IHIET-AI 2026 Scientific Program
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Universitat Politècnica
de València (IHIET-AI at Edificio 8E Campus Map) Valencia Historic City Center Las Arenas Balneario
Hotel in Valencia |
| The Preliminary Program (technical sessions and rooms) are subject to change. If you have an update to your presentation title or co-authors, please contact Conference Administration with a detailed message at admin@ihiet-ai.org |
| For inclusion in the conference proceedings, publication and Final Program, a unique registration of at least one author or co-author per poster is required. |
| ⓘ Hybrid conference program schedule is listed in Central European Standard Time (CET) - Valencia, Spain Timezone |
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FULL CONFERENCE SCHEDULE |
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| Thursday, April 23, 2026 | Friday, April 24, 2026 | Saturday, April 25, 2026 |
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| 11:00-13:00
Registration Desk |
8:30-12:00
Registration Desk |
8:30-12:00
Registration Desk |
| 19:00-22:00 Conference Reception Las Arenas Balneario Hotel and Resort (Registered Participants - Photo ID Required, Dress is Business Casual) (Request Extra Tickets Here) |
9:00-13:30 (CET)Day 1: Technical Session |
9:00-13:30 (CET)Day 2: Technical Sessions |
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10:00-13:30 Poster Sessions |
10:00-13:30 Poster Sessions |
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| ⓘ Hybrid conference program schedule is listed in Central European Standard Time (CET) - Valencia, Spain Timezone |
IHIET-AI 2025 Scientific and Technical Program |
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| Thursday, April 23, 2026 | Conference Reception and Banquet | ||
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IHIET-AI
2026 Conference Reception Time and Date: 19:00-22:00, April 23, 2026 (Registered participants only, dress is business casual) Location: Las Arenas Balneario Hotel
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IHIET-AI 2026 Scientific and Technical Program |
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IHIET-AI
2026 International Conference Technical Sessions: April 24-25, 2026 Location: Universitat Politècnica de València Edificio 8E, Institute for Energy Engineering (IIE) Address: Camino de Vera s/n Edificio 8E, Acceso A, 3º, Av. dels Tarongers, 46022 Valencia, Spain (Google Maps) |
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| DAY 1 |
Track | Room | |
| Opening Session | Opening Session and Plenary Speech | All | Auditorium |
| Friday, April 24 | Session Chairs: Adrián Morales Casas, Spain and Tareq Ahram, USA | ||
| 9:00 - 10:00 CET | IHIET-AI
2026 Scientific and Technical Sessions: Universitat Politècnica de València |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 • Sessions Break | |||
| DAY 1 |
Track | Room | |
| SIG SESSION 1 | Human Agent Teaming (HAT): Cases from the
Workplace, Sport and Art |
IHIET 4 | Auditorium |
| Friday, April 24 | Session Chairs: Alexandre Marois and Sébastien Tremblay, Canada | ||
| 10:30 - 12:00 CET | Human-Automation
Teaming and Gaze-based Adaptiveness in Security
Surveillance: A User-Centered Story Alexandre Marois, Ian Dauphinee, Cindy Chamberland, Daniel Lafond, Sebastien Tremblay, Canada |
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| Human-Agent
Co-Learning and Co-Evolution in Safety-Critical
Environments Jonay Ramon Alaman, Coralie Bureau, Daniel Lafond, Sebastien Tremblay, Canada |
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| When Time
Disappears: Uncovering Stress in an Analog Underground
Mission Raphaëlle Giguère, Caroline Rhéaume, Christian Clot, Marion Trousselard, Victor Niaussat, Marie-pierre Gagnon, Maxime Sasseville, Alexandre Marois, Canada |
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| A Museum
Agent based on Emotional Responses to Works of Art Adele Gallant, Emile Bergeron, Marzieh Zare, Valentin Perichon, Cindy Chamberland, Jean-francois Lalonde, Sebastien Tremblay, Canada |
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| Human
Autonomy Teaming and AI Metacognition in Maritime Threat
Assessment Kathryn Schulze, Adele Gallant, Tanya S Paul, Cindy Chamberland, Daniel Lafond, Sebastien Tremblay, Heather Neyedli, Canada |
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| Validating
Stress Induction for Spaceflight Scenarios: A
Manipulation Check Across Acute Stressor Types in
Simulated Task Environments Jeanne Nicole, Raphaëlle Giguère, Danielle Benesch, Cindy Chamberland, Tanya S Paul, Denis Ouellet, Alexandre Marois, Sebastien Tremblay, Canada |
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| Adaptive
Autonomy in the Air Force: Testbed for Human-AI
Collaboration Tanya S Paul, Colin Durrmeyer, James P Bliss, Vincent Ferrari, Daniel Lafond, France |
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| DAY 1 |
Track | Room | |
| SESSION 2 | Human-centered Design | IHIET
1 |
RM 2 - Valencia |
| Friday, April 24 | Session Chair(s): Pavlo Bazilinskyy, Netherlands and Jan Holub, Czech Republic | ||
| 10:30 - 12:00 CET | Teaching
Multimodal Interaction in Cars to First-time Users Thomas Marinissen, Jonas Glimmann, Pavlo Bazilinskyy, Netherlands |
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| On
Immersivity of Transmitted Spatial Sounds for
Human-Machine Interaction Jan Holub, Jakub Turinsky, Czech Republic |
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| Human-Centered
optimization through Digital Twins, and Motion Capture
Technologies of a manual activity in the logistics
sector Manuela Vargas, Valerio Cibrario, Denise Tumiotto, Annalisa Bertoli, Cesare Fantuzzi, Italy |
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| Exploring
Empathy for Emotion-Aware Vehicles: How Should a Car
Respond? Timothy Berens, Sandra Kitting, Benedikt Salzbrunn, Andreas Sackl, Niklas Fraissl, Austria |
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| Enhancing
Usability in Crisis Management Training: Evaluation of
the Virtual Reality-Based Situational Awareness Table Jasmin Schwab, Tobias Koch, Kai Franke, Germany |
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| DAY 1 |
Track | Room | |
| SESSION 3 | Artificial Intelligence, Computing and Intelligent Design I | IHIET 2 | RM 3 - Madrid |
| Friday, April 24 | Session Chair(s): Michael Müller, Germany and Ranwa Al Mallah, Canada | ||
| 10:30 - 12:00 CET | Taste
Matters: Machine Learning Models for Context-Aware
Recipe Prediction Michael Müller, David Kraus, Moritz Zink, Eric Sax, Germany |
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| CybORGView:
An Interactive Interface for Visualizing Reinforcement
Learning Agent Performance in Autonomous Cyber
Operations Konur Tholl, Ranwa Al Mallah, Mariam El Mezouar, Canada |
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| Intelligent
Lift System for Automotive Servicing: Enhancing
Alignment, Safety, and Efficiency through Sensor-Based
Automation Omar Mohammad, Haissam El-aawar, Lebanon |
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| Designing
for human-AI teaming in power system control room
decision support Jan Viebahn, Evangelos Niforatos, Stef Koster, Netherlands |
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| 12:00 - 12:30 • Sessions Break | |||
| DAY 1 |
Track | Room | |
| SESSION 4 | Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality Simulation | IHIET
3 |
RM 1- Barcelona |
| Friday, April 24 | Session Chair(s): Lai Man Tin, Hong Kong SAR China and Alan Liu, United States | ||
| 12:30 - 13:30 CET | Eastern
Wisdom Extraction: AI-Driven Synthesis of Traditional
Chinese Landscape Art and Shifting Perspective
Principles through Immersive Technologies Lai Man Tin, Hong Kong SAR China |
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| Augmented
and Virtual Reality for automated monitoring and
decision support: A Case Study Using Point Cloud Data Amit Patwardhan, Ravdeep Kour, Ramin Karim, Uday Kumar, Sweden |
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| The Wide
Area Virtual Environment (WAVE): Advances in Immersive
Medical Team Training Alan Liu, United States |
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| AI-Assisted
XR Design in HCI Education: Lessons from an
Undergraduate Sustainability Project. Eleni Mengistu Alemayehu, Tsion Hagos Seyoum, Hamdah Ali Yousef Ali Alqaydi, Akram Jemal Mohammed, Nahom Abreham Hailu, Esmaeel Mohammed Esmaeel Mohammed Alteneiji, Ahmed Seffah, United Arab Emirates |
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| DAY 1 |
Track | Room | |
| SESSION 5 | Human–computer Interaction Technology Applications I | IHIET
5 |
RM 2 - Valencia |
| Friday, April 24 | Session Chair(s): Kenneth Lim, Singapore and Michael Manser, United States | ||
| 12:30 - 13:30 CET | Students
as partners in addressing the needs of the school
community: a case study using a Lightweight Inertial
Guidance and Mapping algorithm Kenneth Y T Lim, Vincent X Z Kwok, Zerui Wang, Bryan Z W Kuok, Malcolm H S Koh, Singapore |
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| Comprehensive
Driver Survey - Linking Risk Profiles with
Inclination/Disinclination Towards Automation Md Tanim Hasan, Ioannis Pavlidis, Michael Manser, United States |
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| User
experience of utilising narrow AI in relation to
autonomy preferences in time critical activity Jussi Okkonen, Christian Andersson, Mia Laine, Tuuli Keskinen, Markku Turunen, Finland |
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| Hybrid
Intelligence in the Innovation Process: Benchmark- and
Utility-Based Selection of Proprietary Generative AI
Models for Design Thinking in SMEs Patrick Rupprecht, Isabel Rodenas, Austria |
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| Swarm
behaviors in a defensive unmanned ground vehicle to
enhance human-UGV teaming performance Christian Andersson, Mia Laine, Jussi Okkonen, Finland |
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| AI
Narrative Co-creation in Interaction Design
Education: A Thing-Perspective Pedagogical
Framework with MacGuffin Creative Cards Wan-Chen Lee, Taiwan |
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| DAY 1 |
Track | Room | |
| SESSION 6 | Emerging Technologies and Business Applications | IHIET 7 | RM 3 - Madrid |
| Friday, April 24 | Session Chair(s): Paul Rosero, Spain and Marko Schuba, Germany | ||
| 12:30 - 13:30 CET | Iterative
Vision-Based Model to Measure the
Contact-Tip-Working-Distance for Wire Arc Additive
Manufacturing Interlayer Control Paul Rosero, Felix Vidal, Roi Mendez, Mart Mart, Spain |
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| A Field
Study on Data Protection and IT Security in AI-supported
Cashierless Stores Kai Lückhoff, Marko Schuba, Tim Höner, Sacha Hack, Georg Neugebauer, Germany |
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| Privacy
Preserving Human Mobility Clustering with
Self-Organizing Trees Kade Shoemaker, Steve Hardy, Corey Ducharme, Priya Naphade, Theo Tourneux, Brandon Kelly, United States |
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| Formal
Verification as the Foundation for Public Trust in
Distributed AI: A Critical Examination of Current
Paradigms Asieh Salehi Fathabadi, United Kingdom |
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| The
Potential of AI Extension Agents to Support Women Home
Gardeners in Ghana: An HCI4D-Grounded Assessment Frank Adusei, Yaw Akowuah, Frank Ackah, Loy Crowder, Florence Acquah, Michael Aryee, United States |
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| Rapid
personalized doppelgänger avatar generation: Dyadic
evaluation of the TAC-Twin virtual human pipeline. Sharon Mozgai, United States |
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| 14:00 - 15:30 • Lunch | |||
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| DAY 2 |
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| SESSION 7 | Applications in Medicine and Healthcare | Track | Room |
| Saturday, April 25 | Session Chair(s): Anastasiia Gorelova, Spain and Arezou Niknam, USA | IHIET 8 | RM 1- Barcelona |
| 9:00 - 10:00 CET | Autimo:
Designing A Gamified Product to Enhance Fundamental
Motor Skills of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Arezou Niknam, Maryam Khalili, Mehran Fateminia, USA |
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| Digital
Twin–Enabled Smart Health Monitoring for Reproductive
Medicine: Integrating Hormone Biosensing and
Physiological Data Anastasiia Gorelova, Alexandra Parichenko, Santiago Meli, Spain |
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| Ethical
Implications of AI in Securing Healthcare Systems: A UAE
Perspective Khulood Alhashmi, Abdallah Tubaishat, United Arab Emirates |
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| Design and Evaluation of a Wearable Bone Health
Therapy Device for Astronauts in Microgravity Ruohan Liu, Junchi Pi, Na Xu, China |
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| Load
carriage and uphill- downhill grade combinations: Its
effect on muscular activity and uric acid concentration
in Indian Soldiers Sohini Paul, Dhurjati Majumdar, India |
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| Explainable
Multi-Strategy Predictive Modeling of Antimicrobial
Resistance in Urinary Tract Infections Daphine Nalule, Uganda |
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| DAY 2 |
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| SESSION 8 | Management, Training and Business Applications | Track | Room |
| Saturday, April 25 | Session Chair(s): Nuria Brüggemann, Germany and Senthilrajan Agniraj, India | IHIET 9 | RM 2 - Valencia |
| 9:00 - 10:00 CET | Collisions
Between Automated Vehicles and Cyclists: An Analysis of
U.S. Collision Reports Based on Real-World Traffic Data
Nuria Brüggemann, Arnd Engeln, Germany |
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| How
Artificial Intelligence is Transforming the Role of
Universities Vilmos Vass, Hungary |
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| Internet
Bandwidth Allocation for university with distributed and
centralized protection scheme Senthilrajan Agniraj, India |
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| Operations
design in the 5th industrial revolution Avi Harel, Israel |
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| Perspective
on well-being at work: A design management approach Augusto Queiroz Da Costa, Gabriela Mager, Brazil |
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| DAY 2 |
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| SESSION 9 | Human-centered Design: AI Applications | Track | Room |
| Saturday, April 25 | Session Chair(s): Toni Waefler and Zeynep Erol, Switzerland | IHIET 1 | RM 3 - Madrid |
| 9:00 - 10:00 CET | Capturing
Food Culture for Adaptive AI: Generative Insights from a
Multimodal Profiling Study Zeynep Erol, Emily Groves, Sebastian Baez-Lugo, Nicolas Henchoz, Margherita Motta, Switzerland |
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| Beyond
Usability: Human-Centered Design for Ethical AI and
Sustainable Futures Agnieszka Wójcik-czerniawska, Poland |
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| A
methodical approach to AI-supported human learning in
complex task environments Samira Hamouche, Nerissa Dettling, Julia Usher, Manuel Renold and Toni Waefler, Switzerland |
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| Glossary
as a Compass: Domain Knowledge Artifacts in
Human-Centered AI Development Felipe França, Eduardo Oliveira, Emilio Coutinho, Leonardo Neri, Hugo Silva, Luciana Franci, Virgínia Ribeiro, Brazil |
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| Fiscolab:
Co-Creation, Artificial Intelligence, and User-Centered
Design in the Development of Educational Fiscal
Solutions Virgínia Chalegre, Mariana Amora, Mario Sérgio Dias, Giulia Marianna, Luciano Macedo, Gustavo Rodrigues, Yasmin Correia, Fernando Cavalcanti, Brazil |
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| The
Designer’s New Dilemma: Balancing Efficiency and
Expressive Freedom in the Age of Generative AI Jun Bum Shin , United States |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 • Sessions Break | |||
| DAY 2 |
Track | Room | |
| SESSION 10 | Artificial Intelligence, Computing and Intelligent Design II | IHIET 2 | RM 1- Barcelona |
| Saturday, April 25 | Session Chair(s): Toni Waefler, switzerland and Ahmed Seffah, United Arab Emirates | ||
| 10:30 - 12:00 CET | Insider
Threats in Cybersecurity: Modeling Patterns with MITRE
Profiles through Technical, Organizational, and
Individual (TOI) Factors Ling Leung, Suzanne Kieffer, Esma Aimeur, Belgium |
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| Augmented
cognition requires a psychologically sound human role: a
methodical approach Patrick Zinsli, Stephanie Kalt, Nerissa Dettling, Samira Hamouche, Toni Waefler, Switzerland |
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| The
Paradox of Simplicity: Designing Transparency in the Age
of AI Clara Rocha Kyrillos, Marina Moreira Marinho, Eduardo Oliveira, Brazil |
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| Autonomous
Aerial Surveillance AI System for Illegal E-Waste
Detection and Environmental Forensics Abdullah Shabbir Ali, Ahmed Seffah, United Arab Emirates |
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| DAY 2 |
Track | Room | |
| SESSION 11 | Human–computer Interaction Technology Applications II | IHIET 5 | RM 2 - Valencia |
| Saturday, April 25 | Session Chair(s): Kelvin Olaiya, Italy and Katrin Hauber, Germany | ||
| 10:30 - 12:00 CET | Human-Technology
Interactions in Vocational Training: Insights from
Italian Craft and Industrial Education Barry Bassi, Kelvin Olaiya, Giovanni Delnevo, Silvia Mirri, Italy |
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| Q-phoria
: A Ticket
Selling and Verification Project Design Richard Abayhon, Flordeliza Javier, Justine Camille Ofaga, Lucci Lyle Dizon, Zhyryl Mae Santillan, Philippines |
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| Internet
of Toys for Measuring Development of Playing Skills with
a Stuffed Toy in Support of Childcare Workers Koki Ito, Keiko Yamamoto, Ichi Kanaya, Japan |
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| Road User Requirements and Expectations for Autonomous
Vehicles – A Qualitative Field Study in San Francisco Katrin Hauber, Arnd Engeln, Germany |
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| Human-Centric
Impacts of Cyberattacks on Autonomous Vehicle User
Interactions: A Simulation-Based Study Shahzad Alam, Jeremy Bryans, Hesamaldin Jadidbonab, Giedre Sabaliauskaite, United Kingdom |
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| Impact of
Obesity on Human Body Biomechanics and Sitting Posture
Stability Salah Elshourbagy, Egypt |
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| DAY 2 |
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| SESSION 12 | Human-centered Design: Performance and Learning | IHIET 1 | RM 3 - Madrid |
| Saturday, April 25 | Session Chair(s): Hajer Jemai, Canada and Karan Shah, Germany | ||
| 10:30 - 12:00 CET | Human-Centered
Risk Intelligence: “La Cible SST® Software” for Smarter
Occupational Health and Safety Performance Management Hajer Jemai, Adel Badri, Nabil Ben Fredj, Canada |
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| Phantom
Terrain: Evoking Community Memory Through Gaussian Point
Cloud VR and Immersive Landscape Reimagination Xiaoqiao Li, Ho Yin Ma, Cheuk-kit Chung Chung, Hong Kong SAR China |
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| Traffic
Evacuation Simulation and Development of Contingency
Plan for a Flood-Prone Community in Puerto Rico Erika Jaramillo, Ivette Cruzado, Puerto Rico |
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| Empirical
Validation of Human-Centered Driving Style
Parameterization in Highly Automated Vehicles Karan Shah, Lars Weber, Andreas Luedtke, Germany |
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| Seismic
Resilience for the City of Samborondón - Guayas -
Ecuador Fernando García, Ecuador |
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| How
e-learning Affects Education: A Mixed Method Usability
Evaluation of E-Learn Platform Arezou Niknam, Nasrin Moghadam, USA |
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| 12:00 - 12:30 • Sessions Break | |||
| DAY 2 |
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| SESSION 15 | Artificial Intelligence, Computing and Intelligent Design III | IHIET 2 | RM 1- Barcelona |
| Saturday, April 25 | Session Chair(s): Asad Ullah,China and Worapol Alex Pongpech, Thailand | ||
| 12:30 - 13:30 CET | Automated
Road Crack Detection Using Artificial Intelligence: A
Deep Learning Approach for Smart Infrastructure
Monitoring Asad Ullah, China |
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| Domain-Aligned
Foundation Models for Robust Real-World Crop Disease
Detection Using Maximum Mean Discrepancy Divyanshi Sharma, Harsh Jain, Subhrasankar Chatterjee, India |
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| How
Generative AI is reshaping architectural and design
workflows: a conversational tool in architectural design
and education Gianmarco Longo, China |
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| Explainable
Cloud Forensics for Virtual Machines in Heterogeneous
Distributed Datacenters Ssenoga Frank, Micheal Kizito, Ggaliwango Marvin, Ngubiri John, Uganda |
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IHIET-AI 2026 Social Event and Dinner (Optional) Time and Date: 19:00-22:00, April 25, 2026 Location: Restaurante Submarino (Website) Address: Carrer d'Eduardo Primo Yúfera, 1B 46013 València (Google Maps) (Optional Dinner, Registered participants only, dress is business casual) 
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Poster Demonstration Session |
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| SESSION A | Friday-Saturday, April 24-25 [10:30 - 13:00] |
| A-1 | Designing Ethical Safety Guardrails in Large
Language Model Chatbots for Student Mental Health
Support: A Case Study Laura Stanley, Yasamin Bayrami, Bridger Foran, Jeff Simpson, United States |
| A-2 | Leveraging
Emerging Technologies for Sustainable Growth and
Competitive Advantage in The UK Events Sector Hope Iyobosa Izevbigie, United Kingdom |
| A-3 | Usability
Test of an AI-Based Gait Analysis System for Enhanced
Human-Technology Interaction Seojin Hong, Hyosun Kweon, Hyun Choi, South Korea |
| A-4 | XR
Interface Design for Moving Objects under Different
Lighting: Visual - Auditory and Emergency Scenarios Juhee Lee, Sunghee Ahn, South Korea |
| A-5 | IoT-Enabled
Countermeasures to Enhance Pedestrian Safety During
Smartphone-Distracted Walking Mingi Lin, Taiwan |
| A-6 | DARB-GFPNet:
A Dual Attention Residual Block and Global Feature
Pyramid-Based Framework for Precise Nuclei Segmentation
Manoj Singh, India |
