CAPHE

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.

mr proj CAPHE CAPHE receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No. 101086391. The consortium comprises an international assemblage of educational institutions and commercial enterprises.

These include:

Jagiellonian University (Poland) – Project Lead
Narratologies (Greece)
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece & Athena Research & Innovation Center (Greece)
Conservatorio G. Puccini La Spezia (Italy)
Opera Network (Italy)
Kenyatta University (Kenya)
Miastopracownia (Poland)
Polish Association of Aesthetics (Poland)
Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)
Polish University Abroad in London (United Kingdom)

https://www.caphe.space/

Research, Virtual Reality

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.

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.

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.