Abstract
The 2022 IEEE VGTC Significant New Researcher Award goes to Mar Gonzalez-Franco of Microsoft, in recognition of her research and incipient leadership in the field of Virtual Reality and spatial computing. Her work has provided new insights on how people behave and perceive avatars, haptics, sound and multisensory signals inside Virtual Reality. She has produced numerous new prototypes advancing the state of the art on haptic controllers and haptic displays. She has been prolific in proposing new theories and standardized methods of evaluation for different phenomena such as embodiment, locomotion, the uncanny valley of haptics, avatar self-recognition and the self-avatar follower effect. Meanwhile, Dr. Gonzalez-Franco has helped democratize access to VR technology by open sourcing of avatars and avatar animation libraries (Microsoft Rocketbox).
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