Urban Sherpa

1994

The Urban Sherpa was a prototype multimedia architectural tour guide.

The Urban Sherpa (1994), a prototype multimedia architectural tour guide of Chicago intended for use as a
kiosk or a portable "walk along" system. A physical handheld prototype was constructed, while the multimedia production included many images, drawings, video, and sound and was implemented on the Macintosh using an early version of MacroMedia Director & Lingo.

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8-12.03.2025: Keynote speaker at IEEE Virtual Reality 2025, Saint-Malo, France. Teaser video.

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08-09.02.2024: Speaker at Presence in VR (Philosophical perspectives), "The sense of presence in Mixed Reality environments," Athens, Greece.

29.09.2023: Keynote speaker at ACM MobileHCI '23, Athens, Greece.

05-06.05.2023: Speaker at Advancing Digital Exhibition of Cultural Heritage, University of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA.

10.03.2023: paper published: Ganias et al. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2023.3247039Comparing Different Grasping Visualizations for Object Manipulation in VR using Controllers. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 1–10.