Remembering Together: How Community-Based Design Turns Memory into a Social VR Experience
This paper explores the creation of a social virtual reality experience designed to preserve the history of female political prisoners from Spain’s Franco regime. Using a participatory design approach, the project actively engaged ex-inmates, neighborhood contemporaries, and heritage specialists to co-create an immersive environment featuring authentic testimonies and interactive historical artifacts. By highlighting how diverse […]
Physiological Responses to Musical Stimuli an Initial Investigation
This pilot study investigated how music influences physiological responses by monitoring heart rate, electrodermal activity (EDA), and skin temperature in 30 adult participants listening to two contrasting musical excerpts from the Concertos para Bebés repertoire. Using wearable EmotiBit™ sensors and a novel five-stage analysis pipeline, the researchers identified 489 significant physiological deviations from baseline and […]
A Comparative Study of VR and Tablet Interactions for an Immersive Jazz Concert with Spatial Audio
This is the ACM IMX paper authored by Francesco Mariotti, Anna Bindi, Ibrahim El Shemy, Katrien De Moor, Patricia de Torres Coll, Robert Oldfield, Karolina Wylezek, and Pablo Cesar. It serves as a comprehensive overview of the foundational experiment carried out during the 2025 Internet Festival in Pisa. By anchoring the research in this real-world […]
A Sneak Peek into AI-Generated 3D Immersive Memories
This is the ACM IMX paper authored by Patricia de Torres, Tamás Bukits, Joseba Ruiz, Iker Burguera, Mikel Zorrilla, and Sergio Cabrero. It serves as an in-depth exploration of how former inmates and other demographics subjectively perceive personal items. By anchoring the research in the documentation gathered on 1 December 2025 at LICEU, the paper […]
Analysing Infant Physiological Responses to Live Musical Performance Using Wearable Sensors
This is the ACM IMX paper authored by Eoghan Hynes, Bryan Dunphy, Sowmya Vijayakumar, Niall Murray, Ronan Flynn, Lara Matos, and Paulo Lameiro. It serves as an in-depth exploration of the physiological responses to two contrasting ‘Concertos para Bebés’ excerpts. By anchoring the research in a lab study using EmotiBit sensors, the paper provides a […]
