Paper

{
  "raw_xml": "<entry>\n    <id>http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04917v1</id>\n    <title>Roomify: Spatially-Grounded Style Transformation for Immersive Virtual Environments</title>\n    <updated>2026-03-05T08:01:38Z</updated>\n    <link href='https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04917v1' rel='alternate' type='text/html'/>\n    <link href='https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.04917v1' rel='related' title='pdf' type='application/pdf'/>\n    <summary>We present Roomify, a spatially-grounded transformation system that generates themed virtual environments anchored to users' physical rooms while maintaining spatial structure and functional semantics. Current VR approaches face a fundamental trade-off: full immersion sacrifices spatial awareness, while passthrough solutions break presence. Roomify addresses this through spatially-grounded transformation - treating physical spaces as \"spatial containers\" that preserve key functional and geometric properties of furniture while enabling radical stylistic changes. Our pipeline combines in-situ 3D scene understanding, AI-driven spatial reasoning, and style-aware generation to create personalized virtual environments grounded in physical reality. We introduce a cross-reality authoring tool enabling fine-grained user control through MR editing and VR preview workflows. Two user studies validate our approach: one with 18 VR users demonstrates a 63% improvement in presence over passthrough and 26% over fully virtual baselines while maintaining spatial awareness; another with 8 design professionals confirms the system's creative expressiveness (scene quality: 5.95/7; creativity support: 6.08/7) and professional workflow value across diverse environments.</summary>\n    <category scheme='http://arxiv.org/schemas/atom' term='cs.HC'/>\n    <published>2026-03-05T08:01:38Z</published>\n    <arxiv:comment>Accepted at CHI 2026 (ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems). 24 pages, 10 figures. Author's version</arxiv:comment>\n    <arxiv:primary_category term='cs.HC'/>\n    <author>\n      <name>Xueyang Wang</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Qinxuan Cen</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Weitao Bi</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Yunxiang Ma</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Xin Yi</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Robert Xiao</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Xinyi Fu</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Hewu Li</name>\n    </author>\n    <arxiv:doi>10.1145/3772318.3791803</arxiv:doi>\n    <link href='https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3791803' rel='related' title='doi'/>\n  </entry>"
}