Recent activities
Int'l Conference "High-Tech Heritage: How Are Digital Technologies Changing Our Views of the Past?", University of Massachusetts Amherst Center for Heritage and Society, May 2-4, 2012.Plenary speaker.
World Usability Day event - Ημέρες Ευχρηστίας και Προσβασιμότητας 2011,
"EDUCATION: Designing for Social Change,
10-11 November 2011, Athens.Member of the Organising Committee, co-organiser of the ACM GR-SIGCHI student event.
Serious Games Showcases and Best Practices - 5th European Conference on Games Based Learning (ECBGL'11), 20-22 October 2011, Athens, Greece. Showcasing 'Vgalte mas to Ladi', a game developed by makebelieve for the Museum of the Olive and Greek Olive Oil as well as ARcropolis, a game created by my HCI students at the U. of Athens.
10th IFIP Int'l Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC '11), 5-8 October 2011, Vancouver, Canada. Member of the Program Committee. Paper submission deadline: Apr.15, 2011
DEG: Involving End Users and Domain Experts in the Design of Educational Games, 3rd Int'l Symposium on End-User Development, 7-10 June 2011, Italy. Member of the Organising Committee. Paper submission deadline: Mar.14, 2011
The Philosophy of Computer Games, 5th Int'l Conference, 6-9 April 2011, Athens, Greece. Member of the Organising Committee.Paper submission deadline: Feb.1st, 2011
New EU-funded FP7-ICT project CHESS - Cultural Heritage Experiences through Socio-personal interactions and Storytelling.2011 - 2014.
Συμπόσιο "Μουσεία και Μάθηση με τεχνολογίες ΤΠΕ" (7ο Συνέδριο Τεχνολογιών Πληροφορικής στην Εκπαίδευση, HCICTE 2010). 'Σχεδιασμός ψηφιακού εκπαιδευτικού προγράμματος στην Εθνική Πινακοθήκη - Μουσείο Αλεξάνδρου Σούτζου με τη συνεργασία μαθητών' - Ε. Καβαλιεράτου, Μ. Ρούσσου.
Serious Games, Education & Economic Development (SGEED-2010). The challenge of developing digital game-based learning products for “small markets”, presentation on 'Societal and business issues of serious games' and participation in a panel on 'Serious games potential for regional growth, innovation & competitiveness'.
My contribution to ReMix YourSelf, on www.artsconnected.org
The 9th Int'l Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC 2010)
"Full-body Interaction for Children. To enhance physical, mental and social well-being of Children". Short Papers co-Chair.
International Journal of Arts and Technology, Volume 2 - Issue 4, 2009.
Guest co-Editor, Special Issue on: "Immersive Virtual, Mixed, or Augmented Reality Art".
CSCL'09 Panel: Manifesting Embodiment
“Manifesting embodiment: Designer’s Variations on a Theme” Org. Alissa Antle, Chronis Kynigos, Leilah Lyons, Paul Marshall, Tom Moher, Maria Roussou.
A VR Playground for Learning Abstract Mathematics Concepts, inIEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, Vol. 29, No. 1, Jan.-Feb. 2009 & Computing Now, Feb. 2009.
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