2nd Edition ISIM: Interaction and Storytelling with(in) Immersive Media (ISIM)  

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The future of media experiences poses a series of thrilling challenges, but the appearance of novel technologies, formats and mediums brings a new wave of opportunities to reimagine content (co-)creation, hybridization, distribution, interaction and engagement possibilities.  

While opportunities are endless, the 2nd edition of “Interaction and Storytelling with(in) Immersive Media (ISIM)” Workshop aims to explore and discuss the potential and implications of integrating emerging immersive media technologies and formats (e.g., Point Clouds, light field, 3D Gaussian Splatting, spatial audio, multi-sensory stimuli…), potentially assisted with Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques, to enable new avenues for evocative consumption experiences and increased engagement. In particular, the primary focus will be on exploring and ideating new multimodal interaction and storytelling possibilities with and within immersive media environments, so as to maximize the potential benefits and revenues. 

Under the umbrella of cross-fertilization actions between key EU projects in this area, ISIM aims at bringing together worldwide enthusiastic academia and industry players, as well as end users and stakeholders, to discuss ideas, challenges, and opportunities in this domain, with a key focus on the added value to the consumers, and thus indirectly to industry players in this domain (content creators, content service providers, manufacturers, technologists…) and thus to the worldwide society. 

ISIM 2025 builds upon a very successful edition in 2024, which gathered around 40 participants, 7 papers’ presentations and 6 projects’ presentations (2 of them shared with Video4IMX workshop): https://transmixr.eu/isim-workshop/  

Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 

  • Content (co-)creation tools
  • Content format optimization techniques
  • Content production tools
  • Content blending strategies
  • Content sharing, search, and discovery (by e.g. using online repositories)
  • AI-assisted content creation and processing
  • Multi-sensory stimuli (spatial audio, textual information, haptics, scents…)
  • Multimodal interaction with(in) immersive media
  • Orchestration and adaptation to target consumption platforms and devices
  • End-to-end workflows
  • Storytelling approaches
  • Accessibility and inclusivity
  • Scenarios and use cases
  • Deployment and adoptability implications and barriers
  • Evaluation methodologies
  • Standardization activities within such topics
  • New provoking ideas and visions
  • Market opportunities and business models

Workshop Format

ISIM will be a full-day on-site event on June 3rd 2025, co-located with ACM IMX 2025. However, online presentations can be in addition accommodated (clustered in an online slot), if interest by potential contributors.  

The workshop agenda will be shared upon having the papers’ review process, but it is expect to include:

(i) a keynote speaker;

(ii) enlightening visionary talks by collaborative R&I projects and initiatives;

(iii) 15-min presentation slots for long papers, reporting on impactful results / insights;

(iv) 8-min presentation slots for long papers, reporting on early results and novel ideas;

(v) a brainstorming & panel discussion; and

(vi) a wrap-up slot summarizing insights and lessons learned, and planning next steps 

Submission Information

Type(s) of submissions/contributions

  • Long papers (4-6 pages, excluding references). Oral presentation (15min). 
  • Short papers (2-3 pages, excluding references). Oral presentation (8min). 
  • Papers need to be submitted using double-column ACM template 

Submission URL: https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?society=sigchi (there authors have to choose IMX2025 and then the corresponding track/workshop ISIM) 

[Demos will be welcome, but must be accompanied with a paper submission]

Important Dates

  • Submission Deadline: March 10th, 2025 April 8th, 2025 
  • Acceptance Notification: April 21st, 2025 
  • Camera Ready Version: April 28th, 2025 
  • Workshop: June 3rd, 2025 

Proceedings 

Workshop proceedings will be published in the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC) Open Library – SOL 

Program

9:00 – 9:15. Welcome and Overall Presentations

9:15 – 10:15. Keynote Talk, by Jesús Gutiérrez (UPM)

Title: “Evaluating (quality of) user experiences with immersive technologies”

Abstract: The emergence of immersive media technologies is providing to the users new interactive experiences, which allow a more natural and complete exploration of the represented content in comparison with previous audiovisual technologies. These innovative solutions entail novel perceptual and technical factors that should be extensively studied to support an adequate and inclusive development of technology so it meets the expectations and demands of all users. In this sense, this talk provides an overview on the evaluation of the quality of user experiences with immersive technologies, primarily by subjective tests. Specifically, a set of examples will be presented, covering the evaluation of different use cases of immersive technologies with different levels of interaction (e.g., 360-degree video, virtual reality, immersive communications, etc.).

Bio: Jesús Gutiérrez is an Associate Professor at the Grupo de Tratamiento de Imágenes (GTI, Image Processing Group) of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain. He received the Telecommunication Engineering degree from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain) in 2008, the master’s degree in Communications Technologies and Systems in 2011, and the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunication in 2016, both from the UPM. From 2016 to 2019 he was a Marie Curie post-doctoral researcher at the Image, Perception and Interaction (IPI) group of the Université de Nantes (France). From 2020 to 2022 he was a Juan de la Cierva post-doctoral researcher at GTI of the UPM and then he served as Assistant Professor until 2024. His research interests are in the area of image and video processing, evaluation of user quality of experience, immersive media technologies, and visual attention and human perception. Currently, he is the chair of Immersive Media Group (IMG) of the Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG).

10.15 – 11.15. Foundations and Technologies for Immersive Storytelling (I)

  • Elias Blanckaert, Fariba Mostajeran, Louise Hallström, Iris Jennes, “Methodological Reflections on Early-Stage Requirement Gathering and Prioritization For Immersive Extended Reality Applications”
  • Jónatas, D. F., Roque, Pedro, A. F. S., Almeida, Telmo, E. M. C., Silva, Ana, S., Velhinho, Mariana, R. O., Alves, “Personalized story-viewing experiences on the Polariscope platform”
  • Andrew Duchowski, Patricia Araujo Vieira, Italo Alves Pinto de Assis, Krzysztof Krejtz, Chris J Hughes, Pilar Orero, “Interactive Storytelling with Gaze-Responsive Subtitles”

11.15- 11.30. Break

11.30 – 12.30. Foundations and Technologies for Immersive Storytelling (II)

  • Álvaro Egea Benavente, Marc Martos Cabre, Javier Montesa, Francisco Ibáñez, Sergi Fernández, Mario Montagud, “Social eXtended Reality (XR) and Virtual Production: Crafting New Frontiers in Immersive Storytelling”
  • Anderson Augusto Simiscuka, Gianluca Fadda, Vlad Popescu, Maurizio Murroni, Gabriel Muntean, “Immersive Live Concert: A Multi-Sensory Experience Based on  Real-Time Lyrics Detection from Spatial Audio Data”
  • Philipp Haslbauer, Mike Pullen, Matej Praprotnik, Sabrina Povsic Stimec, Marie Hospital, Alexandre Grosbois, Carolin Reichherzer, Aljosa Smolic, “VRPlanica: Gaussian Splatting Workflows for Immersive Storytelling”

12.30-14. Lunch

14.00 -15.00. Use Case Studies for Immersive Storytelling

  • Arno Verhofstadt, Louise Hallström, Wendy Van den Broeck, Carolin Reichherzer, Aljosa Smoli, “Exploring user feedback in VR: the added value of qualitative evaluation methods”
  • Nicusor Amarie, Gianluca Fadda, Vlad Popescu, Jean Ghenta, Maurizio Murroni, Anderson Augusto Simiscuka, “Live Feedback for Immersive Music Performances – A Case Study”
  • Bryan Dunphy, Eoghan Paul Hynes, Conor Keighrey, Grace Dinan, Gareth W. Young V-SENSE, Colm O’Fearghail, Marie Hospital, Niall Murray, “Integrating XR for Live Broadcasting Workflows: An Industry Perspective”

15.00 – 15.45. Emerging Formats and Strategies for Immersive Storytelling (Video4IMX Track)

  • Lagiokapa Eleftheria, Loupas Georgios, Makrina Viola Kosti, Nefeli Valeria Georgakopoulou, Sotiris Diplaris, Stefanos Vrochidis, Distilling Gaming Strategy through Explainability in Tetris
  • Elissavet Batziou, Nikolaos I. Dourvas, Konstantinos Ioannidis, Sotiris Diplaris, Stefanos Vrochidis, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, “Digital Twin Development for Cultural Heritage Buildings: A Multimodal Approach to Simulating Energy Performance”

15.45 – 16.00. Break

16.00 – 17.00. Discussion & Wrap-up & Closing

Co-Organizers and Projects’ Representatives 

Co-Organizer Entity Project Representative 
Mario Montagud University of Valencia & i2CAT Foundation 6G-XR, EVOLVE, REVOLUTION, HEAT 
Iris Jennes Vrije Universiteit Brussel, imec-SMIT  PRESENCE, TRANSMIXR 
Maurizio Murroni University of Cagliari HEAT 
Sergi Fernández i2CAT Foundation XRECO, PRESENCE