Mario Romero

About

Mario Romero is a Senior Associate Professor leading the Immersive Visualization Unit at the Media and Information Technology Department at Linköping University in its Norrköping campus. He is the national technical manager of the Swedish Research Council's (Vetenskapsrådet) national research infrastructure for data analysis and visualization, InfraVis. He is a Fulbright Scholar from Ecuador and a postdoc at Uppsala University, a doctoral graduate of Georgia Tech (PhD Computer Science, 2009), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Master Computer Science, 2001), and Universidad San Francisco de Quito (BS Industrial Engineering and BS Construction Engineering , 1996). He is also a technical co-founder of BrailleTouch, a smartphone keyboard for blind users, and Anymaker, a tablet application for sketching in 3D. Dr. Romero's research centers in Human-Computer Interaction, Visualization, and Ubiquitous and Accessible Computing.

Employment

• Linköping University Senior Associate Professor
  2025 - Present
• KTH Royal Institute of Technology Associate Professor
  2013 - 2024

Education

• Georgia Institute of Technology Ph.D. Computer Science
  2001 - 2009

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (40)

• The Use of Augmented Reality for Navigation in Minimally Invasive Abdominal and Thoracic Soft-Tissue Surgery: A Systematic Review
  Sensors 2026 DOI: 10.3390/s26061962
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• The Right Voice for the Right Task: Exploratory Insights on Persona and Voice Embodiment in Conversational AI for Industrial Training
  International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction 2026 DOI: 10.1080/10447318.2026.2651373
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• Enhancing Manufacturing Training Through Augmented Situated Visualization
  2026 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-05008-3_14
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• Situated visualization towards manufacturing maintenance training: Scoping review, design and user study
  Computers & Graphics 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.cag.2025.104500
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• Sound-Assisted Climbing: Exploring bouldering performance through auditory guidance
  2025 DOI: 10.1145/3749385.3749402
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• Towards Enhancing Industrial Training Through Conversational AI
  2025 DOI: 10.1145/3719160.3737643
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• PerfCam: Digital Twinning for Production Lines Using 3D Gaussian Splatting and Vision Models
  IEEE Access 2025 DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3567702
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• Augmented reality navigation in external ventricular drain insertion—a systematic review and meta-analysis
  Virtual Reality 2024 DOI: 10.1007/s10055-024-01033-9
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• Exploring the Influence of Object Shapes and Colors on Depth Perception in Virtual Reality for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgical Training
  2024 DOI: 10.1145/3613905.3650813
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• Extended reality in cranial and spinal neurosurgery – a bibliometric analysis
  Acta Neurochirurgica 2024 DOI: 10.1007/s00701-024-06072-4
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