Publications

Cypriot Intangible Cultural Heritage: Digitizing Folk Dances
Andreas Aristidou, Efstathios Stavrakis, Yiorgos Chrysanthou
Cyprus Computer Society journal, Issue 25, pages 42-49, Apr 2014
We aim to preserve the Cypriot folk dance heritage, creating a state-of-the-art publicly accessible digital archive of folk dances. Our dance library, apart from the rare video materials that are commonly used to document dance performances, utilises three dimensional motion capture technologies to record and archive high quality motion data of expert dancers.

Simulating Heterogeneous Crowds With Interactive Behaviors
Mubbasir Kappadia, Nuria Pelechano, Stephen Guy, Jan Allbeck, Yiorgos Chrysanthou
Presented at: Tutorial at Eurographics’14, Apr 2014

Learning Through Multi-Touch Interfaces in Museum Exhibits: an Empirical Investigation
Panagiotis Zaharias, Despina Michael, Yiorgos Chrysanthou
Educational Technology & Society 16.3 (2013), pp. 374–384, Sep 2013

Selective Local Tone Mapping
Alessandro Artusi, Ahmet Oguz Akyuz, Benjamin Roch, Despina Michael, Yiorgos Chrysanthou, Alan Chalmers
Presented at: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP). IEEE. 2013, pp. 2309– 2313, Jan 2013

The Cyprus Food and Nutrition Virtual Museum. An Attempt to Preserve and Disseminate Knowledge about Past Foodways and Controversial Issues Regarding the Revival of Traditional Food
Antonia Matalas, Chrystaleni Lazarou, Chrysanthou Yiorgos
ed. by Lysaght P. Lund, Sweden: Lund University, Chap. The Return to Traditional Food, pp. 146–151, Jan 2013

Affect Recognition during Active Game Playing based on Posture Skeleton Data
Haris Zacharatos, Christos Gatzoulis, Yiorgos Chrysanthou
Presented at: International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications. pp. 419– 422, Jan 2013

Reconstruction of everyday life in 19th century Nicosia
Panayiotis Charalambous, Hesperia Iliadou, Charalambos Apostolou, Yiorgos Chrysanthou
Presented at: 4th international conference on Progress in Cultural Heritage Preservation (EuroMed'12), Limassol, Cyprus, Nov 2012
This paper presents the first stages of a larger project concerning the study and realization of a 3D interactive environment of everyday life in 19th century Nicosia. The presented study involves the recreation of the built urban environment (i.e. the architecture of the city) based on historic and archival information taken from the first Land Registry documentations taking place on the island at the end of the Ottoman era by British engineers.

Digitization of Cypriot Folk Dances
Efstathios Stavrakis, Andreas Aristidou, Maria Savva, Stephania Loizidou Himona, Yiorgos Chrysanthou
NCS, Volume 7616, pages 404-413, Nov 2012
Presented at: 4th International Conference on Progress in Cultural Heritage Preservation (EuroMed'12), Limassol, Cyprus

Exploring User Experience While Playing Educational Games: Focus on Temporality and Attractiveness
Panagiotis Zaharias, Christos Gatzoulis, Yiorgos Chrysanthou
International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations (IJGCMS) 4.4 (2012), pp. 19–32, Oct 2012

Reviving Nicosia of the XIXth Century
Hesperia Iliadou, Panayiotis Charalambous, Yiorgos Chrysanthou
Presented at: European Association for Urban History Conference (EAUH'12), Jun 2012
n this paper we describe our on-going work on the virtual reconstruction and population of XIXth Century Nicosia. The project involves the development of a semi-automatic pipeline that will take as input maps and land-registry deeds and will give as a result a 3D model of the urban space inhabited by animated virtual characters, guided by the historic information. The aim is to present a unique insight to the everyday life of a bygone era. In the city, now divided by a wall into Muslim north and Christian south, a population of Muslims coexisted with the Christian-Orthodox population as well as with other minorities, in an interesting intertwine of culture and religion located in the dense built environment within the city walls.

Design, Implementation and First Results of a 3Rd Generation Digital Photogrammetric System From Trunk Surface Assessment and Scoliosis Screening
TB Grivas, P. Patias, K. Soultanis, E. Stylianidis, V. Tsioukas, Ch. Georgiadis, C. Andreou, P. Charalambous, Y. Chrysanthou
Scoliosis 7.Suppl 1:P14 (2012), Jan 2012
Presented at: 8th International Conference on Conservative Management of Spinal Deformities