Other Activities
Administrative Activities
- School of Informatics:
- Oct 2007-June 2009: Chair of School of Informatic’s Research Committee
- Dec 2003-June 2009: Member of the Board of Studies
- July 2004-June 2009: Member of the Post-Graduate studies directorate
- Centre for HCI Design:
- May 2006-June 2009: Leader/Manager of The City Interaction Lab (supported by The Vodafone UK Foundation)
- Aug 2005-2006: Senior Tutor for Research
- Jan 2003-2006: Managing the centre’s seminar series
- Jan 2003-June 2009: Managing the centre’s Website maintenance team
- Oct 2002-2006: Member of the centre’s Interaction Lab planning team
- 2003: Member of the promotion panel for the Centre
Organising Committes & Editorial Boards
- Conferences/Workshops:
- Programme co-chair of the 3rd International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing of HCII 2009.
- Programme co-chair and Workshop co-organizer: The European Design for All Curricula at the 8th Annual Higher Education Academy conference.
- Programme co-chair and Workshop co-organizer: 1st International Workshop on Web and Aging (W&A ’03), in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2003, Crete, Greece, June, 2003.
- Programme co-chair and Conference co-organizer: 1st International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Diaspora (ICTD ’03)
- Member of the Program Committee of fng2008 and IRMA 2005 conference.
- Member of the Program Committee of catac’04 cultural attitudes towards technology and communication conference.
- Member of the Scientific Committee of the IADIS e-Society 2004 and WWW/Internet 2004 Conferences.
- Member of the Scientific Committee of the 1st Panhellenic Conference on use of new technologies in elementary education
- Member of the Program Committee of International Workshop on Pervasive Technologies for the support of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Sufferers
- Member of the Program Committee of the HCII 2007 conference, the DM@UM workshop at UM 2007, Special Track on HCI of PCI 2007, the ubiquitous knowledge discovery for user modeling (K-DUUM’07) workshop of UM’2007 conference and the 3rd USAB 2007,HCI4AGING symposium and the FnG 2008 conference.
- Special Journal issues etc.
Professional Activities
- Felow of the Higher Education Academy.
- Reviewer of JISC, IDA Ireland, The Leverhulme Trust, AHRC and EPSRC grant proposals
- Paper Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), Behaviour and Information Technology,Interacting with Computers, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS), Universal Access in the Information Society (UAIS), Communications of the ACM, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC), Academic Exchange Quarterly, Journal of Information Science and IEE Proceedings Science, Measurement & Technology Journals.
- Paper Reviewer for CHI, DIS, HFES, IIE, INTERACT, catac, Internet Research 5.0, e-Society 2004 and IRMA conferences
- Paper Reviewer for the Encyclopedia of International Computer-Based Learning
- Paper Reviewer for the Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology
- Paper Reviewer for the Handbook of Research on Computer Enhanced Language Acquisition and Learning
- Book Reviewer for the SIGCHI Bulletin
- Member of: the British HCI Group of the British Computer Society (BCS), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI), the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society (HFES), the Internet Technical Group (ITG), the Human Performance Modeling Technical Group (HPM-TG), the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Association of Internet Researchers (A(o)IR), the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), World Association for Online Education (WAOE), International Forum of Educational Technology & Society (IFETS).
- Member of the Leonardo Network
- Member of the Housing and Care for Older People Research Network (HCOPRnet)
- Member of the moderation team for Cyprus Scientists Network mailing list
- Member of the moderation team for CHI-WEB mailing list
Other Activities
- 1997-present: Founding member and president of Kypros-Net Inc. A registered not-for-profit organization specializing in providing information about Cyprus online. Currently the most visited and respected online source about Cyprus.
- 2000-present: Founding member of Peace-Cyprus.Org an online resource promoting peace and conflict resolution in Cyprus.
- 1996: Attended a four and a half weeks course in Conflict Resolution and Applied International Studies at Mountain House,Caux, Switzerland.
- 1996: Founding member and president of the Cyprus Student Association (University of Maryland, College Park).
- 1994-present: Maintainer of “ The Cyprus Home Page “, the first presence about Cyprus on the Internet.
- Winter 1994: Working with two more Cypriot students organized a 3-day conference in the USA on Conflict Resolution techniques. Cypriots from around the USA, and featured prominent speakers on the subject area, as well as on Cyprus affairs attended the conference.
