RESEARCH RECORD
Research Interests
- Human Computer Interaction and User Experience
- Human Factors, Ergonomics and Cognitive Psychology
- Collaborative technologies and spaces and their social impact
- Interactive Technologies and User Interface design
- Computer Supported Collaborative Learning/ Computer Supported Cooperative Work
- Interactive and Educational Games
- Technology Enhanced Learning
- Ethnographic Investigations
Research Skills
- Facilitating and deploying ethnographic observation, field studies and participatory research
- Performing qualitative data collection and analysis to understand user needs and evaluate design solutions
- Preparing and conducting interviews, focus groups and contextual inquiry with users
- Designing and prototyping applications (mobile, desktop) and interactive settings taking into consideration users and context
- Developing personas, storyboards, wireframes and rapid prototypes (example tools: Balsamiq, Visio)
- Development of interactive prototypes and applications (Javascript, Actionscript, Objective C, Processing 3.0)
- Working and collaborating in multi-disciplinary environments
Involvement in Research Projects
July 2017 - January 2019
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Knowledge Transfer Partnership @ Northern Stage
Newcastle University The project aimed to deliver an online platform, populated with content and communication tools to support dialogue between women mentors and mentees across disciplines, industry and academia. |
July 2014 -
July 2015 |
Womenpower (We-Me)
Cyprus University of Technology The project aimed to deliver an online platform, populated with content and communication tools to support dialogue between women mentors and mentees across disciplines, industry and academia. |
March 2013 -
March 2015 |
Creative Multimodal Information Spaces for Problem Based Learning (InfoSpaces)
Cyprus University of Technology An interdisciplinary project funded by the Cyprus Research Foundation (25000 euro) to explore innovative, multimodal learning environments for the support of problem based learning in higher education, particularly design education. |
November 2011 - March 2012
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Multitouch Interactive Tabletops for Collaboration and Peacemaking (PeaceTable)
Cyprus University of Technology Start-up grant funded to Dr. A. Ioannou for exploratory projects in the area of technology-enhanced learning and peace-making using interactive tabletops. |