Social Virtual Reality (social VR or SVR) provides digital spaces for diverse human activities,
social interactions, and embodied face-to-face encounters. While our digital bodies in SVR …

The Metaverse is a podium of user mesmerizing interactions in the virtual world with the
support of the Internet, software, and hardware required to create the exceptional immersive …

With their exponentially rising computational power, digital platforms are heralding a new
era of hybrid intelligence. There has recently been much enthusiasm and hype that the …

Featured Application Based on data from a globally operating industrial company, this study
demonstrated the benefits of VR to maintenance documentation review and risk assessment …

Personalizing an avatar for co-speech gesture generation from spoken language requires
learning the idiosyncrasies of a person's gesture style from a small amount of data. Previous …

Mentored online intercultural interaction offers foreign language learners the opportunity to
develop different competences, including intercultural, linguistic, and digital competence …

The acquisition of advanced gestures is a challenge in various domains of proficient
sensorimotor performance. For example, orchestral violinists must move in sync with the …

The integration of immersive Virtual Reality (VR) and Building Information Modeling (BIM)
has many applications within the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) …

Mixed-reality telepresence allows local and remote users feel as if they are present together
in the same space. In this paper we report on a mixed-reality volumetric telepresence system …

While avatars have grown in popularity in social settings, their use in the workplace is still
debatable. We conducted a large-scale survey to evaluate knowledge worker sentiment …