Congratulations to the SEAMLESS and VIRTUS teams, who received awards at the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2026

The ACM SAP 2026 - Symposium on Applied Perception international conference, which took place in Rennes at the Inria centre at the University of Rennes on 26–27 August, recognised the S/node/1649EAMLESS and VIRTUS research teams.

• Congratulations for the the Best Paper Award, to the SEAMLESS team to Sony Saint-Auret (PhD student at Inria), Valérie Gouranton (Professor, INSA Rennes), Ronan Gaugne (Research Engineer, University of Rennes), Richard Kulpa (Professor, University of Rennes 2), Ludovic Hoyet (Researcher, Inria) and Franck Multon (Research Director, Inria) for their paper ‘How does motion-to-photon latency influence the perception-action loop’
• Congratulations for the best honourable mention, to the VIRTUS team to Tony Wolff (Inria PhD student), Anne-Hélène Olivier (Senior Lecturer, University of Rennes 2) and Katja Zibrek (Researcher, Inria), Julien Pettré (Research Director, Inria) and Ludovic Hoyet (Researcher, Inria) for their paper “Facing Yourself: A Proxemic Approach to Self-Dyadic Interactions”
• And congratulations on the Best Poster Award, to Jefta de Leeuw van Weenen (PhD student at RWTH Aachen University) and his co-authors, including Anne-Hélène Olivier (a researcher at the University of Rennes 2 as part of the VIRTUS team), Tom Vierjahn, Torsten W. Kuhlen and Andrea Bönsch, for their paper entitled ‘Effects of Virtual-Agent Gender and Gaze Whilst Waiting in a Confined VR Space’ by Jefta de Leeuw van Weenen