Publications
Published work that used Ubiq.
Do You See What I See? Bring Live Pedestrians into an Outdoor Collaborative Mixed Reality Experience
Published September 27, 2025 in UIST '25: Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology by Jingyi Zhang, Ziwen Lu, Changrui Zhu, Simon Julier, Anthony Steed
CoCreatAR: Enhancing Authoring of Outdoor Augmented Reality Experiences Through Asymmetric Collaboration
Published April 26, 2025 in CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems by Nels Numan, Gabriel Brostow, Suhyun Park, Simon Julier, Anthony Steed, Jessica Van Brummelen
PaintBranch: Asynchronous Collaborative Art in Virtual Reality
Published April 25, 2025 in 2025 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) by Ana David, Daniele Giunchi, Stuart James, Anthony Steed, Augusto Esteves
Single Actor Controlling Multiple Avatars for Social Virtual Realities
Published March 28, 2025 in 2025 IEEE Conference Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR) by Jingyi Zhang, Anthony Steed
Around the Virtual Campfire: Early UX Insights into AI-Generated Stories in VR
Published February 26, 2025 in 2025 IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and eXtended and Virtual Reality (AIxVR) by Elia Gatti, Daniele Giunchi, Nels Numan, Anthony Steed
The influence of avatar realism and similarity in shaping group dynamics in collaborative virtual environments
Published December 2, 2024 in 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct) by Lisa Izzouzi, Anthony Steed
Improved Takeover System: Enabling Single Actor Control for Multi-Avatar Populated Virtual Realities
Published December 2, 2024 in 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct) by Jingyi Zhang, Anthony Steed
StreamSpace: A Framework for Window Streaming in Collaborative Mixed Reality Environments
Published March 16, 2024 in IEEE VR '24: 2024 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) by Daniele Giunchi, Riccardo Bovo, Nels Numan, Anthony Steed
AccompliceVR: Lending Assistance to Immersed Users by Adding a Generic Collaborative Layer
Published March 16, 2024 in IEEE VR '24: 2024 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) by Anthony Steed
AIsop: Exploring Immersive VR Storytelling Leveraging Generative AI
Published March 16, 2024 in IEEE VR '24: 2024 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) by Elia Gatti, Daniele Giunchi, Nels Numan, Anthony Steed
DreamCodeVR: Towards Democratizing Behavior Design in Virtual Reality with Speech-Driven Programming
Published March 16, 2024 in IEEE VR '24: 2024 IEEE Conference Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR) by Daniele Giunchi, Nels Numan, Elia Gatti, Anthony Steed
Supporting Co-Presence in Populated Virtual Environments by Actor Takeover of Animated Characters
Published October 16, 2023 in 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) by Jingyi Zhang, Klara Brandstätter, Anthony Steed
Dialogues For One: Single-User Content Creation Using Immersive Record and Replay
Published October 11, 2023 in VRST '23: Proceedings of the 29th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology by Klara Brandstätter, Anthony Steed
Extending the Open Source Social Virtual Reality Ecosystem to the Browser in Ubiq
Published October 11, 2023 in Web3D '23: Proceedings of the 28th International ACM Conference on 3D Web Technology by Sebastian Friston, Ben Congdon, Nels Numan, Klara Brandstätter, Lisa Izzouzi, Felix Thiel, Jingyi Zhang, Daniele Giunchi, David Swapp, Anthony Steed
Towards Outdoor Collaborative Mixed Reality: Lessons Learnt from a Prototype System
Published March 1, 2023 in ReDigiTS: 2nd Workshop on 3D Reconstruction, Digital Twinning, and Simulation for Virtual Experiences (IEEE VR 2023) by Nels Numan, Ziwen Lu, Benjamin Congdon, Daniele Giunchi, Alexandros Rotsidis, Andreas Lernis, Kyriakos Larmos, Tereza Kourra, Panayiotis Charalambous, Yiorgos Chrysanthou, Simon Julier, Anthony Steed
Ubiq-Genie: Leveraging External Frameworks for Enhanced Social VR Experiences
Published January 25, 2023 in OAT: 2nd Workshop on Open Access Tools and Libraries for Virtual Reality (IEEE VR 2023) by Nels Numan, Daniele Giunchi, Ben Congdon, Anthony Steed
Exploring User Behaviour in Asymmetric Collaborative Mixed Reality
Published December 1, 2022 in VRST '22: Proceedings of the 28th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology by Nels Numan, Anthony Steed
Ubiq-Exp: a Toolkit to Build and Run Remote and Distributed Mixed Reality Experiments
Published August 25, 2022 in Frontiers in Virtual Reality by Anthony Steed, Lisa Izzouzi, Klara Brandstätter, Sebastian Friston, Ben Congdon, Otto Olkkonen, Daniele Giunchi, Nels Numan, David Swapp
Ubiq: A System to Build Flexible Social Virtual Reality Experiences
Published February 21, 2022 in VRST '21: Proceedings of the 27th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology by Sebastian Friston, Ben Congdon, David Swapp, Lisa Izzouzi, Klara Brandstätter, Daniel Archer, Otto Olkkonen, Felix Thiel, Anthony Steed