The papers listed below have been selected as "Best Papers" based on the reviews of the original submission, the camera-ready version, and the presentation during the conference. For the awarded papers, a digital award will be issued in the name of the authors. The authors of these papers are also receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Awarded Papers

Short- and Long-Term Effects of an Advanced Driving Assistance System on Driving Behavior and Usability Evaluation
Shota Matsubayashi, Kazuhisa Miwa, Takuma Yamaguchi, Tatsuya Suzuki

Remote Shoulder-to-shoulder Communication Enhancing Co-located Sensation
Minghao Cai, Jiro Tanaka

Comparison of Nursing Personnel’s User Experiences of Four Types of Assistive Robots: Challenges Include Knowledge and Safety Issues
Iina Aaltonen, Tuuli Turja, Marketta Niemelä

Usability Evaluation of Augmented Reality as Instructional Tool in Collaborative Assembly Cells
Lea Daling, Anas Abdelrazeq, Max Haberstroh, Frank Hees

The following papers have been selected on the basis of their contents, specificaly for lending themselves to an interesting extended work. The authors of these papers are receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Papers Invited for IARIA Journals

Down the Rabbit Hole: Five Hedonic and Pragmatic Facets of Audience Engagement in Playable Stories
Daniel Echeverri, Huaxin Wei

Immersion as a Strategy to Facilitate Participatory Design Involving People With Intellectual Disabilities and Caretakers as Proxies
Åsmund Dæhlen, Suhas Govind Joshi

Empirical Heatmap Decomposition: A Fresh Look on Gaze Behavior
Saad Mohammed Hasan Al-Baddai, Karema Al-Subari, Elmar Lang, Barbara Ströhl, Bernd Ludwig

Use of Smart Speakers by Elderly in Home Environment
Jeongyun Heo, Wan Chul Yoon

When Bigger is Simply Better After All: Natural and Multi-Modal Interaction with Large Displays Using a Smartwatch
Franca-Alexandra Rupprecht, Carol Naranjo-Valero, Joseph Olakumni, Achim Ebert, Bernd Hamann

Progress Indicators in Web Surveys Reconsidered - A General Progress Algorithm
Thomas Martin Prinz, Raphael Bernhardt, Jan Plötner, Anja Vetterlein

Introducing Augmented Reality-Ready Head-Worn Displays to Support Workers on the Shop Floor of a Car Production Line
Sebastian Felix Rauh, Diep Nguyen, Stephan Bolch, Gerrit Meixner

Line Drawing Perceptual Characteristics for the Number of Strokes Using an Active-Wheel Mouse
Yoshihiko Nomura, Yoshiaki Kashino, Koki Katsuta, Tokuhiro Sugiura

A Virtual Shopping System Based on Room-scale Virtual Reality
Chunmeng Lu, Jiro Tanaka

A Participatory Design “Method Story”: The Case of Patients Living with Mild Acquired Cognitive Impairments
Klaudia Carcani, Harald Holone