Christos Lougiakis Email & Phone Number

Greece

Greece

Athens, Attiki, Greece

• Participating in national and EU-funded projects for the Narralive team.• Leading the design and development process of the team’s product and research efforts for effective user interaction and creating engaging digital experiences.• NoFold – Social VR Platform for Board Games: o Leading the creation of a platform for board game creators and players. o Conducting quantitative and qualitative studies with creators gathering user requirements. o Implementing user… Show more • Participating in national and EU-funded projects for the Narralive team.• Leading the design and development process of the team’s product and research efforts for effective user interaction and creating engaging digital experiences.• NoFold – Social VR Platform for Board Games: o Leading the creation of a platform for board game creators and players. o Conducting quantitative and qualitative studies with creators gathering user requirements. o Implementing user interaction through rapid prototyping and iterative design using Unity. o Successfully demoed an early prototype to tens of users at the FDG conference with very positive feedback.• Narralive Suite: Leading the design for the unification of the several web-based tools the team has created for the authoring and experiencing of digital interactive narratives. Show less

Athens, Greece

• Software engineer on the front-end aspects of the EU-funded project EMOTIVE (https://emotiveproject.eu/). • Collaborated with an interdisciplinary consortium of European partners with the aim of using emotional storytelling to change how people cultural experience heritage sites.• Narralive tools: o Designed and developed the team’s web-based authoring and experiencing systems for digital interactive narratives in cultural heritage using iterative design and the Angular… Show more • Software engineer on the front-end aspects of the EU-funded project EMOTIVE (https://emotiveproject.eu/). • Collaborated with an interdisciplinary consortium of European partners with the aim of using emotional storytelling to change how people cultural experience heritage sites.• Narralive tools: o Designed and developed the team’s web-based authoring and experiencing systems for digital interactive narratives in cultural heritage using iterative design and the Angular framework. o The tools have been used by thousands of users for this and several other projects.• Catalhoyuk VR: o Coordinated the design and implementation of a multi-user VR experience for the archaeological site of Catalhoyuk. o Designed and developed all interactions and game logic using Unity, SteamVR and Photon. o Successfully evaluated with hundreds of users and made public on itch.io (https://narralive.itch.io/catalhoyuk-vr). Show less

• Researcher assistant for the EU-funded project CAPHE (https://www.caphe.space/).• Collaborating with a multidisciplinary and multicultural consortium of artists, philosophers, architects and educators. Providing open presentations, tutorials and demos related to XR technology and research.• Opera VR performance: Conceptualized, designed and developed a proof-of-concept for blending opera with real-time VR performance using Unity and VRTK. The result was a part of a live concert in… Show more • Researcher assistant for the EU-funded project CAPHE (https://www.caphe.space/).• Collaborating with a multidisciplinary and multicultural consortium of artists, philosophers, architects and educators. Providing open presentations, tutorials and demos related to XR technology and research.• Opera VR performance: Conceptualized, designed and developed a proof-of-concept for blending opera with real-time VR performance using Unity and VRTK. The result was a part of a live concert in Kenya. Show less

• Research assistant for the EU-funded research project BRIDGES (https://www.bridges-horizon.eu/). • Collaborated with an interdisciplinary consortium of European partners with the aim of bringing a holistic solution for co-located group experiences in room-scale immersive XR environments.• Explored different immersive approaches for evaluation methods of XR experiences through a user study.• Part of the design process of 2 use-case scenarios, a virtual visit to Ancient Athens and a… Show more • Research assistant for the EU-funded research project BRIDGES (https://www.bridges-horizon.eu/). • Collaborated with an interdisciplinary consortium of European partners with the aim of bringing a holistic solution for co-located group experiences in room-scale immersive XR environments.• Explored different immersive approaches for evaluation methods of XR experiences through a user study.• Part of the design process of 2 use-case scenarios, a virtual visit to Ancient Athens and a firefighter training simulation. Show less

Geneva Area, Switzerland

• Technical student working as a software engineer for CERN’s S’Cool LAB Project.• Responsible for the design and implementation of two websites for the CERN’s S’Cool LAB Project, for both the front and the back end using Drupal and MySQL. Provision of technical support for CERN's Education Department.

Greece

Installation and troubleshooting of hardware and software systems, maintenance and repair of PC equipment.

Visting Phd Student, Hci And Xr

Joined the 3D Interaction Group to conduct research in the context of a 6-month scholarship funded by Fulbright and IKY. Advisor: Doug.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Computer Science

Studying physics-simulated hand interaction in XR and exploring the effects on the user experience. Contributed to the open source Unity.

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Graduate Thesis in the field of Human-Computer Interaction and Virtual Reality: ”Effects of virtual hand representation on interaction.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Undergraduate Thesis in the field of Human-Computer Interaction: “Authoring tool creation for an interactive digital narratives.

Diploma, Computer Science

Data Technologies, Software development security, Advanced networking, Computer architecture and performance tuning, Software Engineering.