ISSTA 2025
Wed 25 - Sat 28 June 2025 Trondheim, Norway
co-located with FSE 2025
Thu 26 Jun 2025 14:50 - 15:15 at Cosmos 3A - Extended Reality and Autonomous Systems Chair(s): Lingming Zhang

In recent years, the extended reality (XR) software ecosystem has emerged as the next ubiquitous computing platform, as they provide users with immersive interactive experiences. However, XR ecosystem suffers from cybersickness problems, which would greatly affect user comfort and safety, leading to symptoms like headaches, disorientation, etc. That makes effective cybersickness assessment a timely and important question. The state-of-the-art methods of assessing the cybersickness of XR software typically monitor the biological metrics of users, during XR usage, which rely heavily on manual playtesting,sufferring from limited scalability issue. User reviews on XR app stores are informative for developers to learn the cybersickness ratings of their apps and the reasons behind. Nevertheless, the large number of user reviews can hardly be analyzed by developers manually, and most current automatic user review analysis methods can only provide coarse-grained or abstract results, such as extracting several high-level key topic groups discussed by reviews. Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) may bring new opportunities. However, directly leveraging LLMs for evaluating XR cybersickness is challenging because LLMs perform poorly on a large number of short texts, and their context window is limited. To address these challenges, we introduce XRCare, a comprehensive framework designed to automate the assessment of cybersickness and root cause reasoning for XR apps by resorting to fine-grained user review analysis. XRCare mainly includes three phases: (1) Insight pool construction, when XRCare collects the cybersickness analyzing chains and corresponding analyzing results from domain experts; (2) Reasoning graph construction, when XRCare dynamically extracts, categorizes, and maintains the reasons from user reviews that make users feel cybersickness on a self-evolving hierarchical graph; and (3) Multi-agent deductive cybersickness reasoning, which utilizes a multi-agent system to simulate diverse user demographics for analyzing and rating the intensity of cybersickness, as well as the causes of cybersickness. This structured approach allows XRCare to systematically identify, categorize, and address instances of cybersickness. For experiments, we construct a large-scale dataset consisting of 685,111 user reviews from 9,667 XR apps. Our evaluation shows that XRCare enhances the F1-score by 17.46% over the best-performing baseline and by 28.03% on average across all baselines, while also offering more accurate and detailed interpretability insights.

Thu 26 Jun

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14:00 - 15:15
Extended Reality and Autonomous SystemsResearch Papers at Cosmos 3A
Chair(s): Lingming Zhang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
14:00
25m
Talk
Assessing Scene Generation Techniques for Testing COLREGS-Compliance of Autonomous Surface Vehicles
Research Papers
Dominik Frey Linköping University, Ulf Kargén Linköping University, Daniel Varro Linköping University / McGill University
DOI
14:25
25m
Talk
Reinforcement Learning-based Fuzz Testing for the Gazebo Robotic Simulator
Research Papers
Zhilei Ren Dalian University of Technology, Yitao Li Dalian University of Technology, Xiaochen Li Dalian University of Technology, Guanxiao Qi Dalian University of Technology, Jifeng Xuan Wuhan University, He Jiang Dalian University of Technology
DOI
14:50
25m
Talk
Extended Reality Cybersickness Assessment via User Review Analysis
Research Papers
Shuqing Li The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Qisheng Zheng Harbin Institute of Technology, Cuiyun Gao Harbin Institute of Technology, jiafeng Harbin Institute of Technology, Michael Lyu Chinese University of Hong Kong
DOI

Information for Participants
Thu 26 Jun 2025 14:00 - 15:15 at Cosmos 3A - Extended Reality and Autonomous Systems Chair(s): Lingming Zhang
Info for room Cosmos 3A:

Cosmos 3A is the first room in the Cosmos 3 wing.

When facing the main Cosmos Hall, access to the Cosmos 3 wing is on the left, close to the stairs. The area is accessed through a large door with the number “3”, which will stay open during the event.

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