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      Learning through multi-touch interfaces in museum exhibits: An empirical investigation 

      Zaharias, Panagiotis; Michael, D.; Chrysanthou, Yiorgos L. (2013)
      Interactive technologies are employed in museums to enhance the visitors' experience and help them learn in more authentic ways. Great amounts of time and money and many man-hours of hard work have been spent. But do such ...
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      Exploring user experience while playing educational games: Focus on temporality and attractiveness 

      Zaharias, Panagiotis; Gatzoulis, C.; Chrysanthou, Yiorgos L. (2012)
      The concept and methods of user experience (UX) are gaining momentum in the game industry. Designers and educational practitioners aim to provide rich and effective user experience through serious educational games. ...
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      Model based decomposition of Muaps into their constituent Sfeaps 

      Xyda, M. G.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Kaplanis, P.; Christodoulou, Chris C.; Zazula, D. (Springer Verlag, 2007)
      The motor unit action potential (MUAP) represents the spatial and temporal summation of single fibre extracellular action potentials (SFEAPS) generated from the same motor unit. In this study, a model based decomposition ...
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      Building a distributed digital library for natural disasters metadata with grid services and RDF 

      Xing, Wei; Dikaiakos, Marios D.; Yang, Hua; Sphyris, Angelos; Eftichidis, George (2005)
      Purpose - This paper aims to describe the main challenges of identifying and accessing useful information and knowledge about natural hazards and disasters results. The paper presents a grid-based digital library system ...
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      Automatic emotion recognition based on body movement analysis: A survey 

      Zacharatos, H.; Gatzoulis, C.; Chrysanthou, Yiorgos L. (2014)
      Humans are emotional beings, and their feelings influence how they perform and interact with computers. One of the most expressive modalities for humans is body posture and movement, which researchers have recently started ...
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      A grid-enabled digital library system for natural disaster metadata 

      Xing, Wei; Dikaiakos, Marios D.; Yang, Hua; Sphyris, Angelos; Eftichidis, George (2005)
      The need to organize and publish metadata about European research results in the field of natural disasters has been met with the help of two innovative technologies: the Open Grid Service Architecture (OGSA) and the ...
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      Affect recognition during active game playing based on posture skeleton data 

      Zacharatos, H.; Gatzoulis, C.; Chrysanthou, Yiorgos L. (2013)
      The affective state of a player during game playing has a significant effect on the player's motivation and engagement. Recognising player's emotions during games can help game designers improve the user experience by ...
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      Emotion recognition for exergames using Laban movement analysis 

      Zacharatos, H.; Gatzoulis, C.; Chrysanthou, Yiorgos L.; Aristidou, Andreas (2013)
      Exergames do not have the capacity to detect whether the players are really enjoying the game-play. The games are not intelligent enough to detect significant emotional states and adapt accordingly in order to offer a ...
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      The role of cannabinoids in sensory gating : a neural network study 

      Zachariou, Margarita (University of Nottingham Theses,Mathematical Sciences, 2008)
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      Message from the OBD-2015 Chairs 

      Younas, Muhammad; Papadopoulos, George Angelos (2015)
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      Message from the program chairs 

      Yeo, S. -S; Vaidya, B.; Papadopoulos, George Angelos (2011)
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      Adaptive probabilistic flooding for Information Hovering in VANETs 

      Xeros, Andreas; Lestas, Marios; Andreou, Maria I.; Pitsillides, Andreas (2010)
      Information Hovering applies in many applications in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, where useful information needs to be made available to all vehicles within a confined geographical area for a specific time interval. A ...
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      Adaptive information hovering in VANETs: Robustness and enhancements 

      Xeros, Andreas; Constantinides, Themis; Lestas, Marios; Mylonas, Yiannos; Pitsillides, Andreas; Lesta, Vicky Papadopoulou (IEEE Computer Society, 2013)
      Information hovering is relevant in vehicular ad hoc networks in cases where critical information needs to be made available to all vehicles in a bounded geographical area, called the hovering area, for a specific amount ...
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      Information quality evaluation for grid information services 

      Xing, Wei; Corcho, O.; Goble, C.; Dikaiakos, Marios D. (Springer Science and Business Media, LLC, 2007)
      The quality of the information provided by information services deployed in the EGEE production testbed differs from one system to another. Under the same conditions, the answers provided for the same query by different ...
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      Information hovering in vehicular ad-hoc networks 

      Xeros, Andreas; Lestas, Marios; Andreou, Maria I.; Pitsillides, Andreas; Ioannou, Petros A. (2009)
      Information Hovering is a relatively new concept of information dissemination over a mobile set of peers. It naturally applies in many applications in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks, where useful information needs to be made ...
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      An ActOn-based semantic information service for EGEE 

      Xing, Wei; Corcho, O.; Goble, C.; Dikaiakos, Marios D. (2007)
      We describe an information service that aggregates metadata available in hundreds of information sources of the EGEE Grid infrastructure. It uses an ontology-based information integration architecture (ActOn), which is ...
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      An ActOn-based semantic information service for Grids 

      Xing, Wei; Corcho, O.; Goble, C.; Dikaiakos, Marios D. (2010)
      We describe a semantic information service that aggregates metadata from a large number of information sources of a large-scale Grid infrastructure. It uses an ontology-based information integration architecture (ActOn) ...
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      Towards a grid information knowledge base 

      Xing, Wei; Dikaiakos, Marios D.; Sakellariou, R. (2007)
      In this paper, we present our work on building a Grid information knowledge base, which is a key component of a semantic Grid information system. A Core Grid Ontology (CGO) is developed for building a Grid knowledge base
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      IEEE ICDM 2010 Contest: TomTom Traffic prediction for intelligent GPS Navigation 

      Wojnarski, M.; Gora, P.; Szczuka, M.; Nguyen, H. S.; Swietlicka, J.; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D. (2010)
      In this foreword, we summarize the IEEE ICDM 2010 Contest: "
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      A core grid ontology for the semantic grid 

      Wei, X.; Dikaiakos, Marios D.; Sakellariou, R. (2006)
      In this paper, we propose a Core Grid Ontology (CGO) that define s fundamental Grid-specific concepts, and the relationships between them. One of the key goals is to make this Core Grid Ontology general enough and easily ...