Friday, April 10, 2026
XR doctoral students have their say
The Doctoral Consortium is an opportunity for PhD students to gain critical feedback on their work, share their discoveries, develop their networks of contacts, enhance their skills and perfect their career plans through meetings with companies and research laboratories.
On the agenda: oral and poster presentations showcasing the current research of young scholars enrolled in a PhD program or who have defended their thesis less than a year ago.
Discover the program
2:45 pm > 3:30 pm
đź“Ť Doctoral Consortium Area
• KINART Adrien : Visual Attention Prediction in 3D Gaussian Splattings
• PREVOT Sean : From Paper to Tangible XR: Affordances of Systems, Impact of Gamification, and Cross-Media Contribution
• CALOT Lohan : Enhancing accessibility in Virtual Reality (VR) using Sensory profiles and Adaptive VR: Balancing olfactory and auditory stimuli for neurodiverse users
2:45 pm > 3:30 pm
đź“Ť Conferences Hall
• NOUTCHA Michel : Broad Consent in VR: An Exploratory Study Using Design Fiction
• LEBASI Aida : Biophilic virtual environments to reduce stress and increase working memory performance: impacts on learning and wayfinding tasks
• ALLANI Raihana : A UX-Based Methodology for XR Integration in Industrial Timber Frame Prefabrication.
1:30 pm > 2:15 pm
đź“Ť Doctoral Consortium
• ABDELAZIZ Habiba : Optimizing Facial Expression retargeting to an Unrigged Avatar Mesh for Users in XR
• AMANT Louis : Exploring User Experience in Extended Reality
• MAIORCA Aintoine : Deep Learning-based Full-Body Self-Avatar Animation from Markerless Body Tracking
1:30 pm > 2:15 pm
đź“Ť Conference Hall
• ANDHI Rahmat Rizal : Real-Time Visualization of Airborne Pathogens in Operating Rooms using 3D Gaussian Splatting
• HANKE Sophia : Performing Fitts’ tasks in Virtual Reality with and without augmented feedback: a comparison between young and older adults.
• ARENA Lorenzo : Physical Infrastructure to Public Value: Implementing the Digital Twin for Urban Resilience and Participation
11:00 am > 12:00 pm
đź“Ť Doctoral Consortium Area
• POUPARD Matisse : Beyond Immersion: How Interactivity and Cognitive Load Shape Learning in Virtual Reality
• YANG Eloïse : The role of virtual reality in workers’ capabilities in professional training
• BOMPY Raphaël : The Metaverse Beyond Technology: Fiction, Ideology, and Human Experience
• MAIORE Tristan : Methods for the testing of the Exhausted Brain Theory for Visually Induced Motion Sickness
9:30 a.m. > 10:30 am
đź“Ť Doctoral Consortium Area
• GUILMET Joffrey : Exploring haptics as Extended Reality in asymmetric collective activity
• AILMEDA Lucas ADIMIT : An Axiomatic Design-Based Method for the Conceptual Design of Immersive Industrial Training
• BALDASSARRE Thomas : Towards Building Virtual Coaching Agents in Immersive Environments: Design Challenges and Behavioral Strategies
• SAUFNAY Sarah : Development of a Responsive Virtual Audience for Public Speaking Training in Virtual Reality
9am: Welcoming participants / Setting up posters
9.20am: Introduction
9.30am: Plenary session 1 (4 speakers)
10h30 : Coffee break / Poster session A
11h00 : Plenary session 2 (4 speakers)
12h00 : Lunch Break
13h30 : Plenary sessions 3 & 4 (2 x 3 speakers)
14h00 : Coffee break / Poster session B
14h30 : Plenary sessions 5 & 6 (2 X 3 speakers)
15h15 : Best Paper & Best Poster & Take Away & Feed Back
16h00 : End of LV 2026 Doctoral Consortium
Meet and build relationships
The Laval Virtual Doctoriales offer PhD students a unique opportunity to discover the event, engage with XR companies, and generate enriching discussions.
Organized in partnership withAFXR, the Doctoral Consortium Laval Virtual are a unique opportunity for young researchers in the field of XR (virtual, mixed or augmented reality, metavers…) from France, Europe and elsewhere to meet and create lasting friendly and professional links within an active international community.
PARTNER
The AFXR association is a collective of women and men deeply engaged in the Extended Reality (XR) ecosystem: immersive technologies, virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, spatial computing, metaverse, and more.
The collective represents the French XR community and is committed to defending and promoting it both in France and internationally.
