Dr Aris Alissandrakis

Currently a senior lecturer at the Department of Computer Science and Media Technology, Linnæus University, Sweden. Active research interests include Virtual and Augmented Reality, Quantified Self (Big Data), Serious Games, Human-Computer Interaction, Imitation and Social Learning in Adaptive Systems, Human-Robot Interaction, and Artificial Life. For my up-to-date scientific publications list, please click the Publications tab; current and past research activities are in the Projects tab; videos from experiments are under the Media tab; for details about invited talks, etc go to the Activities tab. [page at LNU] [Google Scholar] [LinkedIn] [ORCID][Publons] [Mendeley] [Semantic Scholar] [about.me] [Scopus] [dblp][Exaly] [Doodle meeting] Contact details Dr. Aris Alissandrakis Department of Computer Science and Media Technology Faculty of Technology Linnaeus University Växjö, 351 95 SWEDEN room:  D2267G email:  aris DOT alissandrakis AT lnu DOT se phone:  +46 (0)470 70 8636 web:  https://arisalissandrakis.wordpress.com

Received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science (Adaptive Systems Research Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, UK, 2003) for work on imitation in adaptive systems (proposing a framework for solving the correspondence problem in imitation), and the M.Eng. degree in Cybernetics (Department of Cybernetics, University of Reading, UK, 1999). From Feb. 2004 until Nov. 2007 was at the University of Hertfordshire, with the Adaptive Systems Research Group, as a research fellow in the European Integrated Project COGNIRON (“The Cognitive Robot Companion”), working on Imitation in the context of Human-Robot Interaction. From Nov. 2007 until Nov. 2009 was at Miyake Lab, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, working with Associate Professor Yoshihiro MIYAKE after receiving a FY2007 Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers from the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) to conduct research in Japan for a period of two years. From Jan. to Dec. 2010 was a researcher at Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories (IRC), working on Social Human-Robot Interaction based on UNR (ubiquitous network robot technology). Have been a guest researcher (invited by Prof. Yoshihiro MIYAKE) at Miyake Lab, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, during Jul. 2007, and also a visiting research fellow (as part of the COGNIRON project) at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, during Apr. 2004.

News and updates (check here for VRxAR focused news, and here for activities) planning to attend the 2nd Swedish Climate Symposium at Norrköping (May 2024)[link][session 6c] attended the initial workshop for the Mission Karlskrona x DigIT Hub project, at Media Evolution, Malmö (March 2024) one of the pre-print articles was published in VIRE (Jan 2024) [DOI] second year kick-off meeting for the Immersive Analytics for Urban Heat project, at LiU, Norrköping (Aug 2023) The Immersive Analytics for Urban Heat project was featured in the talk of Felicia Lai Jakobsson (Visual Sweden) at Almedalsveckans event “IoT och digitala tvillingar som möjliggörare i städernas klimatomställning” [info][youtube] (Jun 2023) published two articles as pre-prints on arXiv.org (Mar 2023) attended the Norrköping research festival (“forskningsfestival”), at Norrköping (Nov 2022) [link] kick-off meeting for the Immersive Analytics for Urban Heat: from Visual Exploration to Decision Support in Norrköping Municipality project, at LiU, Norrköping (Nov 2022) [project website] Nico Reski successfully defended his PhD thesis (Sept 2022)[announcement][tweet][thesis in DiVA] the project Immersive Analytics for Urban Heat: from Visual Exploration to Decision Support in Norrköping Municipality was successfully funded by the Norrköping fund for research and development (Jun 2022) [announcement] online seminar for Mercari R4D, Japan (Jul 2021) presented two papers with our latest VRxAR work at NordiCHI 2020 (Oct 2020) presented a demo of our latest ODXVR x NTS prototype at the 5th Big Data conference at LNU, Växjö (Dec 2019) [tweet] presented our latest ODXVR x NTS work as part of  an invited software demonstration at the Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis conference in Turku, Finland (May 2019) [info][demo info][tweet]; we would like to thank the ADDA2 conference committee for inviting us, as well as the Mixed Reality group at the University of Turku for allowing us to borrow some VR equipment for the demo; some impressions by a conference attendee can be read here (paragraph six onwards) was member of the jury for the first Open.Science.Hack at LNU (April 2019) [news] presented our latest ODXVR x NTS work at the 4th Big Data conference (Nov 2018) [tweet][info] presented our latest PEAR prototype at VINCI’18 (Aug 2018) [tweet] presented two demo sessions of our latest ODXVR x NTS prototype to more than 26 participants at ICAME 39 (May 2018) [link][news] official announcement of the new/merged department at LNU [link] presented a demo of our latest VRxAR Labs collaboration at the 3rd Big Data conference at LNU, Växjö (Dec 2017) [tweet][info] presentation via Skype of ODXVR x NTS project at “Evolving English in the digital age” seminar at UEF, Finland (Nov 2017) the LNU page for the Quantified Self Avatars project is live (May 2017) [link] most VRxAR Labs news will be posted [here and here] from now on the VRxAR Labs page is live (May 2017) [link] the LNU VRxAR Labs page is live (April 2017) [link] new project: Real-Time 3D Gesture Analysis for Natural Interaction with Smart Devices (Feb 2017) attended the 2nd Big Data conference at Kalmar, Sweden (Dec 2016) [info][info] we got a “best overall paper” award at ICCE2016 [photo][blog] presented and demo’d our PEAR AR framework at the International Digital Humanities Symposium at LNU (Nov 2016) [site][photo] presented at the New Frontiers of Quantified Self 2 workshop (part of UBICOMP2016), Heidelberg, Germany (Sept 2016) [link] press release by the Växjö kommun about the PEAR4VXO launch (May 2016) [link][blog] one of our ACHI2016 papers got an award [link][link] invited talk at Malmö, Sweden (May 2016) [link][link][news][news] presented at the ACHI2016 conference at Venice, Italy (Apr 2016) got funding for an IEC2020 applied research and development seed project on exploring and interacting with open data within virtual reality environments (Apr 2016) [info] kick-off meeting for Digital Humanities Initiative at LNU (Mar 2016) kick-off meeting for next stages of Social Media and Web Technologies for Innovation and Growth project at LNU (Feb 2016) final review meeting for JUXTALEARN at Open University, UK (Jan 2016) presentation at the Big Data: From hype to actions workshop (Dec 2015) organized by IEC at LNU [info] review meeting for JUXTALEARN at Luxemburg (Nov 2014) now the programme coordinator for Social Media and Web Technologies at LNU (June 2014) [link] project meeting for JUXTALEARN at Open University, UK (May 2014) poster accepted at NU2014 related to the New Advanced Level Education in IT project [link] call for papers – Learning through Video Creation and Sharing Workshop (LVCS 2014 at EC-TEL 2014) [link] information page for New Advanced Level Education in IT project at LNU [link] kick-off meeting for Network of Swedish Senior ICD4D Researchers at Stockholm, Sweden (Jan 2014) project meeting for JUXTALEARN at University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany (Jan 2014) call for contributions for IEEE RO-MAN 2014 [pdf] review meeting for JUXTALEARN at Luxemburg (Nov. 2013) invited talk at Stockholm University, Sweden, regarding the People’s Voices project (Nov 2013) [link] kick-off meeting for the Social Media and Web Technologies for Innovation and Growth project at LNU (Oct 2013) project meeting for JUXTALEARN at Birmingham, UK (Sept 2013) project meeting for JUXTALEARN at Open University, UK (Apr 2013) attended Internet I Fokus at Malmo, Sweden (Mar 2013) [link] attended NAD 2012 (Nordic Africa Days 2012) at Reykjavík, Iceland (Oct 2012); was part of panel on Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) in East Africa [link, link] kick-off meeting for EU FP7 project JUXTALEARN at LNU (Oct 2012) [link] attended NordiTEL 2012 (2nd Nordic Symposium on Technology-Enhanced Learning) at University of Oulu, Finland (Sept 2012) [link] attended the Reasoning Web 2012 Summer School, at Vienna University of Technology, Austria (Sept 2012) [link] travelled to Uganda as part of the People’s Voices: Developing Cross Media Services to Promote Citizens Participation in Local Governance Activities project, visited Makerere University and the northern parts of the country  (Aug 2012) now a senior lecturer at Linnæus University, Sweden (Feb 2012) the New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction book, edited by Kerstin Dautenhahn and Joe Saunders has been published [flyer] invited talk at KTH, Sweden (Dec 2011) now a guest research fellow at Linnæus University, Sweden (Oct 2011) invited online talk at Osaka University, Japan (GCOE workshop, Oct 2011) invited talk at Imperial College, UK (Intelligent Systems and Networks Group, June 2011) invited talk at Waseda University, Japan (GCOE seminar, Mar 2010) JSPS fellowship ended (Dec. 2009); now a researcher at IRC/ATR, Japan (Jan 2010) invited talk at United Arab Emirates University, UAE (Dec 2009) attended IEEE RO-MAN’09 in September; I organized a special session, titled “Human-Robot Imitation and Teaching”, together with Prof. Kerstin Dautenhahn and Prof. Yoshihiro MIYAKE attended the New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction symposium at AISB’09, in April attended the 26th Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ 2008) at Kobe University, in September myself and Dr. Joe Saunders wish to thank all the participants of our imitation tutorials at SAB’08 and IEEE RO-MAN’08

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