An invited talk about Haptic devices and Virtual Environments was successfully delivered by Dr. Orestis Georgiou (Director of Research at Ultrahaptics and leader of the Academic Program aimed at facilitating R&D in mid-air haptics and focused Ultrasound), on April 16, 2018 at GET Lab. During his talk, Dr. Georgiou demonstrated the Ultrahaptics breakthrough haptic technology … Read more
RISE Research centre on Interactive media Smart systems and Emerging Technologies www.rise.org.cy Vacancies: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) & Chief Operating Officer Chief Executive Officer – Nicosia The company RISE Ltd is a start-up with the ambition to become a world-class centre of research, development and innovation focusing on interactive media: based in Nicosia but relevant … Read more
RISE has announced twenty (20) research positions The Research Centre on Interactive Media, Smart System and Emerging Technologies (RISE; rise.org.cy) is a newly founded research centre in Cyprus, located at Nicosia. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme H2020-WIDESPREAD-01-2016-2017 (Teaming Phase 2) under grant agreement No. 739578, as well … Read more
We are organizing a special session on Social Computing at Computer Graphics International 2018 (CGI) that will take place this year in Indonesia. You may be interested in submitting a short paper for this special session (4-6 pages). The deadline is March 20th- for details see here – http://www.cgs-network.org/cgi18/#callforpapers Accepted short papers will be included in … Read more
Cyprus University of Technology and “Ev Zin” Runners Club, supported by Limassol Municipality, are organizing the 2nd corporate only, charity relay race (4 x 4km) “Run 4 All”. The race will take place on Sunday, April 29th, 2018. The start and finish of the race will be in the historic city center of Limassol, … Read more
Expression of Interest for RESEARCH posts on VIRTUAL REALITY This ‘expression of interest’ is now closed since the official posts have been announced. If you are interested in these posts please check the official vacancies here http://rise.org.cy/en-gb/vacancies/ The relevant topic to the current description is the topic No.10: Virtual Reality for Well-being. Note that an … Read more
The largest research project in Cyprus, RISE, a Research Center on Interactive Media, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies has officially been launched (Phase 2), during a well-attended event that was held on the 29th November 2017. Below is the speech of Professor Andreas Anayiotos, Rector of the Cyprus University of Technology, which was delivered during … Read more