Awards

Best Paper

Awarded by TPC Chairs based on Reviewers’ assesment (submission rounds combined) to:

”Perceptual Hashing Using Pretrained Vision Transformers” by
Jelle De Geest (Ghent University - imec, IDLab, Belgium); Patrick De Smet and Lucio Bonetto (NICC, Belgium); Peter Lambert, Glenn Van Wallendael and Hannes Mareen (Ghent University - imec, IDLab, Belgium)

“Associations Between Perceived Discomfort, Postural Control Alterations and Disability in People with Multiple Sclerosis Exposed to Immersive Virtual Reality” by
Massimiliano Pau (Università Degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy); Federico Arippa, Micaela Porta, Giulia Casu, Bruno Leban and Eleonora Cocco (University of Cagliari, Italy)

Best Poster

Awarded by Poster Session Chairs to:

”Balancing Act: Leveraging 'PARAMETERS' Serious Game as a Tool for Mastering Game Design in Higher Education“ by
Jens-Martin Loebel (Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, Germany); Jochen Koubek (University of Bayreuth, Germany)

Best Demo

Awarded by attendees’ voting (maximum one vote per attendee) combined with ranking by Demo Chairs to:

”Inviting Motion” by
Wobbe F. Koning (Monmouth University & IdeePIX, USA)

Best Oral Presentation

IEEE GEM 2024 assigned five awards. Criteria for each award type are detailed below. Possible Conflicts of Interest (CoIs) of the General Chair, TPC Chairs and Session Chairs with potential awardees were taken into account.

Awarded by Session Chairs (scoring presentations made in their session) to:

”Towards Reducing Latency Using Beam Search in an Interactive Conversational Speech Agent” by
Nikolas Ott, Robin Horst (presenter), Ralf Dörner (RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Germany)