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)

Conversational Web Browsing: Voice-Only Navigation
Daniele Farriciello, JingHua Ye

Autonomous Mobile Robot Movement Algorithm with Human Collision Avoidance Perception
Kazuhisa Miwa, Tomoki Osaki, Yuki Ninomiya, Minoru Karasawa, Hitoshi Terai

Memory-Driven Person ReID for Identity Consistency in Multi-Object Tracking
Tista Pal, Trinh Quoc Nguyen, Oky Dicky Ardiansyah Prima

Cortical Activation Patterns During Visual and Vibrotactile Emotion Stimulation: A Comparative fNIRS Study
Lena Schubart, Marie Herz, Susanna Götz, Karsten Huffstadt, Nicholas H. Müller

Comparative Evaluation of Single- and Multi-Marker Pose Estimation for Freehand 3D Ultrasound Reconstruction
Syahid Al Irfan, Oky Dicky Ardiansyah Prima

It Could Literally Change My Life: Exploring the Potential of Conversational Interaction for Indoor Wayfinding Among People with Visual Impairments
Segun J. Samuel, Mohammad Adnaan, Ahmed Farooq, Jeremy R. Cooperstock

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

Is Auditive Communication with ChatGPT an Effective Means of Building Trust Between People and Machines: A Quantitative Study
Marvin Tessitore, Hakan Arda, Nicholas Mueller, Karsten Huffstadt

Impact Analysis of Microinteractions on User Experience in User Interfaces
Karol Łazaruk, Natalia Prażmo, Karolina Rybak, Mariusz Dzieńkowski, Piotr Tokarski, Małgorzata Plechawska-Wójcik

Mapping Vibrotactile Patterns to Emotions: An Experimental Study on Intuitive Tactile Communication
Lisa Frohwieser, Marie Herz, Susanna Götz, Nicholas H. Müller, Karsten Huffstadt

Vision-Based Estimation of PM2.5 from Surveillance Images
Dipti Mitra, Oky Dicky Ardiansyah Prima

Co-Designing A Low-Barrier Digital Platform for Culturally Diverse Communities
Lauren Forbes, Sai Meenakshi Hariharan, Venkat Panchakarla, Venkata Guna Sundhar Grandhe, Siddharth Urankar, Annu Prabhakar

Improving Acceptability of Energy Efficiency Recommender Systems Through HCI Design
Hayet Hammami, Yacine Ghamri-Doudane

Event-Aware Audio Generation for LLM-Driven Storytelling in Extended Reality
Mehmet Karaaslan, Meral Kuyucu, Bora Şenceylan, Gökhan İnce

Function Discoverability and Perceptual Accessibility in Interfaces for Adults Aged 60+: Task-Based UX Study
Julia Manikowska, Julia Samp, Piotr Lukasiak