VR Doctoral Dissertation Award

2024 RECIPIENTS

Best Dissertation: Andre Zimmer
Affiliation: Saarland University
Dissertation: “Advancing Proxy-based Haptic Feedback in Virtual Reality”

Honorable Mention: Fangcheng Zhong
Affiliation: University of Cambridge
Dissertation: “Path from Photorealism to Perceptual Realism”

2023 RECIPIENTS

Best Dissertation: Praneeth Kumar Chakravarthula
Affiliation: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Dissertation: “Towards Everyday-use Augmented Reality Eyeglasses”

Honorable Mention: Hugo Brument
Affiliation: University of Rennes, France
Dissertation: “Towards User-Adapted Navigation Techniques in Virtual Environments: Study of Factors Influencing Users Behavior in Virtual Reality”

Honorable Mention: Jonathan Sutton
Affiliation: University of Otago, New Zealand
Dissertation: “Computational Glasses: Repurposing Augmented Reality Glasses for Vision Assistance”

2022 RECIPIENTS

Best Dissertation: Nami Ogawa
Affiliation: University of Tokyo, Japan
Dissertation: “Effect of Self-Avatar Anthropomorphism on Perception and Behavior in Virtual Environments”

Honorable Mention: Katharina Krösl
Affiliation: Technische Universität Wien, Austria
Dissertation: “Simulating Vision Impairments in Virtual and Augmented Reality”

2021 RECIPIENTS

Best Dissertation: Mayra Donaji Barrera Machuca
Affiliation: Simon Fraser University, Canada
Dissertation: “Towards More Accurate Immersive 3D Sketching”

Honorable Mention: Javad Fotouhi
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University, USA
Dissertation: “Augmented reality and artificial intelligence in image-guided and robot-assisted interventions”