A half-day workshop at IEEE VR 2027, Melbourne. Saturday 27 February.

SLEEP-XR

Shiftwork, long-duration exposure, and effects on performance in extended reality

Most XR studies are short sessions in a lab. People are starting to wear headsets for whole shifts. This workshop is about working out, together, how to study what happens to attention, fatigue and perception over hours, weeks and months.

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This is a psychomotor vigilance task, or PVT. Everyone in the room does five during the workshop, and we look at the pooled results together at the end.

Call for papers

We want to understand how fatigue, sleep, shiftwork and long exposure change the way people perform in XR, and to agree on shared ways of measuring it so labs can pool data across sites.

What to send

Papers of 3–4 pages, excluding references: user studies, longitudinal or in-the-wild work, methods, case studies, reviews or position papers. Use the IEEE VGTC conference format and remove author details for review.

Accepted papers are published in the IEEE Digital Library. At least one author presents in Melbourne.

Submissions open soon

Fatigue during prolonged XR use Physical, visual and cognitive fatigue across long and repeated sessions
Sustained attention and cognitive performance Reaction time, workload and decision-making over extended use, including the PVT
Sleep, shiftwork and circadian factors Sleep loss, irregular hours and time of day
Perception and sensory adaptation Visual and depth perception, spatial awareness and adaptation to immersion
Embodied interaction and physical performance Movement, posture, coordination and ergonomics over time
Cybersickness, wellbeing and safety Cumulative discomfort and how it relates to fatigue and performance
Longitudinal and in-the-wild methods Study designs that go beyond a single lab session
Shared research infrastructure Common protocols, shared datasets and multi-site studies

Dates

Papers due 7 Dec 2026 Monday
Notification 7 Jan 2027 Thursday
Camera-ready 12 Jan 2027 Tuesday
Workshop 27 Feb 2027 Saturday, Melbourne

Deadlines close at 23:59 anywhere on Earth (AoE).

Flying in?

The workshop starts at 9 am on Saturday 27 February, Melbourne time.

Bring your jet lag with you. On the day we ask where you flew in from, and it becomes part of the room's data.

Program

A morning that's mostly hands-on. The red marks are the five PVTs, spaced through the session so we can see attention change as the morning goes on.

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09:50 Keynote: fatigue and human performance
10:25 Propose and dot-vote on experimental tasks
11:25 Lightning talks from accepted papers
12:10 The protocol revealed, and forming research groups
12:45 Looking at the room's PVT data together

Organisers

Neven ElSayedAdelaide University
James BaumeisterAdelaide University
Ernst KruijffHochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg

Program committee

Adam Drogemuller, Flinders University
Benjamin Volmer, Adelaide University
Ammaar Zammaan, Know Center Research GmbH
Crystal Yates, Adelaide University
Linda Grosser, Adelaide University
Anatole Lécuyer, Inria Rennes, IRISA
Siobhan Banks, Adelaide University