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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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) |
9:00-14:00 (CET)Day 1: Technical Session |
9:00-12:30 (CET)Day 2: Technical Sessions |
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10:00-14:00 Poster Sessions |
10:00-12:30 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 |
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| 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 | Plenary Title: "Artificial Intelligence
in Biomechanics: Enabling Human-Centred Health
Products and Services at the Institute of Biomechanics
of Valencia" Speaker: Carlos M. Atienza, PhD, Institute of Biomechanics of Valencia (IBV), Spain Summary: This speech presents how artificial intelligence is transforming biomechanics into a key enabler for the development of new human-centred health products and services at the Institute of Biomechanics of Valencia (IBV). By integrating AI with biomechanical modelling, experimental data, and human interaction analysis, biomechanics is evolving from a descriptive discipline into a predictive and decision-support framework for healthcare innovation. The presentation highlights how data analytics, machine learning, simulation, and digital human modelling are being applied to address complex challenges in medical device development, clinical assessment, and health-related services. The plenary concludes with a forward-looking perspective on how the convergence of artificial intelligence, biomechanics, and systems engineering can support next-generation health technologies, sustainable innovation and improving quality of life.
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| 10:00 - 10:30 • Sessions Break | |||||
| DAY 1 |
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| SESSION 1 | Human Agent Teaming (HAT): Cases from the Workplace, Sport and Art | IHIET 4 | Room 1 |
| 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 |
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| SESSION 2 | Human-centered Design | IHIET 1 | Room 2 |
| 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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| Validating
an Experimental Protocol for Inducing Cognitive States:
A Multimodal Approach using Subjective and Physiological
Measures Ricardo Bayona Salvador, Úrsula Martínez - Iranzo, Begoña Mateo Martínez, Alberto Albiol Colomer, Spain |
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| Formal
Verification for Human-Centred Trust in AI: A Critical
Examination of Current Paradigms Asieh Salehi Fathabadi, United Kingdom |
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| DAY 1 |
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| SESSION 3 | Artificial Intelligence, Computing and Intelligent Design I | IHIET 2 | Room 3 |
| 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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| AI-Powered
Chatbots as Emotion-Aware Virtual Assistants: Enhancing
Student Support and Engagement in Higher Education Yazan Alnsour, Saudi Arabia |
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| Can
Machine Learning Replace Expert Evaluation? An
AI-Powered Platform for XR, Tangible, and Haptic User
Interfaces Automated Testing Mohammad Mustafa, Ahmed Seffah, United Arab Emirates |
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| Identifying
AI Features That Foster Responsible Sustainability
Awareness in Children Sheikha Al Maqahami, Moza Alhammadi, Ahmed Seffah, United Arab Emirates |
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| 12:00 - 12:30 • Sessions Break | |||
| DAY 1 |
Track | Room | |
| SESSION 5 | Human–computer Interaction Technology Applications I | IHIET 5 | Room 1 |
| Friday, April 24 | Session Chair(s): Kenneth Lim, Singapore and Michael Manser, United States | ||
| 12:30 - 14:00 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| DAY 1 |
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| SESSION 6 | Emerging Technologies and Business Applications I | IHIET 7 | Room 2 |
| Friday, April 24 | Session Chair(s): Paul Rosero, Spain and Marko Schuba, Germany | ||
| 12:30 - 14:00 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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| 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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| Archetypes
of Products in the Domestic Desktop 3D-Printing Products
Market Zuk Turbovich, Israel |
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| SESSION 7 | Applications in Medicine and Healthcare | IHIET 8 | Room 3 |
| Friday, April 24 | Session Chair(s): Arezou Niknam, United States and Anastasiia Gorelova, Spain | ||
| 12:30 - 14:00 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, Shirong Huang, Gianaurelio Cuniberti, Spain |
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| Ethical
Implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) In
Healthcare Cybersecurity: A United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Perspective Khulood Alhashmi, Abdallah Tubaishat, United Arab Emirates |
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| Effects
of Forearm Posture on Grip Strength and Endurance in
Young Male Adults Abdulelah Ali, Saudi Arabia |
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| Mind
and Body in Obesity: Links Between Mental Health, Body
Composition, and Muscular Performance Ainhoa Rodríguez- De Luis, Úrsula Martínez - Iranzo, Cristina Herrera Ligero, Juan Miguel García Gómez, Miguel Civera Andrés, Rosa María Baños Rivera, Spain |
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| DAY 2 |
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| SESSION 8 | Management, Training and Business Applications | IHIET 9 | Room 1 |
| Saturday, April 25 | Session Chair(s): Dennis Bakir, Switzerland and Senthilrajan Agniraj, India | ||
| 9:00 - 10:00 CET | External
Confirmation, Trust Badges and Public Funding as
Organizational Stressors: A Concierge Buffer Framework
for Non-Linear Scaling in SMEs Dennis Bakir, Robin Bakir, Florian Domin, Hermann Fürstenau, Switzerland |
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| Internet
Bandwidth Allocation for university with distributed and
centralized protection scheme Senthilrajan Agniraj, India |
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| 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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| Designing
Inclusive Mobile Government Services in the Middle East:
A User Experience–Centered Framework Abdulrahman Khamaj, Saudi Arabia |
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| Exploring
the Underlying Barriers to the Adoption of Intelligent
Highway Transportation Systems: A Study from Ghana Matthew Somiah, Matthew Kwaw Somiah, Clinton Aigbavboa, Wellington Didibuku Thwala, Jeriscot Henry Quayson, Isaac Yaw Manu, Micheal Kofi Biney, Benjamin Aidoo, Ghana |
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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): Zeynep Erol, Switzerland and Samira Hamouche, Switzerland | IHIET 1 | Room 2 |
| 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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| 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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| Thinking
With AI: Human–AI Interaction and Critical Thinking in
Scenario-Based Learning Krisztina Eva Lengyel Almos, Mexico |
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| 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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| DAY 2 |
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| SESSION 10 | Artificial Intelligence, Computing and Intelligent Design II | IHIET 2 | Room 3 |
| Saturday, April 25 | Session Chair(s): Ling Leung, Belgium and Patrick Zinsli, Switzerland | ||
| 9:00 - 10:00 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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| Generative
AI as a Catalyst for Innovative Collaboration: Enhancing
Group Projects Among Saudi Students in Digital Learning
Environments Mirna Khalife, Olga Burukina, Mohammad Ashraf, Saudi Arabia |
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| Comparison
of human and AI-driven interview data analysis in
industrial work context Antti Tammela, Susanna Aromaa, Hanna Lammi, Finland |
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| QUEST+AI:
A Human-Centered Inquiry Model for Responsible GenAI
Use, Cognitive Ownership, and AI Literacy in Higher
Education David Wicks, Huili Han, China |
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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 |
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| SESSION 11 | Human–computer Interaction Technology Applications II | IHIET 5 | Room 1 |
| 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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| 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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| A
bilingual study of Multi-Word Expressions in
Journalistic Texts: Fine-tune BERT with Head-Based
Masking Technique Christina Valavani, Stavros Giannakis, Greece |
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| Assessing
EU Consumer Protection Risks in AI-Driven Blockchain
Tokenized Finance through Smart Contract Design Marta Urbane, Latvia |
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| SESSION 12 | Human-centered Design: Performance and Learning | IHIET 1 | Room 2 |
| Saturday, April 25 | Session Chair(s): Ivette Cruzado, United States and Eleni Mengistu Alemayehu, United Arab Emirates | ||
| 10:30 - 12:00 CET | Traffic
Evacuation Simulation and Development of Contingency
Plan for a Flood-Prone Community in Puerto Rico Erika Jaramillo, Ivette Cruzado, Walter F. Silva Araya, Puerto Rico |
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| AI-Assisted
XR Design and User Testing: 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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| 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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| Interactive
VR-Based Usability and Acceptance Testing for the Future
of Age-Friendly Kitchen Design Sukesha Shekhar Ghosh, Swati Pal, India |
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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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| 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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| DAY 2 |
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| SESSION 16 | Emerging Technologies and Business Applications II | IHIET 7 | Room 3 |
| Saturday, April 25 | Session Chair(s): Sharon Mozgai, United States and Dennis Bakir, Switzerland | ||
| 10:30 - 12:00 CET | Rapid
personalized doppelgänger avatar generation: Dyadic
evaluation of the TAC-Twin virtual human pipeline. Sharon Mozgai, United States |
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| Effectiveness
Analysis of Intellitrac GPS Application for Heavy
Equipment Monitoring and Management in Coal Fired Power
Plant Environment Fatihah Aisy, Erikco Hadides, Kukuh Lukiyanto, Christian Lay, Indonesia |
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| Integrating
SKM and STPA for Human - Centered optimization of
sustainable AI-driven enterprise systems Théodore Letouzé, Jean-Marc Andre, Jaime Diaz Pineda, Coralie Vennin, France |
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| Awards
and Certifications as Trust Signal Infrastructure
-Quantifying Reputation and Prestige Effects for
international SMEs and the Leveraging Role of Public
Funding- Dennis Bakir, Robin Bakir, Maximilian Müller, Patrick Starkmann, Switzerland |
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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 [10:00 - 14:00] |
| 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 | XR
Interface Design for Moving Objects under Different
Lighting: Visual - Auditory and Emergency Scenarios Juhee Lee, Sunghee Ahn, South Korea |
| A-4 | Making
sense of employee attitudes toward AI at work: what they
are and how can they be measured? Ramunė Bagočiūnaitė, Lithuania |
| A-5 | Comparative
Analysis of the Use of the Maritime Public Domain In
Nautical Tourism In Croatia, Greece, Italy, France And
Spain Alen Jugovic, Juraj Bukša, Izabela Linčić Mužić, Dražen Žgaljić, Croatia |
| A-6 | Rethinking
Nautical Tourism Success In The Mediterranean Alen Jugovic, Tanja Poletan Jugovic, Dražen Žgaljić, Juraj Bukša, Croatia |
| A-7 | Usability
Test of an AI-Based Gait Analysis System for Enhanced
Human-Technology Interaction Seojin Hong, Hyosun Kweon, Hyun Choi, South Korea |
| A-8 | DARB-GFPNet: A Dual Attention Residual Block and
Global Feature Pyramid-Based Framework for Precise
Nuclei Segmentation Manoj Singh, India |
| A-9 | VR Aesthetic Contributions in Transformative
Experience Design (TED) Bruno Giesteira, Tiago Alves, Portugal |
