
The Congress is organized in the framework of the Project on the Implementation of the Charter of Digital Rights financed by the public entity Red.es» and is part of the activities of the European Metaverse Research Network.
Recordings:
June 11th sessions
Opening Remarks and Introductory Panel Discussion: Inappropriate Social Interaction in the Metaverse
Opening Remarks
- Mel Slater, Researcher at Universitat de Barcelona, Coordinator of EMRN.
- Aurelio López-Tarruella, Director of the Chair for the Responsible Development of the Metaverse, University of Alicante
- Jorge Calvo Zaragoza, Director of the Secretariat for the Promotion and Organization of Research, University of Alicante.
Introductory Panel Discussion. “Inappropriate Social Interaction in the Metaverse”
Laurynas Adomaitis (RISE), Beatrice de Gelder (Maastricht University), Mel Stater (UB), Mavi Sanchez Vives (IDIBAPS), Michele Barbier (Inria), Katia Zibrek (Irina).
Chair: Michele Barbier
Keynote Speech - Neuroscience of self-consciousness: Research, Clinical & Contemplative Practice
«The Neuroscience of self-consciousness: Basic research, clinical applications, and contemplative practice«, Professor Olaf Blanke, Center for Neuroprosthetics, Ecole Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Chair: Mel Slater
Session 1 - Virtual humans: Agents, avatars, and AI-driven personalities
Session 1 – Virtual humans: Agents, avatars, and AI-driven personalities
- “Synthetic selves: exploring identity construction through virtual avatars and AI in XR environments” (Mariachiara Tirinzoni)
- “Extending Human–Co-Bot Interaction through the Smart Factory Metaverse and Embodied AI Assistants” (Giulio Jacucci)
- “AI-Powered Metaverse Study: AGI and the Path to Ethical Superintelligence” (Christopher Lafayette)
Chair: Xueni Sylvia Pan
Panel Discussion - Living Virtual Machines
Doron Friedman, Beatrice de Gelder, Jonathan Giron, Rupert Ortner.
Chair: Doron Friedman
Keynote Speech - Virtual Patients & Therapists: Harnessing LLMs and VR for Mental Health
“When Virtual Patients Meet Virtual Therapists: Harnessing LLMs and VR for Mental Health”, Professor Doron Friedman, Sammy Ofer School of Communications, Reichman University, Israel.
Chair: Mavi Sanchez-Vives
Session 2 - Ethical AI, Responsible and Legal Metaverse Design
Session 2 – Ethical AI, Responsible and Legal Metaverse Design
- The Metaverse as an AI-powered Society of Control: Ethical Concerns on Autonomy, Self-determination and Surveillance (Anastasia Nefeli Vidaki)
- Inhabiting the Metaverse: AI Agents, Their Risks, and the Quest for Trust (Anselm Küsters)
- Governance for Web 4.0 and Virtual Worlds (Tom de Koninck).
Chair: Aurelio Lopez-Tarruella
Posters Abstracts - Parallel Sessions - Room 1
Room “Rector Ramón Martín Mateo”
- The Rise and Fall in Production of Empathy-building Immersive Experiences Over A Decade (2015-2025) (Magdalena Igras-Cybulska)
- Keeping collaboration along transitions between places in VR (Majd Bitar)
- Virtual Embodiment to Transform Attitudes and Behaviors Toward Gender-Based Harassment in the Metaverse (Isaac Calvin)
- Use of immersive data by medical practitioners for mental health prevention (Noah Richert)
Chair: Paweł Śniatała
Posters Abstracts - Parallel Sessions - Room 2
Room “Vicente Gimeno Sendra”.
- Discovering the Metaverse: New Copyright Challenges for User-Generated Content (Oscar Verdoire)
- Your Personalized Spielberg Will See You Now: Authorship and Identity in AI-Generated Cinema (Ernesto Edwards)
- AI-Enabled crimes and AI-Empowered investigations: The role of artificial intelligence in metaverse criminal ecosystems (Gian Marco Bovenzi)
Chair: Xueni Sylvia Pan
June 12th sessions
Keynote Speech - Designing AI and VR Tools to Think With
«Designing AI and VR Tools to Think With», Professor Yvonne Rogers, UCLIC, Computer Science Department, University College London, UK.
Chair: Marco Gillies
Session 3 - Clinical and well-being applications of the Metaverse
Session 3 – Clinical and well-being applications of the Metaverse
- Immersive Prevention Centers for Mental Health: Secondary and Tertiary Prevention in the Metaverse (Antoine Widmer)
- Towards affective and personalized mixed reality experiences for mental health (Patricia Pons)
- Kiin Platform: Using Immersive Training to Address Bias and Support Behavior Change (Bernhard Spanlang)
Chair: Pablo Cesar
Keynote Speech - Virtual Humans
“Virtual Humans”, Professor Frank Steinicke, Department of Informatics, Hamburg University, Germany.
Chair: Piotr Skrzypczynski
Panel Discussion - AI-Enhanced Immersive Environments for Lifelong Education and Career Counselling
Lorena Gonzalez, Katarzyna Koba, Pablo López Guardiola
Chair: Katarzyna Koba
Poster Abstracts (Parallel Sessions) - Room 1
Room “Rector Ramon Martin Mateo”
- Development and Evaluation of a Virtual Reality Training System for Precision Agriculture (Dominik Belter)
- Ethnography in the Metaverse (Majd Bitar)
- A VR Platform for Home Neurorehabilitation with Remote Supervision (Piotr Skrzypczynski)
- VR-generated illusion as a tool for limbs neurorehabilitation during hyperacute phase of ischemic stroke (Paweł Śniatała)
Chair: Michele di Dalmazi
Poster Abstracts (Parallel Sessions) - Room 2
Room “Vicente Gimeno Sendra”.
- The Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse in Orthopedic Healthcare: Emerging Applications and Research Directions (Tony Donegan)
- Embodied AI and Multisensory VR for Skill Acquisition and Rehabilitation in the Metaverse (Yuke Pi)
- Disability Centred Design and Interactive Machine Learning: A Co-creative Methodology for a more Accessible Metaverse (Clarice Hilton)
- Extended reality technologies for behavioral therapy and cognitive training for people with intellectual disability (Jesús Gutiérrez)
Chair: Raul Ruiz
Keynote Speech - The ethics of digital touch & Conclusions – EMRN looking to the future
Keynote Speech
«The ethics of digital touch«, Professor Patrick Haggard, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL, UK.
Chair: Mel Slater
Conclusions – EMRN looking to the future.