Faculty
Evangelos Karapanos is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Internet Studies, the Director of the Persuasive Technologies Lab and the Coordinator of the Doctoral Program of the Department of Communication and Internet Studies of the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT). Dr. Karapanos holds a PhD (cum laude) in Human-Computer Interaction from Eindhoven University of Technology, a MSc in Human-Computer Interaction from University College London, and a BSc in Physics with a specialization in microelectronics from the University of Patras. His expertise is in experience-centered design of interaction with technology. His work is regularly published at top-tier conferences and journals in Human-Computer Interaction and has received more than 1800 citations in the literature (h-index=20, i10-index=38) and a number of awards, including a best paper and a best poster award at Persuasive Technology 2017, an honorable mention for best paper at Ubicomp 2015, and the cum laude distinction for his PhD thesis (given to the top 5% of PhD theses defended annually at the Eindhoven University of Technology). He has acted as Principal Investigator (PI) in a number of projects that focused on the design and evaluation of persuasive technologies in health and sustainability, as well as the development of new methods for the design and evaluation of interactive technologies. Prior to joining the Cyprus University of Technology, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Madeira and Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, a postdoctoral researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology, and a visiting researcher at Philips Research and the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
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PhD students
Georgia Leonidou holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a Master’s degree in School Psychology, both from the University of Cyprus (UCY). She has worked as a research assistant at the UCL Institute of Education, Department of Psychology & Human Development, and the Experimenal Psychology Lab of UCY. Her Masters thesis concerned the promotion of physical activity among teenage smokers’ and is conducted under the auspices of the ACT Healthy Lab of UCY. Georgia has been admitted to the PhD program of the department of Communication and Internet studies, starting in September 2017. Her research interests focus on bridging the gap between evidence–based theory of behavior change and the design of mhealth applications.
Rúben Gouveia holds a Master’s degree in Informatics Engineering and is currently pursuing a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Madeira. In his studies he attempts to understand how individuals engage with (and detach from) personal informatics tools. He attempts to leverage on such insights towards predicting and personalizing moments of engagement with these tools. Rúben has been a visiting researcher at the applied computer science campus at Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen, Belguim and more recently at the HCDE department University of Washington. His work has been published at venues such as CHI, Ubicomp and DIS.
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Ana Caraban holds a Master’s degree in Informatics Engineering and is currently a PhD student at the ‘Networked Interactive Cyber Physical Systems’ PhD program of Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon. Her research seeks to help people in building sustainable behaviors by developing technologies that highlight opportunities for behavior change, tailored to their personal needs, preferences and context. Her aim is to assess which strategies are more effective in encouraging behaviors by evaluating the impact that distinctive nudges have on habit formation.
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Chrysanthi Konstanti holds a Bachelor’s degree in Education from the University of Ioannina and a Master’s degree in New Technologies for Communication and Learning from the Cyprus University of Technology. Her research interests lie in the social practices individuals develop with and around behavior change technologies, with a particular interest in goal setting and monitoring.
Loukas Konstantinou holds a bachelors degree (valedictorian) in Communication and Internet Studies from the Cyprus University of Technology. He is a 1styear PhD student and research assistant in the H2020 project ‘Co-Inform Co-Creating Misinformation-Resilient Societies. Loukas is interested in the design, prototyping and evaluation of technology-mediated nudging interventions.
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Research Interns
Paulina Durán Miranda holds a BSc in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey and is currently completing an MSc in Information Technology and User Experience at Tampere University of Technology. Her research interests focus on behavior change technologies in the context of health with special interest on eudaimonic well-being and motivation.
Alumni
- Dr. Mary Barreto (PhD thesis), now at Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute.
- Evangelos Niforatos, Research assistant, now at Università della Svizzera italiana.
- Dr. Jakob Rogstadius (PhD thesis), now at WHO Uppsala Monitoring Centre.
- Dr. Jayant Venkatanathan (PhD thesis)