Hosted at Oxford Brookes University’s Simulation Lab, our Marston Campus venue will enable scholars and artists to share any examples of immersive experiences created for single VR wearable users to an entire room of delegates - onsite or via hybrid online presentation. We are seeking interdisciplinary submissions that push and question the boundaries of immersive technologies within the wide remit of STEAM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math), with a focus on global storytelling. 

We particularly welcome submissions that engage with immersive technologies as infrastructure, method, pedagogy, and knowledge exchange, and that test how XR can be made legible and collaborative beyond the single-headset experience. We invite scholars and postgraduate students to propose talks, presentations, and immersive experiences around, but not limited to, the following topics: 

• AR/VR/Mixed reality devices, interaction and rendering

• Multimodal display technologies (e.g., visual display, 3D spatial sound, virtual smell, force-feedback display)

• Haptic technologies

• Tracking & context-aware technologies (e.g., motion capture, IoT, wearables)

• Intelligent technology (e.g., ML, AI)

• Design approaches and techniques (e.g., user-centered design, activity-centered design, etc.)

• Openness, Transparency and Reproducibility

• Representation and behavioural fidelity

• Digital humans and avatars

• Content and stimuli design

• Interactivity

• Robustness and reliability

• Personalisation and customisation

• Digital Wellbeing and Therapeutics