Workshop on AI and AR/VR for Exergaming (AIVR4Exergame)
Co-Located with IEEE AIxVR 2025 (Lisbon, Portugal)
Workshop Date: TBD
AI-enabled AR/VR-based exergames have the potential to enable a broader spectrum of users to participate in rehabilitative and fitness activities in immersive social environments that provide continual feedback to improve performance and incentivize continued usage. However, consumer grade AR/VR systems do not yet have the full capabilities needed to realize exergaming at scale. These challenges include, but are not limited to AI feedback algorithms that can run on untethered systems, long-term usage comfort due to system bulkiness, inability to simulate real-world attributes such as weight and resistance, novel exercise routine generation, and multi-user latency.
Through invited talks, demos, papers, and posters, AIVR4Exergame will bring researchers and industry practitioners together to discuss these new emerging research challenges and technologies. Following topics are of interest.
- Design of exergames to facilitate long-term continued usage
- Design of AI algorithms that provide closed-loop feedback to enable continued usability
- Design of AI algorithms for assessing and correcting virtual interactions for safe usage
- Design of AI algorithms to generate novel exercise routines
- Simulating the real-world in AR/VR (e.g., weight, friction, resistance)
- AI techniques for movement tracking using smartphone sensors for smartphone-based AR/VR exergaming
- Incorporating haptics and biofeedback to ensure safe interactions in immersive AR/VR environments
- Effectiveness of AI-enabled AR/VR-based exergaming through results from case studies
- Emergent hardware platforms to enable broader uptake of AR/VR-based exergames
- Long term physical and psychological effects of exergaming in AR/VR
- Ethical considerations for use of AI for AR/VR-based exergaming
- Co-located and remote social environments for AR/VR exergaming
- Designing rehabilitative AR/VR exergames for children, older adults, and individuals with disabilities
- AR/VR-based tele-rehab server platform to connect participants from remote locations
The workshop will be held in-person (with remote options) at the Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal in Lisbon, Portugal, and is co-located with IEEE AIxVR 2025. The main conference will be held from January 27 - 29, 2025. The workshop date is TBD.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Paper Submission Information
- Submission Link: All papers must be submitted online using the EasyChair system.
- Page Limit: All papers have a strict 6-page limit (including references, max 1-page for references). Submission must be a single PDF file with an optional video as a separate file.
- Submission Template: The IEEE Manuscript Formatting guidelines provides templates for formatting the paper. Authors must ensure that their papers are anonymized for the review process. Authors are strongly encouraged to use the LaTeX template provided on the IEEE website for compiling their papers. All authors must ensure that they follow the IEEE policies for publications.
- Proceedings: Workshop proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and included in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
Upon acceptance, at least one author must register for the workshop. Registration details will be posted as they are made available by the main AIxVR conference. Accepted authors will be expected to give a 15-minute (12 minute talk + 2 minutes Q/A + 1 minute for transition) presentation at the workshop. The workshop will be held in-person (with remote options) at the at the Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal in Lisbon, Portugal
Reviewing process
The review process is double-blind, i.e. ensure author information is removed when submitting your paper. All papers will be reviewed by at least two experts in the domain. There will be no rebuttal phase for the submissions. Publication in the workshop will not prohibit future publications as full or journal papers with additional material. However, workshop papers cannot be submitted verbatim to another venue without additional material. Authors of accepted papers will be expected to make changes requested during the review and resubmit a final version by the camera-ready deadline.
IMPORTANT DATES
- Submission Deadline: TBD
- Notification: TBD
- Camera-Ready: TBD
- Workshop: TBD (main conference will be held between January 27 - 29, 2025)
ORGANIZERS
Associate Professor
Terascale All-sensing Research Studio (TARS)
Wright State University
Senior Research Scientist
Delsys/Altec Inc, USA
Director of Research
Delsys/Altec Inc, USA