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Maria Roussou

Dr. Maria Roussou is an Associate Professor in Interactive Systems at the Department of Informatics & Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her research interests span across various areas including Human-Computer Interaction, eXtended Reality, Games, and Data Visualization.

Projects & Research

My research is positioned in the general area of human-computer interaction. Specific research areas include:

eXtended Reality (immersive Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality)
Cultural technology, Digital Heritage, digital storytelling
Design and evaluation methods of interactive environments, child-computer interaction, user centered design (UCD), user experience design (UX)
Information Visualization

Publications

Google Scholar; ACM DL; ORCiD
dblp: M. Roussou, M. Roussos;
Academia.edu; ResearchGate

Teaching

University of Athens, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications

News

- 19-21.06.2024: Keynote speaker at MetaACES - The 2nd International Conference on Metaverse and AI Companions in Education and Society, Taiwan.

- 08-09.02.2024: Speaker at Presence in VR (Philosophical perspectives), "The sense of presence in Mixed Reality environments," Athens, Greece.

- 29.09.2023: Keynote speaker at ACM MobileHCI '23, Athens, Greece.

- 05-06.05.2023: Speaker at Advancing Digital Exhibition of Cultural Heritage, University of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA.

- 10.03.2023: paper published: Ganias et al. (2023). Comparing Different Grasping Visualizations for Object Manipulation in VR using Controllers. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2023.3247039

- 25-27.10.2022: WIRE-EUGAIN Annual Workshop, Hamburg, Germany. Organiser of Networking session as Science Communication Manager

- 24.09.2022: “The art and design of XR” Symposium 2022, presenter of 'Visiting an Ancient Athenian Home within a Multi-visitor, Multi-sensorial eXtended Reality Storytelling Experience'

- 23.09.2022: “The art and design of XR” Symposium 2022, presenter of 'Designing Historical Empathy into a Shared Cultural Heritage VR Experience'

- 27.06.2022: ACM Interaction Design and Children (IDC) conference 2022, Doctoral Consortium co-Chair

- 28.05.2022: panelist "Mapping materialities: Digital embodied interactions with Iannis Xenakis’ work", Xenakis 22 Centenary International Symposium

- 27-29.10.2021: WIRE-EUGAIN Annual Workshop, Madrid, Spain. Participant as Science Communication Manager

- 08.10.2021: panelist "Digital technology and ‘In Sparkling Company'" about the Virtual Glass Drawing Room for the Corning Museum of Glass

- ACM Interaction Design and Children (IDC) 2021: General Conference co-Chair

- 09.12.2020: Member of the Advisory Council of ONX Studio (Onassis USA & New Museum’s NEW INC) XR studio

- 07.11.2020: Keynote speaker at Οπe\n conference. Talk titled "The Role of Big Data Visualization in an Era of Pandemics" (video)

- 22-23.10.2020: BRIDGES (H2020 Innovation Action) project kickoff meeting. PI for the Univ. of Athens.

- 17.06.2020: ACM Interaction Design and Children (IDC) conference 2020, Doctoral Consortium co-Chair

- 12.06.2020: 2nd Summit on Gender Equality in Computing (GEC 2020), General co-Chair

- 27-29.11.2019: Keynote speaker at Games and Learning Alliance - GALA 2019 conference.

- 22.11.2019: Keynote speaker at ICOM Europe / ICOM-Greece's Embracing the virtual: European museums respond to the digital challenge, Acropolis Museum, Athens. Download full Program.

- 23.11.2019: Opening remarks, Usability and Accessibility Days 2019, Sustainable Design for the Future Digital Heritage.

- 18.11.2019: Panelist, "Τεχνολογίες Πληροφορίας στις Ανθρωπιστικές Επιστήμες και τον Πολιτισμό" (Information Technology in the Humanities & Culture), 30 years ATHENA RC @ Benaki Museum.

- 30.10.2019: EMOTIVE project demo event at Hunterian Museum, Glasgow

- 07.06.2019: 1st Summit on Gender Equality in Computing (GEC 2019), General co-Chair

- 08.05.2019: 'Transformation through Provocation?' Paper presentation at CHI '19

- 02.05.2019: Keynote talk at the 11th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - CSEDU 2019

Research, 3D modeling and design for the VR reconstruction of the 16th century Glass Drawing Room at Northumberland House, London for the Corning Museum of Glass. 2019-2020.

2020 - 2023

BRIDGES is an EU-funded H2020 Innovation Action project aiming at establishing the widespread applicability of collaborative, room-scale, immersive eXtended Reality environments in training and informal learning domains.

2020 - 2024

EUGAIN is an EU-funded COST Action, a European Network For Gender Balance in Informatics.

2023 - 2026

Communities and Artistic Participation in Hybrid Environments (CAPHE) is an EU-funded multi-disciplinary research project that focuses on culture production in the Metaverse.

2024 - 2027

META-TOO: A transfer of knowledge and technology for investigating gender-based inappropriate social interactions in the Metaverse is an EU-funded research project addressing inappropriate social interactions in the Metaverse while boosting the research and management capacity of the University of Athens.