers in Virtual Environments
Zheng Li, Yiming Huang, Yui-Pan Yau +2
Research attention on natural user interfaces (NUIs) for drone flights are rising. Nevertheless, NUIs are highly diversified, and primarily evaluated by different physical environm…
Beyond the Blue Sky of Multimodal Interaction: A Centennial Vision of Interplanetary Virtual Spaces in Turn-based Metaverse
Lik Hang Lee, Carlos Bermejo Fernandez, Ahmad Alhilal +4
Human habitation across multiple planets requires communication and social connection between planets. When the infrastructure of a deep space network becomes mature, immersive cyb…
Federated Split GANs
Pranvera Kortoçi, Yilei Liang, Pengyuan Zhou +5
Mobile devices and the immense amount and variety of data they generate are key enablers of machine learning (ML)-based applications. Traditional ML techniques have shifted toward…
A Reddit Dataset for the Russo-Ukrainian Conflict in 2022
Yiming Zhu, Ehsan-ul Haq, Lik-Hang Lee +2
Reddit consists of sub-communities that cover a focused topic. This paper provides a list of relevant subreddits for the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian crisis. We perform an exhaustive su…
HideNseek: Federated Lottery Ticket via Server-side Pruning and Sign Supermask
Anish K. Vallapuram, Pengyuan Zhou, Young D. Kwon +3
Federated learning alleviates the privacy risk in distributed learning by transmitting only the local model updates to the central server. However, it faces challenges including st…
Decentralized, not Dehumanized in the Metaverse: Bringing Utility to NFTs through Multimodal Interaction
Anqi Wang, Ze Gao, Lik-Hang Lee +2
User Interaction for NFTs (Non-fungible Tokens) is gaining increasing attention. Although NFTs have been traditionally single-use and monolithic, recent applications aim to connect…
What is the Metaverse? An Immersive Cyberspace and Open Challenges
Lik-Hang Lee, Pengyuan Zhou, Tristan Braud +1
The Metaverse refers to a virtual-physical blended space in which multiple users can concurrently interact with a unified computer-generated environment and other users, which can…
Re-shaping Post-COVID-19 Teaching and Learning: A Blueprint of Virtual-Physical Blended Classrooms in the Metaverse Era
Yuyang Wang, Lik-Hang Lee, Tristan Braud +1
During the COVID-19 pandemic, most countries have experienced some form of remote education through video conferencing software platforms. However, these software platforms fail to…
Twitter Dataset for 2022 Russo-Ukrainian Crisis
Ehsan-Ul Haq, Gareth Tyson, Lik-Hang Lee +2
Online Social Networks (OSNs) play a significant role in information sharing during a crisis. The data collected during such a crisis can reflect the large scale public opinions an…
From Digital Media to Empathic Reality: A Systematic Review of Empathy Research in Extended Reality Environments
Ville Paananen, Mohammad Sina Kiarostami, Lik-Hang Lee +2
Recent advances in extended reality (XR) technologies have enabled new and increasingly realistic empathy tools and experiences. In XR, all interactions take place in different spa…
Towards User-Centered Metrics for Trustworthy AI in Immersive Cyberspace
Pengyuan Zhou, Benjamin Finley, Lik-Hang Lee +3
AI plays a key role in current cyberspace and future immersive ecosystems that pinpoint user experiences. Thus, the trustworthiness of such AI systems is vital as failures in these…
VibroWeight: Simulating Weight and Center of Gravity Changes of Objects in Virtual Reality for Enhanced Realism
Xian Wang, Diego Monteiro, Lik-Hang Lee +2
Haptic feedback in virtual reality (VR) allows users to perceive the physical properties of virtual objects (e.g., their weight and motion patterns). However, the lack of haptic se…
DiOS -- An Extended Reality Operating System for the Metaverse
Tristan Braud, Lik-Hang Lee, Ahmad Alhilal +2
Driven by the recent improvements in device and networks capabilities, Extended Reality (XR) is becoming more pervasive; industry and academia alike envision ambitious projects suc…