University of Patras (UPAT)

University of Patras (UPAT) Greece, will participate through its Communications and Information Technologies Laboratory (WCL), established in 1967 at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and especially through the Visualization and Virtual Reality Group. The WCL currently has a staff of more than 50 researchers, support personnel, and PhD students and is active in main areas with organized R&D Groups: (i) Artificial Intelligence, (ii) Audio & Acoustics Technology, (iii) Network Architectures and Management, (iv) Digital Transmission and Coding, (v) Communication Networks Traffic Engineering and Applications, (vi) Communications and Telematic Applications, (vii) Pattern Recognition and (viii) Visualization and Virtual Reality. WCL is active, among others in human-computer interaction, virtual user modelling, virtual physiological humans, virtual and mixed reality, physics-based simulation computational modelling, biomechanics, etc. In the latest years the lab has published over 300 scientific publications, contributed over 20 PhD dissertations, developed various resources (databases, research tools, technology-prove prototypes, etc) and participated/is participating in more than 30 R&D Projects.