Day 1 (Limassol) – 4th October 2022

  • 8:00 – 9:00 Registration
  • 9:00 – 9:15 Welcome
  • 9:15 – 10:15 Keynote I
  • Mel Slater, Presence, Body Ownership and Vicarious Agency: Illusions of Virtual Reality
  • 10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break
  • 10:45 – 12:30 Session: Novel Technologies in Interactive Media I – Chair: Alessandro Artusi
  • Xiaofang Wang, Adnane Boukhayma, Stéphanie Prevost, Eric Desjardin, Céline Loscos and Franck Multon. Coupling dense point cloud correspondence and template model fitting for 3D human pose and shape reconstruction from a single depth image (Full paper – 20 mins)
  • Ziming Li, Yiming Luo, Jialin Wang, Yushan Pan, Lingyun Yu and Hai-Ning Liang. Collaborative Remote Control of Unmanned Ground Vehicles in Virtual Reality (Full paper – 20 mins)
  • Stela Makri and Panayiotis Charalambous. Navigating a road network using Reinforcement Learning (Full paper – 20 mins)
  • Daniele Giunchi, Riccardo Bovo, Donald Degraen, Stuart James and Anthony Steed. Explorative Study on Asymmetric Sketch Interactions for Object Retrieval in Virtual Reality (Full paper – 20 mins)
  • Froso Sarri, Lemonia Ragia, Antigoni Panagiotopoulou and Katerina Mania. Location-Aware Augmented-Reality for Predicting Sea Level Rise in Situ (Full paper – 20 mins)
  • 12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
  • 13:30 – 14:40 Session: Novel Technologies in Interactive Media II – Chair: Daniele Giunchi
  • Matthew Pears, Panagiotis E. Antoniou, Eirini Schiza, James Henderson, Georgios Ntakakis, Constantinos S. Pattichis, Evangelia Gkougkoudi, Maria Nikolaidou, Fotos Frangoudes, Panagiotis D. Bamidis and Stathis Th Konstantinidis. Feasibility and Acceptance of Virtual Reality Reusable e-Resources Embedded in Healthcare Curricula (Full paper – 20 mins)
  • Paraskevi Antonia Theofilou, Georgios Tsatiris and Stefanos Kollias. Automatic assessment of Parkinson’s patients’ dyskinesia using non-invasive machine learning methods (Short paper – 15 mins)
  • Eleftherios Vouzis and Ilias Maglogiannis. Prediction of early dropouts in patient remote monitoring programs (Poster paper – 10 mins)             
  • Marinos Vlachos, Dimitrios Skarlatos, Alessio Calantropio and Filiberto Chiabrando. An adhoc UW image colour correction method and the impact on image feature matching & SfM-MVS 3D reconstruction (Poster paper – 10 mins)
  • Chaoyi Liu, Rongkai Shi, Nan Xiang and Hai-Ning Liang. SynchedWorlds: Synchronizing Real-world and Virtual-world Objects in VR via In-built Cameras (Poster paper – 10 mins)
  • 14:40 – 15:10 Coffee Break
  • 15:10 – 14:15 Session: Demos
  • Anna Sheremetieva, Ihor Romanovych, Sam Frish, Mykola Maksymenko and Orestis Georgiou. Touch the Story: An immersive mid-air haptic experience
  • Vlasios Kasapakis, Elena Dzardanova, Vasiliki Nikolakopoulou and Spyros Vosinakis. Evaluation of a Virtual Reality Learning Enviroment testbed and Non-Verbal Cue Integration
  • James Henderson, Matthew Pears, Iraklis Tsoupouroglou, Panagiotis D. Bamidis, Natalia Stathakarou, Klas Karlgren, Eirini Schiza, Constantinos S. Pattichis and Stathis Th. Konstantinidis. Development of a Bespoke Chatbot Design Tool to Facilitate a Crowd-based Co-creation Process
  • Georgios Pappas, Antonis Petrides, Vayos Liapis and Joshua Siegel. Integrating Game-based Learning in Distance Learning platforms: The case of “Ancient Theater of Philippi” tool
  • 19:00 Reception

Day 2 (Limassol) – 5th October 2022

  • 8:30 – 9:00 Registration
  • 9:00 – 10:40 Session: Applications in Interactive Media I – Chair: Maria Shehade
  • Nikolas Iakovides, Andreas Lazarou, Panayiotis Kyriakou and Andreas Aristidou. Virtual library in the concept of digital twin (Full paper – 20 mins)
  • Sophie Galani and Spyros Vosinakis. Connecting Intangible Cultural Heritage and Architecture through Mobile Augmented Reality Narratives and Scale Models (Full paper – 20 mins)
  • Dimitra Petousi, Akrivi Katifori, Maria Roussou and Yannis Ioannidis. The dialogue facilitator bot: Reflections on design and evaluation (Full paper – 20 mins)
  • Daniel Hind and Carlo Harvey. A NEAT Approach to Wave Generation in Tower Defense (Full paper – 20 mins)
  • Yannis Kritikos and Katerina Mania. Interactive Historical Documentary in Virtual Reality (Full paper – 20 mins)
  • 10:40 – 11:10 Coffee Break
  • 11:10 – 12:30 Session: Applications in Interactive Media II – Chair: Spyros Vosinakis
  • Ali Najm, Christos Hadjipanayi, Despina Michael-Grigoriou, Domna Banakou, Francis McGlone and Merle Fairhurst. The Virtual Touch Toolkit: An Interactive Media Mobile Application for Promoting Well-Being through Affective and Social Touch (Short paper – 15 mins)
  • Kostas Cheliotis. Simulating Common Indoor Crowd Behaviours in 3D Environments Using ABMU (Short paper – 15 mins)
  • John Soldatos, Anastasios Pantazidis, Bogdan Gornea, Katerina Margariti and Pantelis Velanas. Virtual Reality Training of Law Enforcement Officers in Predicting Terroristic Attacks Indicators (Short paper – 15 mins)
  • Alexandra Malouta, Angeliki Chrysanthi and Vlassios Kasapakis. Herstory: an AR locative storytelling presenting women’s heroic lives in public space (Short paper – 15 mins)
  • Zoe Anastasiadou and Andreas Lanitis. Development and Evaluation of a Prototype VR Application for the Elderly, that can Help to Prevent Effects Related to Social Isolation (Short paper – 15 mins)
  • 12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
  • 13:30 – 15:10 Session: Workshop on Haptics, AI, and Responsible Research and Innovation I
  • Keynote 1: William Frier (Ultraleap) (Keynote 30 mins)
  • Keynote 2: Mykola Maksymenko (SoftServe) (Keynote 20 mins)
  • Keynote 3: Patrick Haggard (UCL) (Keynote 30 mins)
  • Rafael Morales, Orestis Georgiou, Asier Marzo and William Frier. Comparison of Experiment and Simulation of Ultrasonic Mid-air Haptic Forces (Workshop paper – 10 mins)
  • Petro Franchuk and Tetiana Yezerska. Improved Touchless Respiratory Rate Sensing (Workshop paper – 10 mins)
  • 15:10 – 15:40 Coffee Break and Poster Session
  • 15:40 – 17:00 Session: Workshop on Haptics, AI, and Responsible Research and Innovation II
  • Zak Morgan, Youngjun Cho and Sriram Subramanian. On Quick Measurement of Airborne Ultrasound Pressure Fields (Workshop paper – 10 mins)
  • Mattia Colombo, Pinar Satilmis, Richard Davies, Borislav Yordanov, Ian Williams and Carlo Harvey. Object Detection Systems Informing Users of Guardian Space Dangers Through Haptic Displays (Workshop paper – 10 mins)
  • Keynote 4: Stephen Hughes (UCL) (Keynote 60 mins)

Day 3 (Limassol) – 6th October 2022

  • 9:00 – 9:30 Registration
  • 9:30 – 10:30 Keynote II
  • Marios S. Pattichis, Large Scale Video Analysis: A case study in Educational Video Analysis
  • 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
  • 11:00 – 12:30 Session: Applications in Interactive Media III – Chair: Carlo Harvey
  • Imanol Munoz-Pandiella, Carles Bosch, Milagros Guardia, Begoña Cayuela, Paola Pogliani, Giulia Bordi, Maria Paschali, Carlos Andújar and Panayiotis Charalambous. Digital Twins for Medieval Monuments: Requirements from Art Historians and Technical Challenges for Analysis and Restoration (Full paper – 20 mins)
  • Sarah Hofmann, Christian Schott and Sebastian von Mammen. Parametric Skin Wound Generation for Medical Simulations (Full paper – 20 mins)
  • Dimitrios Koukopoulos, Panagiotis Dafiotis, Stella Sylaiou, Konstantinos Koukoulis and Christos Fidas. XR technologies for self-regulated student exhibitions in art education: survey and first design considerations (Full paper – 20 mins)
  • Maria Christofi, Christos Hadjipanayi and Despina Michael-Grigoriou. The Use of Storytelling in Virtual Reality for Studying Empathy: A Review (Full paper – 20 mins)
  • Michal Vavrecka, Gabriela Sejnova and Petr Schimperk. Personified Robotic Chatbot Based On Compositional Dialogues (Poster paper – 10 mins)
  • 12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
  • 13:30 – 14:40 Session: Applications in Interactive Media IV – Chair: Selma Rizvic
  • Pedro Reisinho, Rui Raposo and Nelson Zagalo. A Systematic Literature Review of Virtual Reality-based Reminiscence Therapy for People with Cognitive Impairment or Dementia (Full paper – 20 mins)
  • Daniela De Angeli, Fotos Frangoudes, Savvas Avraam, Kleanthis Neokleous and Eamonn O’Neill. Towards Engaging Intangible Holographic Public Displays (Full paper – 20 mins)
  • Filippos Tzortzoglou, Panagiotis Kosmas and Lucy Avraamidou. Design of a location-based augmented reality game for the development of key 21st-century competences in primary education (Short paper – 15 mins)
  • Mattia Angelini, Alessandro Artusi and Simoni Panayi. DgiStreamer: The Less You Code The More You Create (Short paper – 15 mins)
  • 14:40 – 15:10 Coffee Break
  • 15:10 – 16:30 Session: Session: Applications in Interactive Media V – Chair: Sebastian von Mammen
  • Adriana Souza and Diamantino Freitas. Towards the Improvement of the Cognitive Process of the Synthesized Speech of Mathematical Expression in MathML: An Eye-Tracking Study (Full paper – 20 mins)
  • Selma Rizvic, Dusanka Boskovic, Bojan Mijatovic, Ivona Ivkovic-Kihic and Edo Skaljo. Learning about prehistory through interactive digital storytelling (Short paper – 15 mins)
  • Antigone Heraclidou, Christos I. Ioannou, Fotos Frangoudes, Panayiotis Kyriacou, Savvas Avraam, Kleanthis Neokleous, Marios Avraamides and Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert. The Ledra Palace project: Using emerging technologies to communicate exhibition content- Evaluation of results (Short paper – 15 mins)
  • Stella Sylaiou, Christos Fidas and Dimitrios Koukopoulos. First results of a survey concerning the use of digital human avatars in museums and cultural heritage sites (Short paper – 15 mins)
  • Juliana de Camargo, José Nunes, Maria Antunes, Óscar Mealha, Carolina Abrantes and Luís Nóbrega. Building datasets for automated conversational systems designed for use-cases (Short paper – 15 mins)
  • 19:30 Conference Dinner

Day 4 (Nicosia) – 7th October 2022