Publications

Mykola Maslych, Mohammadreza Katebi, Christopher Lee, Yahya Hmaiti, Amirpouya Ghasemaghaei, Christian Pumarada, Janneese Palmer, Esteban Segarra Martinez, Marco Emporio, Warren Snipes, Ryan P. McMahan, Joseph J. Laviola Jr (2025). Mitigating Response Delays in Free-Form Conversations with LLM-powered Intelligent Virtual Agents. In CUI ‘25.

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Ashmal Vayani, Dinura Dissanayake, Hasindri Watawana, Noor Ahsan, Nevasini Sasikumar, Omkar Thawakar, Henok Biadglign Ademtew, Yahya Hmaiti, Amandeep Kumar, Kartik Kuckreja, Mykola Maslych, Wafa Al Ghallabi, Mihail Mihaylov, Chao Qin, Abdelrahman M Shaker, Mike Zhang, Mahardika Krisna Ihsani, Amiel Esplana, Monil Gokani, Shachar Mirkin, Harsh Singh, Ashay Srivastava, Endre Hamerlik, Fathinah Asma Izzati, Fadillah Adamsyah Maani, Sebastian Cavada, Jenny Chim, Rohit Gupta, Sanjay Manjunath, Kamila Zhumakhanova, Feno Heriniaina Rabevohitra, Azril Amirudin, Muhammad Ridzuan, Daniya Kareem, Ketan More, Kunyang Li, Pramesh Shakya, Muhammad Saad, Amirpouya Ghasemaghaei, Amirbek Djanibekov, Dilshod Azizov, Branislava Jankovic, Naman Bhatia, Alvaro Cabrera, Johan Obando-Ceron, Olympiah Otieno, Fabian Farestam, Muztoba Rabbani, Sanoojan Baliah, Santosh Sanjeev, Abduragim Shtanchaev, Maheen Fatima, Thao Nguyen, Amrin Kareem, Toluwani Aremu, Nathan Xavier, Amit Bhatkal, Hawau Toyin, Aman Chadha, Hisham Cholakkal, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Michael Felsberg, Jorma Laaksonen, Thamar Solorio, Monojit Choudhury, Ivan Laptev, Mubarak Shah, Salman Khan, Fahad Khan (2025). All Languages Matter: Evaluating LMMs on Culturally Diverse 100 Languages. In CVPR ‘25.

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Mykola Maslych, Christian Pumarada, Amirpouya Ghasemaghaei, Joseph J. Laviola Jr (2024). Takeaways from Applying LLM Capabilities to Multiple Conversational Avatars in a VR Pilot Study. arXiv Preprint ‘25.

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Mykola Maslych, Difeng Yu, Amirpouya Ghasemaghaei, Yahya Hmaiti, Esteban Segarra Martinez, Dominic Simon, Eugene M Taranta II, Joanna Bergström, Joseph J. Laviola Jr (2024). From Research to Practice: Survey and Taxonomy of Object Selection in Consumer VR Applications. In ISMAR ‘24.

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Yahya Hmaiti, Mykola Maslych, Amirpouya Ghasemaghaei, Ryan K. Ghamandi, Joseph J. Laviola Jr (2024). Visual Perceptual Confidence: Exploring Discrepancies Between Self-reported and Actual Distance Perception In Virtual Reality. In TVCG ‘24.

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Amirpouya Ghasemaghaei, Mykola Maslych, Yahya Hmaiti, Esteban Segarra Martinez, Joseph J. Laviola Jr (2024). Towards Better Throwing: A Comparison of Performance and Preferences Across Point of Release Mechanics in Virtual Reality. In GI ‘24.

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Ryan Ghamandi, Ravi Kiran Kattoju, Yahya Hmaiti, Mykola Maslych, Eugene M. Taranta II, Ryan P. McMahan, Joseph J. Laviola Jr (2024). Unlocking Understanding: An Investigation of Multimodal Communication in Virtual Reality Collaboration. In CHI ‘24.

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Amirpouya Ghasemaghaei, Yahya Hmaiti, Mykola Maslych, Esteban Segarra Martinez, Joseph J. Laviola Jr (2024). Throwing in Virtual Reality: Performance and Preferences Across Input Device Configurations. In VRW ‘24.

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Yahya Hmaiti, Mykola Maslych, Eugene M. Taranta, Joseph J. Laviola Jr (2023). An Exploration of The Effects of Head-Centric Rest Frames On Egocentric Distance Judgments in VR. In ISMAR ‘23.

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Mykola Maslych, Eugene M. Taranta II, Mostafa Aldilati, Joseph J. Laviola Jr (2023). Effective 2D Stroke-based Gesture Augmentation for RNNs. In CHI ‘23.

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Mykola Maslych, Yahya Hmaiti, Ryan Ghamandi, Paige Leber, Ravi Kiran Kattoju, Jacob Belga, Joseph J. Laviola Jr (2023). Toward Intuitive Acquisition of Occluded VR Objects Through an Interactive Disocclusion Mini-map. In VR ‘23.

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Eugene M. Taranta II, Mykola Maslych, Ryan Ghamandi, Joseph J. Laviola Jr (2022). The Voight-Kampff Machine for Automatic Custom Gesture Rejection Threshold Selection. In CHI ‘22.

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Eugene M. Taranta II, Corey R. Pittman, Mehran Maghoumi, Mykola Maslych, Yasmine M. Moolenaar, Joseph J. Laviola Jr (2021). Machete: Easy, Efficient, and Precise Continuous Custom Gesture Segmentation. In TOCHI ‘21.

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Eugene M. Taranta II, Corey R. Pittman, Jack P. Oakley, Mykola Maslych, Mehran Maghoumi, Joseph J. Laviola Jr (2020). Moving Toward an Ecologically Valid Data Collection Protocol for 2D Gestures In Video Games. In CHI ‘20.

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