Assoc. Prof. Despina Michael-Grigoriou awarded the CUT Female Personality Award!

The GET Lab coordinator, Associate Professor Despina Michael-Grigoriou awarded the CUT Female Personality Award 2023. The awarded is granted to the female personality, for her outstanding and continuous multifaceted contribution to the Science, the University and the Community, being an inspiring role model for early career academics and researchers. The award ceremony took place on … Read more

Euro XR conference 2023 – Call for Participation

EuroXR Association would like to cordially invite you to contribute to the 20th EuroXR International Conference – EuroXR 2023, to be held collocated with the Immersive Tech Week from November 29th to December 1st 2023, at De Doelen, in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.euroxr-association.org/conference2023 Our GET Lab coordinator, Despina Michael-Grigoriou, serves the Euro XR 2023 as an … Read more

VR Teacher Event at CUT

Join us at the event of the VRTeacher project that we participate in, this Thursday, 27 April 2023, 17:00 at Cyprus University of Technology. Our post-doctoral researcher Christos Kyrlitsias, will give a talk on the VR application developed for training purposes of the teachers. Free registration here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vrteacher-tickets-620741924807 VRTEACHER is a project funded under the … Read more

GET Lab PhD Student’s project accepted into prestigious Concepcion X program

We are pleased to announce that one of our Ph.D. students, Ali Najm, and his project have been accepted into the prestigious Concepcion X program. The program is dedicated to supporting innovative projects with the potential for significant social and economic impact. Ali’s research focuses on exploring the conceptual effects of haptic sensation in extended … Read more

Participation in the 7th Annual Virtual Reality and Healthcare Global Symposium

GET Lab participated in the 7th Annual Virtual Reality and Healthcare Global Symposium (health23.ivrha.org), March 3-5, 2023 in Penn Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA, showcasing our FACE-UP project focusing on the development and preliminary evaluation of a VR-based approach for upper limb rehabilitation in chronic stroke survivors who suffer from hemiplegia. We presented also several of … Read more

Despina Michael-Grigoriou is featuring at the European “REMARKABLE WOMEN IN SCIENCE SHOWCASE”

GET Lab coordinator, Dr Despina Michael-Grigoriou, is featuring at the “REMARKABLE WOMEN IN SCIENCE SHOWCASE” EUt+ event. “To mark the 8th UN International Day of Women and Girls in Science we will showcase the research of EUt+’s remarkable women in science from across Europe.” The event is organized by the European University of Technology (EUt+) … Read more

New publication by GET Lab at Frontiers in Virtual Reality journal

New publication by Christos Hadjipanayi, Domna Banakou, and Despina Michael-Grigoriou titled “Art as therapy in virtual reality: A scoping review” published in Frontiers in Virtual Reality. This scoping review focuses on therapeutic interventions, which involve the creation of artworks in virtual reality. The purpose of this research is to survey possible directions that traditional practices … Read more