2025
Ayache, J., Laroche, J., Hérissé, M., Jean, P., Hebborn, A.K., Stricker, D. & Bardy, B. G. (2025, October).”Rendering Togetherness: Embodied Social Synchronization in Multi-User VR,” 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), Daejeon, Korea, Republic of, 2025, pp. 696-705.
Ayache, J., Laroche, J., Pistre, C., Caraminot, O., Pla, S., Bieńkiewicz, M., & Bardy, B. G. (2025, May). “Swinging with my heart”: Impact of an aversive stimulation on affective states, social bonding, cardiac activity and individual kinematics during group synchrony. In NeuroFrance 2025, 14-16th May 2025, Montpellier, France.
Azizi, A., Charalambous, P., & Chrysanthou, Y. (2025, March). Demonstrating the effectiveness of combining heuristic and data-driven methods to achieve scalable and adaptive motion styles. In 2025 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) (pp. 711-716). IEEE.
Azizi, A., Charalambous, P., & Chrysanthou, Y. (2025). Multi-modal signal processing for avatar motion adaptation. In 2025 25th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP) (pp. 1–6). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/DSP65409.2025.11075085
Bryson, K., Sutherland, J., Richardson, K. (2025). Five Reality Types: The Embedded Ethicist in VR and Mixed-Reality Platforms. In: Nakamatsu, K., Kountcheva, R., Patnaik, S. (eds) Recent Trends of AI Technologies and Virtual Reality. AIVR 2024. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 432. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-1154-6_9
Grotta, A. & De Lellis, F. (2025). Online Phase Estimation of Human Oscillatory Motion Using Deep Learning. arXiv:2505.02668.
Jaiswal, P., Habtegebrial, T. A., & Stricker, D. (2025). 1D-DiffNPHR: 1D Diffusion Neural Parametric Head Reconstruction using a single image. International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM-2025), February 23-25, Porto, Portugal
Jaiswal, P., & Stricker, D. (2025). HI^2: Sparse-View 3D Object Reconstruction with a Hybrid Implicit Initialization. International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM-2025), February 23-25, Porto, Portugal.
Rogge, M., & Stricker, D. (2025). Object-Centric 2D Gaussian Splatting: Background Removal and Occlusion-Aware Pruning for Compact Object Models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.08174.
2024
Ayache, J., Pistre, C., Jean, P., Hebborn, A. K., Stricker, D., & Bardy, B. (2024, November). Impact of group synchrony, postural stability and agency on cybersickness symptoms. In EuroXR 2024
Azizi, A., Charalambous, P., & Chrysanthou, Y. (2024). Improving Image Reconstruction using Incremental PCA-Embedded Convolutional Variational Auto-Encoder. Computer Science Research Notes – CSRN 3401, WSCG 2024 Proceedings
Becchio C., Pullar K., Scaliti E., Panzeri S. (2024). Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour. Physics of Life Reviews, 51, 442-458.
Bryson, K., Sutherland, J., & Richardson, K. (2024). The Unfaithful Copy: Performed AI ‘Personhood’in Mixed Reality Platforms. In Proceedings of EuroXR 2024/International Conference.
Coraggio, M., & di Bernardo, M. (2024, July). Data-driven design of complex network structures to promote synchronization. In 2024 American Control Conference (ACC) (pp. 4396-4401). IEEE.
De Lellis, F., Coraggio, M., Russo, G., Musolesi, M., & di Bernardo, M. (2024). Guaranteeing Control Requirements via Reward Shaping in Reinforcement Learning. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.
De Lellis, F., Coraggio, M., Foster, N. C., Villa, R., Becchio, C., & di Bernardo, M. (2024). Data-driven architecture to encode information in the kinematics of robots and artificial avatars. IEEE Control Systems Letters.
Grotta, A., Coraggio, M., Spallone, A., De Lellis, F., & di Bernardo, M. (2024). Learning-based cognitive architecture for enhancing coordination in human groups. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 58(30), 37-42.
Montobbio, N., Zingarelli, E., Folesani, F., Memeo, M., Croce, E., Cavallo, A., … & Becchio, C. (2024). Action prediction in psychosis. Schizophrenia, 10(1), 8.
Taetz B, Lorenz M, Miezal M et al. JointTracker: Real-time inertial kinematic chain tracking with joint position estimation [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]. Open Res Europe 2024, 4:33 (https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.16939.1)
2023
Ayache, J., Bieńkiewicz, M., Richardson, K., & Bardy, B. (2023). eXtended Reality of socio-motor interactions: Current Trends and Ethical Considerations for Mixed Reality Environments Design. In International Cconference on Multimodal Interaction (pp. 154-158).
De Lellis, F., Coraggio, M., Russo, G., Musolesi, M., & di Bernardo, M. (2023, June). CT-DQN: Control-Tutored Deep Reinforcement Learning. In Learning for Dynamics and Control Conference (pp. 941-953). PMLR.
Giusti, A., Coraggio, M., & di Bernardo, M. (2023). Local convergence of multi-agent systems towards rigid lattices. IEEE Control Systems Letters.
Giusti, A., Maffettone, G. C., Fiore, D., Coraggio, M., & di Bernardo, M. (2023). Distributed control for geometric pattern formation of large-scale multirobot systems. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 10, 1219931.
Maffettone, G. C., Porfiri, M., & di Bernardo, M. (2023). Continuification control of large-scale multiagent systems under limited sensing and structural perturbations. IEEE Control Systems Letters.
Scaliti, E., Pullar, K., Borghini, G., Cavallo, A., Panzeri, S., & Becchio, C. (2023). Kinematic priming of action predictions. Current Biology.
Good Enough Ethics
Ethics by Design: A Roadmap for Good Enough Ethics (GEE). Kathleen Richardson, Jessica Sutherland & Kathleen Bryson
This policy brief has been formulated by the researchers from deMontfort University through their Ethics By Design research within the SHARESPACE project.
Master Thesis
Görzen, J. (2023). Me, My Avatar, and I – ethical reflection on “SHARESPACE – Embodied Social Experiences in Hybrid Shared Spaces”. Master thesis, Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität (Only in German)
Talks
Newsletter
Newsletter #1, July 2023
Newsletter #2, February 2024
Newsletter #3, May 2025
Newsletter #4, November 2025
Conference
Poster for the Brain-Body Interactions Conference held at the Paris Brain Institute / ICM (March 5- 6, 2024). : Ayache, J., Smykovskyi, A., Caraminot, O., Pla, S., Bienkiewicz, M., Bardy, B.G., (2024), Does pain disrupt group dynamics? Impact of an unpleasant stimulation on group synchronization and its affective and affiliative consequences.
Ayache, J., Laroche, J., Pistre, C., Pla, S., Bieńkiewicz, M., & Bardy, B. G. (2025, March). Peeling the dynamical layers of the interacting self: impact of aversive electrodermal stimulations on the affective, physiological and motor components of social interactions. In The sense of self: One body, multiple mechanisms.
Ayache, J., Pistre, C., Jean, P., Hebborn, A. K., Stricker, D., & Bardy, B. (2024, November). Impact of group synchrony, postural stability and agency on cybersickness symptoms. In EuroXR 2024.
Laroche, J. Ayache, J., Coraggio, M., Di Porzio, A., De Lellis, F., Hebborn, A.K., Panayiotou, A., Pepin, L., Charalambous, P., Stricker, D., Di Bernardo, M., Bardy, B.G. (2025, July). The Hive Body – moving and feeling together in physical and digital spaces with human and artificial partners. In JAM X, Torino, Italia
