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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Hybrid conference program schedule is listed in
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| Tuesday, August 25 18:00-22:00 (CEST) |
Conference
Banquet and Reception: 18:30-22:00, Tuesday August 25,
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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Scientific and Technical Sessions
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Scientific
and Technical Sessions: August 26-27, 2025 Location: Università Iuav di Venezia - Terese Address: Dorsoduro, 2206, 30123 Venezia VE, Italy (Google Maps) (Campus map) |
Università Iuav di Venezia - Terese |
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| DAY 1 | Track | Room | |
| Plenary
Session |
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 (CEST) | |||
| 10:00 - 10:30 • Sessions Break | |||
| DAY 1 | Track | Room | |
| Session
2 |
Human-centered Design: AI and User Experience | IHIET 1 | 1 |
| Wednesday, August 26 | Session Chair(s): Haseena Alkatheeri, United Arab Emirates and Liting Huang, Taiwan | ||
| 10:30 - 11:30 (CEST) | Three
Modes of Generative AI in UX Research: A Case-Based
Analysis of an Emerging Methodological Shift Liting Huang, Taiwan |
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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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| Optimising
User Experience through Heuristic Evaluation and a
Qualitative Usability Study of a Smart Building
Ecosystem 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
3 |
Artificial Intelligence, Computing and Intelligent Design I | IHIET 2 | 2 |
| Wednesday, August 26 | Session
Chair(s): Jialong Lai, United States and Gustavo
Afonso Novak, France |
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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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| 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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| Governing
Agentic AI in Enterprise Operations: Architectural
“Rails” for Safe, Deterministic, and Compliant
Autonomous Systems Elizabeth Koumpan, Vimal Dimpi, Canada |
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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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| Explainability
and Explainable AI as Critical Future Research
Directions for Foundation Models and Large Language
Models Akhilesh Das, India |
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| DAY 1 | Track | Room | |
| Session
4 |
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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| 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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| From
Virtual to Reality: Behavioural Effects of 3D
Interaction in Virtual Reality Learning Environments Shenbagam Jaisankar, India |
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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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| 11:30 - 12:00 • Sessions Break | |||
| DAY 1 | Track | Room | |
| Session
5 |
Human–computer Interaction: Artificial Intelligence Applications | IHIET 5 | 1 |
| Wednesday, August 26 | Session Chair(s): Hiroko Kanoh, Japan and Jona Karg, Switzerland | ||
| 12:00 -13:00 (CEST) | AI-Supported
Mind Mapping for Collaborative Discussion: An
Exploratory Qualitative Classroom Study Using Personary
Hiroko Kanoh, Japan |
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| Propensity
Still Matters – A Replication Study on Trust in
Artificial Intelligence in Business Context Jona Karg, Janine Jäger, Petra Maria Asprion, Switzerland |
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| Shaping
Trustworthy Generative AI: Ethical Principles and
Governance Frameworks Akhilesh Das, Aditi Priyadarshini, India |
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| AI as
Social Support: How Real-World Support and Well-Being
Shape User Reliance on Conversational AI Jessy Wang-Sun, Estelle Yiyuan Sun, Hualin Zhang, United States |
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| Human-AI
Role Allocation in Design Thinking: Contributions to
Initiation, Elaboration, and Decision-Making Isabel Rodenas, Patrick Rupprecht, Austria |
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| Generative
AI as an Interaction Medium for Inhabiting Futures Liting Huang, Taiwan |
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| DAY 1 | Track | Room | |
| Session
6 |
Applications in Medicine and Healthcare | IHIET 6 | 2 |
| Wednesday, August 26 | Session Chair(s): Mariel Garcia-hernandez, Mexico and Ryan Shaw, Singapore | ||
| 12:00 -13:00 (CEST) | 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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| Development
of the Rob’Tales methodology to teach emotional skills
to autistic adolescents enrolled in medical and
educational establishments Margot Dumas, Eric Meyer, Sophie Sakka, France |
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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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| DeBERTa-V3
with CRF for Clinical Entity Recognition in Long
Documents Lalith Kiran Molleti, Shashi Shekar S, Sai Ram Molleti, Bharath Potla, Sujoy Kar, Hemangi Santosh Sawant, India |
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| Framework
to Support SMEs Transition from Traditional to Connected
Smart Medical Devices: Value Creation Through Data and
Enhanced User Experience Omar Huerta, Dipo Olaosun, Joanthan Biner, Tauqeer Ali Khan, Peter Culmer, United Kingdom |
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| DAY 1 | Track | Room | |
| Session
7 |
Human-Technology and Future of Work | IHIET 7 | 3 |
| Wednesday, August 26 | Session Chair(s): Yemao Man, Sweden and Francois Gauthier, Canada | ||
| 12:00 -13:00 (CEST) | 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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| 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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| 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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| Machine
Learning-Based Prediction of Cybersecurity Vulnerability
Severity for Enterprise Security Management Adnan Agbaria, Iyad Suleiman, Israel |
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| DAY 2 | Track | Room | |
| Session
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Management, Training and Business Applications | IHIET 9 | 1 |
| Thursday, August 27 | Session Chair(s): Pascal Verbracken, Switzerland and Shubashini Velu, Saudi Arabia | ||
| 9:00 - 10:00 (CEST) | Cross-Border
Insolvency as a Socio-Economic Second-Chance Mechanism
in the European Union Pascal Verbracken, Switzerland |
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| Strengthening
Cybersecurity and Digital Payment
Literacy for Swiss SMEs Expanding into South
Africa: A
Train-the-Trainer Approach Franka Ebob Ebai, Petra Maria Asprion, Mosupye-Semenya Lebogang, Ntswaki Matlala, Sergi Gubin, Switzerland |
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| Adaptive
Scaffolding in Digital Learning: Self-Regulated Learning
through the AMO Framework Shubashini Velu, Ishraat Wahid, Saudi Arabia |
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| Theoretical
Analyses of AI Governance and Public Policy Frameworks
Grounded in Local Knowledge and Institutional Context Akhilesh Das, India |
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| DAY 2 | Track | Room | |
| Session
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Human-centered Design: Health, Safety and User Experience | IHIET 1 | 2 |
| Thursday, August 27 | Session Chair(s): Shih-ping Chiu, Taiwan and Mari Myllylä, Finland | ||
| 9:00 - 10:00 (CEST) | Metascience
of content-based cognitive ergonomics Pertti Saariluoma, Mari Myllylä, Jose Canas, Finland |
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| Narrative
as a Cognitive Scaffold for Human-Centered Design
Education: A Case Study of Schema Transformation 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, 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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| Developing
an Assistive Mobile Application for Elderly Nepali
Migrants in the UK Prakriti Rai, Gail Hopkins, United Kingdom |
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| DAY 2 | Track | Room | |
| Session
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 | ||
| 9:00 - 10:00 (CEST) | Who the
Machine Says You Are: Algorithmic Ethopoeia and the
Rhetorical Construction of the Human Kem-Laurin Lubin, Canada |
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| A Modular
Edge-to-Cloud Architecture for Real Time Monitoring and
Condition-Based Maintenance in Scalp Cooling
Cyber-Physical Systems Tauqeer Ali Khan, Omar Huerta, Joanthan Biner, Dipo Olaosun, Ertu Unver, Peter Culmer, United Kingdom |
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| NanoQuant-Track:
An Open-Source Toolkit for Multi-Class Telemetry,
Spatial Calibration, and Kinematic Tracking in Automated
Work Environments Salah Elshourbagy, Egypt |
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| Computational
Platform to Support Experimentation and Innovation in
Industry 4.0 through the Integration of Digital Twins
and Artificial Intelligence João Pedro Fusco, Brazil |
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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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| 10:00 - 10:30 • Sessions Break | |||
| DAY 2 | Track | Room | |
| Session
11 |
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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| 10:30 - 11:30 (CEST) | Investigating
Sharing Intentions for Online Public Health Education
Games Tsung Lin Yang, Wenhue Chou, Taiwan |
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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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| 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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| DAY 2 | Track | Room | |
| Session
12 |
Workshop: Systems-of-Systems: Engineering or Construct? | IHIET 10 | 2 |
| Thursday, August 27 | Session
Chair(s): Pedro Água, Anacleto Correia, António
Gonçalves, Portugal |
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| 10:30 - 11:30 (CEST) | Systems-of-Systems:
Engineering or Construct? Pedro Água, Anacleto Correia, António Gonçalves, Portugal |
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| DAY 2 | Track | Room | |
| Session
13 |
Human-centered Design: Decoding User Preferences | IHIET 1 | 3 |
| Thursday, August 27 | Session Chair(s): Andry Rakotonirainy, Australia and Foteini Paraskeva, Greece | ||
| 10:30 - 11:30 (CEST) | 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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| Navigating
Stress and Perceived Safety in Human-Cobot
Collaboration: The Impact of Task Proximity, Interface
Cues, and System Errors Shraga Shoval, Israel |
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| Explainability
in Automated Driving: From Spatial Attention to
Human-Centred Reasoning Andry Rakotonirainy, Australia |
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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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| Beyond
Digitalization: Why Whole-of-Government Coordination
Determines Citizen Satisfaction in the Age of Digital
Public Services Chi Thuy Nguyen, Vietnam |
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| 11:30 - 12:00 • Sessions Break | |||
| DAY 2 | Track | Room | |
| Session
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Human-centered Design: Performance and User Experience | IHIET 5 | 1 |
| 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 Methods for Smart Products: 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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| Session
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Emerging Technologies and Business Applications I | IHIET 7 | 2 |
| Thursday, August 27 | Session Chair(s): Evangelos Sartinas, Greece and Thimo Florian Schindler, Germany | ||
| 12:00 -13:00 (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: Emerging Technologies for Blue Governance
and Data- Centric Objectives Letizia Artioli, Giovanni Borga, Federica D'Acunto, Filippo Iodice, Italy |
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| Three
Modalities, One Experience: A Case Study of DdDd Liting Huang, Taiwan |
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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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| Beyond
Automation: Why Organisations Must Educate HR
Professionals on AI to Unlock Strategic Human Management
Moshood Elusope, Nigeria |
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| DAY 2 | Track | Room | |
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Emerging Technologies and Business Applications II | IHIET 7 | 3 |
| Thursday, August 27 | Session Chair(s): Mohammad Rashed Khan, United Kingdom and Pascal Verbracken, Switzerland | ||
| 12:00 -13:00 (CEST) | Towards
Sustainability-Oriented Tourism Marketing: Insights from
Industry 5.0 Paradigm Shifts Mohammad Rashed Khan, Neegar Sultana, United Kingdom |
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| 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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| Trust by
design: The role of data sovereignty in digital
ecosystems Barbara Eisenbart, Petra Maria Asprion, Switzerland |
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| A
Mechanism for the Transformation and Sustainable
Development of Small Logistics Enterprises in the
Digital Economy Dildor Shadibekova, Uzbekistan |
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| Productivity
Analysis of Poultry Processing Plant Using Throughput
Effectiveness and Total Quality Management Christian Jay Uayan, Klint Allen Marinas, Philippines |
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| An Ad Hoc
Real-Time Digital Twin for VRU Safety in Urban
Environments Ioannis Symeonidis, Evangelos Bekiaris, Greece |
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| Conference Social Event Thursday, August 27 |
Optional Special Event Lunch and Social Event: 13:00-16:00, Thursday, August 27. Venice International Film Festival 2026:81st Venice International Film Festival  |
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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 |
| A-5 | EuroNur
in the formation of
the pacific transport corridor Zhaken Kuanyshbayev, Kazakhstan |