Amirpouya Ghasemaghaei

Amirpouya is pursuing a PhD degree in Computer Science at the University of Central Florida. His research interests include Machine Learning and Human-Computer Interaction. Amirpouya is working on projects in Generative AI: 3D scene generation and Large Language Models (LLMs), and he has published research on VR interaction techniques and Gesture Recognition.

Publications

Emporio, M., Ghasemaghaei, A., LaViola, J., and Giachetti, A. "Continuous Hand Gesture Recognition: Benchmarks and Methods", Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Volume 259, 104435, September 2025.
Maslych, M., Katebi, M., Lee, C., Hmaiti, Y., Ghasemaghaei, A., Pumarada, C., Palmer, J., Segarra Martinez, E., Emporio, M., Snipes, W., McMahan, R., and LaViola, J. "Mitigating Response Delays in Free-Form Conversations with LLM-powered Intelligent Virtual Agents", Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI '25), Article 49, 15 pages, July 2025.
Hmaiti, Y., Maslych, M., Ghasemaghaei, A., Ghamandi, R., and LaViola, J. "Visual Perceptual Confidence: Exploring Discrepancies Between Self-reported and Actual Distance Perception In Virtual Reality", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 30(11):7245-7254, November 2024.
Maslych, M., Yu, D., Ghasemaghaei, A., Hmaiti, Y., Segarra Martinez, E., Simon, D., Taranta, E., Bergstrom, J., and LaViola, J. "From Research to Practice: Survey and Taxonomy of Object Selection in Consumer VR Applications", Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, 990-999, October 2024.
Ghasemaghaei, A., Maslych, M., Hmaiti, Y., Segarra Martinez, E., and LaViola, J. "Towards Better Throwing: A Comparison of Performance and Preferences Across Point of Release Mechanics in Virtual Reality", Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2024, 11 pages, June 2024.
Ghasemaghaei, A., Hmaiti, Y., Maslych, M., Segarra Martinez, E., and LaViola, J. "Throwing in Virtual Reality: Performance and Preferences Across Input Device Configurations", 2024 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops, 897-898, March 2024.
Ghamandi, R., Hmaiti, Y., Nguyen, T., Ghasemaghaei, A., Kattoju, RK., Taranta, E., and LaViola, J. "What And How Together: A Taxonomy On 30 Years Of Collaborative Human-Centered XR Tasks", Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, 322-335, October 2023.