Personal Info
| Name | Renan Luigi Martins Guarese |
| How do I say 'Renan'? | 'Hen' + 'Uh' | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Citation | Guarese, R. |
| Also goes by | Luigi | he/ele |
| Reach out | guarese@kth.se |
Professional Experience
| 🏫 KTH, Stockholm
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| 2024 - Present | Postdoctoral Researcher at KTH |
| + | Digital Futures fellow - SMART Pharmaceutical Industry project |
| + | Tutor for 'Advanced Graphics and Interaction', and 'Multimodal Interaction and Interfaces' |
| + | MSc theses supervisor |
| 🏫 RMIT, Melbourne
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| 2024 - 2024 | Research Assistant at Centre of Digital Ecosystems |
| + | Plastics NZ EcoVis project |
| 2022 - 2024 | Teaching and Research Sessional at School of Computing Tech |
| + | Tutor for 'Mixed Reality', 'Interactive Digital Media Project B', 'Foundations of AI for STEM', and 'Programming Studio 1' |
| 2020 - 2024 | Ph.D. Scholarship at ATN - AR as assistive tech |
| + | Research, development and user testing of micro-guidance sonified AR methods for people who are blind and in no visibility conditions |
| 🏫 UFRGS, Porto Alegre
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| 2019 - 2020 | M.Sc. Scholarship at CNPq - Situated Data Visualization |
| + | Research, development and user testing of interactive Augmented Reality visualization systems |
| 2017 - 2018 | Undergrad researcher at PPGIE - Physics simulations in AR |
| + | Research and development of an Augmented Reality application for mobile devices using Unity and Vuforia |
| 2016 - 2016 | IT tutor for high school kids and senior citizens at Colegio Aplicacao |
| 🏫 Halmstad University, Halmstad
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| 2019 - 2020 | M.Sc. Exchange Scholarship at CERES - Electromagnetic Compatibility in AR DataVis project |
| 🏫 Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
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| 2016 - 2016 | Undergrad researcher at College of Computing - Multithreading Montecarlo Method |
| 🏫 IFRS, Porto Alegre
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| 2014 - 2015 | Undergrad researcher - DataVis project |
| 2014 - 2014 | English tutor |
| 2013 - 2013 | IT tutor |
| 🏫 PUCRS, Porto Alegre
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| 2015 - 2015 | iOS Developer intern - BEPiD |
| 2012 - 2013 | Undergrad researcher - Network graph visualization |
Education
| 2015 - 2016 | Sandwich period during B.Sc.
Radford University, Radford
Scholarship: CAPES |
| 2010 - incomplete | B.Sc. interrupted
in 2012 in Control and Automation Engineering
UFRGS, Porto Alegre
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| 2013 - 2014 | Technician diploma in IT
IFRS, Porto Alegre
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| 2007 - 2009 | Secondary Education
CMSP, Porto Alegre
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Complementary / Volunteering Experience
| 2020 - 2025 | Paper Reviewer at SVR 2020 - 2024, IEEE VR 2021 - 2025, ISMAR 2022 - 2025, Disability and Rehabilitation 2024, TEI 2024, Virtual Reality 2024, CHI 2025, DIS 2025
(30h) IEEE, ACM, SBC, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis |
| 2024 | Panelist and XR Experience juror at SVR 2024
(5h) SBC International Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality 2024, Manaus, Brasil
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| 2021 | Chair of Student Volunteers at SVR 2021
(40h) SBC International Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality 2021, Gramado, Brasil
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| 2019 - 2021 | Treasurer at Blades Porto Alegre
(180h) Treasurer of the Blades inline hockey team, Porto Alegre, Brasil
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| 2020 | Student Volunteer at ISMAR 2020
(20h) IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality 2020, Recife, Brasil
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| 2020 | Curso de arbitros e Mesarios 2020
(10h) Confederacao Brasileira de Hoquei e Patinacao, CBHP, Brasil
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| 2019 | Student Volunteer at NIME 2019
(20h) New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2019, Porto Alegre, Brasil
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| 2014 | Microsoft S2B Advanced - Database track
(180h) PUCRS, Brasil
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Languages
| Native |
Portuguese
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| Fluent |
English
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| Advanced |
Spanish
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| Basic |
French
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Awards and Grants
| 🎓 Academic |
| 2024 | 🏆 Best Doctoral Thesis at the Thesis and Dissertation Contest - Augmenting the dark: exploring assistive micro-guidance in sonified mixed reality, SVR 2024. Manaus |
| 2023 | 🎖 Finalist at the Cross-Reality Systems for Real-World Scenarios competition - Immersive tele-guidance towards evoking empathy with people who are vision impaired, IEEE ISMAR 2023. Sydney |
| 2023 | 🎖 Nomination for Best Paper Award - Evoking empathy with visually impaired people through an augmented reality embodiment experience, IEEE VR 2023. Shanghai |
| 2021 | 🥈Student Innovation Challenge: Audience Choice - Vibrotactile Data Physicalization of Covid Cases in South America, IEEE World Haptics Conference 2021. Montreal |
| 2020 | 🎖 Latin American PhD Scholarship (ATN grant) - 3-year scholarship at RMIT University - Melbourne |
| 2020 | 🏆Best Poster - A Usability Assessment of Augmented Situated Visualization, IEEE VR 2020. Atlanta |
| 2020 | 🏆3DUI Contest Winner - 3DUI and the Phantom Limb: multisensory experience for embodiment of amputation, IEEE VR 2020. Atlanta |
| 2019 | 🎖 Linnaeus-Palme (UHR grant) - 6-month M.Sc. scholarship at Halmstad University. Halmstad |
| 2018 | 🥉3rd Place at the I Workshop de Inovacao da Diretoria de Educacao a Distancia da CAPES - Laboratorio Virtual AVATAR, CAPES. Brasilia |
| 2016 | 2x🎖 Dean's List (Fall 2015 and Spring 2016) - GPA-based scholastic achievement - Radford University. Radford |
| 2015 | 🎖 Ciencia sem Fronteiras (CAPES grant) - 1-year BSc. scholarship at Radford University. Radford |
| 🏒 Hockey |
| 2023, 2022 | 3x🏆 B4 Div. (Hellfish) at IceHQ Beer League - Melbourne |
| 2021 | 🥉 Camp. Movember (Sel. Gaucha) at Arena Referencia - Curitiba |
| 2019, 2018 | 2x🥉 Camp. Brasileiro B (Blades) at AABB - Jaragua |
| 2019 | 🥉 Alien Cup (Blades) at Arena Referencia - Curitiba |
| 2019, 2018 | 2x🏆 Camp. Gaucho (Blades) at Club Macabi - Porto Alegre |
| 2018, 2017 | 2x🏆 Copa Amizade (Blades) at Club Macabi - Porto Alegre |
Publications
| 📓 Journal Papers |
 Guarese, Renan; Pretty, Emma; Renata, Aidan; Polson, Deb; Zambetta, Fabio. Exploring audio interfaces for vertical guidance in augmented reality via hand-based feedback, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2024. |
| Renata, Aidan; Guarese, Renan; Takac, Marcel; Zambetta, Fabio. Assessment of Embodied Visuospatial Perspective Taking in Augmented Reality: Insights from a Reaction Time Task, Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2024. |
| Wrife, Andreas; Guarese, Renan; Iop, Alessandro; Romero, Mario. Comparative analysis of spatiotemporal playback manipulation on virtual reality training for External Ventricular Drainage, SVR 2024 - Elsevier Computers & Graphics, 2024. |
| Pretty, Emma; Guarese, Renan; Dziego, Chloe; Fayek, Haytham; Zambetta, Fabio. Multimodal Measurement of Cognitive Load in a Video Game Context: A Comparative Study between Subjective and Objective Metrics, IEEE Transactions on Games, 2024. |
| Guarese, Renan; Andreasson, Pererik; Nilsson, Emil; Maciel, Anderson. Augmented Situated Visualization Methods towards Electromagnetic Compatibility Testing, SVR 2020 - Elsevier Computers & Graphics, 2020. |
| Bos, Andreia S.; Herpich, Fabricio; Kuhn, Igor; Guarese, Renan L. M.; Tarouco, Liane; Zaro, Milton A.; Pizzato, Michelle; Wives, Lendro. Educational Technology and Its Contributions in Students: Focus and Attention Regarding Augmented Reality Environments and the Use of Sensors, SAGE Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2019. |
| Herpich, Fabricio; Guarese, Renan; Tarouco, Liane. A Comparative Analysis of Augmented Reality Frameworks Aimed at the Development of Educational Applications, SCIRP Creative Education, 2017. |
| 🏫 Conference Papers |
| Guarese, R.; Gokan Khan, M.; Lassiter, D.; Vachier, J.; Johnson, J.; Edvinsson, B.; Bergman, A.; Wang, X.; Romero, M.;. A Scoping Review and Expert Recommendations for Immersive Solutions towards Predictive Maintenance, 2025, St. Malo
2025 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) - XRIOS workshop |
| Guarese, Renan; Pretty, Emma; Fayek, Haytham; Zambetta, Fabio; Schyndel, Ron Van. Evoking empathy with visually impaired people through an augmented reality embodiment experience, 2023, Shanghai
IEEE VR 23 - 30th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces. |
| Guarese, Renan; Pretty, Emma; Zambetta, Fabio. XR towards tele-guidance: mixing realities in assistive technologies for blind and visually impaired people, 2023, Shanghai
Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops - Mixing Realities: Cross-reality Visualization | Interaction | Collaboration. |
| Pretty, Emma; Guarese, Renan; Fayek, Haytham; Zambetta, Fabio. Replicability and Transparency for the Creation of Public Human User Video Game Datasets, 2023, Shanghai
Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops - Data4XR Datasets for Developing Intelligent XR Applications. |
| Guarese, Renan; Zambetta, Fabio; Schyndel, Ron Van. Evaluating micro-guidance sonification methods in manual tasks for Blind and Visually Impaired people, 2022, Canberra
OzCHI '22: Proceedings of the 34th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. |
| Guarese, Renan; Bastidas, Franklin; Becker, Joao; Giambastiani, Mariane; Iquiapaza, Yhonatan; Macedo, Lennon; Nedel, Luciana; Maciel, Anderson; Zambetta, Fabio; Schyndel, Ron Van. Cooking in the dark: a mixed reality empathy experience for the embodiment of blindness, 2021, New York
IMX '21 - Proceedings of the 1st XR in Games Workshop (XR in Games 2021) |
| Bastidas, Franklin; Guarese, Renan; Johansson, Carlos; Giambastiani, Mariane; Iquiapaza, Yhonatan; Oliveira, Victor; Nedel, Luciana; Maciel, Anderson. Vibrotactile Data Physicalization: Exploratory Insights for Haptization of Low-resolution Images, 2021, Gramado
SVR '21: Proceedings of the 23rd Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality |
Guarese, R. L. M.; Nilsson, E.; Andreasson, P.; Maciel, A. A Proposal for Augmented Situated Visualization Towards EMC Testing, 2020, St. Polten 
Proceedings of the XChange Reality! 2020. |
| Guarese, R. L. M.; Oliveira, V. J.; Calepso, A. S.; Valer, R.; Iquiapaza, Y.; Nedel, L.; Maciel, A. E-mpathy and the Phantom Limb Sensation: a multisensory experience for embodiment of amputation, 2020, St. Polten
Proceedings of the XChange Reality! 2020. |
| Guarese, Renan; Becker, Joao; Fensterseifer, Henrique; Walter, Marcelo; Freitas, Carla; Nedel, Luciana; Maciel, Anderson. Augmented Situated Visualization for Spatial and Context-Aware Decision-Making, 2020, Salerno
Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces . |
| Herpich, F.; Nunes, F. B.; Guarese, Renan; Nichele, A. G.; Silva, P. F.; Krassmann, A. L.; Tarouco, L. M. R. Mobile Augmented Reality in Science Teaching: an analysis of the pedagogical usability with pre-service teachers, 2019, London
Proceedings from the Fifth Immersive Learning Research Network Conference. |
| Herpich, F.; Guarese, R. L. M.; Fratin, V.; Tarouco, Liane. Augmented reality impact in the development of formal thinking, 2018, Missoula,
Proceedings from the Fourth Immersive Learning Research Network Conference. |
| Herpich, Fabricio; Guarese, Renan; Cassola, Amaury; Tarouco, Liane. Mobile Augmented Reality Impact in Student Engagement: an Analysis of the Focused Attention Dimension, 2018, Las Vegas
2018 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI). |
| Herpich, Fabricio; Guarese, Renan; Tarouco, Liane. Recursos de virtualidade integrados com realidade aumentada em dispositivos moveis para auxiliar estudantes na aprendizagem de fisica, 2017, Recife
Anais dos Workshops do CBIE 2017 |
| 📖 Book Chapters |
| Guarese, Renan; Bastidas, Franklin; Becker, Joao; Giambastiani, Mariane; Iquiapaza, Yhonatan; Macedo, Lennon; Nedel, Luciana; Maciel, Anderson; Zambetta, Fabio; Van Schyndel, Ron. Cooking in the Dark: Exploring Spatial Audio as MR Assistive Technology for the Visually Impaired, 2021, Bari
INTERACT 2021 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Springer International Publishing. |
| Guarese, Renan; Maciel, Anderson. Development and Usability Analysis of a Mixed Reality GPS Navigation Application for the Microsoft HoloLens, 2019, Calgary
CGI 2019 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Springer International Publishing. |
| 📃 Extended Abstracts |
Pretty, E.; Guarese, R.; Fayek, Haytham; Zambetta, Fabio. Comparing Subjective Measures of Workload in Video Game Play: Evaluating the Test-Retest Reliability of the VGDS and NASA-TLX, 2024, San Jose 
ICMI '24: Companion Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction - Late-Breaking Results |
| Tavares, Daniela; Guarese, R.; Cheiran, J.; Teofilo, M. Immersive Technologies: challenges of the inclusive design in times of natural hazards and climate change, 2024, Manaus
SVR '24: Extended proceedings of the 26th Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality - Panels track |
| Guarese, R.; van Schyndel, R. Polson, Deb; Zambetta, Fabio. Augmenting the dark: Exploring assistive micro-guidance in sonified mixed reality, 2024, Manaus
SVR '24: Extended proceedings of the 26th Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality - Thesis and Dissertation Contest |
| Guarese, R.; Polson, Deb; Zambetta, Fabio. Immersive tele-guidance towards evoking empathy with people who are vision impaired, 2023, Sydney
IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct) - Cross-Reality Systems Competition |
| Schetinger, Victor; Perez-Messina, Ignacio; Guarese, Renan; Filipov, Velitchko. Xenakis: Experimenting with Data, Cities, and Sounds, 2021, Online
IEEE VIS '21 - alt.VIS workshop |
| Guarese, R. L. M.; Becker, J. C.; Fensterseifer, H.; Calepso, A. S.; Walter, M.; Freitas, C.; Nedel, L.; Maciel, A. A Usability Assessment of Augmented Situated Visualization, 2020, Atlanta
Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops - Poster track |
| Calepso, A. S.; Guarese, R. L. M.; Valer, R.; Iquiapaza, Y.;Oliveira, V. J.; Nedel, L.; Maciel, A. 3DUI and the Phantom Limb: multisensory experience for embodiment of amputation, 2020, Atlanta
Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops - 3DUI Contest |
| Guarese, R. L. M.; Fensterseifer, H.; Becker, J. C.; Walter, M.; Maciel, A.; Nedel, L. Augmented Situated Visualization for Spatially Aware Decision-Making, 2019, Rio de Janeiro
SVR '19: Extended proceedings of the 21st Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality - Demos and Posters track |
| Herpich, Fabricio; Bos, Andreia; Kuhn, Igor; Guarese, Renan; Tarouco, Liane; Wives, Leandro; Zaro, Milton. Cerebral activity in the use of AR educational resources: an attention analysis of the apprentice, 2018, Fortaleza
Proceedings of the SBIE 2018 |
| Herpich, Fabricio; Guarese, Renan; Cassola, Amaury; Tarouco, Liane. Augmented Reality in the development of spatial visualization in physics, 2018, Fortaleza
Workshop Proceedings of the CBIE 2018
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Supervisions
| 🎓 M.Sc. Theses |
| 2025 | Student: Zeinab BagheriFard
Title: MOCAP maintenance in VR for pharmaceutical manufacturing Degree: M.Sc. Design for Creative and Immersive Technology Institution: Stockholm University, Stockholm
Advisors: Renan Guarese, Fabian Johnson, Asst. Prof. Luis Quintero Outputs: (Ongoing) |
| 2025 | Student: Miruna Vasiliu
Title: Enhancing Industrial Training Through Conversational Agents: Integrating Speech-to-Text and Large Language Models in Immersive Virtual Environments Degree: M.Sc. Human-Computer Interaction and Design Institution: KTH / University of Twente, Stockholm / Enschede
Advisors: Renan Guarese, Fabian Johnson Outputs: (Ongoing) |
| 2025 | Student: Martin Hakansson
Title: Exploring Collaborative Augmented Reality for Music Education Degree: M.Sc. Computer Science Institution: KTH, Stockholm
Advisors: Renan Guarese Outputs: (Ongoing) |
| 🎓 Honours Thesis |
| 2023 | Student: Aidan Renata
Title: My Right, Your Left: A Speeded Reaction Time Task for Visuospatial Perspective Taking in Augmented Reality Degree: Bachelor of Applied Science (Psychology) (Honours) Institution: RMIT, Melbourne
Advisors: Renan Guarese, Dr. Marcel Takac, and Prof. Fabio Zambetta Outputs: Thesis | Publication |
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