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TWO PAPERS ACCEPTED AT GRIVAPP 2025
Our two Master of Science in Engineering: Game Engineering students from BTH, partly funded within the HINTS profile, reworked their thesis into publications, and both have been accepted to GRIVAPP:
- N. Ångnell, P. Goswami, V. Sunsdtedt, V., and Y. Hu, Pinch Joints: Real-time Simulation of 2D Cable Pinching, accepted to GRIVAPP 2026.
- F. Svensson, V. Sundstedt, Y. Hu, and A. Rossholm, Perceptual Evaluation of Physically-Based Sound Propagation in Virtual Environments, accepted to GRIVAPP 2026. (in collaboration with Spotify)
ICAT-EGVE 2025 AT BTH
From the 3rd to the 5th of December 2025, the Department of Computer Science (DIDA) at Blekinge Institute of Technology hosted ICAT-EGVE 2025, the joint 35th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence & the 30th Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments. At the conference, we had five paper sessions and one poster/demo session. We had also three invited keynote speakers, which were: Prof. Johanna Pirker, Technical University of Munich / Graz University of Technology (TUG) – Beyond Reality: Data and AI in the Future of Games and VR, Prof. Aljosa Smolic, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – AI-based Volumetric Content Creation for Immersive XR Experiences and Production Workflows, and Prof. Jonas Unger, Linköping University – Pixels and Probabilities: Fusing AI, Computer Graphics and Visualization. ICAT-EGVE is organized with the support and cooperation of
- European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics)
- The Virtual Reality Society of Japan (VRSJ)
- Department of Computer Science (DIDA), Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH)
- Human-Centered Intelligent Realities [HINTS] Profile Research Project
- Virtual Production Studio Lab – Infrastructure for research, education and collaboration [VPSL]
HINTS LABORATORY VISIT
Today, the HINTS Laboratory hosted guests from the 2025 Development conference on Sweden’s engineering education programs. The visitors got to test AR, VR, and eye tracking research in the research environment. Yesterday, 30 participants from the DIM network (engineering programs in Computer Science, IT, and Media Technology) in Sweden also visited the lab.
DIEGO NAVARRO’S PUBLIC DEFENCE OF A DOCTORAL THESIS
You are welcome to attend Diego Navarro’s public defence of a doctoral thesis at the Department of Computer Science, Blekinge Institute of Technology
Time: 10th of December 2025, at 09:00
Place: J1630, Campus Karlskrona
Zoom: https://bth.zoom.us/j/66702337856?pwd=NQ3bnbXlQGt2yksdZMCyncJHKE9qvK.1
Meeting ID: 667 0233 7856
Passcode: Please contact vsu@bth.se to receive the passcode for the meeting
Thesis title: Psychophysiological Interaction: Symbiosis Between Players and Video Games
The thesis and abstract available at:
https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-28823
Research education subject: Computer Science
Examiner and main supervisor: Prof. Veronica Sundstedt, BTH
Supervisor: Dr. Valeria Garro, BTH, Prof. Niklas Lavesson, BTH, Prof. Hans-Jürgen Zepernick, BTH
Opponent: Dr. J. Matias Kivikangas, Aalto University, Finland
Members of the grading committee: Prof. Ana Isabel Veloso, University of Aveiro, Portugal, Dr. Mikael Heron, University of Gothenburg, Prof. Christer Åhlund, Luleå University of Technology
Substitute: Associate Professor Deepika Badampudi, BTH
Press Contacts
Veronica Sundstedt, Project Leader
Valeria Garro, Website Content
Anna Zieris, HINTS Administrator
For additional project information, please contact: hints@bth.se