publications | Isayas Berhe Adhanom

Journal Articles

TVCG

Revenge of the Sick: A Meta-Analysis of Washout Periods in Cybersickness Research

Tongyu Nie, Ville Cantory, Courtney Hutton Pospick, and 7 more authors

Jun 2026

@article{nie2026revenge,
  author = {Nie, Tongyu and Cantory, Ville and Pospick, Courtney Hutton and Zhang, Danhua and Tan, Haoyu and Adeniyi, Sam and Wu, Fei and Zielasko, Daniel and Adhanom, Isayas Berhe and Rosenberg, Evan Suma},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
  title = {Revenge of the Sick: A Meta-Analysis of Washout Periods in Cybersickness Research},
  year = {2026},
  month = jun,
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2026.3704898},
  pages = {1--20},
  doi = {10.1109/TVCG.2026.3704898},
  type = {journal articles},
}

TVCG

Peripheral teleportation: A rest frame design to mitigate cybersickness during virtual locomotion

Tongyu Nie, Courtney Hutton Pospick, Ville Cantory, and 5 more authors

Apr 2025

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@article{nie2025peripheral,
  author = {Nie, Tongyu and Pospick, Courtney Hutton and Cantory, Ville and Zhang, Danhua and DeGuzman, Jasmine Joyce and Interrante, Victoria and Adhanom, Isayas Berhe and Rosenberg, Evan Suma},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
  title = {Peripheral teleportation: A rest frame design to mitigate cybersickness during virtual locomotion},
  year = {2025},
  month = apr,
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2025.3549568},
  pages = {658-668},
  doi = {10.1109/TVCG.2025.3549568},
  type = {journal articles},
}

Sports Health

VOMS Baseline Versus Postinjury: A Comparison of a Standardized Novel Prototype and a Virtual Reality Application in Sport-Related Concussion

Philip Pavilionis, Madison Fenner, Kristen G Quigley, and 5 more authors

Mar 2025

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@article{pavilionis2025voms,
  author = {Pavilionis, Philip and Fenner, Madison and Quigley, Kristen G and Adhanom, Isayas Berhe and Moran, Ryan N and Passalacqua, Monique and Szekely, Brian and Murray, Nicholas G},
  journal = {Sports Health},
  title = {VOMS Baseline Versus Postinjury: A Comparison of a Standardized Novel Prototype and a Virtual Reality Application in Sport-Related Concussion},
  year = {2025},
  month = mar,
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1177/19417381251355959},
  pages = {407-413},
  doi = {10.1177/19417381251355959},
  type = {journal articles},
}

Sports Health

Virtual reality application for vestibular/ocular motor screening: current clinical protocol versus a novel prototype

Philip Pavilionis, Isayas Berhe Adhanom, Ryan Moran, and 2 more authors

Mar 2024

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@article{pavilionis2024virtual,
  author = {Pavilionis, Philip and Adhanom, Isayas Berhe and Moran, Ryan and Taylor, Madison R and Murray, Nicholas G},
  journal = {Sports Health},
  title = {Virtual reality application for vestibular/ocular motor screening: current clinical protocol versus a novel prototype},
  year = {2024},
  month = mar,
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1177/19417381231163158},
  pages = {407-413},
  doi = {10.1177/19417381231163158},
  type = {journal articles},
}

Frontiers VR

VR Sickness Adaptation With Ramped Optic Flow Transfers From Abstract To Realistic Environments

Isayas Adhanom, Savannah Halow, Eelke Folmer, and 1 more author

2022

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@article{adhanom2023vr,
  author = {Adhanom, Isayas and Halow, Savannah and Folmer, Eelke and MacNeilage, Paul},
  title = {VR Sickness Adaptation With Ramped Optic Flow Transfers From Abstract To Realistic Environments},
  journal = {Frontiers in Virtual Reality},
  volume = {3},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frvir.2022.848001},
  doi = {10.3389/frvir.2022.848001},
  issn = {2673-4192},
  type = {journal articles},
}

Springer VR

Eye Tracking in Virtual Reality: a Broad Review of Applications and Challenges

Isayas Berhe Adhanom, Paul MacNeilage, and Eelke Folmer

Jan 2023

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@article{adhanom2023Eye,
  title = {Eye Tracking in Virtual Reality: a Broad Review of Applications and Challenges},
  url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10055-022-00738-z},
  doi = {10.1007/s10055-022-00738-z},
  journal = {Virtual Reality},
  author = {Adhanom, Isayas Berhe and MacNeilage, Paul and Folmer, Eelke},
  month = jan,
  year = {2023},
  type = {journal articles},
}

ACM TAP

Field-of-View Restriction to Reduce VR Sickness Does Not Impede Spatial Learning in Women

Isayas Berhe Adhanom, Majed Al-Zayer, Paul Macneilage, and 1 more author

May 2021

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@article{adhanom2021watermaze,
  author = {Adhanom, Isayas Berhe and Al-Zayer, Majed and Macneilage, Paul and Folmer, Eelke},
  title = {Field-of-View Restriction to Reduce VR Sickness Does Not Impede Spatial Learning in Women},
  year = {2021},
  issue_date = {June 2021},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  volume = {18},
  number = {2},
  issn = {1544-3558},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3448304},
  doi = {10.1145/3448304},
  journal = {ACM Trans. Appl. Percept.},
  month = may,
  articleno = {5},
  numpages = {17},
  type = {journal articles},
}

Frontiers VR

Teleportation in Virtual Reality; A Mini-Review

Aniruddha Prithul, Isayas Berhe Adhanom, and Eelke Folmer

2021

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@article{folmerteleportation,
  title = {Teleportation in Virtual Reality; A Mini-Review},
  author = {Prithul, Aniruddha and Adhanom, Isayas Berhe and Folmer, Eelke},
  journal = {Frontiers in Virtual Reality},
  year = {2021},
  pages = {138},
  publisher = {Frontiers},
  type = {journal articles},
}

Sports Health

Virtual Reality Application for Vestibular/Ocular Motor Screening: Current Clinical Protocol Versus a Novel Prototype

Philip Pavilionis, Isayas Berhe Adhanom, Ryan Moran, and 2 more authors

2023

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@article{pavilionis23sports,
  title = {Virtual Reality Application for Vestibular/Ocular Motor Screening: Current Clinical Protocol Versus a Novel Prototype},
  author = {Pavilionis, Philip and Adhanom, Isayas Berhe and Moran, Ryan and Taylor, Madison R. and Murray, Nicholas G.},
  journal = {Sports Health},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {Sports Health},
  type = {journal articles},
}

Conference Articles

VRW

Objective Estimation of Cybersickness Using Spatially Resolved Visual Motion Metrics

Mahfujur Rahman and Isayas Berhe Adhanom

Mar 2026

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@inproceedings{rahman2026objective,
  author = {Rahman, Mahfujur and Adhanom, Isayas Berhe},
  booktitle = {2026 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)},
  title = {Objective Estimation of Cybersickness Using Spatially Resolved Visual Motion Metrics},
  year = {2026},
  month = mar,
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/VRW70859.2026.00128},
  pages = {651--658},
  doi = {10.1109/VRW70859.2026.00128},
  type = {conference papers},
}

IEEE VR

Like a Rolling Stone: Effects of Space Deformation During Linear Acceleration on Slope Perception and Cybersickness

Tongyu Nie, Isayas Berhe Adhanom, and Evan Suma Rosenberg

Mar 2023

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@inproceedings{nie2023like,
  author = {Nie, Tongyu and Adhanom, Isayas Berhe and Rosenberg, Evan Suma},
  journal = {2023 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)},
  title = {Like a Rolling Stone: Effects of Space Deformation During Linear Acceleration on Slope Perception and Cybersickness},
  year = {2023},
  month = mar,
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/VR55154.2023.00081},
  pages = {658-668},
  doi = {10.1109/VR55154.2023.00081},
  type = {conference papers},
}

Embodied Third-Person Virtual Locomotion using a Single Depth Camera

Aniruddha Prithul, Isayas Berhe Adhanom, and Eelke Folmer

2021

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@inproceedings{prithul2021embodied,
  title = {Embodied Third-Person Virtual Locomotion using a Single Depth Camera},
  author = {Prithul, Aniruddha and Adhanom, Isayas Berhe and Folmer, Eelke},
  journal = {Graphics Interface 2021},
  year = {2021},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=tufnZGWrWjR},
  type = {conference papers},
}

IEEE VR

The Effect of a Foveated Field-of-view Restrictor on VR Sickness

Isayas Berhe Adhanom, Nathan Navarro Griffin, Paul MacNeilage, and 1 more author

Mar 2020

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@inproceedings{adhanom2020foveated,
  author = {Adhanom, Isayas Berhe and Navarro Griffin, Nathan and MacNeilage, Paul and Folmer, Eelke},
  journal = {2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)},
  title = {The Effect of a Foveated Field-of-view Restrictor on VR Sickness},
  year = {2020},
  month = mar,
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/VR46266.2020.00087},
  pages = {645-652},
  doi = {10.1109/VR46266.2020.00087},
  type = {conference papers},
}

ETRA

GazeMetrics: An Open-Source Tool for Measuring the Data Quality of HMD-Based Eye Trackers

Isayas B. Adhanom, Samantha C. Lee, Eelke Folmer, and 1 more author

, Stuttgart, Germany, 2020

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@inproceedings{adhanom2020gazemetrics,
  author = {Adhanom, Isayas B. and Lee, Samantha C. and Folmer, Eelke and MacNeilage, Paul},
  title = {GazeMetrics: An Open-Source Tool for Measuring the Data Quality of HMD-Based Eye Trackers},
  year = {2020},
  isbn = {9781450371346},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3379156.3391374},
  doi = {10.1145/3379156.3391374},
  booktitle = {ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications},
  articleno = {19},
  numpages = {5},
  keywords = {virtual reality, accuracy, precision, eye tracker data quality, Eye tracking, eye movements},
  location = {Stuttgart, Germany},
  series = {ETRA '20 Short Papers},
  type = {conference papers},
}

CHI

The Effect of Field-of-View Restriction on Sex Bias in VR Sickness and Spatial Navigation Performance

Majed Al Zayer, Isayas B. Adhanom, Paul MacNeilage, and 1 more author

2019

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@inproceedings{alzayer2019gender,
  author = {Al Zayer, Majed and Adhanom, Isayas B. and MacNeilage, Paul and Folmer, Eelke},
  title = {The Effect of Field-of-View Restriction on Sex Bias in VR Sickness and Spatial Navigation Performance},
  year = {2019},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300584},
  journal = {Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
  pages = {1-–12},
  numpages = {12},
  type = {conference papers},
}

ISVC

Analysis of Smooth Pursuit Assessment in Virtual Reality and Concussion Detection Using BiLSTM

Prithul Sarker, Khondker Fariha Hossain, Isayas Berhe Adhanom, and 3 more authors

2022

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@inproceedings{prithul20222isvc,
  title = {Analysis of Smooth Pursuit Assessment in Virtual Reality and Concussion Detection Using BiLSTM},
  author = {Sarker, Prithul and Hossain, Khondker Fariha and Adhanom, Isayas Berhe and Pavilionis, Philip K and Murray, Nicholas G. and Tavakkoli, Alireza},
  journal = {In Proceedings of Advances in Visual Computing},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {ISVC},
  type = {conference papers},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20716-7_34},
}

ISVC

Virtual-Reality Based Vestibular Ocular Motor Screening for Concussion Detection Using Machine-Learning.

Khondker Fariha Hossain, Sharif Amit Kamran, Prithul Sarker, and 4 more authors

2022

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@inproceedings{hossain20222isvc,
  title = {Virtual-Reality Based Vestibular Ocular Motor Screening for Concussion Detection Using Machine-Learning.},
  author = {Hossain, Khondker Fariha and and Kamran, Sharif Amit and Sarker, Prithul and Pavilionis, Philip K and Adhanom, Isayas Berhe and Murray, Nicholas G. and Tavakkoli, Alireza},
  journal = {In Proceedings of Advances in Visual Computing },
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {ISVC},
  type = {conference papers},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20716-7_18},
}

Miscellaneous

IEEEVR

[DC] Towards Universal VR Sickness Mitigation Strategies

Isayas Berhe Adhanom

2021

DOI Bib

@misc{adhanom2020universalmitigation,
  author = {Adhanom, Isayas Berhe},
  journal = {2021 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)},
  title = {[DC] Towards Universal VR Sickness Mitigation Strategies},
  year = {2021},
  pages = {735-736},
  doi = {10.1109/VRW52623.2021.00250},
  type = {posters},
}

MSSE

Virtual Reality Application For The Vestibular Ocular Motor Screen: A Comparison With A Novel Prototype.: 1157

Philip Pavilionis, Isayas Berhe Adhanom, Madison R Taylor, and 5 more authors

2021

Bib

@misc{pavilionis2021virtual,
  title = {Virtual Reality Application For The Vestibular Ocular Motor Screen: A Comparison With A Novel Prototype.: 1157},
  author = {Pavilionis, Philip and Adhanom, Isayas Berhe and Taylor, Madison R and Netzel, Lauren and Kelly, Marie and Hopfe, Dustin and Constantino, Nora and Murray, Nicholas G},
  journal = {Medicine \& Science in Sports \& Exercise},
  volume = {53},
  number = {8S},
  pages = {375},
  year = {2021},
  publisher = {LWW},
  type = {posters},
}

Preprint

A First Look into Neural Machine Translation for Tigrinya

Emily M. Hand Isayas Berhe Adhanom

2019

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@misc{adhanom2019nlp,
  title = {A First Look into Neural Machine Translation for Tigrinya},
  author = {Isayas Berhe Adhanom, Emily M. Hand},
  journal = {Researchgate},
  year = {2019},
  type = {preprints},
}