Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges

Dr. Theodoropoulos Anastasios serves as an assistant professor at the department of Performing and Digital Arts – University of the Peloponnese, teaching Game Design & Development, Human-Computer Interaction, Virtual Reality and Character Animation. He is also a scientific associate-researcher in the field of games and immersive technologies at the HCI-VR Laboratory. He has extensive experience in teaching within the Computer Science domain (since 2006), in a wide variety of courses, to students aged from 6 years old to mature adults and in multicultural settings. He also serves as a national Ambassador for the European Code Week initiative, whereas he promotes games (game-design and game-play), to develop basic Computational Thinking skills. His research focuses on Game studies, Player Experience, Character Animation, Game Education, Immersive Technologies, and Human-Machine Interaction. He has co-authored several manuscripts published in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, and he serves as editor on highly recognized journals. In addition, he is an active member of the ACM, SIGCHI, SIGGRAPH, SIGCSE and IGDA organizations. He researches user/player experience modeling and technologies to enhance gaming experiences, and algorithms that dynamically adapt to player behavior, creating immersive and personalized gameplay scenarios. Lately, he has been involved in projects that combine interactive/immersive gaming technologies with arts and culture.