Talk Sessions

Wednesday, May 20, 2026

9:00 – 10:15 am

XR I: Performance

9:00 am

Optimizing Visual Comfort in Augmented Reality: Effects of Monocular and Binocular Displays and Focal Distances
Daniel Spiegel¹; ¹Meta Reality Labs

9:15 am

Designing Accessible Multimodal Cues to Increase Eye-Tracking Accuracy in Virtual Reality
Batuhan Erkat¹; ¹SUNY College of Optometry

9:30 am

How distortion components shape swim perception in optical wearables
Yannick Sauer^1,2; ¹University of Tübingen, ²Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH

9:45 am

Psychophysical and Naturalistic Evaluations of Latency in Head-Mounted Displays
Phillip Guan¹; ¹Reality Labs Research, Meta

10:00 am

The visibility of saccadic color break-up artifacts in AR displays
Xiuyun Wu¹; ¹Meta

11:00 am – 12:00 pm

XR II: Visual Assessment

11:00 am

Efficient and Reliable Assessment of Contrast Sensitivity in Virtual Reality
Muhammad Abraiz Bin Azhar Khan¹; ¹NYU Abu Dhabi

11:15 am

Using virtual reality to simulate central and peripheral vision loss during spatial navigation
Sam Beech¹; ¹University of Utah

11:30 am

Virtual reality trajectory analysis of street-crossing navigation in people with ultra-low vision
Dinesh Venugopal¹; ¹SUNY College of Optometry, Biological and Vision Sciences, NY, United States

11:45 am

A wearable module to support high temporal and spectral measurement of visual experience
Zachary J Kelly¹; ¹University of Pennsylvania

1:15 – 2:30 pm

Visualization & User Interface Design

1:15 pm

Applying vision science to public policy: How visual implied motion in a new accessibility icon drives attention, interpretations, and motor responses
Marina Pace¹; ¹The New School for Social Research

1:30 pm

Behind the Bar: Stars, Means, and the Multiple Faces of the Bar-Tip Limit Error
Sarah Kerns^1,2; ¹Dartmouth College, ²Wellesley College

1:45 pm

Adverse Effects of Individual Bias in Interpreting Correlations
Zainab Haseeb^1,2; ¹University of Toronto, ²University of Toronto, Mississauga

2:00 pm

Graph miscommunication: How averages distort understanding, and individual values clarify it
Jeremy Wilmer¹; ¹Wellesley College

2:15 pm

VisualEyes: A Browser-Based Tool for Annotating and Visualizing Eye-Tracking alongside Multimodal Data Streams
Alexander Nguyen¹; ¹McMaster University

3:15 – 4:15 pm

Video & Motion Perception

3:15 pm

Impact of Camera Motion on Perceived Optical Flow Error in Naturalistic Video
Yung-Hao Yang¹; ¹Cognitive Informatics Lab, Department of Intelligence Science and Technology, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan

3:30 pm

What Happens Between Play and Pause? A New Playback Mode for Detecting Temporal Distortions
Budmonde Duinkharjav¹; ¹NVIDIA

3:45 pm

Visuomotor timing accuracy saturates despite improvements in perceptual smoothness with frame rate
Shin'ya Nishida¹; ¹Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University

4:00 pm

Studying visual attention beyond the lab: Lessons from applied eye-tracking
Shreshth Saxena¹; ¹McMaster University

5:00 – 6:00 pm

Color & Brightness Perception

5:00 pm

Photographing Moonlight
Jeff Mulligan¹; ¹Freelance Vision Scientist

5:15 pm

AR autobrightness as a vision science problem
Thomas Yerxa¹; ¹Meta Reality Labs

5:30 pm

Comprehensive Color-Discrimination Threshold Measurements Provide a Benchmark for CIE Color-Difference Formulas
Fangfang Hong¹; ¹Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania

5:45 pm

Physiologically Relevant Color Matching Functions for Display Color Consistency
Yanjun Li¹; ¹Apple Inc.