The paper ‘Co-designing virtual reality-based solutions to promote the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals’, authored by Kalliopi-Evangelia Stavroulia, Marina Emmanouil, and Andreas Lanitis, has been awarded the Best Practical Paper Award at the 21st European Mediterranean & Middle Eastern Conference on Information Systems “Connecting Minds and Technology to Shape our Digital Future”. The paper was…
The European project VRTEACHER – Virtual Reality-based Training to improvE digitAl Competences of teacHERs funded under Key Action 2 of the Erasmus+ program (01/06/2021 – 31/05/2023, 2020-1-CY01-KA226-SCH-082707) was selected among numerous Erasmus projects form all European Countries to be among the three finalists for the SALTO AWARDS 2023 (https://saltoawards.eu/) in the category of Digital Transformation.…
June 2021. The kick-off meeting of the European project entitled “VRTEACHER – Virtual Reality-based Training to improvE digitAl Competences of teacHERs ” took place from Wednesday 9 June to Thursday 10 June 2021. The VRTEACHER project is funded under Key Action 2 of the Erasmus+ program and will last 2 years (01/06/202131/05/2023) with a total…
December 2020. CAIP 2021 is the 19th in the CAIP series of biennial international conferences devoted to all aspects of computer vision, image analysis and processing, pattern recognition, and related fields. CAIP 2021 will feature contests and tutorials preceding the main conference event, as well as workshops following the main conference event. CAIP 2021 will…
September 2020. The coordinator of the Visual Media Computing Lab (Andreas Lanitis) participated as a member of the jury for the 14th European Biometrics Max Snijder, Research, and Industry Awards of the European Association of Biometrics (EAB) (https://eab.org/). These prestigious awards are granted annually to individuals who have been judged by a panel of internationally…
June 2020. Kalliopi-Evangelia Stavroulia successfully completed her Ph.D. in the use of VR in education and particularly for teacher training purposes. The research used an innovative Virtual Reality (VR) based framework in teacher practical training methodology, offering a new paradigm in teacher education. The development of the VR tool followed a multiphase research design consisting…