This year’s World Usability Days 2020 conference, organized by the Greek SIGCHI chapter was attended by over 100 participants from Greece and abroad. Of special note was the presentation of three of our lab’s students’ projects: Investigation, design, and development of a system online prescriptions, by N. Kyriakoulis The problem of input mode errors in
The User Modeling and User Adapted Interaction (UMUAI) James Chen Award is bestowed annually to the author(s) of the best paper of the year. The award has been donated by the Chen family in commemoration of James R. Chen, a creative researcher in the area of user modeling and information retrieval, and twice a UMUAI
The annual Greek Usability Days will take place online, on Saturday, November 14th 2020, 12:00-16:00. Greek Usability Days are an event organized by the ACM’s Greek SIGCHI (Special Interest Group in Human Computer Interaction) to celebrate World Usability Day. The event includes presentations on the topic of Human Computer Interaction. This year’s focus is on
On July, 16th 2020, George E. Raptis successfully defended his PhD thesis with the title: “A Cognition-Centered Personalization Framework for Cultural-Heritage Applications”. The objective of his thesis was to explore whether people with different cognitive styles (e.g., Field Dependence-Independence, Visualizer-Verbalizer) behave and process information in different ways when interacting with cultural-heritage applications. Based on the
One of the 5 papers that have been short-listed for the Best Paper Award at the 14th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning that was held in Delft, the Netherlands http://www.ec-tel.eu/, has been the paper of Anastasios Ntourmas, Nikolaos Avouris, Sophia Daskalaki and Yannis Dimitriadis with the title: Teaching Assistants in MOOCs forums: Omnipresent Interlocutors or Knowledge
On October 3rd the Introductory and Orientation event of the HCI Master for academic year 2019-2020 took place. The event was opened by a welcome message of Prof. Stavros Koubias, Head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and a welcome address by Prof. Stratis Gallopoulos, Head of the Computer Engineering and Informatics Department. They
The Interactive Technologies Lab developed and released the location-based mobile game “Taggling: Greco’s Echoes” for the an exhibition of works of Dominikos Theotokopoulos. The official opening of the exhibition “Echoes of antiquity in the oeuvre of Dominikos Theotokopoulos” (link in greek) took place at St. Mark’s Basilica, in Heraklion, Crete on 9 September 2019. The
The conference INTERACT 2019 was organized in Cyprus this year. This has been an opportunity for the Cyprus and Greek human-computer interaction communities to present their recent research work and meet with research and practitioners of around the world. INTERACT the major conference in Human-Computer Interaction of IFIP/Unesco is characterized for its diversity and special
Power Python Summer Schools are summer schools, each two week-long, in the form of laboratory programming lessons. The first is an introductory course to the Python programming language. The second is on advanced topics and powerful language libraries, with emphasis on data analysis and processing. Visit the site of summer school.
A short video presenting the Interactive Technologies Lab.
