Human Computer Interaction / Interactive Systems
The GERIATRIC project is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship (Grant Agreement No. 101149390) led by Dr Panagiotis Kourtesis and hosted at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, supervised by Associate Prof. Maria Roussou.
The project investigates how eye-tracking…
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), in partnership with INRIA (France) and IDIBAPS (Spain), marks the successful completion of the first year of META-TOO, a Horizon Europe project funded under WIDERA that runs from June 2024 to May 2027.
META-TOO, which stands for “A…
The kickoff meeting for the project "META-TOO: A transfer of knowledge and technology for investigating gender-based inappropriate social interactions in the Metaverse" took place on June 11, 2024, at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National and Kapodistrian University…
In a journey spanning three years of dedicated work, scientific dissemination via article and presentations at conferences, and numerous pilot evaluations, the research project titled “A hyBRID (physical-diGital) multi-user Extended reality platform as a stimulus for industry uptake of interactive…
The European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Academia Scientiarium et Artium Europaea) met on 21-5-2021 and elected Professor Georgios Kouroupetroglou a Full Member in the Class of Technical & Environmental Sciences.
Professor George Kouroupetroglou is Head of the Department of Informatics and…
BRIDGES is an H2020 Innovation Action funded by the European Commission for 24 months (10/2020-10/2022) with the aim to support and boost the pan-European interactive technologies industry through the development of a holistic solution for (remote and co-located) group interactions in room-scale…
The Department of Informatics and Telecommunications participates, via Assistant Professor Maria Roussou in the role of Science Communication Manager, in the new EU COST Action CA19122 European Network For Gender Balance in Informatics (EUGAIN). COST (the European Cooperation in Science and…
Iris SMS is a mobile app for social and solidarity economy organisations designed and developed by the Open Lab at Newcastle University and the Open Lab: Athens. The system allows sending SMS text messages to a list of subscribers through SMS donors. People supporting an organisation, group or…
A team of faculty, senior researchers, and junior researchers / students from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications worked for three years on the EMOTIVE project, under the affiliation of the “ATHENA” Research Center in Information, Communication and Knowledge Technologies.
The…
WhoLoDance is aiming at both researching and innovating contemporary learning theories of embodied cognition and dance education, building on advances on neuroscience, pedagogical and learning theories, educational psychology together with new technologies in artificial intelligence and knowledge…
Interoperability of data and procedures in large-scale multinational disaster response actions
IDIRA developed a set of tools, interfaces and procedures designed to be configured, deployed and operated in a flexible manner, providing interoperable services for data integration, information…
The European Commission's strategic initiatives in shaping Europe’s digital future include instruments for funding digital cultural heritage. The CHESS Project, an EU-funded FP7 R&D project that ran from 2011 to 2014 features on the EC's Digital cultural heritage page.