We are happy to announce the following keynote speakers for the workshop
German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany
Title: TBA
Philipp Slusallek is Scientific Director at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), where he heads the research area Agents and Simulated Reality. At Saarland University he has been a professor for Computer Graphics since 1999, a Principle Investigator at the German Excellence-Cluster on "Multimodal Computing and Interaction" since 2007, and Director for Research at the Intel Visual Computing Institute since 2009. Before coming to Saarland University, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University. His research covers a wide range of topics including real-time realistic graphics, novel rendering and lighting algorithms, motion synthesis, artificial intelligence and multi-agent technology, high-performance computing, computational 3D imaging, service-oriented architectures and 3D-Internet technology, efficient semantic communication, smart systems security, and others.
University of Glasgow, UK
Title: Being Social in XR
Julie R. Williamson is Professor of Immersive Interaction in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, where she leads the Future Immersive Interaction Group. Her research focuses on how people experience immersive realities together, combining social signal processing and mixed-methods evaluation to understand interaction in social and public XR settings, including social VR, co-located immersive experiences, and performative interaction in public spaces. She is principal investigator of the ERC-funded FUSION project on future social interaction in XR and has worked extensively with novel interfaces such as large and spherical displays, multimodal interaction, and head-mounted immersive systems. Julie is deeply involved in the international HCI community, serving as Papers Co-Chair for ACM CHI 2022 and 2023 and Technical Program Co-Chair for CHI 2024, as well as a member of the ACM Publications Board and ACM Digital Library Board.
