PhD Openings at GET Lab

PhD posts, starting January 2021. The last date to apply for postgraduate studies is Friday, 27th of November 2020. For applications, click here. One (1) post in the research area: VR for Physio/Psycho/Social Well-Being”. Candidates should possess: A Bachelor’s Degree and a postgraduate Degree of Master’s level* from accredited Universities in a relevant field (e.g. … Read more

PhD Viva of GET Lab’s Phd Candidate Panagiotis Charalampous

You are invited to the lecture that will take place on Friday, 13/11/2020 at 10:00 pm in support of the Doctoral Dissertation of Panayiotis Charalambous on: “Wave-Based Geometrical Acoustics for Accurate and Efficient Sound Rendering”. Those who wish to watch the presentation can watch it at the following link: https://join.skype.com/gv7ujMIqN3f1 Participants are kindly requested to … Read more

Our work “Virtual Touch toolkit” is featuring at BBC Radio 4

Our work is featuring this week at BBC Radio 4! At “The Anatomy of Touch” which will air on October 5th and 8th you can learn about the “Virtual Touch Toolkit” and “Hand On App”! Stay tuned! Monday, 5 Oct 2020: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000n5f1Thursday, 8 Oct 2020: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000n483 What is the Virtual Touch Toolkit? A large-scale, academic … Read more

Another publication by GET Lab at Frontiers in Psychology

We are happy to announce that our Ph.D. candidate, Christos Kyrlitsias, recently had his work “Social Conformity in Immersive Virtual Environments: The Impact of Agents’ Gaze Behavior” published in Frontiers in Psychology, which is the most-cited Multidisciplinary Psychology journal in the world. You can view the paper here. Additionally, you can see all GET Lab … Read more

GET Lab publication in Frontiers in Psychology

We are happy to announce that our Ph.D. candidate, Maria Christofi, recently had her work “A Virtual Reality Simulation of Drug Users’ Everyday Life: The Effect of Supported Sensorimotor Contingencies on Empathy” published in Frontiers in Psychology, which is the most-cited Multidisciplinary Psychology journal in the world. You can view the paper here. Additionally, you … Read more

GET Lab paper was one of the top downloaded in recent publication history!

We are excited to share that our paper “Asch conformity experiment using immersive virtual reality“, published in Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, is among the top 10% most downloaded papers of the journal! According to the CAVW journal, among work published between January 2018 and December 2019, ours received some of the most downloads in … Read more

PhD Fellowships on VR for Well Being – RISE Doctoral Training Program

We have announced the ‘PhD Fellowships – RISE Doctoral Training Program’ at RISE CoE (rise.org.cy). If you are interested to apply at positions of the GET Lab’s affiliated Multidisciplinary Research Group, VR for Well Being, please look at the topics under “MRG: Virtual Reality for Well-Being (VR-Well-Being)” http://www.rise.org.cy/en-gb/vacancies/job-listings/phd-fellowships-rise-doctoral-training-program/ Thematic Area: VR for Well Being: Physical … Read more