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Research updates, awards, people, talks, visits, conferences, and milestones from HXIL.
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2026
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Roberto joined our group as a visiting graduate researcher from the Polytechnic University of Bari.
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Hyeongil has started an exciting new chapter as a professor at Hanyang University ERICA in South Korea.
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Six visiting undergraduate students from Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) completed their two-week program on XR Agent Development and Evaluation.
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Two poster papers have been accepted at ACM SUI 2026.
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Seven workshop papers have been accepted for presentation at the ISMAR 2026 Workshops: four papers at XRAI-SCA, two at AXR, and one at XRMemory.
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Two IEEE TVCG articles and one ISMAR conference paper have been accepted and will be presented at ISMAR 2026.
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Ahmad passed his PhD candidacy exam!
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Kangsoo received the AKCSE Best Service Award.
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Kangsoo participated in a collaboration meeting at ENSAM in Paris, France.
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Kangsoo gave an invited talk at Gachon University in Korea.
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Kangsoo participated in the Shonan Meeting on Seamless Reality in Japan.
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Kangsoo gave invited talks at Hanyang University and KIST in Korea.
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A journal article was published in JAMA Network Open in collaboration with Alberta Children’s Hospital and Geneva University Hospitals.
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Kangsoo received the 2025 Early-Career Research Excellence Award from the Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary.
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Hyeongil and Kangsoo participated in the Questioning Reality Conference in Toronto.
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A journal article was published in Advances in Simulation in collaboration with Alberta Children’s Hospital and Geneva University Hospitals.
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A journal article was published as a preprint in JMIR Human Factors in collaboration with Alberta Children’s Hospital and Geneva University Hospitals.
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Muskan passed her PhD candidacy exam!
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MJ published a workshop paper at the ACM CHI Workshop on XR for Challenging Environments: Enabling Human Performance and Agency under Stress (XR4CE CHI 2026).
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Zaid presented our poster paper at ACM CHI 2026.
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Taeyeon and Chuyang presented conference papers at ACM CHI 2026 and workshop papers at the SAXR CHI 2026 Workshop.
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Kangsoo received the IEEE VGTC Significant New Researcher Award at IEEE VR 2026.
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Kangsoo and Seoyoung presented our co-authored TVCG papers at IEEE VR 2026.
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Kangsoo co-organized the XRIOS and XRMemory workshops, as well as the Embodied Intelligent Virtual Agent tutorial, at IEEE VR 2026.
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Kangsoo co-organized the ReViSI workshop at IEEE VR 2026.
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Kangsoo delivered a keynote talk during the IMMER-SENSE workshop at IEEE VR 2026.
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Three workshop papers led by Taeyeon, Chuyang, and MJ have been accepted to ACM CHI 2026 workshops.
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Zaid's paper has been accepted to the ACM CHI 2026 Poster Track.
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Farewell for Mehdi.
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MJ and Taeyeon were selected as recipients of the CIHR Travel Awards.
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Taeyeon's paper has been accepted to ACM CHI 2026.
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Two papers led by Omar and Seoyoung have been accepted to IEEE VR 2026 TVCG Track as journal articles.
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Three journal articles, in collaboration with Alberta Children’s Hospital (ACH) and Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUG), have been accepted in JMIR Human Factors and JMIR XR and Spatial Computing.
2025
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Zhuang's paper (University of Auckland) has been accepted in TVCG.
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Chae Heon's paper (Hanyang University) has been accepted in IJHCI.
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Omar, Hyeongil, and Kangsoo received an Honorable Mention Award (Top 3%) at IEEE ISMAR 2025.
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Hyeongil, Muskan, Ahmad, Jessica, Omar, and Mehak presented their research at IEEE ISMAR 2025.
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Mehdi and Arjun presented our SHAPE and Nursing Education projects during the 1st XRAI-SCA Workshop at IEEE ISMAR 2025.
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Kangsoo co-organized and Hyeongil participated in the KOFST BrainLink X-Lab Day in Incheon.
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Kangsoo delivered a keynote talk at APMAR 2025.
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Last day of Omar in the lab. Congrats to Omar on his new journey toward a PhD at Drexel University!
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Aser joined the lab as an undergraduate researcher, taking ENEL 591.
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Junyeong's paper (Hyeongil and Kangsoo co-authored) has been accepted at VRST 2025. Congrats!
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Seoyoung has returned as a visiting researcher for the Fall. Welcome back!
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Chuyang, Taeyeon, Tafreed, and MJ officially started their graduate programs and joined the team as PhD and MSc students.
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Junyeong (PNU) successfully completed her visiting research program.
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Three workshop papers have been accepted at the ISMAR 2025 XRAI-SCA Workshop.
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Three papers were conditionally accepted in the ISMAR 2025 TVCG journal track and four in the conference paper track.
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Jan and Kangsoo published a journal article in WIREs Cognitive Science.
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Omar and Anh graduated with their BSc in Computer Science. Congrats!
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Our award-winning work by Hyeongil and Seoyoung was featured in UCalgary UToday.
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Junyeong (PNU) joined the lab as a visiting graduate research student through Mitacs Globalink Research Award.
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Ryan successfully passed his MSc thesis exam! Congrats!
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Charbel joined the team as an undergraduate researcher.
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A journal article co-authored by Ryan and Kangsoo was published in Wiley Advanced Science.
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Hyeongil was awarded the Alberta Innovates Postdoctoral Fellowship! Congrats!
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IEEE VR 2025: Hyeongil and Seoyoung presented TVCG papers; Omar, Taeyeon, and Nanjia presented posters; Kangsoo organized Research Demo sessions; Nanjia received a Best Presentation Award; Omar and Hyeongil presented at ReViSI and XRMemory.
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Our IEEE VR 2025 TVCG Journal Track papers received Best Paper Awards. Congrats to Hyeongil Nam et al. and Seoyoung Kang et al.!
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Jazeb and Arjun joined the lab as undergraduate interns for the summer.
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Four workshop papers and three posters were accepted for IEEE VR 2025.
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Ryan and Kangsoo participated in the InterFACE-AR Team workshop at IMSH 2025.
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Ryan and the InterFACE-AR Team received a grant at the INSPIRE Shark Tank Competition during IMSH 2025.
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Winter 2025 kick-off meeting and farewell for Michael and Anh.
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Zaid joined the lab as an undergraduate researcher.
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Jessica began her MSc program in BME.
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Michael successfully defended his MSc thesis.
2024
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Two papers were conditionally accepted for IEEE VR 2025 in the TVCG journal track.
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Taeyeon successfully completed his visiting research through the Mitacs GRA program.
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Michael successfully completed the second seminar for his MSc thesis research.
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Muskan was elected VP Academic Associate of the Electrical and Software Engineering Graduate (ESEG) Society.
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Hyeongil and Kangsoo participated in a CIHR-funded Inuit Hub project workshop, discussed project directions, and showcased VR/AR demos.
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Muskan, Anh, Ryan, and Hyeongil demonstrated in-house VR/AR applications at the UCalgary XR Open House.
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Svara joined our lab as an undergraduate researcher.
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Ryan received first place at the IPSSV 2024 Shark Tank competition for “The Augmented Resuscitation Assistant.”
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Omar won the Faculty of Science Award at the Undergraduate Research Symposium for a presentation of his summer research project.
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Hyeongil, Muskan, Anh, and Kangsoo attended ISMAR 2024 in Seattle, where we presented papers and a demo.
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Hyeongil presented his WatchBuddy paper at ISUVR 2024 at the University of Washington.
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Dr. Heejin Jeong visited our lab and gave a talk about recent and ongoing research in his lab.
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Taeyeon joined the lab as a visiting graduate student through the Mitacs Globalink Research Award program.
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Jessica joined the lab as a research intern.
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Mehak presented her summer research at the 2024 ACHRI/Owerko Centre Summer Student Research Symposium.
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Two demo papers and one poster paper were accepted at IEEE ISMAR 2024.
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Ahmad joined the lab as a PhD student.
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Five conference papers were accepted at IEEE ISMAR 2024.
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Hyeongil returned to the lab as a postdoctoral researcher.
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Muskan started her PhD.
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Omar, Anh, and Mehak started their summer research programs.
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Muskan, Ryan, Omar, and Kangsoo attended IEEE VR 2024 and presented our research.
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Omar and Mehak received Alberta Innovates SRS and Alberta Children’s Hospital BME grants for their summer research.
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A Research Demo session and an XRIOS workshop co-organized by Kangsoo were announced for IEEE VR 2024.
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Three posters and two workshop papers were accepted at IEEE VR 2024.
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A journal article with the HCI Lab at the University of Delaware was accepted in Computers & Graphics: XR Technologies for Healthcare and Wellbeing.
2023
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A journal article about a virtual dairy farm simulation led by Anh and Michael was accepted in Computers & Graphics.
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A collaborative journal article with Dr. Changgu Kang was accepted in IEEE Access.
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Kangsoo and Seoyoung attended and presented at IEEE ISMAR 2023 and ISUVR 2023.
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Michael won 1st place and Anh, Muskan, and Omar won 3rd place in the Project VOICE Hackathon hosted by IEEE SAS SIGHT.
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Hyeongil and Kisub (HYU) joined the lab as visiting graduate research students through Mitacs Globalink Research Award.
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Two conference papers and one poster were accepted at IEEE ISMAR 2023.
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Seoyoung (KAIST) and Chaeheon (GNU) joined the lab as visiting graduate research students through Mitacs Globalink Research Award.
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Kangsoo gave a talk at SIGGRAPH 2023 BoF: Digital Twin and Open XR.
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Kangsoo received the AKCSE Early Achievement Award at CKC 2023.
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Ryan and Kangsoo attended and gave research presentations at CKC 2023 in Ottawa.
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A journal article was published in Springer Virtual Reality.
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XRIOS 2023 was completed successfully.
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Three workshop papers and one poster paper were published at IEEE VRW 2023.
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Anh and Omar received PURE and NSERC USRA grants for their summer research.
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Dr. Changgu Kang (GNU, South Korea) joined the lab as a visiting researcher.
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Two workshop papers were accepted at XRIOS 2023.
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A book chapter, “The Augmented Reality Internet of Things,” was published in the Springer Handbook of Augmented Reality.
2022
3 updatesResearch
Kangsoo was organizing the 2nd XRIOS Workshop at IEEE VR 2023.
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Movie night: Avatar: The Way of Water.
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