Womenpower 2016: AN ACM CELEBRATION OF WOMEN IN COMPUTING Over 200 participants from Cyprus, Greece, Egypt, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Poland and USA, attended the Womenpower Symposium 2016 that took place at the Cyprus University of Technology on the 16th of November. Womenpower aimed to support and empower women in Read more
4th International Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies A Thematic Affiliated Conference of HCI International 2017 Co-chairs: Panayiotis Zaphiris and Andri Ioannou Cyprus Interaction Lab, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus In the today’s knowledge society, learning and collaboration are two fundamental and strictly interrelated aspects of knowledge acquisition and creation. Read more
Με γνώμονα την ενθάρρυνση μικρών και μεγάλων να εμπλακούν στον συναρπαστικό κόσμο της της ψηφιακής τεχνολογίας και να καταρρίψουν τα στερεότυπα σχετικά με τον ρόλο της γυναίκας στον κλάδο της πληροφορικής και της ψηφιακής τεχνολογίας, το Cyprus Interaction Lab και το ACM-Women Cyprus, με την υποστήριξη του Fulbright και του Read more
One (1) post in the area of “Social Computing” and specifically in the areas of: ● Technology-enhanced learning ● Advanced Technologies for Learning ● Social aspects of computing Candidates for this post should possess: ● Postgraduate Degree of Master’s level from accredited Universities in Education, Computer Science, Educational Technology or Read more
Womenpower Symposium 2016 (WeMe2016) and World Usability Day is a full-day event with invited talks, panel discussions, and visual poster presentations. The event will bring together female faculty, students, researchers and professionals for an opportunity to connect, exchange ideas, and learn from each other. For more information: https://womenpowersymposium.wordpress.com/ Register: https://womenpowersymposium.wordpress.com/register/
On Saturday, October 22nd, 2016, a closing gathering for the project took place. More than 20 special educators, psychologists and therapists from 6 schools in Cyprus returned at the premises of the Cyprus University of Technology to share their thoughts and experiences about using the innovative Kinems approach and its Read more
Μαθαίνω Προγραμματισμό με τους Γονείς μου http://codingourfuture.org/ On Sunday, October 23rd, the Cyprus Interaction Lab of the Cyprus University of Technology celebrated the week of code with tens of students and their parents at the Elementary School Agios Spyridonas. Three workshops were conducted: Α4: Δεξιά, Προχώρα, Στρίψε & Ακολούθησε! Ο Read more
Online MSc in Interaction Design accepts applications for January 2017 entry. The online MSc in Interaction Design offered by the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts of the Cyprus University of Technology and Tallinn University, Estonia in collaboration also with ITMO University in St Petersburg, Russia allows learners to combine Read more
We (Cyprus Interaction Lab of Τεχνολογικό Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου – Cyprus University of Technology) are again organizing a Summer School on Research Methods in HCI. This year the summer school is having a special emphasis on Ambient Assisted Living. It mainly targets PhD students, researchers and skilled practitioners. This training event Read more
We (Cyprus Interaction Lab) announce the opening of a PhD position in the area of Online Security and Privacy. Details below. Deadline: 8 May 2016 Applications at: https://sis.cut.ac.cy:80/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/zcut_wd_st_cr_account?sap-client=300&sap-language=EN# Candidates for this post should possess: Postgraduate Degree of Master’s level from accredited Universities in Computer Science or Multimedia or Internet Studies Read more
The Cyprus Interaction Lab is the only research facility in Cyprus in the areas of Human Computer Interaction and Instructional Technology. We are proud to engage in research that helps unpack the potential of emerging technologies to positively influence our society. We hope you will enjoy reading our newsletter which Read more
On Saturday, January 23rd, a training seminar for special educators, psychologists and therapists from 6 schools in Cyprus about how to best use the innovative Kinems approach and its interactive Kinect games, was organised with great success. This seminar was the kick-off event of a pilot research project which aims Read more
[Short Scientific Mission of COST Action LUDI TD1309: Play for Children with Disabilities (LUDI) 2015] In November 2015, Andri Ioannou, Assistant professor in the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts at the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) and co-director of the Cyprus Interaction Lab, Anna Andreeva, Assistant professor in the Read more
Facebook’s Product Designers Jonah Jones and Leo Mancini and Professor Panayiotis Zaphiris, director of Cyprus Interaction Lab gave an interview to INBusiness magazine. The two designers from facebook, traveled to Limassol to be the keynote speakers of the World Usability Day event CIL organized. In the interview they divulged their Read more
Deadline for applications: 22/11/2015 Two (2) posts in the research area of: «Social Computing and Learning» One (1) post in the topic «Technology and Social Inclusion» One (1) post in the topic «Human Behaviour and Online Social Networking» Please download the PDF file for more information on the PhD applications. Read more
The Cyprus Interaction Lab (www.cyprusinteractionlab.com) of the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts of the Cyprus University of Technology and DisruptCyprus.com (www.disruptcyprus.com) invite you to the annual World Usability Day seminar. Keynote Presentation: Riff by Facebook: Lessons Learned from Building a Collaborative Video App Jonah Jones (Product Design Manager) at Read more
The Cyprus Interaction Lab (CIL) has joined the European Schoolnet’s Future Classroom Lab (FCL) network of learning labs though the Interaction and Technology Lab (EAT) http://fcl.eun.org/eat This is an opportunity for CIL to expand its network of European K-20 educators and schools. Starting in September 2015, CIL will participate in activities Read more
The Cyprus Interaction Lab of the Cyprus University of Technology successfully organized the international summer school on “Research Methods in HCI” (https://hcisummer2015.wordpress.com) which took place from the 6th to the 10th of July, 2015. The participants included 50 PhD students from 16 countries (Sweden, Spain, Slovenia, Russia, Romania, Portugal, Poland, Read more
RISE is funded by EU through the TEAMING program of HORIZON 2020. The consortium consists of the Municipality of Nicosia-Cyprus, the three public Universities of Cyprus — University of Cyprus, Cyprus University of Technology and Open University of Cyprus — and the prestige research institutes Max Plank Institute for Informatics Read more
The Cyprus Interaction Lab hosted the COST action “Play for Children with Disabilities (LUDI)” in 4-5 June 2015 in Limassol. The meeting was held from 4-5 June 2015, with active involvement of Cyprus Interaction Lab (https://www.cyprusinteractionlab.com/) of the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts at the Cyprus University of Technology. Read more