CREDITS
General supervisor of project design and implementation
Dimitris Efraimoglou
Head of Digital Productions Sector
Managing Director FHW

Administrative supervision of the project
George Giannoulis-Giannoulopoulos
(Head of Project Coordination Department FHW)
 
General coordinator of the project
Giannis Karigiannis
(Project Coordination Department FHW)
 
Scientific supervisor
Dr. Thanos Sideris - Archaeologist
(Head of History and Archaeology Department FHW)
 
Specialists - Members of the scientific committee of the project
Professor Petros Themelis
Professor John Camp (Director of the excavations of the Ancient Agora of Athens)
Dr. Richard Anderson - (Architect of the excavation of the American School of Classical Studies)
Dr. Alcestis Choremi
(Former Head of the 1st Ephorate of Classical Antiquities)
 

 

Virtual Reality Applications
3D Representations
General responsible for Coordination of production and representation in Virtual Reality systems
Athanasios Gaitatzis
(Head of Virtual Reality Department FHW)
General coordinator of
3D representation

Evangelos Christodoulou
(Head of 3D Graphics Department FHW)
Design of software and
creation of the virtual world
Responsible for architectural
design and documentation

Giannis Arvanitis - Architect
(3D Graphics Department FHW)
Virtual Reality Department FHW
Saki Gaitatzes
(Programming - Design of
software for the cluster of
computers - Creation of the
virtual world)
Dr. George Papaioannou
(Design of software for the reproduction of sound and creation of virtual world - Programming - Design of software for the cluster of computers and for sound reproduction - Creation of the virtual world)
Christopoulos Dimitris
(Design of software for the reproduction of sound and the creation of the virtual world - Programming - Design of software for the cluster of computers - Design of interaction software - Creation of the virtual world)
Gjergji Zyba
(Design of software for the cluster of computers - External collaborator)
Sketch design of virtual scenario
Architectural design and documentation
George Dimitriou
(Designer Sketcher)
George Triantafillou
(Architect)
Creation of three dimensional models and textures

Coordinator of design and development of scenarios for the Virtual Reality applications
Spiros Tsiftsis
(Head of Film Productions Department FHW)

3D Graphics Department FHW
Avraam Onasiadis
(Creation of three dimensional models of buildings)
Nikos Gizelis
(Creation of three dimensional models of buildings)
Emmanouel Vichos
(Creation of three dimensional models of buildings)
Gina Grapsia
(Creation of texture of buildings and area)
Evdokia Papakiriazi
(Creation of texture of buildings and area)

Virtual Reality Department FHW
Antonakakis Andronikos
(Creation of three dimensional models of buildings - Creation of texture of buildings and area - Modeling - Animation of characters & creation of textures)
Aimilia Voulgari
(Creation of three dimensional models of buildings)
Panos Panopoulos
(Creation of texture of buildings and area)
Chara Sfyri
(Creation of three dimensional models of buildings - Creation of texture of buildings and area - Modeling - Animation of characters and creation of textures)
Gourdoglou Gabriel
(Creation of three dimensional models of buildings)
Melissanakis George
(Creation of three dimensional models of buildings - External collaborator)
Hemery Alexander
(Creation of three dimensional models of buildings - External collaborator)
Christodoulidis Kimon
(Creation of three dimensional models of buildings - External collaborator)
Wilke Harold
(Creation of three dimensional models of buildings - External collaborator)

Artistic supervisor of digital Virtual Reality applications
Vassilis Mazomenos
(External collaborator)
Archaeological documentation of virtual reconstruction and writing Scientific supervision of web texts and scenarios
Dr. Dimitris Palaiothodoros (External collaborator)
Dr. Thanos Sideris (Head of History and Archaeology Department FHW)
Despina Moschou (History and Archaeology Department FHW)
Interactive Happening
Web Site
Artistic supervisor of interactive happening
Olga Pozeli (External collaborator)
Supervisor for the design and development of web site
Nikos Varsos (Head of Multimedia and Internet Department FHW)
Actors of interactive happening
Dimitris Vergados (External collaborator)
Kiriaki Karalouka (External collaborator)
Gerasimos Mavros (External collaborator)
Kalirroi Miriagou (External collaborator)
Christos Sapountzis (External collaborator)
Stelios Trakas (External collaborator)

Programming and development of web site
Thomas Vliakas (External collaborator)

 
Actor presenting the tour
Giannis Lazaris
Graphical design of web site
Sophia Michou - (Multimedia and Internet Department FHW)
Maria Papadopoulou - (Multimedia and Internet Department FHW)
Savvas Pelonis - (Multimedia and Internet Department FHW)
   
Ειδικός φωτισμού διαδραστικού δρώμενου
Αικατερίνη Μαραγκουδάκη (Εξωτερική συνεργάτρια)
Design and creation of historical geographical topographic background of Virtual Reality
Dr. George Sidiropoulos
(Head of the Geographical Analysis and Cartography Departments FHW)
Fotini Kladia
(Geographical Analysis and Cartography Departments FHW)
Stage and costume designer for the interactive happening
Konstantinos Davaris (External collaborator)
Graphic Design of Printed Material
Thanasis Konstantopoulos
(FHW)
Screen writer of digital presentation and interactive happening Nikos Patiniotis
Multimedia, educational documentation of web site and special programming for the virtual reality and the web site
Natassa Glaraki (External collaborator)
Eleni Mitsakou (External collaborator)
Ekaterini Daouti (External collaborator)
Thomas Pliakas (External collaborator)
Blair Parkin (External collaborator)
George Tsagas (Multimedia and Internet Department FHW)
Achilleas Kiahagias (External collaborator)
Music
Theodoros Abatzis (External collaborator)
Responsible for music, sound design and speeches
Vassilis Kountouris (External collaborator)
Konstantinos Bokos (External collaborator)

Members of the Steering Committee
Dr. Thanos Sideris (Archaeologist) - President,
Dr. George Papaioannou (Virtual Reality Programmer),
Dr. Ferla Kleopatra (Historian)
Economic monitoring of the project
Anna Simitsidou
Manolis Galenos
Administrative Support
Xanthi Tsoumou
Sophia Tsigouni

We would like to offer our warmest thanks for their contribution to this project the following:
The 1st Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities for its support to the project.
The American School of Classical Studies for its support to the project.
The architects Giannis Tsiomis and George Andreadis for kindly granting us permission to use their digital work for the topographic depiction of the wider area of the Ancient Agora of Athens, in its present day form.

 
 
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The project "Virtual Reality Digital Collection 'The Ancient Agora of Athens'" has been co-funded in a percentage of 80% by the European Regional Development Fund and in a percentage of 20% by state funds in the framework of the Operational Programme "Information Society" of the 3rd Community Support Framework.

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