Prof. Seungwon Kim is Director of Empathic Computing Laboratory in Korea, and Professor in the Department of Artificial Intelligence Convergence, Chonnam National University, South Korea. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Tasmania, in 2008 and 2010, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the HIT Laboratory NZ, New Zealand, in 2016, under the supervision of Prof. Mark Billinghurst. During the Ph.D, he developed several remote collaboration systems supporting stabilized sketch and pointer cues. His research interests are developing a VR/AR media platform that shares emotion and information among multiple users.

Dr. Yue Li is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computing, School of Advanced Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. She leads the Heritage, Edutainment, and Reality Laboratory (HER Lab; https://hiherlab.github.io/). Dr. Li is a Fellow of Higher Education Academy and serves as the China Country Representative at the IFIP Technical Committee on Human–Computer Interaction (TC13). Her research interest lies in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), with a particular emphasis on Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies. She has been actively involved in research related to the design, evaluation, and application of VR and AR in cultural heritage and education. Dr. Li leads several prestigious research grants, including the Young Scientist Programme of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the General Programme of the Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China. Her scholarly contributions have found publication in esteemed international journals and conferences such as IEEE TVCG, ACM TOCHI, IJHCI, ACM JOCCH, IEEE VR, IEEE ISMAR, ACM CHI, and so on. She served as the IEEE VR 2023 Online Experience Co-Chair, IEEE ISMAR 2023 Student Competition Co-Chair, IEEE AIxVR 2024 Poster Co-Chair, and IEEE VR 2026 XR Gallery Co-Chair. Dr. Li was awarded the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Doctoral Programme of Jiangsu Province and the Science and Education Backbone Talent of Suzhou.