Ethan Wilson

Publications

Journal articles

  1. Toward Multimodal Privacy in XR: Design and Evaluation of Composite Privatization Methods for Gaze and Body Tracking Data

    Azim Ibragimov, Ethan Wilson, Kevin R. B. Butler and Eakta Jain.

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2026

  2. Opto-diversity and Eye Tracking: Assumptions about ocular alignment in virtual reality eye tracking exclude users with strabismus and amblyopia

    Shaina Murphy, Shakthi Sampath, Ethan Wilson, Karina LaRubbio, Ethan Smith, Apu Kapadia and Eakta Jain.

    ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (Special Issue on Eye Tracking at the Extremes), 2025

  3. Towards mitigating uncann(eye)ness in face swaps via gaze-centric loss terms

    Ethan Wilson, Frederick Shic, Sophie Jörg and Eakta Jain.

    Computers & Graphics, 2024

  4. Privacy-Preserving Gaze Data Streaming in Immersive Interactive Virtual Reality: Robustness and User Experience

    Ethan Wilson, Azim Ibragimov, Michael J. Proulx, Sai Deep Tetali, Kevin Butler and Eakta Jain.

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2024

Conference papers

  1. Eye Gaze as a Signal for Conveying User Attention in Contextual AI Systems

    Ethan Wilson, Naveen Sendhilnathan, Charlie S. Burlingham, Yusuf Mansour, Robert Cavin, Sai Deep Tetali, Ajoy Savio Fernandes and Michael J. Proulx.

    Proceedings of the 2025 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA '25), 2025

  2. Introducing Explicit Gaze Constraints to Face Swapping

    Ethan Wilson, Frederick Shic and Eakta Jain.

    Proceedings of the 2023 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA '23), 2023

  3. Give me some room please! Personal space bubbles for safety and performance

    Karina LaRubbio, Ethan Wilson, Sanjeev Koppal, Sophie Jörg and Eakta Jain.

    2023 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), 2023

Preprints

  1. Towards Privacy-preserving Photorealistic Self-avatars in Mixed Reality

    Ethan Wilson, Vincent Bindschaedler, Sophie Jörg, Sean Sheikholeslam, Kevin Butler and Eakta Jain.

    arXiv, 2025

  2. Practical Digital Disguises: Leveraging Face Swaps to Protect Patient Privacy

    Ethan Wilson, Frederick Shic, Jenny Skytta and Eakta Jain.

    arXiv, 2022

Dissertation

  1. Generating Private User Representations in Media While Preserving Usability and Naturalness

    Ethan Wilson.

    Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Florida, 2025

Abstracts

  1. The Uncanniness of Face Swaps

    Ethan Wilson, Aidan Persaud, Nicholas J. Esposito, Sophie Jörg, Rohit K. Patra, Frederick Shic, Jenny Skytta and Eakta Jain.

    Journal of Vision, 2022