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Multimodal Cyber-physical Interaction in XR: Hybrid Doctoral Thesis Defense
Ahmad Alhilal, Kit Yung Lam, Lik-Hang Lee +5
Academic events, such as a doctoral thesis defense, are typically limited to either physical co-location or flat video conferencing, resulting in rigid participation formats and fr…
ORIBA: Exploring LLM-Driven Role-Play Chatbot as a Creativity Support Tool for Original Character Artists
Yuqian Sun, Xingyu Li, Shunyu Yao +4
Recent advances in Generative AI (GAI) have led to new opportunities for creativity support. However, this technology has raised ethical concerns in the visual artists community. T…
VR PreM+ : An Immersive Pre-learning Branching Visualization System for Museum Tours
Ze Gao, Xiang Li, Changkun Liu +6
We present VR PreM+, an innovative VR system designed to enhance web exploration beyond traditional computer screens. Unlike static 2D displays, VR PreM+ leverages 3D environments…
AI Nushu: An Exploration of Language Emergence in Sisterhood -Through the Lens of Computational Linguistics
Yuqian Sun, Yuying Tang, Ze Gao +8
This paper presents "AI Nushu," an emerging language system inspired by Nushu (women's scripts), the unique language created and used exclusively by ancient Chinese women who were…
Tangible Web: An Interactive Immersion Virtual RealityCreativity System that Travels Across Reality
Simin Yang, Ze Gao, Reza Hadi Mogavi +2
With the advancement of virtual reality (VR) technology, virtual displays have become integral to how museums, galleries, and other tourist destinations present their collections t…
A Twitter Dataset for Pakistani Political Discourse
Ehsan-Ul Haq, Haris Bin Zia, Reza Hadi Mogavi +4
We share the largest dataset for the Pakistani Twittersphere consisting of over 49 million tweets, collected during one of the most politically active periods in the country. We co…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
EdgeXAR: A 6-DoF Camera Multi-target Interaction Framework for MAR with User-friendly Latency Compensation
Wenxiao Zhang, Sikun Lin, Farshid Hassani Bijarbooneh +5
The computational capabilities of recent mobile devices enable the processing of natural features for Augmented Reality (AR), but the scalability is still limited by the devices' c…
AICP: Augmented Informative Cooperative Perception
Pengyuan Zhou, Pranvera Kortoci, Yui-Pan Yau +7
Connected vehicles, whether equipped with advanced driver-assistance systems or fully autonomous, require human driver supervision and are currently constrained to visual informati…