Computação Gráfica e Media Digital Interativa

About Area

Extended Reality solutions, including Multisensory VR and AR, Visualization, Digital Games, Interactive Multimedia applications, and in general, Computer Graphics & Interaction, are important areas driving innovation in the IT sector. Our challenge is to contribute with fundamental and applied research in these areas, with a multidisciplinary team, advancing the interconnection between technology and human perception. We are committed to participating in and organising scientific and public events in the area, as well as participating in the organs of important international scientific associations, as is the case of the EUROGRAPHICS, the Immersive Learning Research Network and the working group IEEE Digital Twin of the Earth group. Our knowledge and regular industry collaboration, constitute an excellent potential to increase our involvement with current and new partners and communities, fostering research-based learning by engaging Master's and PhD students. Our experience in Immersive Learning Environments, as well as in Serious Games, can promote applications in Training & Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism, providing innovative learning experiences.

Flagship Projects

BEACONING

The goal of the project is to create a platform of pervasive games, that can transmit educational content in the most opportune moments to students, based on the philosophy Anytime, anyplace. Pervasive games extend the gaming world to the surrounding environment, which can be a classroom, the student home or the city where he lives in. It will be developed a platform to automatically generate mobile applications with pervasive games, according to the description made by the teachers themselves, who launch challenges and questions to the students, and that integrates itself with the instruments and educational services that exist in the organizations participating in the project. To test BEACONING, it will be implemented, in 2017, large scale systems in Greece, Turkey, France, Israel and Romania, each one involving hundreds of students and professionals in Europe, assuring both an exploration and a business plan to adopt this platform.

PAINTER

The PAINTER project consists in the implementation of a collaborative framework for the creation and edition of virtual environments using VR and AR devices. The purpose is to explore new interaction paradigms for content creation within virtual reality, supported by augmented reality tools and procedural content generation. The main solution consists of a centralized virtual simulation system, accessible to VR/AR devices, smartphones, or other interaction devices, and connected simultaneously.