Conference
Scientific Program
| The 18th International Conference on Human Interaction & Emerging Technologies will be held August 25-27, 2026 at Università Iuav di Venezia, Venice, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Tuesday, August 25 19:00-22:00 (CEST) |
Conference
Banquet and Reception: 19:00-22:00, Tuesday August 25,
2026 Location: Hilton Molino Stucky Venice Address: Giudecca, 810, 30133 Venezia VE, Italy (Google Maps) Participant_Map Guide (PDF) (Registered Participants Only - Badge or Photo ID Required, Dress is business casual) 
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Scientific and Technical Sessions
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Scientific
and Technical Sessions: August 26-27, 2026 Location: Università Iuav di Venezia - Terese Address: Dorsoduro, 2206, 30123 Venezia VE, Italy (Google Maps) (Campus map)IHIET_Participant_Directions_Guide (PDF) IHIET 2026 Final Program (PDF Download) |
Università Iuav di Venezia - Terese |
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| DAY 1 | Track | Room | |
| Plenary
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Plenary Speech and Opening Remarks | ALL | Auditorium |
| Wednesday, August 26 | Session
Chair(s): Luca Casarotto and Pietro Costa, Italy |
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| 9:00 - 10:00
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Plenary Speech: "Developing Human Computer Interaction in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" Speaker: Dr. Ahmed Farooq, Tampere Unit of
Computer Human Interaction, Tampere University,
Finland |
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Bio: Dr.
Ahmed Farooq is a Research Lead at the Tampere Unit for
Computer Human Interaction (TAUCHI), Tampere University,
Finland, where he leads work at the intersection of
Human Computer Interaction (HCI), multimodal
interaction, haptics, and artificial intelligence. His
research focuses on how emerging AI and machine learning
methods can be integrated with established HCI
approaches to design more adaptive, intelligent, and
human-centred interactive systems. With more than 26
years of experience across computer science,
electronics, and systems engineering, Dr. Farooq
develops cross-disciplinary solutions for
next-generation human–system interaction. He has led and
contributed to international research collaborations
with leading academic and industrial research groups,
including Google, Meta Reality Labs, Nokia Research
Labs, the Centre for Intelligent Machines at McGill
University, the Haptic Interface Research Laboratory at
Purdue University, ReTouch Lab at UC Santa Barbara, and
the HaptoSphere Lab at Bentley University. |
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10:00 - 10:30 • Sessions Break | ||
| DAY 1 | Track | Room | |
| Session
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Human-centered Design: AI, Automation and UX | IHIET 1 | 1 |
| Wednesday, August 26 | Session Chair(s): Andry Rakotonirainy, Australia and Julia Kaesmayr, Austria | ||
| 10:30 - 11:30 (CEST) | Explainability in Automated Driving: From Spatial
Attention to Human-Centred Reasoning Andry Rakotonirainy, Ashkan Y Zadeh, Zishuo Zhu, Djamel Benrachou, Mohammed Elhenawy, Sebastien Glaser, Xiaomeng Li, Ronald Schroeter, Melaine Gouillou, Patricia Delhomme, Australia |
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| Design
and Evaluation of an AI Academic Advisor: Insights from
Student Interactions Aysha Almazrouei, Afra Almazrouei, Haseena Alkatheeri, Mohammad Amin Kuhail, United Arab Emirates |
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| To boldly
go where AI must not go alone: Designing for
non-delegable human authority in AI-assisted expert work
Raimund Lehle, Julia Kaesmayr, Germany |
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| Integrating
Three Modalities into One Experience: A Case Study of
2024 DigiWave—DdDd Liting Huang, Taiwan |
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| Improving
Usability in a Smart Building Ecosystem through
Heuristic Evaluation and Usability Testing Rosana Alexandre, Filipe Moreira, Andre Cardoso, Manuel Alves, Ricardo Rodrigues, Ana Colim, Portugal |
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| Anchored
in the Learner: A Critical Review of AI Discourse in
Design Education Antong Zhang, Netherlands |
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| DAY 1 | Track | Room | |
| Session
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Artificial Intelligence, Computing and Intelligent Design I | IHIET 2 | 2 |
| Wednesday, August 26 | Session
Chair(s): Gustavo Afonso Novak, France and Vladimira
Lipsova, Czech Republic |
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| 10:30 - 11:30 (CEST) | Toward
Reinforcement Learning for Selection and
Parameterization of Appropriate Prevention Measures for
Collaborative Robotic Applications Gustavo Afonso Novak, Vincent Weistroffer, Jonathan Savin, Richard Bearee, France |
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| Could AI-Chatbot help with prevention of burnout
syndrome? Pilot study in two Czech manufacturing
companies. Vladimira Lipsova, Karolina Mrazova, Kateřina Bátrlová, Martina Sebalo Vnukova, Zdenek Musil, Vladimir Musil, Nina E. Carroll, Czech Republic |
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| Lamp
Designs and Attention Fields: Ambient Computing for
Agentic AI Ian Gonsher, Jialong Lai, Runan Wang, Ruijia Diao, Shaivi Tomar, United States |
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| Augmented
Intelligence and Creative Dialectics: Developing Tools
for Enhanced Creativity Ian Gonsher, Changfeng Wang, Bozhou Pang, Liu Hu, Shuyi Mao, United States |
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| DAY 1 | Track | Room | |
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Human-centered Design: Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality | IHIET 3 | 3 |
| Wednesday, August 26 | Session Chair(s): Ingvar Tjostheim, Norway and Masayuki Ihara, Japan | ||
| 10:30 - 11:30 (CEST) | Virtuality
and Reality in Designing Future Services that Utilize
Past Episodes Masayuki Ihara, Hiroko Tokunaga, Tomomi Nakashima, Hiroki Goto, Yuuki Umezaki, Yoko Egawa, Shinya Hisano, Takashi Minato, Yutaka Nakamura, Masashige Motoe, Shinpei Saruwatari, Japan |
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| Meta Ray
Ban Smart Glasses - Watching the Watchers Ingvar Tjostheim, Norway |
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| Mixed
Reality–Driven Rehabilitation Using a Robotic
Exoskeleton and an Immersive Game-Based Interface Jeronimo Rueda Giraldo, David Esteban Gonzalez Rozo, Guillermo Andres Aguilera Hurtado, Colombia |
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| EnviPeace
– A MR-based Learning System for Environmental
Peacebuilding Elisabeth Broneder, Simone Formica, Christoph Weiß, Jaison Puthenkalam, Sebastian Egger-Lampl, Markus Karlseder, Astrid Holzinger, Monika Psenner, Juliana Krohn, Austria |
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| 11:30 - 12:00 • Sessions Break | |||
| DAY 1 | Track | Room | |
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Human–computer Interaction: AI and Performance Environments | IHIET 5 | 1 |
| Wednesday, August 26 | Session Chair(s): Hiroko Kanoh, Japan and Jona Karg, Switzerland | ||
| 12:00 -13:30 (CEST) | Human-AI
Role Allocation in Design Thinking: Contributions to
Initiation, Elaboration, and Decision-Making Isabel Rodenas, Patrick Rupprecht, Austria |
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| AI-Supported
Mind Mapping for Collaborative Discussion: An
Exploratory Qualitative Classroom Study Using Personary
Hiroko Kanoh, Japan |
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| Feedback Policy Shapes Neural Outcome Representations:
Evidence From Punishment-Based Performance Environments
Ilan Laufer, Dor Mizrahi, Inon Zuckerman, Israel |
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| Trust in
AI Revisited – The Enduring Role of Propensity to Trust
Jona Karg, Janine Jäger, Petra Maria Asprion, Switzerland |
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| Rapid
Judgment in the Age of AI: A Thin-Slice Study of Virtual
Humans to Support Caregivers Sharon Mozgai, Lila Rabinovich, Katie Seymour, Caroline P Nguyen, Sujeet Rao, Todd Keitz, Marco Angrisani, United States |
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Applications in Medicine and Healthcare | IHIET 6 | 2 |
| Wednesday, August 26 | Session Chair(s): Rilwan Olaosun, United Kingdom and Zain Tariq, Qatar | ||
| 12:00 -13:30 (CEST) | Framework
to Support SMEs Transition from Traditional to Connected
Smart Medical Devices: Value Creation Through Data and
Enhanced User Experience Omar Huerta, Dipo Olaosun, Jonathan Biner, Tauqeer Ali Khan, Peter Culmer, United Kingdom |
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| FADA: An
AI-Enabled Healthcare Informatics Platform for Prenatal
Ultrasound Analysis, Clinical Decision Support, and
Automated Reporting Zain Tariq, Mahmood Al Zubaidi, Marco Agus, Mowafa Househ, Qatar |
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| Development of the Rob’Tales methodology to teach
emotional an social skills to autistic adolescents Margot Dumas, Eric Meyer, Sophie Sakka, France |
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| AI Guided
Simulated Annealing for Automated Gene Editing Design Dai Duong Nguyen, Ryan Shaw, Kenneth Y T Lim, Singapore |
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| Human-Centered
Information Design for Toxicological Risk Communication
among Domestic Workers Mariel Garcia-Hernandez, Fabiola Cortes-Chavez, Alberto Rossa-Sierra, Gabriela Duran-Aguilar, Mexico |
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| DAY 1 | Track | Room | |
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Human-Technology and Future of Work | IHIET 7 | 3 |
| Wednesday, August 26 | Session Chair(s): Pedro Agua, Portugal and Francois Gauthier, Canada | ||
| 12:00 -13:30 (CEST) | Systems-of-Systems: Engineering or Construct? Pedro Água, Anacleto Correia, António Gonçalves, Portugal |
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| Prevention
of Collisions Between Mobile Machinery and Pedestrian
Workers: A Review of Proximity Detection Technologies François Gauthier, Damien Burlet-Vienney, Chantal Gauvin, Aida Haghighi, Canada |
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| Human
Factors Challenges in Future Remote Operations for
Electrified Short-Sea Ro-Ro Ferries Yemao Man, Anders Persson, Sweden |
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| Leadership
and The Integration Challenge In Digital Transformation
Of The Architecture, Engineering, Construction, And
Operations (AECO) Sector Katarina Olofsson Hallén, Sweden |
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| Machine
Learning-Based Prediction of Cybersecurity Vulnerability
Severity for Enterprise Security Management Adnan Agbaria, Iyad Suleiman, Israel |
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| Cognitive
training for adults with developmental deficits led by a
socially intelligent robot Andrej Košir, Anja Podlesek, Urban Burnik, Janez Zaletelj, Gaja Gril, Ajda Svetelsek, Slovenia |
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| DAY 2 | |||
| Workshop |
Workshop: Complex Problem Solving: From Ambiguity to Solution Design | IHIET 7 | 1 |
| Thursday, August 27 | Speaker: Dr. Pedro Água, Portugal | ||
| 8:30 - 10:00
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Summary: This interactive 90 min workshop equips participants with practical tools and frameworks to navigate complex, ambiguous challenges with confidence. Unlike simple or purely technical problems, complex problems involve multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, unclear root causes, and unpredictable outcomes. Traditional linear problem-solving approaches often fall short in these situations. By using a brief case study, the participants will engage a two-step framework, which allow them to define, structure and diagnose a complex problem, as well as methodologically design a robust solution based on cause-and-effect approaches. Participants will learn how to distinguish between simple, complicated, and complex problems, and apply a structured five-step approach to tackle real-world challenges. The session covers problem reframing, systems thinking, identifying assumptions, generating hypotheses, and designing small, safe-to-fail experiments. Through case studies, group discussions, and hands-on exercises, participants will practice mapping stakeholder dynamics, uncovering hidden drivers, and avoiding common cognitive traps such as jumping to solutions too quickly. By the end of the workshop, participants will leave with a useful toolkit to approach wicked problems more strategically, align diverse perspectives, and make better decisions in dynamic environments. The workshop is practical, engaging, and immediately applicable to leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and organizational change initiatives. | ||
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Speaker Bio: Pedro Agua. Former Naval Officer, leading departments onboard Naval Vessels. Afterwards had a career in technological industries, at home and abroad. Has been with the Portuguese Naval Academy since 2019, where he teaches defence systems acquisition, project management and negotiation in international context. Has been a national representative for NATO Science and technology, specifically for the field of Systems-of-Systems Concepts. Professor Pedro Agua graduated from the Portuguese Naval Academy with a degree in Naval Military Sciences, and holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering and Management from Lisbon University, where he specialised in Defence Industrial Strategy. He has an Executive MBA from AESE and IESE Business School, and splits his time among teaching, researching and supporting multinational research projects. | ||
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| DAY 2 | Track | Room | |
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Emerging Technologies and Business Applications I | IHIET 7 |
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| Thursday, August 27 | Session Chair(s): Evangelos Sartinas, Greece and Thimo Florian Schindler, Germany | ||
| 10:30 - 11:30 (CEST) | Design, Implementation and Integration of a Mobile
Sensor Platform for On-Site Ship Immission Measurements
Thimo Florian Schindler, Simon Schlicht, Till Büchter, Jan-Hendrik Ohlendorf, Germany |
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| Object Perception Pipeline for Industrial Disassembly:
From 6D Pose to 3D Localization in Automotive Robotics Evangelos Sartinas, Athina Zacharia, Maria Pateraki, Greece |
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| Hydro Digital Twins as Emerging Technologies: An
alluvial mapping of objectives across marine, coastal,
and freshwater applications Letizia Artioli, Pietro Costa, Giovanni Borga, Italy |
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| The Digital Conversion Gap: Why Access Does Not
Guarantee Livelihood Outcomes in Emerging Economies Mohammad Rashed Khan, Neegar Sultana, United Kingdom |
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Validation
of a UAV-Based Digital Twin for VRU Safety in Urban
Environments with Simulations Ioannis Symeonidis, Nikolaos Angelopoulos, Maria Gkemou, Evangelos Bekiaris, Greece |
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| Cross-Border
Insolvency as a Socio-Economic Second-Chance Mechanism
in the European Union Pascal Verbracken, Switzerland |
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| DAY 2 | Track | Room | |
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9 |
Human-centered Design: Health, Safety and User Experience | IHIET 7 | 2 |
| Thursday, August 27 | Session Chair(s): Shih-ping Chiu, Taiwan and Mari Myllylä, Finland | ||
| 10:30 - 11:30 (CEST) | Narrative
as a Cognitive Scaffold for Human-Centered Design
Education:A Case Study of Schema Change in Interaction
Design Students Shih-Ping Chiu, Wen-Huei Chou, Taiwan |
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| Assessment-Before-Intervention:
A WHO iSupport-Grounded Conversational AI System for
Dementia Family Caregiver Support Chor-Kheng Lim, Hsien-Hui Tang, and Chia-Chi Chang, Taiwan |
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| Analyzing
Stress and Perceived Safety in Human-Cobot
Collaboration: The Impact of Task Proximity, Interface
Cues, and System Errors Shraga Shoval, Amir Biton, Yuval Cohen, Israel |
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| Software
Features in Speech Applications for Long-Term User
Adherence: A bibliometric analysis Dijana Plantak Vukovac, Tatjana Novosel-Herceg, Ana Karlica, Croatia |
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| Metascience
of content-based cognitive ergonomics Pertti Saariluoma, Mari Myllylä, Jose Canas, Finland |
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| DAY 2 | Track | Room | |
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10 |
Artificial Intelligence, Computing and Intelligent Design II | IHIET 2 | 3 |
| Thursday, August 27 | Session Chair(s): Tauqeer Ali Khan, United Kingdom and Kem-Laurin Lubin, Canada | ||
| 10:30 - 11:30 (CEST) | A Modular
Edge-to-Cloud Architecture for Remote Monitoring and
Condition-Based Maintenance in Scalp Cooling
Cyber-Physical Systems Tauqeer Ali Khan, Omar Huerta, Dipo Olaosun, Jonathan Biner, Ertu Unver, Peter Culmer, United Kingdom |
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| AI
Collaborative and Active Learning for GIS Course with
School Bus Routing Project Ming-Der May, Taiwan |
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| Governing
Human-AI Interaction in Teams: A Framework for
Preventing Knowledge Loss in Generative AI Adoption Fabio Dos Santos Cardoso, Portugal |
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| Governing
Agentic AI in Enterprise Operations: Architectural
“Rails” for Safe, Deterministic, and Compliant
Autonomous Systems Elizabeth Koumpan, Vimal Dimpi, Canada |
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Human-centered Design: Health and User Experience | IHIET 5 | 1 |
| Thursday, August 27 | Session
Chair(s): Nabil Badr, United States and Tsung Lin
Yang, Taiwan |
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| 12:00 - 13:00 (CEST) | Investigating
Sharing Intentions for Online Public Health Education
Games Tsung Lin Yang, Wenhue Chou, Taiwan |
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| In-depth Understanding of the Life Cycle of Users'
Search Behaviour and their Cognitive Journey when
Installing Apps Adel Alhejaili, James Blustein, Canada |
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| Sociotechnical
Challenges in Remote Patient Monitoring: A Multi
Stakeholder Analysis Nabil Badr, United States |
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| Bridging
Language Diversity through HCI and UX: Enhancing
Usability and Experience in Multilingual Web Interfaces
Anil Gupta, Kajal Pandey, India |
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| Toward
Culturally Sensitive Emotion Estimation through
Multimodal Sensing and Everyday Behavioral Cues Meina Tawaki, Ichi Kanaya, Munenori Koyasu, Keiko Yamamoto, Japan |
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Human-centered Design: Decoding User Preferences | IHIET 1 | 2 |
| Thursday, August 27 | Session Chair(s): Gail Hopkins, United Kingdom and Yuhsin Chen, Taiwan | ||
| 12:00 - 13:00 (CEST) | Developing
an Assistive Mobile Application for Elderly Nepali
Migrants in the UK Prakriti Rai, Gail Hopkins, United Kingdom |
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| Integrated Home Service Robots for Ageing in Place: A
Multi-Stakeholder Perspective on Acceptance and Care
Needs in Taiwan Yuhsin Chen, Wenhue Chou, Taiwan |
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| From Retrieval to Verification: An Agentic Framework
for Rule-Aware Engineering Document Compliance Ka Tai Lau, Man Chit, Jovian Cheung, Lok Him Tse, Pok Man So, Yabing Hou, Hong Kong Sar China |
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| Development
of digital skills for sustainable fashion design
projects: a case study of Portuguese brand Marta Bicho, Teresa Raquel Barata, Rui Miguel, Madalena Pereira, Portugal |
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| Architecting
Digital Educational Escape Rooms: A Framework for
Instructional Orchestration, Role-Based Collaboration,
and AI-Supported Learning Vasiliki Konstantopoulou, Foteini Paraskeva, Greece |
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Human-centered Design: Performance and User Experience | IHIET 5 | 3 |
| Thursday, August 27 | Session
Chair(s): Kei Shimonishi, Japan and Ahmed Farooq,
Finland |
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| 12:00 - 13:00 (CEST) | PathFinder:
Haptic Wrist Guidance for Ambiguous Pedestrian Routes Richa Singh, Mohit Nayak, Ahmed Farooq, Jakub Tkacz, Mounia Ziat, Roope Raisamo, Finland |
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| Analyzing
the Viscoelastic Correspondence Between Facial
Electromyography and Facial Appearance During Smiling Kei Shimonishi, Takuma Kogo, Kazuaki Kondo, Hirotada Ueda, Yuichi Nakamura, Japan |
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| Past and
future human-machine interfaces – a matter of present
concern? Yann Kowalczuk, Jan Holub, Czech Republic |
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| User
Experience Assessment for Smart Products in IoT
Environments: A Systematic Review Agnese Azzola, Venanzio Arquilla, Lucia Rampino, Italy |
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| A
Rule-Based Framework for Ergonomic Lifting Risk
Assessment via Video Analytics Kung-Jeng Wang, Truong Kim Tien, Taiwan |
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| 12:50 - 13:00 • Sessions Break | |||
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Emerging Technologies and Business Applications II | IHIET 7 | 1 |
| Thursday, August 27 | Session
Chair(s): Pascal Verbracken, Switzerland and Mohammad
Rashed Khan, United Kingdom |
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| 13:00 -14:00 (CEST) | Tort-Based
Claims and Legal Divergence in EU Insolvency Systems:
Towards a Framework for Trust and Stability in
Cross-Border Contexts Pascal Verbracken, Switzerland |
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| Teaching
with Passion, Assessing with Reluctance in the Age of
AI: Exploring Educators Experiences of Teaching,
Marking, and Algorithmic Assistance Themba Ndlovu And Hope Iyobosa Izevbigie, Themba Ndlovu, United Kingdom |
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| Governing Human-AI Interaction in Teams: A Framework
for Preventing Knowledge Loss in Generative AI Adoption
Fabio Dos Santos Cardoso, Portugal |
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| Towards Sustainability-Oriented Tourism Marketing:
Insights from Industry 5.0 Paradigm Shifts Mohammad Rashed Khan, Neegar Sultana, United Kingdom |
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| The
Changing Landscape of Occupational Health and Safety in
Mining: Challenges Posed by Emerging Technologies Seyedeh Arezoo Baghaei Naeini, Adel Badri, François Gauthier, Canada |
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IHIET 2026 Optional Social Event | ||
| Thursday, August 27 14:30 -16:00 (CEST) |
IHIET
2026 Social Event (Lunch and Optional Event - Register here) Time and Date: 14:30-16:00, August 27, 2026 Location: BW Premier Collection Venice Address: Rio Terà Lista di Spagna, 166, 30121 Venezia VE, Italy (Google Maps) (Registered Participants Only - Badge or Photo ID Required, Dress is business casual)
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Poster Demonstration Sessions:Wednesday - Thursday, August 26-27 [10:30 - 13:00] |
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| A-1 | Affordance
Detection in Atypical Architectural Spaces Using
Behavior Pattern Recognition Yun Gil Lee, South Korea |
| A-2 | Legislative
Support System to Assist in the Transfer of Skills for
Municipal System Design and Ordinance Drafting Tokuyasu Kakuta, Daichi Saito, Japan |
| A-3 | Circuit-Based
Design of Battery-Free Backscatter Communication Between
Wearable and Implantable Devices Miyu Kodama, Dairoku Muramatsu, Japan |
| A-4 | A
Multimodal, Uncertainty-Aware, and Transparent AI
Grading Tool for Scalable Automated Grading in AI and
Data Science Higher Education Olivia Dias, Cynthia Breazeal, Kantwon Rogers, United States |