• Conference Object  

      Adapting generic web structures with semantic web technologies: A cognitive approach 

      Belk, Marios; Germanakos, Panagiotis; Tsianos, Nikos; Lekkas, Zacharias; Mourlas, Constantinos; Samaras, George S. (2010)
      The research described in this paper focuses on adapting generic Hypermedia Environments with the use of Semantic Web technologies. The use of machine understandable semantics in Web applications is increasing significantly, ...
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      Adaptivity considerations for enhancing user-centric web experience 

      Belk, Marios; Germanakos, Panagiotis; Zaharias, Panagiotis; Samaras, George S. (2012)
      User Experience (UX) design relates to the creation of models that affect user experiences during interaction with a system, while the incorporation of cognitive factors in the personalization process of Web systems might ...
    • Book Chapter  

      An assessment of human factors in adaptive hypermedia environments 

      Tsianos, Nikos; Germanakos, Panagiotis; Lekkas, Zacharias; Mourlas, Constantinos; Samaras, George S. (IGI Global, 2008)
      The plethora of information and services as well as the complicated nature of most Web structures intensify the navigational difficulties that arise when users navigate their way through this large information space. ...
    • Article  

      Capturing essential intrinsic user behaviour values for the design of comprehensive web-based personalized environments 

      Germanakos, Panagiotis; Tsianos, Nikos; Lekkas, Zacharias; Mourlas, Constantinos; Samaras, George S. (2008)
      Advances in Web-based oriented technologies and services are taking place with a considerable speed around the world. As communications and IT usage become an integral part of many people's lives and the available products ...
    • Book  

      Cognitive and emotional processes in web-based education: integrating human factors and personalization 

      Chen, Wen Yih; Tsianos, Nikos; Germanakos, Panagiotis (Information Science Reference, 2009)
      "This book presents theories and practical frameworks to assist educators and trainers in developing e-learning applications"--Provided by publisher.
    • Conference Object  

      A computer mouse for stress identification of older adults at work 

      Belk, Marios; Portugal, D.; Germanakos, Panagiotis; Quintas, J.; Christodoulou, Eleni; Samaras, George S. (CEUR-WS, 2016)
      Stress is an unpleasant condition that entails negative emotions such as fear, worry and nervousness. Motivated by existing research that accompanies stress with physical reactions like increased heart rate, blood volume, ...
    • Article  

      Data-driven user profiling to support web adaptation through cognitive styles and navigation behavior 

      Germanakos, Panagiotis; Papatheocharous, Efi; Belk, Marios; Samaras, George S. (2012)
      This paper aims to analyze human navigation behavior and identify similarities of cognitive styles using measures obtained from psychometric tests. Specific navigation metrics are utilized to find identifiable groups of ...
    • Article  

      Detecting personality traces in users’ social activity 

      Kleanthous, Styliani; Herodotou, C.; Samaras, George S.; Germanakos, Panagiotis (2016)
      The effect that social media have in our lives nowadays is apparent. Many studies focused on how the differences we hold as people due to our personality, reflect our activities online. In this work we aim to exploit reports ...
    • Article  

      Do human cognitive differences in information processing affect preference and performance of CAPTCHA? 

      Belk, Marios; Fidas, Christos A.; Germanakos, Panagiotis; Samaras, George S. (2015)
      A Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) is a widely used security defense mechanism that is utilized by service providers to determine whether the entity interacting with their ...
    • Book Chapter  

      Dynamic business processes and virtual communities in wireless ehealth environments 

      Georgiadis, Dimosthenis; Germanakos, Panagiotis; Mourlas, Constantinos; Samaras, George S.; Christodoulou, Eleni (IGI Global, 2010)
      Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) related applications tend to be a trend for most successful businesses, organizations and domains nowadays, as is the Healthcare sector. Healthcare specialists often work in ...
    • Book Chapter  

      A dynamic user centric framework for enhancing eservices effectiveness aiming at mass customization 

      Belk, Marios; Germanakos, Panagiotis; Tsianos, Nikos; Lekkas, Zacharias; Mourlas, Constantinos; Samaras, George S. (IGI Global, 2009)
      Mass customization should be more than just configuring a specific component (hardware or software), but should be seen as the co-design of an entire system, including services, experiences and human satisfaction at the ...
    • Article  

      The effects of personality type in user-centered appraisal systems 

      Lekkas, Zacharias; Tsianos, Nikos; Germanakos, Panagiotis; Mourlas, Constantinos; Samaras, George S. (2011)
      The basic objective of this paper is to make an extensive reference of a combination of concepts and techniques coming from different research areas, Psychology and Web personalization technologies, both of which focus ...
    • Conference Object  

      Embracing cognitive aspects in web personalization environments - The adaptiveweb architecture 

      Germanakos, Panagiotis; Tsianos, Nikos; Lekkas, Zacharias; Mourlas, Constantinos; Belk, Marios; Samaras, George S. (2007)
      This paper presents a Web adaptation and personalization architecture that uses cognitive aspects as its core filtering element. The innovation of the proposed architecture focuses upon the creation of a comprehensive user ...
    • Article  

      Embracing cognitive factors and Fuzzy Logic in adaptive interactive systems 

      Papatheocharous, Efi; Belk, Marios; Germanakos, Panagiotis; Samaras, George S. (2013)
      The increased demand of services on the Web to satisfy the diverse characteristics of users have resulted in a plethora of applications that aim to provide personalized services based on the heterogeneous needs and preferences ...
    • Conference Object  

      Emotional web-based design: the concepts of emotional experience and emotional expression 

      Lekkas, Zacharias; Tsianos, Nikos; Germanakos, Panagiotis; Mourlas, Constantinos; Samaras, George S. (2011)
      For many years people have been trying to measure differences between individuals. Over the course of time, a combination of developments in statistical know-how and the evolution of thought within psychology enabled the ...
    • Conference Object  

      Enhancing e-learning environments with users' cognitive factors: The case of EKPAIDEION 

      Tsianos, Nikos; Germanakos, Panagiotis; Lekkas, Zacharias; Mourlas, Constantinos; Belk, Marios; Christodoulou, Eleni; Spanoudis,George C.; Samaras, George S. (Academic Conferences Limited, 2008)
      We are now witnessing an extensive and gradually increasing use of the World Wide Web space, proved to be a quite favourable way of communication, due to its speed, simplicity and efficiency. Distance learning (or eLearning) ...
    • Conference Object  

      Estimating cognitive overload in mobile applications for decision support within the medical domain 

      Flood, D.; Germanakos, Panagiotis; Harrison, R.; McCaffery, F.; Samaras, George S. (2012)
      Mobile applications have the potential to improve the quality of care received by patients from their primary care physicians (PCP). They can allow doctors to access the information they need when and where they need it ...
    • Article  

      A European perspective of e-government presence - Where do we stand? The EU-10 case 

      Germanakos, Panagiotis; Christodoulou, Eleni; Samaras, George S. (2007)
      It is widely perceived that the nature of ICT is changing and so is the scale of the resulting economic and societal impact around Europe. Continued and accelerating technological progress, market changes arising from ...
    • Conference Object  

      Evaluating the significance of cognitive and emotional parameters in e-learning adaptive environments 

      Tsianos, Nikos; Germanakos, Panagiotis; Lekkas, Zacharias; Mourlas, Constantinos; Samaras, George S. (2007)
      This paper presents experimental evidence supporting the notion that users' individual information processing characteristics are significant in the context of e-learning environments. In the wider field of Adaptive ...
    • Article  

      Evaluation metrics for ehealth services and applications within smart houses context 

      Georgiadis, Dimosthenis; Germanakos, Panagiotis; Andreou, Panayiotis G.; Samaras, George S. (2009)
      eHealth services is a continuously growing sector, driving the need for advances in both the network characteristics and infrastructure, as well as in the available mobile devices used. The same need requires the development ...