Christos Mousas

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Biography
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Graphics Technology at Purdue University and director of the VR Lab. My research revolves around virtual reality, computer graphics, computer animation, and human-computer interaction. In the past, I've been affiliated with the Visual Computing Lab at Dartmouth College as Postdoctoral Researcher and with the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication of the University of the Aegean as Research Assistant. I hold a Ph.D. in Informatics and an M.Sc. in Multimedia Applications and Virtual Environments both from the School of Engineering and Informatics of the University of Sussex, and a five-year integrated Masters in Audiovisual Science and Art from the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of Ionian University. For my research, I use computational tools to design virtual reality experiences and interfaces, and aspects of cognitive and experimental psychology to understand the way humans interact in virtual environments. I am a member of IEEE and have been a member of the program committees of many conferences in the virtual reality, computer graphics, and human-computer interaction fields.
For more info, visit my academic webpage: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~cmousas/
Education:
PostDoc Computer Science
- Dartmouth College
PhD Informatics
- University of Sussex
MSc Multimedia Applications and Virtual Environments
- University of Sussex
Integrated Masters (BSc & MSc) Audiovisual Science and Art
- Ionian University
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Toward Understanding the Effects of Virtual Character Appearance on Avoidance Movement Behavior
C. Mousas, A. Koilias, B. Rekabdar, D. Kao, D. Anastasiou
IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, pp. TBA, 2021 -
DenserNet: Weakly Supervised Visual Localization Using Multi-Scale Feature Aggregation
D. Liu, Y. Cui, L. Yan, C. Mousas, B. Yang, Y. Chen
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. TBA, 2021 -
A Virtual Reality Framework for Human-Virtual Crowd Interaction Studies
M. Nelson, C. Mousas
IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality, pp. TBA, 2020 -
Biologically Inspired Sleep Algorithm for Variational Auto-Encoders
S. Talafha, B. Rekabdar, C. Mousas, C. Ekenna
International Symposium on Visual Computing, pp. 54-67, 2020 -
Walking in a Crowd Full of Virtual Characters: Effects of Virtual Character Appearance on Human Movement Behavior
M. Nelson, A. Mazumdar, S. Jamal, Y. Chen, C. Mousas
International Symposium on Visual Computing, pp. 617-629, 2020 -
Passenger Anxiety about Virtual Driver Awareness During a Trip with a Virtual Autonomous Vehicle
A. Koilias, C. Mousas, B. Rekabdar, C.-N. Anagnostopoulos
International Symposium on Visual Computing, pp. 654-665, 2020 -
Evaluating Human Movement Coordination During Immersive Walking in a Virtual Crowd
A. Koilias, M. Nelson, S. Gubbi, C. Mousas, C.-N. Anagnostopoulos
MDPI Behavioral Sciences, 10(9), Article No. 130, 2020 -
Virtual Reality Racket Sports: Virtual Drills for Exercise and Training
H. Liu, Z. Wang, C. Mousas, D. Kao
IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, pp. 734-744, 2020 -
Immersive Walking in a Virtual Crowd: The Effects of the Density, Speed, and Direction of a Virtual Crowd on Human Movement Behavior
A. Koilias, M. Nelson, C.-N. Anagnostopoulos, C. Mousas
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 31(6), pp. 1-14, 2020 -
VR-PAVIB: The Virtual Reality Pedestrian-Autonomous Vehicle Interaction Benchmark
A. F. Dalipi, D. Liu, X. Guo, Y. Chen, C. Mousas
ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, pp. 38-41, 2020 -
Using Real-Time, In-Game Measures to Evaluate Game Difficulty
B. Sherrick, C. L. Smith, D. Kao, M. Yuan, C. Mousas
Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, 2020 -
Hack.VR: A Programming Game in Virtual Reality
D. Kao, C. Mousas, A. Magana, D. F. Harrell, R. Ratan, E. Melcer, B. Sherrick, P. Parsons, D. Gusev
International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (Games & Demos), 2020 -
I Feel a Moving Crowd Surrounds Me: Exploring Tactile Feedback During Immersive Walking in a Virtual Crowd
A. Koilias, C. Mousas, C.-N. Anagnostopoulos
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (Proc. of CASA 2020), 31 (4-5), pp. 1-16, 2020 -
Eye Fixations and Electrodermal Activity During Low-Budget Virtual Reality Embodiment
C. Krogmeier, C. Mousas
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (Proc. of CASA 2020), 31 (4-5), pp. 1-12, 2020 -
Real and Virtual Environment Mismatching Induces Arousal and Alters Movement Behavior
C. Mousas, D. Kao, A. Koilias, B. Rekabdar
IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, pp. 626-635, 2020 -
Embodiment for the Difference: A VR Experience of Bipolar Disorder
J. Dong, A. Mazumdar, F. C. Yang, H.-Y. Chen, S. Han, C. Mousas
IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops, pp. 513-514, 2020 -
Blindness Visualizer: A Simulated Navigation Experience
C. Krogmeier, J. Heffron, J. Legare, M. Nelson, Z. Liu, C. Mousas
IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops, pp. 511-512, 2020 -
Color Blindness Bartender: An Embodied VR Game Experience
H. Liu, Z. Wang, Y. Pan, C. Mousas
IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops, pp. 519-520, 2020 -
Attentional Adversarial Variational Video Generation via Decomposing Motion and Content
S. Talafha, B. Rekabdar, C. Ekenna, C. Mousas
IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, pp. 45-52, 2020 -
Within a Virtual Crowd: Exploring Human Movement Behavior during Immersive Crowd Interaction
M. Nelson, A. Koilias, S. Gubbi, C. Mousas
ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and Its Applications in Industry, pp. 3:1-3:10, 2019 -
Computational Design and Fabrication of Customized Gamepads
C. Rajguru, C. Mousas, L.-F. Yu
ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and Its Applications in Industry, pp. 11:1-11:11, 2019 -
Virtual Reality Car Passenger Anxiety on Driving Habits
A. Koilias, C. Mousas, B. Rekabdar
EuroVR International Conference on Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, pp. 263-281, 2019 -
A Virtual Reality Framework for Training Incident First Responders and Digital Forensic Investigators
U. Karabiyik, C. Mousas, D. Sirota, T. Iwai, M. Akdere
International Symposium on Visual Computing, pp. 469-480, 2019 -
Human-Virtual Character Interaction: Toward Understanding the Influence of Haptic Feedback
C. Krogmeier, C. Mousas, D. Whittinghill​
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (Proc. of CASA 2019), 30(3-4), pp. 1-10, 2019 -
The Effects of Motion Artifacts on Self-Avatar Agency
A. Koilias, C. Mousas, C.-N. Anagnostopoulos​
Informatics, 6(2), Article No. 18, 2019 -
Effects of Self-Avatar and Gaze on Avoidance Movement Behavior
C. Mousas, A. Koilias, D. Anastasiou, B. Rekabdar, C.-N. Anagnostopoulos
IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, pp. 726-734, 2019 -
Human, Virtual Human, Bump! A Preliminary Study on Haptic Feedback
C. Krogmeier, C. Mousas, D. Whittinghill
IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, pp. 1032-1033, 2019 -
Passenger Anxiety when Seated in a Virtual Reality Self-Driving Car
A. Koilias, C. Mousas, B. Rekabdar, C.-N. Anagnostopoulos
IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, pp. 1024-1025, 2019 -
Generative Adversarial Network with Policy Gradient for Text Summarization
B. Rekabdar, C. Mousas, B. Gupta
IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, pp. 204-207, 2019 -
Dilated Convolutional Neural Network for Predicting Driver's Activity
B. Rekabdar, C. Mousas
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, pp. 3245-3250, 2018 -
The Effects of Appearance and Motion of Virtual Characters on Emotional Reactivity
C. Mousas, D. Anastasiou, O. Spantidi
Computers in Human Behavior, Volume 86, pp. 99-108, 2018 -
Performance-Driven Dance Motion Control of a Virtual Partner Character
C. Mousas
IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, pp. 57-64, 2018 -
Master of Puppets: An Animation by Demonstration Computer Puppetry Authoring Framework
Y. Cui, C. Mousas
3D Research, 9(1), Article No. 5, 2018 -
Full-Body Locomotion Reconstruction of Virtual Characters Using a Single Inertial Measurement Unit
C. Mousas
Sensors, 17(11), Article No. 2589, 2017 -
Environment-Scale Fabrication: Replicating Outdoor Climbing Experience
E. Whiting, N. Ouf, L. Makatura, C. Mousas, Z. Shu, L. Kavan
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1794-1804, 2017 -
Real-Time Performance-Driven Finger Motion Synthesis
C. Mousas, C.-N. Anagnostopoulos
Computers & Graphics, Vol. 65, pp. 1-11, 2017 -
Learning Motion Features for Example-Based Finger Motion Estimation for Virtual Characters
C. Mousas, C.-N. Anagnostopoulos
3D Research, 8(3), Article No. 25, 2017 -
Motion Style Transfer in Correlated Motion Spaces
A. Kilias, C. Mousas
International Conference on Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Computer Graphics, pp. 242-252, 2017 -
Performance-Driven Hybrid Full-Body Character Control for Navigation and Interaction in Virtual Environments
C. Mousas, C. Anagnostopoulos
3D Research, 8(2), Article No. 18, 2017 -
Kernel Projection of Latent Structures Regression for Facial Animation Retargeting
C. Ouzounis, A. Koilias, C. Mousas
EUROGRAPHICS Virtual Reality Interactions and Physical Simulations, pp. 59-65, 2017 -
Character Animation Scripting Environment
C. Mousas, C.-N. Anagnostopoulos
Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games, pp. 1-12, 2016 -
Finger Motion Estimation and Synthesis for Gesturing Characters
C. Mousas, C.-N. Anagnostopoulos, P. Newbury
Spring Conference on Computer Graphics, pp. 107-104, 2015 -
Structure-Aware Transfer of Facial Blendshapes
C. Mousas, C.-N. Anagnostopoulos
Spring Conference on Computer Graphics, pp. 55-62, 2015 -
Using Personalized Finger Gestures for Navigating Virtual Characters
C. Ouzounis, C. Mousas, C.-N. Anagnostopoulos, P. Newbury
EUROGRAPHICS Virtual Reality Interaction and Physical Simulation Workshop, pp. 5-14, 2015 -
CHASE: Character Animation Scripting Environment
C. Mousas, C.-N. Anagnostopoulos
ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and Its Applications in Industry, pp. 55-62, 2015 -
Footprint-Driven Locomotion Composition
C. Mousas, P. Newbury, C.-N. Anagnostopoulos
International Journal of Computer Graphics & Animation, 4(4), pp. 27-42, 2014 -
Analyzing and Segmenting Finger Gestures in Meaningful Phases
C. Mousas, P. Newbury, C.-N. Anagnostopoulos
IEEE Computer Graphics, Imaging, and Visualization Conference, pp. 89-94, 2014 -
Efficient Hand-Over Motion Reconstruction
C. Mousas, P. Newbury, C.-N. Anagnostopoulos
International Conferences in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision, pp. 111-120, 2014 -
Data-Driven Motion Reconstruction Using Local Regression Models
C. Mousas, P. Newbury, C.-N. Anagnostopoulos
Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, pp. 364-374, 2014 -
Evaluating the Covariance Matrix Constraints for Data-Driven Statistical Human Motion Reconstruction
C. Mousas, P. Newbury, C.-N. Anagnostopoulos
Spring Conference on Computer Graphics, pp. 99-108, 2014 -
The Minimum Energy Expenditure Shortest Path Method
C. Mousas, P. Newbury, C.-N. Anagnostopoulos
Journal of Graphics Tools, 17 (1-2), pp. 31-44, 2013 -
Rethinking Shortest Path: An Energy Expenditure Approach
C. Mousas, P. Newbury, C.-N. Anagnostopoulos
EUROGRAPHICS Virtual Reality Interaction and Physical Simulation Workshop, pp. 35-39, 2013 -
Splicing of Concurrent Upper-Body Motion Spaces with Locomotion
C. Mousas, P. Newbury, C.-N. Anagnostopoulos
Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 25, pp. 348-359, 2013 -
Measuring the Steps: Generating Action Transitions Between Locomotion Behaviors
C. Mousas, P. Newbury, C.-N. Anagnostopoulos
IEEE Computer Games Conference, pp. 31-35, 2013 -
Real-Time Motion Synthesis for Multiple Goal-Directed Tasks Using Motion Layers
C. Mousas, P. Newbury
EUROGRAPHICS Virtual Reality Interaction and Physical Simulation Workshop, pp. 79-85, 2012 -
Real-Time Motion Editing for Reaching Tasks Using Multiple Internal Graphs
C. Mousas, P. Newbury
IEEE Computer Games Conference, pp. 51-55, 2012
Professional Affiliations:
- IEEE Member