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| Dr Georgios Lepouras Professor Department of Informatics and Telecommunications University of Peloponnese Office: A7b |
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Education
First degree from the Department of Mathematics , University of Athens in 1991.
Master of Science in Information Technology from Department of Computer Science, University of Strathclyde, in 1992. MSc thesis title: "FontCreator: A tool for creating fonts for X-Windows" [PS, 192 KB] [PDF, 249 KB].
PhD from University of Athens, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications in 2000. PhD thesis title: "User-Computer Interaction: The methodology of supplementary support in the service of different cultural communities"(in Greek) [PDF, ~22 MB] [HTML].
Research Interests
Human Computer Interaction issues (especially profiling, multilingual, multicultural issues), Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and electronic games.
Textbook
Lepouras, G., Antoniou, A., Platis, N., Charitos, D., 2015.
Development of Virtual Reality Systems (in Greek). [ebook] Athens:Hellenic Academic Libraries Link.
Available Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/11419/2546
Publications
[Recent]
Journals
[J44] Poulopoulos, V., Vassilakis, C.,
Antoniou, A., Lepouras, G., Theodoropoulos, A., & Wallace, M. (2018).
The Personality of the Influencers, the Characteristics of Qualitative Discussions
and Their Analysis for Recommendations to Cultural Institutions. Heritage, 1(2), 239-253. Conferences Projects [On-going] Virtual reality applications for Peloponnisos Prefecture. The
research-study aims at investigating the potential of VR-based applications for the digital
advertisement and promotion of Peloponnisos Prefecture. TRIPMENTOR. The project concerns the development of a bilingual service
(English, Greek) in the form of a web-interactive platform/ application that will provide a
personalized, integrated and unique travel experience to the visitor of the Attica region.
Alternative map routes will be proposed to the traveler connected to the app for recreational
purposes, including stops at the selected points of interest with real time information on cultural,
recreational and athletic events. Suggestions and relative recreational proposals will match the
traveler's preferences (profile type), determined through a specific internal functionality of the
platform, which combines information that she/ he provides (answers to up to 5 short questions) with
relative data extracted from social media. Each route includes stops that have meaningful, cultural,
chronological or thematic relevance to each other, optimum duration of visit, optimal way of travel
and total duration of the journey, creating personalized narration- storytelling and incorporating
gamification elements, depending on the characteristics of the visitor and the weighting of her/ his
personal interests. PaloAnalytics. This project will develop the innovative PaloAnalytics platform that will allow companies
and organizations, which operate in many countries, to monitor and analyze in depth the markets'
interest to their products and successfully plan their marketing and communication strategy with
data and insights collected from all the local media and presented in a common language, English.
PaloAnalytics platform will cover the need of international companies to manage their reputation
and compare it with the competitors. It will also allow them to investigate the impact of their
products on consumers across different countries and this will be achieved with the analysis of
content from sites, blogs, social networks and open data. The developed services will allow companies
to identify both positive and negative comments and reports about their brand name and products and the
individual features that formed the public opinion. KALAMATA 1821: Roads of Freedom The proposal aims to study and exhibit to the wider public, important local parameters
of the 1821 era and their interconnections with the present, through roads of history,
culture and trade. Emphasis will be given to specific aspects of the 1821 Revolution beginning
in Kalamata, with important historic significance and strong interrelation with the wider area
(e.g. preparation for the uprising, economic life of the region, beginning of the revolution,
Navarino naval battle), in order to describe the 200 years of history and the historic correlations. CrossCult":
Empowering reuse of digital cultural heritage in context-aware
crosscuts of European history project aims to spur a
change in the way European citizens appraise History. Funded
from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under grant agreement no 693150. Three year
project, started March 2016 Courses [2018-2019] Undergraduate Programming I Human Computer Interaction Advanced Interfaces - Virtual Reality Postgraduate Game development Memberships Senior Member ACM CoFounder of ACM
Greek SIG CHI
[J43] Vassilakis, C., Poulopoulos, V., Antoniou,
A., Wallace, M., Lepouras, G., & Nores, M. L. (2018).
exhiSTORY: Smart exhibits that tell their own stories.
Future Generation Computer Systems, 81, 542-556.
[J42] Lepouras, G. (2018). Comparing
methods for numerical input in immersive virtual
environments. Virtual Reality, 22 (1), 63-77.
[J41] Vassilakis, C., Antoniou, A.,
Lepouras, G., Poulopoulos, V., Wallace, M., Bampatzia, S., &
Bourlakos, I. (2017). Stimulation of
reflection and discussion in museum visits through the use of
social media. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 7(1),
40.
[J40] Theodoropoulos, A., Antoniou, A.,
& Lepouras, G. (2017). Teacher
and student views on educational robotics: The Pan-Hellenic
competition case. Application and Theory of Computer
Technology, 2(4), 1-23.
[J39] Theodoropoulos, A., Antoniou,
A., & Lepouras, G. (2016). How
do different cognitive styles affect learning
programming? Insights from a game-based approach in
Greek schools. ACM Transactions on Computing
Education (TOCE), 17(1), 3.
[C80] Poulopoulos, V., Vassilakis, C., Wallace, M., Antoniou, A., & Lepouras, G. (2018, September).
The Effect of Social Media Trending Topics Related to Cultural Venues' Content.
In 2018 13th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and
Personalization (SMAP) (pp. 7-12). IEEE.
[C79] Bourlakos, I., Wallace, M., Antoniou, A., Vassilakis, C., Lepouras, G., & Karapanagiotou, A. V.
(2017, September). Formalization and visualization of the narrative for museum guides.
In International KEYSTONE Conference on Semantic Keyword-Based Search on Structured Data Sources (
pp. 3-13). Springer, Cham.
[C78] Vassilakis, C., Antoniou, A., Lepouras, G., Poulopoulos, V., Wallace, M., Bampatzia, S., &
Bourlakos, I. (2017). Stimulation of reflection and discussion in museum visits through the use
of social media. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 7(1), 40.
[C77] Theodorakopoulos, M., Papageorgopoulos, N., Mourti, A.,
Antoniou, A., Wallace, M., Lepouras, G. & Platis, N. (2017,
July). Personalized augmented
reality experiences in museums using Google Cardboards. In
Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization
(SMAP), 2017 12th International Workshop on (pp.
95-100). IEEE.
Project duration 4 months (Nov 2018 - Feb 2019).
Project duration: 2018 - 2021
Project duration: 2018 - 2021.
Project duration: 2018 - 2021