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
Topics The special session on Mobile Learning in Cultural Institutions and Open Spaces is considered as an opportunity to begin a discussion that focuses on – but it is not limited to -the following topics. Mobile applications supporting learning for cultural institutions and/or open spaces (historical city centres, archaeological sites, city centers, or neighborhoods
On June, 5th 2014, Irene-Angelica Chounta defended successfully her PhD thesis with the title: “Methods and tools for the evaluation of collaborative learning activities using time series”. The objective of her thesis was the design and implementation of an automatic method for the classification and evalutation of collaborative activities with respect to their quality of
In the frame of the external evaluation of the Department of the Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Patras, that took place this week, the Evaluators’ Committee visited the HCI Group on October the 30th, 2013. A brief presentation of the education and research activities of the Group was given by the Group’s
The MasIE workshop, that took place in Athens, on July 17th during the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments – IE’13, acted as a forum for reflection on the cultural experience supported by intelligent technologies and for exploration of new ideas and we would like to thank all the speakers and participants for making this
