Dear Colleagues,

Virtual and augmented reality technology has seen tremendous progress in recent years, enabling novel and exciting ways to interact inside virtual environments. An interesting approach to interaction in VR and AR is the use of tangible user interfaces, which leverage on our natural understanding of the physical world and how our bodies move and interact with it, and on our learned capabilities to manipulate physical objects.

For this Special Issue, we are interested in gathering research that bridges atoms and bits in virtual and augmented environments. Basic research papers that demonstrate new interaction technologies or techniques, descriptions of applications that use tangibles in VR/AR in any domain, and survey papers that can help structure and systematize current knowledge on this area are all suitable. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Technologies for object detection/recognition in AR
Interaction techniques that use tangibles/embodied interactions
Haptic systems and interactions for VR/AR
Authoring systems
Programming libraries, toolkits, and frameworks
Applications in cultural heritage, medicine, rehabilitation, gaming, entertainment, teaching, training, visualization, etc.
Design methodologies
Evaluation methodologies

Dr. Jorge C. S. Cardoso
Dr. André Perrotta
Dr. Paula Alexandra Silva
Dr. Pedro Martins
Guest Editors

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Keywords
virtual reality
VR/AR applications
brain science for VR/AR
VR/AR collaboration
computer graphics for VR/AR
tangible interaction
embodied interaction
multimodal VR/AR
haptics
human–computer interactions in VR/AR
human augmentations with VR/AR
human–computer interactions in VR/AR
human factors in VR/AR
programming libraries/toolkits for VR/AR
360 video
3D experiences
digital storytelling
mobile technologies
human–robot interactions with VR/AR