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2026

arXiv

Beyond Task Performance: Lessons Learned from Evaluating an Exploratory VR Interaction Technique

Nevzat Umut Demirseren, Corey Pittman, Isayas Berhe Adhanom, and 2 more authors

Sep 2026

@misc{demirseren2026beyond,
  author = {Demirseren, Nevzat Umut and Pittman, Corey and Adhanom, Isayas Berhe and Umapathy, Karthikeyan and Pfeil, Kevin},
  title = {Beyond Task Performance: Lessons Learned from Evaluating an Exploratory VR Interaction Technique},
  howpublished = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.25414},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
}

arXiv

How Early Can You Tell? Early Eye Gaze Dynamics and Cybersickness Progression in Virtual Reality

Nevzat Umut Demirseren and Isayas Berhe Adhanom

Sep 2026

arXiv Bib HTML

@misc{demirseren2026howearly,
  author = {Demirseren, Nevzat Umut and Adhanom, Isayas Berhe},
  title = {How Early Can You Tell? Early Eye Gaze Dynamics and Cybersickness Progression in Virtual Reality},
  howpublished = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.25422},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
}

TVCG

Revenge of the Sick: A Meta-Analysis of Washout Periods in Cybersickness Research

Tongyu Nie, Ville Cantory, Courtney Hutton Pospick, and 7 more authors

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Jun 2026

Bib HTML

@article{nie2026revenge,
  author = {Nie, Tongyu and Cantory, Ville and Pospick, Courtney Hutton and Zhang, Danhua and Tan, Haoyu and Adeniyi, Sam and Wu, Fei and Zielasko, Daniel and Adhanom, Isayas Berhe and Rosenberg, Evan Suma},
  title = {Revenge of the Sick: A Meta-Analysis of Washout Periods in Cybersickness Research},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  year = {2026},
  month = jun,
}

IEEE VRW

Objective Estimation of Cybersickness Using Spatially Resolved Visual Motion Metrics

Mahfujur Rahman and Isayas Berhe Adhanom

In 2026 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), Mar 2026

Bib HTML

@inproceedings{rahman2026objective,
  author = {Rahman, Mahfujur and Adhanom, Isayas Berhe},
  title = {Objective Estimation of Cybersickness Using Spatially Resolved Visual Motion Metrics},
  booktitle = {2026 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)},
  pages = {651--658},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  year = {2026},
  month = mar,
}

Sports Health

VOMS Baseline Versus Postinjury: A Comparison of a Standardized Novel Prototype and a Virtual Reality Application in Sport-Related Concussion

Philip Pavilionis, Madison Fenner, Kristen G Quigley, and 5 more authors

Mar 2026

DOI Bib HTML

@article{pavilionis2025voms,
  author = {Pavilionis, Philip and Fenner, Madison and Quigley, Kristen G and Adhanom, Isayas Berhe and Moran, Ryan N and Passalacqua, Monique and Szekely, Brian and Murray, Nicholas G},
  journal = {Sports Health},
  title = {VOMS Baseline Versus Postinjury: A Comparison of a Standardized Novel Prototype and a Virtual Reality Application in Sport-Related Concussion},
  year = {2026},
  month = mar,
  volume = {18},
  number = {2},
  pages = {411--419},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1177/19417381251355959},
  doi = {10.1177/19417381251355959},
  type = {journal articles},
}

2025

TVCG

Peripheral teleportation: A rest frame design to mitigate cybersickness during virtual locomotion

Tongyu Nie, Courtney Hutton Pospick, Ville Cantory, and 5 more authors

Apr 2025

DOI Bib HTML

@article{nie2025peripheral,
  author = {Nie, Tongyu and Pospick, Courtney Hutton and Cantory, Ville and Zhang, Danhua and DeGuzman, Jasmine Joyce and Interrante, Victoria and Adhanom, Isayas Berhe and Rosenberg, Evan Suma},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
  title = {Peripheral teleportation: A rest frame design to mitigate cybersickness during virtual locomotion},
  year = {2025},
  month = apr,
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2025.3549568},
  pages = {658-668},
  doi = {10.1109/TVCG.2025.3549568},
  type = {journal articles},
}

2024

Sports Health

Virtual reality application for vestibular/ocular motor screening: current clinical protocol versus a novel prototype

Philip Pavilionis, Isayas Berhe Adhanom, Ryan Moran, and 2 more authors

Mar 2024

DOI Bib HTML

@article{pavilionis2024virtual,
  author = {Pavilionis, Philip and Adhanom, Isayas Berhe and Moran, Ryan and Taylor, Madison R and Murray, Nicholas G},
  journal = {Sports Health},
  title = {Virtual reality application for vestibular/ocular motor screening: current clinical protocol versus a novel prototype},
  year = {2024},
  month = mar,
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1177/19417381231163158},
  pages = {407-413},
  doi = {10.1177/19417381231163158},
  type = {journal articles},
}

2023

IEEE VR

Like a Rolling Stone: Effects of Space Deformation During Linear Acceleration on Slope Perception and Cybersickness

Tongyu Nie, Isayas Berhe Adhanom, and Evan Suma Rosenberg

Mar 2023

DOI Bib HTML

@article{nie2023like,
  author = {Nie, Tongyu and Adhanom, Isayas Berhe and Rosenberg, Evan Suma},
  journal = {2023 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)},
  title = {Like a Rolling Stone: Effects of Space Deformation During Linear Acceleration on Slope Perception and Cybersickness},
  year = {2023},
  month = mar,
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/VR55154.2023.00081},
  pages = {658-668},
  doi = {10.1109/VR55154.2023.00081},
  type = {conference papers},
}

Springer VR

Eye Tracking in Virtual Reality: a Broad Review of Applications and Challenges

Isayas Berhe Adhanom, Paul MacNeilage, and Eelke Folmer

Jan 2023

DOI Bib HTML

@article{adhanom2023Eye,
  title = {Eye Tracking in Virtual Reality: a Broad Review of Applications and Challenges},
  url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10055-022-00738-z},
  doi = {10.1007/s10055-022-00738-z},
  journal = {Virtual Reality},
  author = {Adhanom, Isayas Berhe and MacNeilage, Paul and Folmer, Eelke},
  month = jan,
  year = {2023},
  type = {journal articles},
}

2022

Frontiers VR

VR Sickness Adaptation With Ramped Optic Flow Transfers From Abstract To Realistic Environments

Isayas Adhanom, Savannah Halow, Eelke Folmer, and 1 more author

2022

DOI Bib HTML

@article{adhanom2023vr,
  author = {Adhanom, Isayas and Halow, Savannah and Folmer, Eelke and MacNeilage, Paul},
  title = {VR Sickness Adaptation With Ramped Optic Flow Transfers From Abstract To Realistic Environments},
  journal = {Frontiers in Virtual Reality},
  volume = {3},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frvir.2022.848001},
  doi = {10.3389/frvir.2022.848001},
  issn = {2673-4192},
  type = {journal articles},
}

ISVC

Analysis of Smooth Pursuit Assessment in Virtual Reality and Concussion Detection Using BiLSTM

Prithul Sarker, Khondker Fariha Hossain, Isayas Berhe Adhanom, and 3 more authors

2022

Bib HTML

@article{prithul20222isvc,
  title = {Analysis of Smooth Pursuit Assessment in Virtual Reality and Concussion Detection Using BiLSTM},
  author = {Sarker, Prithul and Hossain, Khondker Fariha and Adhanom, Isayas Berhe and Pavilionis, Philip K and Murray, Nicholas G. and Tavakkoli, Alireza},
  journal = {In Proceedings of Advances in Visual Computing},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {ISVC},
  type = {conference papers},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20716-7_34},
}

ISVC

Virtual-Reality Based Vestibular Ocular Motor Screening for Concussion Detection Using Machine-Learning.

Khondker Fariha Hossain, Sharif Amit Kamran, Prithul Sarker, and 4 more authors

2022

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@article{hossain20222isvc,
  title = {Virtual-Reality Based Vestibular Ocular Motor Screening for Concussion Detection Using Machine-Learning.},
  author = {Hossain, Khondker Fariha and Kamran, Sharif Amit and Sarker, Prithul and Pavilionis, Philip K and Adhanom, Isayas Berhe and Murray, Nicholas G. and Tavakkoli, Alireza},
  journal = {In Proceedings of Advances in Visual Computing },
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {ISVC},
  type = {conference papers},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20716-7_18},
}

2021

Embodied Third-Person Virtual Locomotion using a Single Depth Camera

Aniruddha Prithul, Isayas Berhe Adhanom, and Eelke Folmer

2021

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@article{prithul2021embodied,
  title = {Embodied Third-Person Virtual Locomotion using a Single Depth Camera},
  author = {Prithul, Aniruddha and Adhanom, Isayas Berhe and Folmer, Eelke},
  journal = {Graphics Interface 2021},
  year = {2021},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=tufnZGWrWjR},
  type = {conference papers},
}

ACM TAP

Field-of-View Restriction to Reduce VR Sickness Does Not Impede Spatial Learning in Women

Isayas Berhe Adhanom, Majed Al-Zayer, Paul Macneilage, and 1 more author

May 2021

DOI Bib HTML

@article{adhanom2021watermaze,
  author = {Adhanom, Isayas Berhe and Al-Zayer, Majed and Macneilage, Paul and Folmer, Eelke},
  title = {Field-of-View Restriction to Reduce VR Sickness Does Not Impede Spatial Learning in Women},
  year = {2021},
  issue_date = {June 2021},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  volume = {18},
  number = {2},
  issn = {1544-3558},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3448304},
  doi = {10.1145/3448304},
  journal = {ACM Trans. Appl. Percept.},
  month = may,
  articleno = {5},
  numpages = {17},
  type = {journal articles},
}

IEEEVR

[DC] Towards Universal VR Sickness Mitigation Strategies

Isayas Berhe Adhanom

2021

DOI Bib

@article{adhanom2020universalmitigation,
  author = {Adhanom, Isayas Berhe},
  journal = {2021 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)},
  title = {[DC] Towards Universal VR Sickness Mitigation Strategies},
  year = {2021},
  pages = {735-736},
  doi = {10.1109/VRW52623.2021.00250},
  type = {posters},
}

MSSE

Virtual Reality Application For The Vestibular Ocular Motor Screen: A Comparison With A Novel Prototype.: 1157

Philip Pavilionis, Isayas Berhe Adhanom, Madison R Taylor, and 5 more authors

2021

Bib

@article{pavilionis2021virtual,
  title = {Virtual Reality Application For The Vestibular Ocular Motor Screen: A Comparison With A Novel Prototype.: 1157},
  author = {Pavilionis, Philip and Adhanom, Isayas Berhe and Taylor, Madison R and Netzel, Lauren and Kelly, Marie and Hopfe, Dustin and Constantino, Nora and Murray, Nicholas G},
  journal = {Medicine \& Science in Sports \& Exercise},
  volume = {53},
  number = {8S},
  pages = {375},
  year = {2021},
  publisher = {LWW},
  type = {posters},
}

Frontiers VR

Teleportation in Virtual Reality; A Mini-Review

Aniruddha Prithul, Isayas Berhe Adhanom, and Eelke Folmer

2021

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@article{folmerteleportation,
  title = {Teleportation in Virtual Reality; A Mini-Review},
  author = {Prithul, Aniruddha and Adhanom, Isayas Berhe and Folmer, Eelke},
  journal = {Frontiers in Virtual Reality},
  year = {2021},
  pages = {138},
  publisher = {Frontiers},
  type = {journal articles},
}

2020

IEEE VR

The Effect of a Foveated Field-of-view Restrictor on VR Sickness

Isayas Berhe Adhanom, Nathan Navarro Griffin, Paul MacNeilage, and 1 more author

Mar 2020

DOI Bib HTML

@article{adhanom2020foveated,
  author = {Adhanom, Isayas Berhe and Navarro Griffin, Nathan and MacNeilage, Paul and Folmer, Eelke},
  journal = {2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)},
  title = {The Effect of a Foveated Field-of-view Restrictor on VR Sickness},
  year = {2020},
  month = mar,
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/VR46266.2020.00087},
  pages = {645-652},
  doi = {10.1109/VR46266.2020.00087},
  type = {conference papers},
}

ETRA

GazeMetrics: An Open-Source Tool for Measuring the Data Quality of HMD-Based Eye Trackers

Isayas B. Adhanom, Samantha C. Lee, Eelke Folmer, and 1 more author

, Stuttgart, Germany, 2020

DOI Bib HTML

@article{adhanom2020gazemetrics,
  author = {Adhanom, Isayas B. and Lee, Samantha C. and Folmer, Eelke and MacNeilage, Paul},
  title = {GazeMetrics: An Open-Source Tool for Measuring the Data Quality of HMD-Based Eye Trackers},
  year = {2020},
  isbn = {9781450371346},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3379156.3391374},
  doi = {10.1145/3379156.3391374},
  booktitle = {ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications},
  articleno = {19},
  numpages = {5},
  keywords = {virtual reality, accuracy, precision, eye tracker data quality, Eye tracking, eye movements},
  location = {Stuttgart, Germany},
  series = {ETRA '20 Short Papers},
  type = {conference papers},
}

2019

CHI

The Effect of Field-of-View Restriction on Sex Bias in VR Sickness and Spatial Navigation Performance

Majed Al Zayer, Isayas B. Adhanom, Paul MacNeilage, and 1 more author

2019

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@article{alzayer2019gender,
  author = {Al Zayer, Majed and Adhanom, Isayas B. and MacNeilage, Paul and Folmer, Eelke},
  title = {The Effect of Field-of-View Restriction on Sex Bias in VR Sickness and Spatial Navigation Performance},
  year = {2019},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300584},
  journal = {Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
  pages = {1--12},
  numpages = {12},
  type = {conference papers},
}

Preprint

A First Look into Neural Machine Translation for Tigrinya

Isayas Berhe Adhanom and Emily M. Hand

2019

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@article{adhanom2019nlp,
  title = {A First Look into Neural Machine Translation for Tigrinya},
  author = {Adhanom, Isayas Berhe and Hand, Emily M.},
  journal = {Researchgate},
  year = {2019},
  type = {preprints},
}