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I am an Assistant Professor at Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute. My work focuses on the design and evaluation of pervasive computing systems with a focus on the experiential and social consequences of their adoption (see my research statement). I hold a PhD (cum laude) from Eindhoven University of Technology on methods and tools for user experience evaluation, entitled Quantifying Diversity in User Experience. You may find the full list of my publications at google scholar.

News

• Join our CHI 2012 workshop on Theories, methods and case studies of longitudinal HCI research. Deadline for submissions: Jan 13, 2012.

Some past activities

• Invited talk at the Long-Term User Experience Seminar in Tampere. Find the slides here.
• My PhD thesis was nominated for the TU/e Doctoral Project Award 2011. It also gives me an excuse to catch up with friends and colleagues in Eindhoven.
• Associate chair for CHI 2012 and Interact 2011, Short papers co-chair at Desire 2011
• I will be presenting a hands-on course on Measuring the User Experience at the UCIT Summer School on Product User Experience, in Tampere, Finland, August 2010.
• I will be joining the Dagstuhl seminar on Demarcating User Experience, 15-18 September 2010.
• Invited talks at TU Delft Design Aesthetics Section (28 June 2010), SIGCHI Finland – Helsinki (1 Sept 2010) and Nokia Research Center – Tampere (2 Sept 2010).
• I will be visiting the Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, 1-13 May 2010.
• I visited the Virtual Knowledge Studio on March 17, where I presented my research proposal on CognitiveNet.
• I was awarded my PhD (cum laude) on 23 March 2010. A press release in English and Dutch, and the full text.
• I strongly recommend Daniel Kahneman’s TED talk on The riddle of experience vs. memory. See also our work on iScale, the long paper, and a brief summary.
• You are warmly invited to the mini-symposium on Diversity in User Experience, preceding my PhD defense on the 23rd of March at 1pm, at zaal 1, Zwarte Doos, Eindhoven University of Technology. Seating is limited, priority will be given to the ones who have registered. More information and registration at: http://ekarapanos.com/symposium/