CIE conducts multidisciplinary research on the features and use of 3D technologies in the future evolution of the Internet, including virtual worlds, technology enhanced learning, and how technology is used and utilized in digital society at large. The research conducted at CIE focuses on the following programs:

We focus not only on doing technical research and development, but how technology is applied and experienced. We aim thus to be genuenly multi-disciplinary, and that is what makes CIE distinctive from many other research organizations. Also that CIE focuses combining research and innovation activities within a single and unified framework, makes its special. CIE has researchers form different domains: technology, education, humanities, and economics.