Presentations

The Virtual Reality department has participated in the following international conferences and events:

 

Conferences

  • i3net Spring Days' session on Interactive Learning Environments for Children, Greece. Presentation titled "Immersive Interactive Virtual Reality and Informal Education".
  • Immersive Projection Technology Workshop '99, Germany. Presentation titled "Incorporating Immersive Projection-based Virtual Reality in Public Spaces".
  • SIGGRAPH '99, Los Angeles, USA. Presentation titled "High-end Interactive Media in the Museum" by Mrs. Maria Roussou and the CEO of the Foundation Mr. Dimitris Efthraimoglou.
  • Visualization Summit on Education & Entertainment, Switzerland. Presentation / demonstration of the Virtual Reality programs of the department on two advanced SGI systems.
  • COMDEX 2000, Athens. Demonstration of department programs at the Reality Center of the company Silicon Technologies, by all department staff.
  • iGRID 2000, Japan, and iGRID 2002, Netherlands. Simultaneous demonstration of virtual programs on multiple Virtual Reality systems, connected via the fast Internet2 network.
  • SIGGRAPH 2002, San Antonio, TX, USA. Presentations of the program "The Temple of Zeus in Olympia" to hundreds of visitors at the Reality Center theater of SGI by Mrs. Maria Roussou and Mr. Athanasios Gaitatzes.

 

 

 Publications

  • Gaitatzes A., Christopoulos D., Papaioannou G., "Virtual Reality Systems and Applications: The Ancient Olympic Games", in Proc. "10th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics", (PCI 2005) in P. Bozanis and E.N. Houstis (Eds.), "Advances in Informatics", Springer-Verlag, LNCS 3746, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece, November 11-13 2005.
  • Gaitatzes A., Christopoulos D., Papaioannou G., "Olympia and the Ancient Olympic Games - Techniques for producing Immersive and Educational Virtual Environments", "2nd International Conference on Cultural Convergence & Digital Technology", Athens Greece, November 2004 and Imeros Journal for Culture and Technology (5), 2005.
  • Gaitatzes A., Christopoulos D., Papaioannou G., "The Ancient Olympic Games: Being Part of the Experience", in Proc. "5th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage", (VAST 2004) and "2nd Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage", Oudenaarde, Belgium, December 7-10 2004.
  • Sideris A., Roussou M., Gaitatzes A., "Virtual Reconstruction of the Hellenistic Asklepieion of Messene using Scientific and Educational Scenario-based Approaches" in Proc. "9th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists", St. Petersburg, Russia, September 10-14, 2003 and Imeros Journal for Culture and Technology (4), 2004.
  • D. Christopoulos, A. Gaitatzes, G. Papaioannou, Image-based Techniques for Enhancing Virtual Reality Environments, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Technology, Art and Cultural Heritage (ICTACH), Athens, Greece, 2003.
  • G. Papaioannou, A. Gaitatzes, D. Christopoulos, Enhancing Virtual Walkthroughs of Archaeological Sites, Proceedings of the Virtual Reality and Cultural Heritage Conference VAST 2003 of ACM/Eurographics, Brighton, UK, 2003.
  • Roussou, M., Efraimoglou, D., "High-end Interactive Media in the Museum", Computer Graphics, ACM SIGGRAPH, 1999, pp. 59-62. Republished in the Imeros Journal, 1, 2001, pp. 23-31.
  • Gaitatzes, A., Christopoulos, D., Voulgari, A., Roussou, M., "Hellenic Cultural Heritage through Immersive Virtual Archaeology", in Proc. 6th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, Gifu, Japan, 2000.
  • Giannoulis, G., Koliou, M., Kamarinos, G., Roussou, M., Trahanias, P., Argyros, A., Tsakiris, D., Cremers, A., Schulz, D., Burgard, W., Haehnel, D., Savvaides, V., Friess, P., Konstantios, D., Katselaki, A., "Enhancing Museum Visitor Access Through Robotic Avatars Connected to the Web", Proceedings Museums & the Web, Seattle WA, 2001.
  • Pape, D., Anstey, J., D' Souza, S., DeFanti, T., Roussou, M., Gaitatzes, A., "Shared Miletus: Towards a Networked Virtual History Museum", Proceedings Euroimage International Conference on Augmented, Virtual Environments and Three-Dimensional Imaging, 2001, pp. 85-89.
  • Androutsopoulos, I., Calder, J., Not, E., Pianesi, F. & Roussou, M., "Multilingual Personalised Information Objects", Proceedings International Workshop on Information Presentation and Natural Multimodal Dialogue, Verona, 2001, pp. 25-29.
  • Gaitatzes, A., Christopoulos, D., Roussou, M., "Reviving the Past: Cultural Heritage Meets Virtual Reality", Proceedings Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (VAST'01), 2001.
  • Roussou, M., Trahanias, P., Giannoulis, G., Kamarinos, G., Argyros, A., Tsakiris, D., Georgiadis, P., Burgard, W., Haehnel, D., Cremers, A., Schulz, D., Moors, M., Spirtounias, E., Mika, M., Savvaides, V., Reitelman, A., Konstantios, D., & Katselaki, A., "Experiences from the Use of a Robotic Avatar in a Museum Setting", Proceedings Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (VAST'01), 2001.
  • Gaitatzes, A., Christopoulos, D., & Roussou, M., "Virtual Reality Interfaces for the Broad Public", Proceedings N. Avouris & N. Fakotakis (Eds.), PC HCI 2001, 2001, pp. 159-164.
  • Sideris, A. & Roussou, M., "Making a new world out of an old one: in search of a common language for archaeological immersive VR representation", Proceedings 8th International Conference Virtual Systems & Multimedia / VSMM 2002, 2002, pp. 31-42.