Human–AI interaction
Human–AI Interaction & Conversational Agents
How communication medium, embodiment, and AI-mediated interaction shape judgment, trust, credibility, bias, and confidence.
Computer Science · Human-AI Interaction
Amirpouya “Pouya”
Ghasemaghaei
Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science at UCF
I study how people interact with AI and immersive systems. My work combines LLM-powered conversational agents, XR, and human-subject research to understand how communication and embodiment shape judgment, trust, credibility, and behavior. I also work on multimodal sensing and GPS-independent localization.
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Featured research
Immersive systems
Immersive Systems & XR
Design and evaluation of VR and AR systems involving avatars, multimodal interaction, conversational interfaces, and human-subject studies.
Multimodal sensing
Localization & Multimodal Sensing
GPS-independent localization using LiDAR, Wi-Fi, inertial, and visual sensing.
Experience & affiliations
Graduate Research Assistant
Aug. 2022 – Present
Interactive Systems and User Experience Lab (opens in a new tab)
University of Central Florida
Research in human-computer interaction, human-centered AI, virtual and augmented reality, conversational agents, multimodal interaction, and empirical human-subject evaluation.
Lab profile (opens in a new tab)
Graduate Research Assistant
Sep. 2026 – Present
Unknot.id, Inc. (opens in a new tab)
University of Central Florida
Research on GPS-independent localization and tracking using multimodal sensor data, including LiDAR, Wi-Fi, inertial sensors, and visual data.
Selected publications
All Languages Matter: Evaluating LMMs on Culturally Diverse 100 Languages (opens in a new tab)
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2025
Mitigating Response Delays in Free-Form Conversations with LLM-Powered Intelligent Virtual Agents (opens in a new tab)
ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) 2025
Continuous Hand Gesture Recognition: Benchmarks and Methods (opens in a new tab)
Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU) 2025
From Research to Practice: Survey and Taxonomy of Object Selection in Consumer VR Applications (opens in a new tab)
IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2024
Technical Writing
One Pipeline to Curate Them All: Model- and Task-Agnostic Data Refinement Architecture (opens in a new tab)
Amirpouya Ghasemaghaei and Yahya Hmaiti · Medium · 2025
Research Software
VRSelectionsDatabase
Interactive research database accompanying our work on object-selection techniques in consumer VR applications.
- VR
- HCI
- Research Database
iva-cui
Open-source project associated with our CUI 2025 work on mitigating response delays in LLM-powered conversational agents.
- LLM
- Conversational Agents
- Unity
- Research Software