The Virtual Playground

The Virtual Playground is an engaging simulation environment for children between 9 and 12 y. old, which was used for research in evaluating interactivity in virtual environments for learning. It was created for a CAVE-like immersive VR display.

Children wear 3D glasses and use a 3D computer mouse (called a "wand") to design a virtual playground. In this playground, the child user assumes the role of a designer that must carry out tasks, such as planning the layout of the playground by modifying, resizing and placing its various elements. These tasks require solving mathematical fraction problems.

Start date: 2002
Duration: 4 years

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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.