Sophia Fanarioti

Supervisor: Vasilis Komianos

Members: Ioannis Deligiannis, Michail Panagopoulos

PhD research topic:

The proposed PhD thesis has the idea that Mixed Reality environments, as well as Virtual and Augmented Reality environments can be used as spaces for the presentation of stories and the development of events and phenomena. This spaces should provide tools that support the narrator's actions as he tells a story and presents relevant events. The challenge is identified in the possibility of creating rules and sequences of events so that they present part of the action that could complement the narrative. The goal should be a storyteller to decide in real time the development of the story being told as well as the presence and behavior of objects in such a way that the narrative is not prescribed but can be changed. The proposed thesis will focus on a) the requirements for making available, organizing, planning, previewing, placing, activating the content by the narrator as well as other related functions and b) in the issues of realization of the supplementary narrative objects (objects-events-development-phenomena) and viewing-listening on the part of the audience as well as interaction in the cases where it is desirable for them to have possibilities of interaction with the narrative objects