IEEE Virtual Reality 2016

GET Lab participated in IEEE Virtual Reality 2016 conference (ieeevr.org/2016) in Greenville, South Carolina on March 19-23, 2016. Our PhD student, Christos Kyrlitsias, presented his work on social pressure within virtual environments.

New website for H2020-TEAMING-RISE project!

Visit the new website of our H2020-TEAMING-RISE project: rise.org.cy RISE is the first Research centre in Cyprus focusing on Interactive media, Smart systems and Emerging technologies aiming to become a centre of excellence empowering knowledge and technology transfer in the region. It is a joint venture between the three public universities of Cyprus (University of … Read more

Start of the European Project ‘Network for Social Computing Research (NOTRE)’

The kickoff event of the project titled Network for Social Computing Research – NOTRE (notre.socialcomputing.eu) of the Social Computing Research Center (socialcomputing.eu) of the Cyprus University of Technology took place on Monday, February 8th 2016.. The NOTRE project is funded by the European Commission through the Horizon 2020 Twinning programme – TWINN – 2015. The … Read more

PhD Openings @ GET Lab, Cyprus University of Technology

Deadline: 22 November 2015 Instructions and application form: http://www.cut.ac.cy/studies/news/announcement/?contentId=127773 Topics: Experimental Virtual Reality using biosignals acquisition or Experimental Virtual Reality using VR technologies enhancing embodiment Candidates for this post should possess: 1. A Bachelor’s Degree and a postgraduate Degree of Master’s level* from accredited Universities in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other related field. 2. … Read more

Microsoft Imagine Cup Information Day @ CUT (3 November 2015)

Ημερίδα ενημέρωσης του διαγωνισμού Microsoft Imagine Cup στο Τεχνολογικό Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου. November 3rd, 2015 11:00 – 12:30 Εργαστήριο Αλληλεπίδρασης και Τεχνολογίας (ΕΑΤ) (κτήριο Ρούσος Πλάζα παρά την Πλατεία Ηρώων) Τμήμα Πολυμέσων και Γραφικών Τεχνών Τεχνολογικό Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου

Talk: Behavioural and Perceptual Embodiment in Immersive Virtual Reality (26/11/2015)

Talk: Behavioural and Perceptual Embodiment in Immersive Virtual Reality Speaker: Domna Banakou, Research Associate EVENT Lab, University of Barcelona, Spain(event-lab.org) 26 November at 16:30–17:30 Cyprus University of Technology, Tassos Papadopoulos building, Amphitheatre 2, Themidos and Ifigenias corner, historical centre, Limassol Organizers: MSc in Computer Games – [bi-university program] (blogs.cut.ac.cy/games) Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts … Read more