Expression of Interest for Research posts on Virtual Reality

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

RISE Launch Ceremony

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

GET Lab @ VSMM 2017

GET Lab successfully participated at the the 23rd Int’l Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM 2017) that was held on October 31st – November 2nd, 2017 at University College Dublin, Ireland. Our lab’s PhD student Maria Christofi presented the paper “Intuitive Interaction for Exploring Human Anatomy in a VR Setup” in Track 6: VS & MM in Design and Engineering … Read more

PhD Openings @ GET Lab, Cyprus University of Technology

Deadline: 17 November 2017 Instructions and application form: http://www.cut.ac.cy/news/article/?contentId=135810 Two (2) posts in the topics: Visual Computing/ Computer Graphics   Virtual Reality for Well being /Rehabilitation Exploiting Virtual Reality as Placebo  Study Brain Conflicting Sensory Input Through Virtual Reality  Virtual Reality and Brain Computer Interface (EEG) Candidates for this post should possess: A Bachelor’s Degree and … Read more

Cyprus Game Day II: Conference and Game Jam

Microsoft, Cyprus University of Technology and Unity Technologies are proud to announce full-day game conference and first official Game Jam in Cyprus on 9th-11th of September. You will have 48 hours to build a game that can win Best Game nomination when meet certain Game Jam criteria. Speakers from Microsoft, Unity and our partners are … Read more

H2020-TEAMING-RISE (Phase B) got funded!

Cyprus has secured funding from the European Commission for its H2020-TEAMING-RISE research project on the establishment and operation of the RISE Research Center: Interactive Media Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies. The proposal also secured funding for the second phase of project implementation with a total budget of € 50 million. The Cyprus University of Technology … Read more

NOTRE project meeting in Cyprus and SCRC Summer Schools

GET Lab, a member of the newly established Social Computing Research Centre (SCRC), participated in the fourth meeting of the EU-funded project Network for Social Computing Research (NOTRE) with its two PhD students, Maria Christofi and Christos Kyrlitsias. This meeting in Cyprus took place between the 17th – 19th of July 2017. It consisted of … Read more