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Timestamp: 2019-04-19 17:16:01+00:00

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15 Jan 2019: We have been awarded an ARC discovery project on Digital Emotion Regulation.
23 Nov 2018: Check out the Smart Hospital Living Lab.
19 Mar 2018: We are running a PerCom workshop on Context-Awareness for Multi-Device Pervasive and Mobile Computing. Please submit!
3 Oct 2017: Giving the opening keynote at the Northern Health Research Week in Melbourne.
10 Jul 2017: I am one of the instructors at the ACM Summer School on Crowdsourcing in Suzhou, China.
8 Mar 2017: I have moved to the University of Melbourne, School of Computing and Information Systems.
15 Nov 2016: I'm one of the editors of the new journal PACM IMWUT, that will replace the main technical track of the UbiComp conference. Please submit!
13-16 Sep 2016: Our group has 3 full papers at UbiComp 2016, and is running 4 workshops.
12 Sep 2016: Invited speaker Symposium on HCI Grand Challenges at UCL.
22-28 Aug 2016: I'm one of the instructors at the Vienna Summer School on Smart Cities.
My group is looking for PhD students to work with us. You need to have strong technical skills, and be motivated to build novel interactive technologies that better understand and better respond to humans. Please have a look at my research and publications pages to get an understanding of the research we do. Most recently, I launched the initiative known as the Smart Hospital Living Lab. If you send me an email regarding doing a PhD, please include your CV, transcripts, and a summary of the kind of research you want to do.
iSCIENCE. Academy of Finland: 2015-2018.
iCYCLE. Academy of Finland: 2015-2016.
GRAGE. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange, Horizon 2020: 2014-2018.
UBI-Metrics. Academy of Finland: 2011-2014.
Urban Flows and Networks (Fellowship of the Finland Distinguished Professor Programme). Academy of Finland & TEKES, Finland: 2010-2013.
SPAEN: a Software Platform for Automated Enterprise-wide aNalytics. Innovisoft & Regional government of Madeira: 2010-2011.
Leveraging community content for disaster awareness and emergency response coordination. IBM Faculty Award: 2010-2012.
WeSP: Web Security and Privacy: Weaving together technology innovation with human and policy considerations. FCT, Portugal: 2009-2012.
Usability evaluation techniques for situated privacy. FCT, Portugal: 2010-2013.
Novel sensing techniques for urban transport. Industry funded: 2008-2011.
Cityware: Urban design and pervasive systems. EPSRC, UK: 2005-2009.
Journals: ACM Transaction on Computer-Human Interaction, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Advances in Human Computer Interaction, Computer Journal, Computers Environment and Urban Systems, Geographical Analysis, IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Computing, IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part B, Information Processing Letters, Interacting with Computers, International Journal of Arts and Technology, International Journal of Health Geographics, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Urban Technology, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, PLoS ONE, Transportation Research Part C.
Conferences: ACM CHI, ACM CSCW, ACM C&T, ACM DIS, ACM IUI, ACM SAC, ACM Ubicomp (and previously Pervasive), ACM TEI, MobileHCI, IEEE SocialCom, IEEE Infocom, INTERACT, NordiCHI, OzCHI, Percom.
Basketball: I played basketball for YMCA Kaikki, and previously played for Uniao da Madeira, the Trowbridge Hawks, Team Bath Romans and the University of Bath. Finland Northern region champions (2016), UK Southwest Cup-Winner (2003) and MVP (2007), British University semi-finalist (2003). Lifetime achievement award (2005).
Football: I played for the Maths & Computer Science team. Golden boot award (2006).
Cycling: I try to cycle to work. In Madeira it was 2.5km distance, 200m ascent. It took 15-20 minutes.
Computers: I use macs, mostly.
Research: Pervasive systems gone bad.
Help: Are you Greek, a student, and looking for a house? If so, then listen to this.
Advice: If you came here looking for advice, here it is: wear sunscreen.
Heritage: I am a Maniot.
Family: My brother is Dr Evil: his research is on organised crime. Cool!
My publications appear in various incomplete databases. Therefore I maintain a definitive list below.
V. Kostakos. 2009. "An empirical study of spatial and transpatial social networks using Bluetooth and Facebook", ArXiv e-prints, vol. 0910, pp. 1-17.
V. Kostakos. 2009. "Is the crowd's wisdom biased? A quantitative asessment of three online communities", ArXiv e-prints, vol. 0909, pp. 1-17.
V. Kostakos. 2008. "The privacy implications of Bluetooth", ArXiv e-prints, vol. 0804, pp. 1-10.
V. Kostakos, P. Kostakos. 2008. "Intelligence gathering by capturing the social processes within prisons", ArXiv e-prints, vol. 0804, pp. 1-21.
V. Kostakos, E. O'Neill. 2008. "Size matters: performance declines if your pixels are too big or too small", ArXiv e-prints, vol. 0804, pp. 1-10.
V. Kostakos. 2008. "Bluetooth monitoring can bring many benefits", The Guardian, pp. 1-2.
V. Kostakos, E. O'Neill, A. Penn. 2007. "Brief encounter networks", ArXiv e-prints, vol. 0709, pp. 1-8.

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