[{"jcr:title":"Insper Computer Engineering students and professor recognized for paper on extended reality","cq:tags_0":"tipos-de-conteudo:pesquisa-na-graduação","cq:tags_1":"area-de-conhecimento:ciência-da-computação","cq:tags_2":"docentes:","cq:tags_3":"programas:graduacao"},{"richText":"At SVR 2025, Brazil’s leading virtual and augmented reality event, research derived from a Capstone project integrating artificial intelligence technologies with augmented reality interfaces earned top honors.","authorDate":"14/10/2025 19h36","author":"Leandro Steiw","madeBy":"Por","tag":"tipos-de-conteudo:pesquisa-na-graduação","title":"Insper Computer Engineering students and professor recognized for paper on extended reality","variant":"imagecolor"},{"jcr:title":"transparente - turquesa - vermelho"},{"themeName":"transparente - turquesa - vermelho"},{"containerType":"containerTwo"},{"jcr:title":"Grid Container Section","layout":"responsiveGrid"},{"jcr:title":"Professor Luciano Soares with student Rafael Melhado (center)","alt":"Professor Luciano Soares with student Rafael Melhado (center)"},{"text":"The paper “AI-Driven Responsive GUI for XR: Context-Aware Visual Adaptation”, produced by Insper students and a faculty member, received the Best Paper Award at the 27th Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality (SVR 2025). The country’s foremost scientific conference on virtual and augmented reality is organized annually by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC). The academic paper was authored by André Corrêa Santos, Pedro Bittar Barão, and Rafael Melhado Araujo Lima, all Computer Engineering students, alongside Professor Luciano Pereira Soares. As part of the Capstone program in the second semester of 2024, in partnership with NTT DATA, the team developed interactions combining technologies such as graphical user interfaces (GUI), extended reality (XR), and artificial intelligence (AI). The award-winning paper is an evolution of that project. “I consider this result especially meaningful because SVR is a well-established and rigorous conference, with a strong presence of seasoned research groups, including master’s and doctoral students,” says Soares. “Even so, we managed to stand out, which makes me very happy.” According to Santos, certain graphical interfaces — such as a menu of options — can obstruct real-world objects or people that users need to see during immersion in augmented reality (AR) environments, one of the XR technologies. In domestic applications, a gamer using AR glasses needs to be aware of furniture, people, or pets while moving around a room to ensure safety. Now imagine such obstructions occurring in extended reality tools used in industrial contexts. This was the scenario explored by the students under Soares’s guidance. The research proposes automatic positioning and coloring of GUI elements, allowing interactive panels to dynamically adapt to environmental and contextual conditions. The system employs computer vision techniques and generative AI models. “This real-time adaptation ensures that the interface repositions itself to prevent occlusion of real-world elements and adjusts visual properties such as color and contrast for optimal legibility and user comfort,” explains Soares. The idea for the paper evolved from the conclusion of the Capstone project, with encouragement from mentors at the partner company, who were enthusiastic about the results. In 2025, 122 papers were submitted to the symposium, representing Brazil’s top public and private universities. The SVR also features participation from national research centers, tech companies, and international institutions. Santos prepared the academic paper, while Melhado presented it at the conference. The work was further refined in June and July, when Soares and Santos returned for another research exchange at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in the United States. “We took advantage of our time there to improve a project that was already strong and achieved this recognition,” says Soares. The award came as a surprise to the student. “I honestly didn’t expect it, since Professor Luciano had mentioned, based on previous submissions to SVR, that the paper acceptance rate was not very high,” recalls Santos. Professor Soares notes that papers published at SVR undergo a rigorous double-blind review process, in which authors and reviewers remain anonymous to ensure impartiality and scientific quality. The symposium’s proceedings are indexed in leading international repositories such as IEEE Xplore and the ACM Digital Library, further increasing the visibility and impact of Brazilian research. Upon returning to Illinois, Santos continued his work with the Parasol Lab, led by Professor Nancy Amato, contributing to a project developing virtual reality interaction systems with robotic joints for use in hazardous environments. The change of pace, he says, helped the research process: “When you’re caught up in the rush of classes, assignments, and deadlines, it’s hard to manage everything at once. But in a research-driven environment, where everyone is focused on investigation, things flow much more naturally.”"},{"jcr:title":"Professor Luciano Soares with the robot from the sponsoring company","fileName":"Luciano Soares_com_robo_de_patrocinador.jpg","alt":"Professor Luciano Soares with the robot from the sponsoring company"}]