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Papers by Nikos Viorres
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007
The paper outlines a theoretical framework for the conceptualisation and design of collaborative ... more The paper outlines a theoretical framework for the conceptualisation and design of collaborative systems for design organisations. The intent is to examine and support the idea of 'co-purposing' as an influential design metaphor for the analysis of design teams and the development of design support collaborative systems in contexts where systems' designers collaborate with their clients. By offering associations to the work activities and the social interaction of designers in actual design workspaces, we propose that the metaphor of 'co-purposing' can stand as an alternative perspective in the analysis and design of potentially new realisations of computer supported cooperative work systems for supporting teamwork.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007
The aim of the paper is to identify and discuss major challenges for OSS from an HCI perspective,... more The aim of the paper is to identify and discuss major challenges for OSS from an HCI perspective, so as to aid the adoption and development processes for end-users, developers and organizations. The paper focuses on four important HCI concerns: product usability, support for user and development communities, accessibility and software usability and proposes areas for further research on the basis of related work and own experiences. 1 Netcraft -Web server survey archives 2006 2
Universal Access in the Information Society, 2004
Users access information services with a variety of devices and with different interaction modes ... more Users access information services with a variety of devices and with different interaction modes that depend on personal characteristics (including disabilities) and on the context of usage. With the appearance of mobile devices, the industry has focused its efforts on the standardization of device characteristics, thus giving to information providers some content adaptation facilities. However, little attention has been paid to the standardization of user profiles that will allow further customization and adaptation capabilities in mainstream services. This paper will present the authors' experiences in outlining and implementing user profiles, as well as possible integration paths with device characteristics.
Electronic Commerce Research, 2008
Personalisation is widely considered as a critical element of contemporary electronic businesses.... more Personalisation is widely considered as a critical element of contemporary electronic businesses. However, despite the wealth of scientific work on personalisation, the definition of the term remains blurred with as consequence a lack of clarity as to what to design or evaluate when it comes to this area of an e-business. E-business stakeholders, including designers, managers and customers, need to understand the significance of personalisation features for many reasons including: guidance for design and evaluation, user appeal and implications for e-business functionality. The paper introduces a descriptive framework for personalisation aspects of e-businesses, in business-to-consumer (B2C) situations, that is related to typical e-business functionality. The proposed framework classifies previous research and extends it to provide e-commerce stakeholders with a vocabulary for analysing e-businesses, for comparing personalisation features, and for explaining e-business commerce evaluation results. The framework is applied to the evaluation of the personalisation features of contemporary clothing e-businesses, and conclusions are drawn for the readiness of this sector to adopt personalisation requirements. P. Koutsabasis ( ) · M. Stavrakis · N. Viorres · J.S. Darzentas · T. Spyrou · J. Darzentas
CoDesign, 2008
The paper is concerned with the design of virtual environments for collaborative design (VECD) -a... more The paper is concerned with the design of virtual environments for collaborative design (VECD) -a particular class of collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) that focus on supporting design activities. VECD are becoming essential collaboration platforms for many designers and their clients, in a wide range of design domains including product, interior, architectural, automotive design etc. However, the contemporary design considerations of VECD are mainly driven by systematic approaches that do not reflect upon knowledge regarding requirements that stem out of everyday collaborative design activities. A consequence is that they do not yield methodical guidance to designers of VECD applications. This paper takes a social action standpoint for the purposeful identification and organisation of collaborative design activities; proposes guidelines at multiple levels of abstraction for the design of VECD; and finally, applies these to a case study development of a specific VECD for interior space design. The paper provides practical aids to designers of VECD so that they incorporate requirements about collaborative design early in the development lifecycle.
Stephanidis, C.(ed) Universal Access in HCI, Inclusive Design in the Information Society, 2003
The use of user profiles in the design and development of information systems and Internet applic... more The use of user profiles in the design and development of information systems and Internet applications is quite extensive. They are mostly used to maintain personal user information for administrative and security purposes. However, the information that these types of user profiles contain is not sufficient for resolving issues related to systems adaptability/adaptivity and accessibility. This paper introduces an approach for personalisation and content adaptation for accessible Internet Services based on the ...
Users access Information Services with a variety of devices and with different interaction modes ... more Users access Information Services with a variety of devices and with different interaction modes that depend on personal characteristics (including disabilities) and on the context of usage. With the appearance of mobile devices, the industry has focused its efforts on the standardization of device characteristics thus giving to information providers some content adaptation facilities. However, little attention has been paid to the standardization of user profiles that will allow further customization and adaptation capabilities in ...
Human-Computer Interaction-INTERACT, 2003
Abstract: The paper presents the architecture and implementation of the IRIS Design Support Envir... more Abstract: The paper presents the architecture and implementation of the IRIS Design Support Environment (DSE). This environment supports designers to create inclusive Internet content and applications. It is based upon the results from a wide range of work from accessibility, usability, user modelling, and content design and adaptation. It is also in itself highly accessible and usable, capable of being used by designers with special needs. The IRIS DSE is Internet-based, builds on open source frameworks and its modular ...
Proc. of 11th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, PCI, Jun 1, 2007
The paper is concerned with the support of conceptual design activities in collaborative virtual ... more The paper is concerned with the support of conceptual design activities in collaborative virtual environments. It proposes a new understanding of conceptual design from a social perspective that explains the levels of support that are needed/required for this type of CVEs and presents the development of a particular CVE that supports conceptual design in the area of interior space design. It is envisaged that the proposed approach can be employed to provide insight to designers of CVEs for conceptual design about the ...
The paper presents the architecture, intended use and implementation of the IRIS Design Support E... more The paper presents the architecture, intended use and implementation of the IRIS Design Support Environment (DSE). This environment supports designers to create inclusive Internet content and applications both by incorporating a wide range of work from the fields of accessibility, usability, user modelling, and content design & adaptation, and also by being in itself highly accessible and usable, capable of being used by designers with special needs. The IRIS DSE is Internet-based, builds on open source frameworks and its modular components are integrated with Web services technology. One of the most important contributions of the IRIS DSE to the current state of the art in existing Web development/authoring tools is its identification of a user-centred approach where content adaptation and user profiling is required. These are implemented with upto-date technologies, adhering to relevant specifications for Web accessibility and incorporating them to the process of designing Internet applications for all.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007
The paper outlines a theoretical framework for the conceptualisation and design of collaborative ... more The paper outlines a theoretical framework for the conceptualisation and design of collaborative systems for design organisations. The intent is to examine and support the idea of 'co-purposing' as an influential design metaphor for the analysis of design teams and the development of design support collaborative systems in contexts where systems' designers collaborate with their clients. By offering associations to the work activities and the social interaction of designers in actual design workspaces, we propose that the metaphor of 'co-purposing' can stand as an alternative perspective in the analysis and design of potentially new realisations of computer supported cooperative work systems for supporting teamwork.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007
The aim of the paper is to identify and discuss major challenges for OSS from an HCI perspective,... more The aim of the paper is to identify and discuss major challenges for OSS from an HCI perspective, so as to aid the adoption and development processes for end-users, developers and organizations. The paper focuses on four important HCI concerns: product usability, support for user and development communities, accessibility and software usability and proposes areas for further research on the basis of related work and own experiences. 1 Netcraft -Web server survey archives 2006 2
Universal Access in the Information Society, 2004
Users access information services with a variety of devices and with different interaction modes ... more Users access information services with a variety of devices and with different interaction modes that depend on personal characteristics (including disabilities) and on the context of usage. With the appearance of mobile devices, the industry has focused its efforts on the standardization of device characteristics, thus giving to information providers some content adaptation facilities. However, little attention has been paid to the standardization of user profiles that will allow further customization and adaptation capabilities in mainstream services. This paper will present the authors' experiences in outlining and implementing user profiles, as well as possible integration paths with device characteristics.
Electronic Commerce Research, 2008
Personalisation is widely considered as a critical element of contemporary electronic businesses.... more Personalisation is widely considered as a critical element of contemporary electronic businesses. However, despite the wealth of scientific work on personalisation, the definition of the term remains blurred with as consequence a lack of clarity as to what to design or evaluate when it comes to this area of an e-business. E-business stakeholders, including designers, managers and customers, need to understand the significance of personalisation features for many reasons including: guidance for design and evaluation, user appeal and implications for e-business functionality. The paper introduces a descriptive framework for personalisation aspects of e-businesses, in business-to-consumer (B2C) situations, that is related to typical e-business functionality. The proposed framework classifies previous research and extends it to provide e-commerce stakeholders with a vocabulary for analysing e-businesses, for comparing personalisation features, and for explaining e-business commerce evaluation results. The framework is applied to the evaluation of the personalisation features of contemporary clothing e-businesses, and conclusions are drawn for the readiness of this sector to adopt personalisation requirements. P. Koutsabasis ( ) · M. Stavrakis · N. Viorres · J.S. Darzentas · T. Spyrou · J. Darzentas
CoDesign, 2008
The paper is concerned with the design of virtual environments for collaborative design (VECD) -a... more The paper is concerned with the design of virtual environments for collaborative design (VECD) -a particular class of collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) that focus on supporting design activities. VECD are becoming essential collaboration platforms for many designers and their clients, in a wide range of design domains including product, interior, architectural, automotive design etc. However, the contemporary design considerations of VECD are mainly driven by systematic approaches that do not reflect upon knowledge regarding requirements that stem out of everyday collaborative design activities. A consequence is that they do not yield methodical guidance to designers of VECD applications. This paper takes a social action standpoint for the purposeful identification and organisation of collaborative design activities; proposes guidelines at multiple levels of abstraction for the design of VECD; and finally, applies these to a case study development of a specific VECD for interior space design. The paper provides practical aids to designers of VECD so that they incorporate requirements about collaborative design early in the development lifecycle.
Stephanidis, C.(ed) Universal Access in HCI, Inclusive Design in the Information Society, 2003
The use of user profiles in the design and development of information systems and Internet applic... more The use of user profiles in the design and development of information systems and Internet applications is quite extensive. They are mostly used to maintain personal user information for administrative and security purposes. However, the information that these types of user profiles contain is not sufficient for resolving issues related to systems adaptability/adaptivity and accessibility. This paper introduces an approach for personalisation and content adaptation for accessible Internet Services based on the ...
Users access Information Services with a variety of devices and with different interaction modes ... more Users access Information Services with a variety of devices and with different interaction modes that depend on personal characteristics (including disabilities) and on the context of usage. With the appearance of mobile devices, the industry has focused its efforts on the standardization of device characteristics thus giving to information providers some content adaptation facilities. However, little attention has been paid to the standardization of user profiles that will allow further customization and adaptation capabilities in ...
Human-Computer Interaction-INTERACT, 2003
Abstract: The paper presents the architecture and implementation of the IRIS Design Support Envir... more Abstract: The paper presents the architecture and implementation of the IRIS Design Support Environment (DSE). This environment supports designers to create inclusive Internet content and applications. It is based upon the results from a wide range of work from accessibility, usability, user modelling, and content design and adaptation. It is also in itself highly accessible and usable, capable of being used by designers with special needs. The IRIS DSE is Internet-based, builds on open source frameworks and its modular ...
Proc. of 11th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, PCI, Jun 1, 2007
The paper is concerned with the support of conceptual design activities in collaborative virtual ... more The paper is concerned with the support of conceptual design activities in collaborative virtual environments. It proposes a new understanding of conceptual design from a social perspective that explains the levels of support that are needed/required for this type of CVEs and presents the development of a particular CVE that supports conceptual design in the area of interior space design. It is envisaged that the proposed approach can be employed to provide insight to designers of CVEs for conceptual design about the ...
The paper presents the architecture, intended use and implementation of the IRIS Design Support E... more The paper presents the architecture, intended use and implementation of the IRIS Design Support Environment (DSE). This environment supports designers to create inclusive Internet content and applications both by incorporating a wide range of work from the fields of accessibility, usability, user modelling, and content design & adaptation, and also by being in itself highly accessible and usable, capable of being used by designers with special needs. The IRIS DSE is Internet-based, builds on open source frameworks and its modular components are integrated with Web services technology. One of the most important contributions of the IRIS DSE to the current state of the art in existing Web development/authoring tools is its identification of a user-centred approach where content adaptation and user profiling is required. These are implemented with upto-date technologies, adhering to relevant specifications for Web accessibility and incorporating them to the process of designing Internet applications for all.