Capability at a Glance: Design Guidelines for Intuitive Avatars Communicating Augmented Actions in Virtual Reality

This paper proposes and validates a set of 16 design guidelines for creating intuitive VR avatars that effectively communicate augmented capabilities and their activation methods, demonstrating that these guidelines significantly improve the clarity and intuitiveness of user interactions across various applications.

Yang Lu, Tianyu Zhang, Jiamu Tang, Yanna Lin, Jiankun Yang, Longyu Zhang, Shijian Luo, Yukang YanMon, 09 Ma💻 cs

Exploring Socially Assistive Peer Mediation Robots for Teaching Conflict Resolution to Elementary School Students

This exploratory study with 12 elementary students demonstrates that socially assistive robots can effectively facilitate peer mediation role-play for conflict resolution, yielding positive student feedback and revealing significant correlations between trait and learning measures in the robot condition despite the lack of statistical differences compared to a tablet-only control.

Kaleen Shrestha, Harish Dukkipati, Avni Hulyalkar, Kyla Penamante, Ankita Samanta, Maja MataricMon, 09 Ma💻 cs

Skill-Adaptive Ghost Instructors: Enhancing Retention and Reducing Over-Reliance in VR Piano Learning

This paper introduces a skill-adaptive ghost instructor in VR piano training that dynamically adjusts its opacity based on learner performance, demonstrating through a user study that this approach improves pitch and fingering accuracy while reducing over-reliance on cues compared to static guidance.

Tzu-Hsin Hsieh, Cassandra Michelle Stefanie Visser, Elmar Eisemann, Ricardo MarroquimMon, 09 Ma💻 cs

Non-urgent Messages Do Not Jump into My Headset Suddenly! Adaptive Notification Design in Mixed Reality

This paper presents and validates an adaptive mixed reality notification system that dynamically adjusts message placement based on urgency levels, demonstrating through user studies that this approach significantly reduces mental workload and frustration while maintaining effective awareness compared to traditional centralized displays.

Jingyao Zheng, Xian Wang, Sven Mayer, Lik-Hang LeeMon, 09 Ma💻 cs

Measuring Perceptions of Fairness in AI Systems: The Effects of Infra-marginality

This paper presents a user study demonstrating that human perceptions of fairness in AI systems are shaped not just by statistical parity or outcomes, but significantly by beliefs about the underlying causes of disparities, specifically how infra-marginality and data distribution differences influence judgments in medical decision-making scenarios.

Schrasing Tong, Minseok Jung, Ilaria Liccardi, Lalana KagalMon, 09 Ma💻 cs

Challenges in Synchronous & Remote Collaboration Around Visualization

This paper presents a framework of 16 challenges faced in synchronous and remote collaborative visualization, derived from the insights of 29 international experts across five key collaborative activities and organized to guide future research in technological choices, social factors, AI assistance, and evaluation.

Matthew Brehmer, Maxime Cordeil, Christophe Hurter, Takayuki Itoh, Wolfgang Büschel, Mahmood Jasim, Arnaud Prouzeau, David Saffo, Lyn Bartram, Sheelagh Carpendale, Chen Zhu-Tian, Andrew Cunningham, Tim Dwyer, Samuel Huron, Masahiko Itoh, Alark Joshi, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Hideaki Kuzuoka, Bongshin Lee, Gabriela Molina León, Harald Reiterer, Bektur Ryskeldiev, Jonathan Schwabish, Brian A. Smith, Yasuyuki Sumi, Ryo Suzuki, Anthony Tang, Yalong Yang, Jian ZhaoMon, 09 Ma💻 cs

Glass Chirolytics: Reciprocal Compositing and Shared Gestural Control for Face-to-Face Collaborative Visualization at a Distance

This paper introduces "Glass Chirolytics," a system that overlays visualization and interface widgets onto mirrored video feeds to enable face-to-face remote collaborators to simultaneously manipulate data using bimanual gestures, thereby enhancing feelings of presence and mutual awareness of analytical intent compared to traditional screen-sharing methods.

Dion Barja, Matthew BrehmerMon, 09 Ma💻 cs

A Closed-Loop CPR Training Glove with Integrated Tactile Sensing and Haptic Feedback

This paper presents a closed-loop CPR training glove that integrates high-resolution tactile sensing and vibrotactile feedback to enable self-directed practice by accurately estimating compression metrics and providing immediate haptic guidance, thereby reducing reliance on external visual displays.

Jaeyoung Moon, Mingzhuo Ma, Qifeng Yang, Youjin Choi, Seokhyun Hwang, Samuel Burden, Kyung-Joong Kim, Yiyue LuoMon, 09 Ma💻 cs

From Risk Avoidance to User Empowerment: Reframing Safety in Generative AI for Mental Health Crises

This paper argues that current generative AI chatbots' risk-avoidant responses to mental health crises can harm users and proposes shifting toward empowerment-oriented design principles that enable AI to act as a supportive bridge for de-escalation and connection to professional care.

Benjamin Kaveladze, Arka Ghosh, Leah Ajmani, Denae Ford, Peter M Gutierrez, Jetta E Hanson, Eugenia Kim, Keertana Namuduri, Theresa Nguyen, Ebele Okoli, Teresa Rexin, Jessica L Schleider, Hongyi Shen, Jina SuhMon, 09 Ma💻 cs

RFM-HRI : A Multimodal Dataset of Medical Robot Failure, User Reaction and Recovery Preferences for Item Retrieval Tasks

This paper introduces the RFM-HRI dataset, a multimodal collection of human-robot interactions in medical crash-cart settings that systematically analyzes user verbal and non-verbal reactions to various communication failures and their preferences for recovery strategies to improve safety-critical HRI systems.

Yashika Batra, Giuliano Pioldi, Promise Ekpo, Arman Sayatqyzy, Purnjay Maruur, Shalom Otieno, Kevin Ching, Angelique TaylorMon, 09 Ma💻 cs