Evangelos Koutsoumpidis

Supervisor: Nikolaos Grigorios Kanellopoulos
Members: Andreas Giannakoulopoulos, Konstantinos Oikonomou

The research is oriented towards the use of AR and / or VR learning environments for the local history of Corfu. It focuses on primary school students and concerns the development of an application suitable for these ages. Its aim is to clarify what factors make such a learning environment effective and speed up the process of acquiring knowledge and skills.

He was born in Thessaloniki in 1983. He completed his studies at the Pedagogical Department of Primary Education of the University of Western Macedonia in 2004. In 2017 he received a master's degree from the Department of Informatics of the Ionian University entitled "Technologies and Applications of Humanities in Computer Science". Since 2005, he has been working as a primary school teacher in public primary schools in the country. Since 2013 he lives and works in Corfu.

Publications
Koutsoumpidis, E., Komianos, V. & Oikonomou, K. (2017). Evaluation of virtual agents' effectiveness in history class, European Journal of Education and Applied Psychology, Section 2. Information Technology and Education, 4,14-29.