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11 03, 2025

The Fun Theory: A social experiment and a Case Study in Interaction Design and User Engagement

By |2025-03-11T13:31:59+02:00March 11th, 2025|arduino, Interaction Design|0 Comments

In 2009, Volkswagen launched "The Fun Theory", an initiative demonstrating how interaction design can drive behavioural change by making everyday activities enjoyable. The campaign, which aimed to promote Volkswagen's BlueMotion Technologies, aligned with principles of human-computer interaction (HCI) and gamification, showcasing how interactive technologies and design interventions can enhance user engagement and encourage positive habits. Interaction Design and the Fun Theory Interaction design (IxD) focuses on crafting experiences that facilitate meaningful interactions between users and systems. By leveraging playful, engaging, and intuitive interfaces, interaction designers aim to influence human behaviour in a positive way. The Fun Theory campaign served as an experiment in persuasive design, proving that fun and interactivity can nudge people toward healthier, safer, and more sustainable behaviours. The campaign used sensor-based interfaces, auditory and visual feedback, and gamification to transform mundane actions into interactive experiences. Each experiment demonstrated how user engagement with interactive technologies can reinforce positive [...]

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11 10, 2024

PACT Scoping Technique / Analysis: A Human-Centered Design Framework

By |2024-10-11T15:46:26+02:00October 11th, 2024|Interaction Design, tutorial|0 Comments

PACT Scoping Technique / Analysis: A Human-Centered Design Framework The PACT (People, Activities, Contexts, Technologies) scoping technique is a fundamental framework in human-centered design (HCD) that helps designers analyse and understand the key elements of interactive systems. By breaking down the components of design into four core elements—People, Activities, Contexts, and Technologies—PACT provides a comprehensive structure for evaluating the interactions between users and technology. This article explores the PACT framework, its components, and how it supports designers in creating meaningful and effective interactive experiences. Components of PACT Analysis 1. People The "People" component emphasises understanding the users of a system. This involves gathering information about their characteristics, needs, behaviours, skills, motivations, and limitations. By gaining insight into the diverse user base, designers can ensure that the interactive systems are accessible and inclusive. Personas and empathy maps are often used tools to represent user characteristics within this component. Understanding people means [...]

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9 05, 2023

XARTS2023 – International Conference and Summer School on Extended Arts

By |2023-05-27T00:32:05+02:00May 9th, 2023|animation, art, conferences/workshops, design, events, Interaction Design, interactive art, news|0 Comments

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING - Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering 1 Jul 2023 to 9 Jul 2023, Syros https://summer-schools.aegean.gr/XARTS2023 Co-organised by the Interactive Systems Design Lab (University of the Aegean) and CITU - PARAGRAPHE (University of Paris 8) in the framework of the European University ERUA Organizing Scientific Committee Maurice Benayoun, Professor, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong Khaldoun Zreik, Professor, Director of Paragraphe Lab, University of Paris 8 Panagiotis Kyriakoulakos, Assistant Professor, University of the Aegean Modestos Stavrakis, Assistant Professor, University of the Aegean XARTS 2023 CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROJECT PROPOSALS The International Conference and Summer School on Extended Arts celebrates 10 years since its first edition with a Call for Papers on the History and Praxis of Computer Animation and a Call for Projects that will be implemented as prototypes during the intensive workshops of XARTS 2023. CALL FOR PAPERS XARTS 2023 [...]

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9 05, 2023

IKIT-2023 International Workshop on Information and Knowledge in the Internet of Things, July 3-6, Athens, Greece

By |2023-05-09T11:33:54+02:00May 9th, 2023|conferences/workshops, news|0 Comments

The 8th International Workshop on Information and Knowledge in the Internet of Things (IKIT 2023) in conjunction with the 23rd International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2023) will be held on July 3 - 6, 2023 in collaboration with the National Technical University of Athens and University of the Aegean, Athens, Greece. Internet of Things (IoT) is currently one of the most challenging areas of the Internet, enabling communication and ubiquitous computing between global citizens, networked machines and physical objects, providing a promising vision of the future integrating the real world of knowledge agents and things with the virtual world of information. IoT is seen as a network of trillions of agents and machines that communicate with each other, being a profound technological revolution, which is the current reality and the future of computing and communications, supported by a dynamical technological evolution in many fields, from wireless [...]

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30 04, 2023

GlossaLAB Workshop 2023

By |2023-05-09T12:40:46+02:00April 30th, 2023|events, IOHIVE, news, projects, research|0 Comments

The Workshop León & Madrid (Spain) | May 2-4, 2023 From Information to Insights: Beyond AI, from Information to Knowledge to Sustainability https://www.glossalab.org/glossalab-en/GlossaLAB_Workshop_2023 The dense and pervasive web of information technologies connecting people and sensors is constantly turning information into actions and creating extraordinary opportunities in a historical circumstance we designate as the "information age". At the same time, current technological and societal endeavours shows, on the one hand, that the benefits of big data and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based approaches are very uneven in scope and, on the other hand, that the key question of our time is how to master information to trigger appropriate actions and "insights" for the benefit of individual and collective lives. This problem is actually twofold: on the one hand, we should better understand information in its multiple aspects and contexts of application; on the other hand, we need to cope with the enormous flow of [...]

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6 02, 2023

Παρουσίαση του έργου IOHIVE στη FOSSCOMM 2022

By |2023-02-20T17:32:16+02:00February 6th, 2023|IOHIVE, projects|0 Comments

  Στις 20/11/2022 το έργο IOHIVE βρέθηκε στην Fosscomm στην πόλη της Λαμίας. Ο Ευάγγελος Νομικός προγραμματιστής και ερευνητής στο Τμήμα Μηχανικών Σχεδίασης Προϊόντων & Συστημάτων/DPSDE παρουσίασε τις τρέχουσες δράσεις και τα αποτελέσματα του έργου και μίλησε για τις τεχνολογικές λύσεις που αναπτύσσει το Εργαστήριο Σχεδίασης Διαδραστικών Συστημάτων (Interactive Systems Design Lab) για τον τομέα της μελισσοκομίας σε σύμπραξη με το Εργαστήριο Μελισσοκομίας του ΕΛΓΟ Δήμητρα και την εταιρεία Kudzu Technologies. Στην παρουσίαση έγινε αναφορά και στο όραμα της ερευνητικής μας ομάδας για τη δημιουργία ενός οικοσυστήματος καινοτομίας στην ευρύτερη περιοχή των Κυκλάδων και μιας ανοιχτής κοινότητας γνώσης που μελετά τον σημαντικότερο “εργάτη” της φύσης την μέλισσα.   H φετινή Fosscomm πραγματοποιήθηκε στις 18 – 20 Νοεμβρίου 2022 από το Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας και συγκεκριμένα, από το Τμήμα Πληροφορικής με Εφαρμογές στη Βιοϊατρική – Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας στη Λαμία. Περιελάμβανε πάνω από 75 ομιλίες και εργαστήρια (workshops) σε θέματα Ανοιχτού λογισμικού, Ανοιχτού περιεχομένου, Ανοιχτών δεδομένων, Ανοιχτών τεχνολογιών, Ανοιχτής σχεδίασης και Ανοικτών αδειών. Στους χώρους του [...]

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5 02, 2023

International Conference on Advanced Research in Technologies, Information, Innovation and Sustainability (ARTIIS 2023)

By |2023-02-20T17:25:29+02:00February 5th, 2023|news, research|0 Comments

Dear Researcher, We cordially invite you to participate in International Conference on Advanced Research in Technologies, Information, Innovation and Sustainability (ARTIIS 2023), to be held on October 18-20, Madrid, Spain.  It is planned to publish the proceedings with Springer in their Communications in Computer and Information Science series (CCIS) with Springer. CCIS is abstracted/indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, SCImago, Scopus. CCIS volumes are also submitted for inclusion in ISI Proceedings. Submitted papers should be related to one or more of the main themes proposed. 1. Computing Solutions - Applied Information Systems (e. g. Healthcare, Law, Economics, Education) - Web and Mobile Applications - Networks, Mobility, Ubiquity and Pervasive Systems - Innovative Computing - Gamification Application and Technologies - Software Engineering 2. Data Intelligence - Advanced Computational Intelligence - Computer Vision and Image Processing - Artificial Intelligence and Data Science - Data Engineering, Analytics, and Applications - Intelligent and Decision Support Systems [...]

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