BIOSIM’s team Wins 1st place at the SUNRISE-6G Hackathon CAMARA track in Athens with an Adaptive Biofeedback Serious Game for Health

The BIOSIM team, consisting of Stylianos M. Papelis (ECE Student), Nikolaos Bothos-Vouterakos (ECE Student), Eleftherios Kalafatis (PhD Candidate), Marily Vlontzou (PhD Student) and Kostas Mitsis (Postdoc Researcher) was selected as 1st winner of the CAMARA track of SUNRISE-6G Hackathon in Athens, organised alongside IEEE NFV-SDN 2025. The event focused on integrating real applications with the SUNRISE-6G experimentation platform and the ETSI OpenOP operator platform via CAMARA-style network APIs. The team participated with “Mindscape Odyssey”, an adaptive biofeedback serious game for stress management that employs sensors to measure heart-rate variability (HRV) and guides players through in-game breathing training sessions.

During the hands-on sessions, the team deployed two versions of Mindscape Odyssey in different zones, hosted on the testbed infrastructure and made accessible to users via the hackathon environment. This setup enabled the game's operation as a networked service over federated 6G-ready infrastructure and validated its behaviour in a realistic setting. In addition, the deployment approach facilitated systematic and rapid testing through integrated version control and real-time monitoring, enabling the team to track performance and iterate quickly. The collaborative discussions and hands-on exploration during the hackathon highlighted the potential of combining advanced network technologies with interactive health-oriented applications, motivating Mindscape Odyssey’s further development.