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

Participation of GET Lab in H2020 – TWINNING NOTRE project Another HORIZON 2020 project in which GET Lab participates got funded. NOTRE project, which is under H2020-TWINNING scheme, aims to establish networking activities and contacts with strong international partners in the domain of Social Computing. The proposal has been written under the umbrella of Social Computing … Read more

GET Lab is participating at ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on MOTION IN GAMES 2015 that will be take place in Paris this November. mig2015.inria.fr Our work “Virtual worlds’ influences on our mental balance and physical health: a survey with philosophical and scientific approaches”, M. Christoforou and D. Michael, will be presented at the conference.

The computer game “Notice me Detective” developed by our students, Valentina Chrysostomou, Maria Christofi and Kyriakos Georgiou is becoming popular internationally! You can download and play the game from Gamejolt frontpage: http://gamejolt.com/games/notice-me-detective/89207 You can also watch some walkthroughs of the game at YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist… The game has developed at MGA518: Computer Games Design course https://getlab.org/courses/ … Read more

The GET Lab coordinator, Dr. Despina Michael is giving a talk on “ Virtual Reality: Presence & Embodiment”. Date: 14 July 2015 Time: 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Venue: Tassos Papadopoulos Bldg – 2nd Floor – Room 4 (202), Themidos and Ifigenias corner Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus Invitation Abstract: Virtual Reality (VR) is a subfield of Computer Graphics dealing with … Read more

GET Lab is taking part at 8th Cyprus Workshop on Signal Processing and Informatics 2015, https://cwspi.cs.ucy.ac.cy/ with Christos Kyrlitsias, PhD student at GET Lab, presenting preliminary findings on his work “Social pressure from agents in a virtual environment: an investigation of conformity level”.

Great interest from the community at the press conference and kick off meeting of H2020- TEAMING-RISE project (aiming the establishment of a Research centre in Interactive media, Smart systems and Emerging technologies), held on 22nd & 23rd of June 2016 in Nicosia. In the kick off meeting our distinguished partners from Max Plank Institute for … Read more