Nikos Tsianos

Nikos Tsianos is a research assistant and doctoral candidate at the New Technologies Laboratory of the Faculty of Communication and Media Studies of the University of Athens. He holds an Msc in political communication from the University of Athens. His main research area is the incorporation of theories from the Psychology of Individual Differences into Adaptive Educational Hypermedia, the development of corresponding systems and the empirical evaluation of such systems in the context of an experimental psychology methodology. He has published numerous articles in conferences and journals regarding this field of research, while he also participates in a number of national and EU funded projects, including research on locative media and mobile applications.

Publications

Individual Learning and Emotional Characteristics in Web-based Communities of Practice
Individual Learning and Emotional Characteristics in Web-based Communities of Practice
Nikos Tsianos, Zacharias Lekkas, Panagiotis Germanakos, Constantinos Mourlas. © 2012. 14 pages.
Individual Learning and Emotional Characteristics in Web-based Communities of Practice
Individual Learning and Emotional Characteristics in Web-based Communities of Practice
Nikos Tsianos, Zacharias Lekkas, Panagiotis Germanakos, Constantinos Mourlas. © 2010. 15 pages.
The knowledge management paradigm of communities of practice can be efficiently realized in Web-based environments, especially if one considers the extended social networks that...
Incorporating Human Factors in the Development of Context-Aware Personalized Applications: The Next Generation of Intelligent User Interfaces
Incorporating Human Factors in the Development of Context-Aware Personalized Applications: The Next Generation of Intelligent User Interfaces
Nikos Tsianos, Panagiotis Germanakos, Zacharias Lekkas, Constantinos Mourlas. © 2010. 21 pages.
The notion of context in context-aware applications is not merely an issue of external situational circumstances or device/channel properties, but it could also refer to a wide...
A Dynamic User Centric Framework for Enhancing eServices Effectiveness Aiming at Mass Customization
A Dynamic User Centric Framework for Enhancing eServices Effectiveness Aiming at Mass Customization
Mario Belk, Panagiotis Germanakos, Nikos Tsianos, Zacharias Lekkas, Constantinos Mourlas. © 2010. 25 pages.
Mass customization should be more than just configuring a specific component (hardware or software), but should be seen as the co-design of an entire system, including services...
Improving M-Commerce Services Effectiveness with the Use of User-Centric Content Delivery
Improving M-Commerce Services Effectiveness with the Use of User-Centric Content Delivery
Panagiotis Germanakos, Nikos Tsianos, Zacharias Lekkas, Constantinos Mourlas, George Samaras. © 2010. 16 pages.
Advances in wireless communications and information technology have made the Mobile Web a reality. The Mobile Web is the response to the need for anytime, anywhere access to...
Improving M-Commerce Services Effectiveness with the Use of User-Centric Content Delivery
Improving M-Commerce Services Effectiveness with the Use of User-Centric Content Delivery
Panagiotis Germanakos, Nikos Tsianos, Zacharias Lekkas, Constantinos Mourlas, George Samaras. © 2010. 16 pages.
Advances in wireless communications and information technology have made the Mobile Web a reality. The Mobile Web is the response to the need for anytime, anywhere access to...
Cognitive and Emotional Processes in Web-Based Education: Integrating Human Factors and Personalization
Cognitive and Emotional Processes in Web-Based Education: Integrating Human Factors and Personalization
Constantinos Mourlas, Nikos Tsianos, Panagiotis Germanakos. © 2009. 568 pages.
A preliminary classification of individual characteristics that affect the outcome of learning procedures is the distinction between cognitive and emotional parameters. This...
Incorporating Human Factors in the Development of Context-Aware Personalized Applications: The Next Generation of Intelligent User Interfaces
Incorporating Human Factors in the Development of Context-Aware Personalized Applications: The Next Generation of Intelligent User Interfaces
Nikos Tsianos, Panagiotis Germanakos, Zacharias Lekkas, Constantinos Mourlas. © 2009. 21 pages.
The notion of context in context-aware applications is not merely an issue of external situational circumstances or device/channel properties, but it could also refer to a wide...
The Role of Human Factors in Web Personalization Environments
The Role of Human Factors in Web Personalization Environments
Panagiotis Germanakos, Nikos Tsianos, Zacharias Lekkas, Constantinos Mourlas. © 2009. 7 pages.
The explosive growth in the size and use of the World Wide Web as a communication medium as well as the new developments in ICT allowed service providers to meet these...
Assessment of Human Factors in Adaptive Hypermedia Environments
Assessment of Human Factors in Adaptive Hypermedia Environments
Nikos Tsianos, Panagiotis Germanakos, Zacharias Lekkas, Constantinos Mourlas. © 2009. 34 pages.
The plethora of information and services as well as the complicated nature of most Web structures intensify the navigational difficulties that arise when users navigate their way...
Improving M-Commerce Services Effectiveness with the Use of User-Centric Content Delivery
Improving M-Commerce Services Effectiveness with the Use of User-Centric Content Delivery
Panagiotis Germanakos, Nikos Tsianos, Zacharias Lekkas, Constantinos Mourlas. © 2009. 17 pages.
Advances in wireless communications and information technology have made the Mobile Web a reality. The Mobile Web is the response to the need for anytime, anywhere access to...
Individual Differences in Adaptive Educational Hypermedia: The Effect of Cognitive Style and Visual Working Memory
Individual Differences in Adaptive Educational Hypermedia: The Effect of Cognitive Style and Visual Working Memory
Nikos Tsianos, Panagiotis Germanakos, Zacharias Lekkas, Costas Mourlas. © 2009. 17 pages.
The purpose of this chapter is to experimentally explore the effect of individual differences in an adaptive educational hypermedia application. To that direction, the constructs...
Improving M-Commerce Services Effectiveness with the Use of User-Centric Content Delivery
Improving M-Commerce Services Effectiveness with the Use of User-Centric Content Delivery
Panagiotis Germanakos, Nikos Tsianos, Zacharias Lekkas, Constantinos Mourlas, George Samaras. © 2008. 18 pages.
Advances in wireless communications and information technology have made the Mobile Web a reality. The Mobile Web is the response to the need for anytime, anywhere access to...