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 (also Invited for IARIA Journals)

Measuring Usability and User Experience with Eye-Tracking: Predicting Pragmatic and Hedonic Quality using Machine Learning
Fabian Engl, Timur Ezer, Juergen Mottok

Empowered or Exposed? The Tension Between Human Agency and Gen-AI Automation in Creative Industries
Laura Hesse, Paul Muschiol, Reinhard Kunz

Exploring Human-AI Collaboration in Creative Workflows: A Case Study on Acceptance and Efficiency in Brand Design
Katerina Vavatsi, Paul Heß, Stephan Böhm

Evaluating AI Editing Algorithms for Video News Reporting
Caspian J. Moosburner, Dennis Quandt, Matthias Kowald, Wolfgang Ruppel, Till Dannewald, Matthias Narroschke

From Metadata to Meaning: GPT-4 Reveals Bias Trends in YouTube
Nitin Agarwal

Grounding on Shaky Ground: Wikipedia’s Legal Articles, Editorial Integrity, and the Risk of Data Poisoning in Artificial Intelligence
Matthias Harter

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

Deepfake Music and Listener Sentiments: A Large-Scale Analysis of YouTube Comments.
Francisco Tigre Moura, Visieu Lac
 
CNNs in Musical Performance and Arrangement: Recognizing and Managing Bowed Instrument Techniques Across Cultures
Xinyuan Zhu, Clement Leung

LLM-based Few-shot Action System for NPCs in Virtual Reality Games
Fan Wang, Wen Zhou, Rongze Gui, Jinqiao Li, Radoslaw Malicki, Andrey Staroseltsev
 
Empowering Persona Creation in Small Organizations: Evaluating ChatGPT 4o for Clustering and Analysis using PersonaCraft
Jefferson Lewis Velasco, Melise Peruchini, Gustavo Modena, Julio Monteiro Teixeira

A Novel Synthetic Dataset for Broadcast Motorsports Scene Understanding
Luca Francesco Rossi, Andrea Sanna, Federico Manuri, Mattia Donna Bianco

The Future of Learning as a Path to Meaning: AI-Enhanced Immersive Foresight for Purpose Discovery
Iuliana Adina Apostol, Normen Schack

Evaluating Diffusion-Based Image Generation for Easy Language Accessibility
Christoph Johannes Weber, Dominik Beyer, Sylvia Rothe
 
Between Efficiency and Inspiration: Artificial Intelligence as a Creative Actor in the German Film Industry
Anna-Mishale Ilovar, Reinhard E. Kunz, Castulus Kolo