2025

Social facilitation within immersive virtual reality enhances perseverance in stroke rehabilitation training.

C Hadjipanayi, D Sokratous, C Kyrlitsias, D Banakou, D Michael-Grigoriou (2025)
Front. Virtual Real. 6:1581240.

Virtual Reality in Stroke Rehabilitation and Treatment: Focusing on the Patient’s Experience and Needs.

C Hadjipanayi, D Banakou, D Michael-Grigoriou (2025)
In: Charalambous, A. (eds) Critical Perspectives on Technological Innovations in Healthcare. Springer, Cham pp 101-116.

vER: Virtual Human Companionship for Patients in Preoperative Care.

A Pandhare, D Skulikj, J Lee, P Mikhiel, D Banakou (2025)
IMX '25: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences, Pages 468 - 472.

Adaptive Virtual Reality Meditation for Adults with ADHD.

A Zhagufarova, D Banakou, H Salam (2025)
In: Brooks, A.L., Banakou, D., Ceperkovic, S. (eds) ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation. ArtsIT 2024. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 651. Springer, Cham.

Tapping into Touch Preferences and Individual Behaviours: Assessing and Improving the HandsOn Mobile App.

M T Fairhurst, W Sun, C Hadjipanayi, D Michael-Grigoriou, D Banakou (2025)
In: Brooks, A.L., Banakou, D., Ceperkovic, S. (eds) ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation. ArtsIT 2024. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 651. Springer, Cham.

2024

Multisensory experiences of affective touch in virtual reality enhance engagement, body ownership, pleasantness, and arousal modulation.

W Sun, D Banakou, J Świdrak, I Valori, M Slater, M T Fairhurst (2024)
Virtual Reality 28, 162.

Development of a Modular Adjustable Wearable Haptic Device for XR Applications.

A Najm, D Banakou, D Michael-Grigoriou (2024)
Virtual Worlds 2024, 3, 436-458.

Virtual reality exergames for enhancing engagement in stroke rehabilitation: A narrative review.

C Hadjipanayi, D Banakou, D Michael-Grigoriou (2024)
Heliyon, 10:18, e37581

Desensitizing Anxiety Through Imperceptible Change: Feasibility Study on a Paradigm for Single-Session Exposure Therapy for Fear of Public Speaking.

D Banakou, T Johnston, A Beacco, G Senel, M Slater (2024)
JMIR Form Res 2024;8:e52212

Cultivating empathy through narratives in virtual reality: a review.

C Hadjipanayi, M Christofi, D Banakou, D Michael-Grigoriou (2024)
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 10.1007/s00779-024-01812-w

2023

Haptic feedback in a virtual crowd scenario improves the emotional response.

RK Venkatesan, D Banakou, M Slater, M Manivannan (2023)
Frontiers in Virtual Reality Sec. Haptics 4:1242587

A comparison of two methods for moving through a virtual environment: walking in place and interactive redirected walking.

D Banakou, M Slater (2023)
Frontiers in Virtual Reality Sec. Virtual Reality and Human Behaviour 4:1294539

Using virtual reality to assess gesture performance deficits in schizophrenia patients.

A Pavlidou, G Gorisse, D Banakou, S Walther (2023)
Frontiers in Psychiatry 14:1191601

Art as therapy in virtual reality: A scoping review.

C Hadjipanayi, D Banakou, D Michael-Grigoriou (2023)
Frontiers in Virtual Reality 4:1065863

2022

The Sentiment of a Virtual Rock Concert.

M Slater, C Cabriera, G Senel, D Banakou, A Beacco, R Oliva, J Gallego (2022)
in Virtual Reality 23:1-25

A Separate Reality: An Update on Place Illusion and Plausibility in Virtual Reality.

M Slater, D Banakou, A Beacco, J Gallego, F Macia-Varela, R Oliva (2022)
Frontiers in Virtual Reality 3:914392

2021

Self-observation of a virtual body-double engaged in social interaction reduces persecutory thoughts.

G Gorisse, G Şenel, D Banakou, A Beacco, R Oliva, D Freeman, M Slater (2021)
Scientific Repports 11:23923

The Golden Rule as a Paradigm for Fostering Prosocial Behavior With Virtual Reality.

M Slater, D Banakou (2021)
Current Directions in Psychological Science

The Influence of Embodiment as a Cartoon Character on Public Speaking Anxiety.

A I Bellido Rivas, X Navarro, D Banakou, R Oliva, V Orvalho, M Slater (2021)
Frontiers in Virtual Reality 11:2281

Evaluating participant responses to a virtual reality experience using reinforcement learning.

J Llobera, A Beacco, R Oliva, G Şenel, D Banakou, Mel Slater (2021)
Royal Society Open Science 8:9

Editorial: Neuropsychological and Cognitive-Behavioral Assessment of Neurodegenerative Disease and Rehabilitation Using New Technologies and Virtual Reality.

M Matamala-Gomez, F Stasolla, S Seinfeld, A O. Caffò, D Banakou, S Bottiroli (2021)
Frontiers in Psychology 12:691909

2020

Virtual body ownership and its consequences for implicit racial bias are dependent on social context.

D Banakou, A Beacco, S Neyret, M Blasco-Oliver, S Seinfeld, Mel Slater (2020)
Royal Society Open Science 7:201848

The Rocketbox library and the utility of freely available rigged avatars for procedural animation of virtual humans and embodiment.

M Gonzalez-Franco, E Ofek, Y Pan, A Antley, A Steed, B Spanlang, A Maselli, D Banakou, N Pelechano, S Orts-Escolano, V Orvalho, L Trutoiu, M Wojcik, M V Sanchez-Vives, J Bailenson, M Slater, J Lanier (2020)
Frontiers in Virtual Reality 1:561558

Exploring the effect of cooperation in reducing implicit racial bias and its relationship with dispositional empathy and political attitudes.

I Patané ^† , A Lelgouarch ^† , D Banakou ^† , G Verdelet, C Desoche, E Koun, R Salemme, M Slater, A Farnè (2020)
Frontiers in Psychology, 11:2281

Social Conformity in Immersive Virtual Environments: The Impact of Agents’ Gaze Behavior.

C Kyrlitsias, D Michael-Grigoriou, D Banakou, M Christofi (2020)
Frontiers in Psychology 11:2254

A Virtual Τour of a Hardly Accessible Archaeological Site: the Effect of Immersive Virtual Reality in User Experience, Learning and Attitude Change.

C Kyrlitsias, M Christofi, D Michael-Grigoriou, D Banakou, A Ioannou (2020)
Frontiers in Computer Science 2:23

2019

A Mechanistic Account of Bodily Resonance and Implicit Bias.

R Bedder, D Bush, D Banakou, T Peck, M Slater, N Burgess (2019)
Cognition 184 (1-10)

2018

Virtually Being Einstein Results in an Improvement in Cognitive Task Performance and a Decrease in Age Bias.

D Banakou, S Kishore, M Slater (2018)
Frontiers in Psychology 9:917

Reducing risk and improving maternal perspective-taking and empathy using virtual embodiment.

C Hamilton-Giachritsis, D Banakou, M Quiroga-Garcia, C Giachritsis, M Slater (2018)
Scientific Reports 8:14227

2017

Embodiment in a virtual body that speaks produces agency over the speaking but does not necessarily influence subsequent real speaking.

D Banakou, M Slater (2017)
Scientific Reports 7:14227

Embodiment in a Child-Like Talking Virtual Body Influences Object Size Perception, Self-Identification, and Subsequent Real Speaking.

A Tajadura-Jiménez ^† , D Banakou ^† , N Bianchi-Berthouze, M Slater (2017)
Scientific Reports 7:9637

2016

Virtual Embodiment of White People in a Black Virtual Body Leads to a Sustained Reduction in their Implicit Racial Bias.

D Banakou, PD Hanumanthu, M Slater (2016)
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 10:601

2014

Body ownership causes illusory self-attribution of speaking and influences subsequent real speaking.

D Banakou, M Slater (2014)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U S A (PNAS) 111(49):17678-83

2013

Illusory ownership of a virtual child body causes overestimation of object sizes and implicit attitude changes.

D Banakou, R Groten, M Slater (2013)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U S A (PNAS) 1(6):12846–12851

2011

Computer Based Video and Virtual Environments in the Study of the Role of Emotions in Moral Behavior.

X Pan, D Banakou, M Slater (2011)
Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction 6975:52-61

2010

The effects of Avatars’ Gender and Appearance on Social Behaviour in Virtual Worlds.

D Banakou, K Chorianopoulos (2010)
Journal of Virtual Worlds Research 2(5):3-16