The UL Team had a fantastic experience at the IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR 2025). The premier conference in the field of virtual and augmented reality took place in Saint-Malo, France, where the UL team presented their work "Brain Signatures of Time Perception in Virtual Reality", which was recognized as a top submission and accepted into a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).

Sahar has posted a Medium article summarizing the UL’s recent paper on time perception in virtual reality, which was presented at the ACM VRST conference in Trier. The study explores how user engagement and environmental dynamics in virtual reality influence users' subjective experience of time. You can find the article here.

The UL Team attended the 30th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2024) in Trier, Germany, where Sahar presented their paper "Some Times Fly: The Effects of Engagement and Environmental Dynamics on Time Perception in Virtual Reality".

We are excited to announce that TRF’s first training school in collaboration with ChronoPilot was a success! The school took place in Chios, Greece from 23-27th of July. Trainers from ChronoPilot covered various topics including psychophysics of timing, robotics, machine learning, decision making models, physiological data analyses, and mediated reality. You can reach the presentations from all of the sessions here.

The ChronoPilot project is featured in a SciLux X Research Luxembourg podcast episode released on July 2nd, 2024, on all major platforms. Host Hanna Siemaszko interviews Jean Botev, Sahar Niknam, and Argiro Vatakis about ChronoPilot and how mediated reality and time perception are related.

We are excited to announce the upcoming ChronoPilot Summer School! It will take place on 23-28 July 2024 in Chios, Greece. ChronoPilot teams will prepare lectures in addition to hands-on sessions. We are looking forward to meeting the participants!

The UL team's work was recently introduced to a broader audiance by Jean Botev, who was invited to have a conversation with reowned artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster on March 17, 2023 at Casino Luxembourg. They discussed her VR artwork Endodrome and the general potential of virtual reality for artistic expression and experience.

JLU team had an interview with Lea Seitz from Gießener Allgemeine. The interview focused on the multimodal haptic vest and ChronoPilot aim to understand and modulate human time perception.

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ChronoPilot team had a great meeting in beautiful Gent. We talked about our progress with each other and tried the driving simulation. We are grateful to the Gent team for organizing the meeting!

UL Team was at the 6th IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & eXtended and Virtual Reality! The conference took place in Los Angeles, USA (17-19 January, 2024).

Rhythmic Stimuli and Time Experience in Virtual Reality paper by Steven Picard and Jean Botev is awarded with the Scientific Paper Honorary Mention Award at the EUROXR 2023 in Rotterdam.

UL Team demonstrated their ChronoPilot work and different methods of altering human time perception at the Luxemburg Science Festival in November, 2023.

ChronoPilot members were at the Timing Research Forum in October, 2023. ChronoPilot Symposium "A multidisciplinary approach for the modulation of the human subjective time experience" consisted of five talks - one from each partner - with the current research findings and their implications in the scope of ChronoPilot.

JLU Team had great time at World Haptics 2023 which is the major conference in the field of haptics. The team disseminated the ChronoPilot findings with two talks and a workshop. Bora presented a talk on the ChronoPilot multimodal vest and Müge had a talk about the effect of emotional stimuli on time perception of neutral tactile events. In the workshop, Knut presented the various research findings of the JLU team on time perception and the aims of the ChronoPilot project.

JLU Team's Workshop submission for the IEEE World Haptics Conference in Delft is accepted! This workshop brings together experts from academia to industry, who show how vibrotactile and haptic feedback technology can be applied in a wide area of different use cases.More details can be found on the workshop website.

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Bora (top) presented his work on tap-and-pop effect where he demonstrated the haptic analog for pip-and-pop effect. Müge (bottom) presented the collaborative work with UKON and PANTEION on time perception and emotion in real-life human-swarm interaction scenario. Congrats!

We are happy to announce that our symposia submission "A multidisciplinary approach for the modulation of the human subjective time experience" for the Timing Research Forum is accepted. We are looking forward to meeting you in Portugal!

ChronoPilot featured in an article in Giessener Anzeiger. The article summarizes the ChronoPilot project's goals and aims.The full article can be obtained from the link.

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Julian presented presented his work where he investigated the effect of swarm size and speed on human time perception. This project was a collaboration between UKON, JLU, and PANTEION. We are looking forward to further collaborative works!

ChronoPilot team had an amazing time in Luxembourg. We shared our progress with each other, tried the VR demo and the multimodal ChronoPilot vest. We are grateful to the Luxembourg team for organizing the meeting!

ChronoPilot has been active during autumn 2022! Firstly, PANTEION team participated in a demonstration of the projects’ activities and progress as a part of 2022 European Researchers’ Night. PANTEION has also participated in Athens Science Festival, where a wide range of audience including academic and industry stakeholders along with members of the public were informed about scientific progress of our project.

JLU Team demonstrated a vibrotactile sleeve and a vest to wide range of audience from various age groups and professions. We are proud that their pavilion attracted so much attention!

ChronoPilot project meeting happened in Athens, Greece. It was really exciting to meet the project members, this time in person. We are really grateful to PANTEION team who organized this amazing meeting!

The JLU Team has finalized the Haptic Vest and Gauntlet prototypes. Both wearables will be used to create time-altering effects during and beyond the ChronoPilot project lifetime. Congrats Team!

ChronoPilot would like to congratulate Jean Botev, Knut Drewing, Heiko Hamann, Yara Khaluf, Pieter Simoens, and Argiro Vatakis, who published the very first collaborative ChronoPilot paper in IEEE Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR) Proceedings. The paper is titled “ChronoPilot – Modulating Time Perception”. Jean Botev based at Luxembourg University presented this paper at 2021 IEEE AIVR which can be found here.

The EU Project ChronoPilot had its first meeting today on the 8th of October, 2021. The ChronoPilot project is excited to meet and catch up with all the members.