Address: University of Patras - ITLAB HCI Group, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, GR-265 00 Rio-Patras GREECE
tel +30-2610- 996898 or 996435 / fax +30-2610- 996898
Born in Zakynthos, Greece (1956), Greek nationality, Languages: Greek, English, Italian, French, a little of Spanish.
(a) Recent Invited Talks (b) Publications (c) Courses taught
Education : National Technical University of Athens, Greece, Dipl. in Electrical - Mechanical Engineering, (1974-1979), Master of Science M.Sc., University of Manchester, UMIST, UK, 1979-1980, Doctor of Philosophy Ph.D, University of Manchester, UMIST, UK, 1980- 1983.
Research Interests: Software Technology for Interactive Systems Design. Human-machine interaction in industrial, educational and environmental fields. Special interest and experience in Distributed Intelligent Systems, collaborative systems, usability and accessibility of interactive systems, mobile systems, web applications and services, application of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques in the above areas.
Positions: Research and teaching experience in industry and academia for over 20 years: Research fellow of the University of Manchester, UK (1983-1984); Assistant Professor of Computer Science in Athens Technical Education College (1985-1986); Scientific officer of the European Commission served at the Joint Research Centre Ispra, Italy (1986-1993); Senior Software Engineer of the Public Power Corporation of Greece (1993-1994). Associate Professor of Software Technology at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Patras (1994- 2001). Full professor of Software Technology and Human-Computer Interaction (2001-today). Leader of the Human-Computer Interaction group.
Key researcher in many national and international funded research projects in the frame of IST, ESPRIT, Environment, PENED, YPER etc.
Publications
Author or editor of six books and author of over 100 scientific journal and conference papers in the above research areas.
Member of the Technical Chamber of Greece (1979), Greek Electrical Engineers Association (1979), Greek Computer Society (1992), IEEE Computer Society (1995), founding member of the Greek Artificial Intelligence Association (EETN) and of the Greek Society of Electrical and Computer Technology in Education (ETPE).
Invited Talks
The role of digital media in interaction with objects and places of culture, Elefthero Panepistimio, 15th Cycle of Lectures, Stoa Vivliou, Athens, October 2011,
Learning through Game Playing in Museums and Sites of Culture, 5th European Conference on Game Based Learning, Invited Talk, Athens, October 2011,
Games in Museums: the social dimension, Socially networked museums: New media and innovative ideas for audience development in museums and cultural institutions”, September 2011, Benaki Museum, Athens
Analysis of interaction in collaborative activities, the Synergo trail, INCOS 2010, Thessaloniki, November 2010, (presentation slides)
Design of interactive technologies for a mobile and ubiquitous world, 13th 3IA International Conference on Computer Graphics and Artificial Intelligence, Athens, May 2010.
Trends in usability evaluation: Evaluation for mobile and collaborative systems, 3rd Usability Engineering Conference, Oviedo, May 2008 (presentation ) (video from Oviedo University mediateca )
Class of tomorrow: mobility and interactivity in new ecologies of learning, One Laptopo Per Child Event, ACTI Patras, Greece, June 2007 (presentation in Greek )
Tools supporting Collaborative Learning and Interaction Analysis: Synergo and ActivityLens , Symposium on Designing, re-using and exchanging online learner corpora, Grenoble, June 7th, 2007
Usability evaluation through micro-ethnographic studies, E-business Forum meeting on usability, Athens, March 2007-
Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Workshop on CSCL perspectives, Patras, April 2007
Usability Technology, Workhop on Usability, Hellenic Open University, Patras, November 2006 (pdf, 700k, in Greek )
Learning Technologies in the Greek University: Current Trends and Perspectives, Patras Money Show event on The University and Society, Patras, November 2006 (slides) (audio+slides)
Courses tought (academic year 2011-2012).
Winter semester
Introduction to Computers (Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1st Semester)
Internet Computing (Electrical and Computer Engineering, 9th Semester and Graduate Course)
Spring semester
Data Bases (Electrical and Computer Engineering, 8th Semester
Human-Machine Interaction and Interactive Systems Design .(Electrical and Computer Engineering, 10th Semester and Graduate Course)
Data and Knowledge Based Systems (Graduate Course)
Advanced Topics of Human-Computer Interaction: Collaborative Technology
Other activities
Tennis (winner doubles 40+ UoP tournament 2008, singles 40+ UoP tournament 2010), canoeing, skiing, cycling, reading, photography, travelling, See pictures from around the world in panoramio
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