A 3-hour course on designing location-based games was delivered in the context of the Interact 2017 conference in Mumbai, India. The course handouts are available online. The objective is to introduce the participants to location-based games and to the challenges relating to designing them. Key characteristics of this new genre are introduced first, followed by a design framework and a set of design guidelines.
On September 29th and 30th, in the HCI Group Lab, Univesity of Patras a game design event was organized. The event was attended by 30 game developers from different studios accross Europe. The game designers during the first day of the workshop visited the Rio Fortress and the abandned Sport Center in Agia, Patras, there
Christos Sintoris and Nikos Avouris of the HCI Group attended CHI 2016 the major scientific conference of the Human-computer interaction field. This year CHI was organized in San Jose in California, in the heart of Silcon Valley. The HCI Group researchers contributed in two workshops related to games. The workshop on Pervesive play in which they presented a
The Human-Computer Interaction Group participated in the Patras Innovation Quest (Patras IQ 2016) a major technology transfer conference that took place on April 15-17th in Patras Greece. Many visitors to the conference and the exhibition were informed about the activities of our group and our research results. Among the guests, the deputy minister of education
MobileHCI: The International Conference Series on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Best Historical Paper award goes to researchers of the HCI Group MobileHCI started in 1998, in 2008 the steering committee agreed to award a prize for the Most influential Paper from MobileHCI n-10 that recognises the longevity of impact papers from
Open Course in Human-Computer Interaction and Design of Interactive Systems. The lesson is freely available with a creative commons license. It includes 60 video tutorials, exercises, slides, bibliography, etc. It is the teaching material of the course in the academic year 2013-2014 at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of
According to Google Scholar, in terms of impact, the top source of publication in our field is a conference : CHI, above and over any other journal or conference. It is followed by UIST, the conference on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing (HUC), and the Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). It is just in
A new list of diploma thesis was published (December 2014).
Usability Days 2014, Athens December 10, 2014 The annual event of the Greek HCI community, as usual organized by the University of Athens new media lab. Thank you Michalis Meimaris for organizing all this for 8th consecutive year. This year the theme is about Engagement. Our lab is taking part with a paper with the
Following the special session on Mobile Learning in Cultural Institutions and Open Spaces, that was organized in the frame of IMCL 2014, an event was hosted by the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art (MMCA) on November 14th associated to the special session. It was the official openning of the new game that was developed by
