Awards and other happy moments

Mindspace Challenge (2017) - Top 3

Our team Moment Biokinetics (N. Michalopoulos, G. Raptis, C. Katsini, M. Mamalakis and Dr T. Chrysikos) placed in the top-3 and qualified for the National Finals. The primary goal of our team is to improve human motion and athletic performance via personalized recommendations.

Falling Walls Lab Greece (2016) - 1st place

Our team (Dr. T. Chrysikos, I. Zisi, Prof. S. Kotsopoulos, C. Katsini, and G. Raptis) won the 1st prize in the Falling Walls Lab Greece in 2016 and qualified for the International Falling Walls Lab Final in Berlin (Germany). Our project titled 'Breaking the Wall of Pancreas E-Health Diagnostics'.

Falling Walls Lab Greece (2016) - 2nd place

Our team (N. Michalopoulos, G. Raptis, C. Katsini, and Dr. T. Chrysikos) won the 2nd prize in the Falling Walls Lab Greece in 2016 and qualified for the International Falling Walls Lab Final in Berlin (Germany). Our project titled 'Breaking the Wall of Kinetic Dysfunction'.

ICCA 2023 - Best presentation award

Our paper 'Towards Evaluating Image Recommendations in Digital News and Media Ecosystem' received the best presentation award in IEEE ICCA 2023. Check the paper here.

CHI '20 - Honorable mention

Our paper 'The Role of Eye Gaze in Security and Privacy Applications: Survey and Future HCI Research Directions' received honorable mention in ACM CHI 2020. Check the paper here.

UMUAI James Chen Award 2019

Our paper 'A cognition-centered personalization-framework for cultural-heritage content' received the UMUAI James Chen Award for the best paper of 2019. Check the paper here.

Special recognitions for SIGCHI outstanding reviews

I have received recognition for outstanding reviews for the following ACM SIGCHI conferences:

• 1 recognition for CHI 2024 papers
• 1 recognition for CHI 2023 late-breaking works
• 3 recognitions for CHI 2023 papers
• 3 recognitions for CHI 2022 papers
• 3 recognitions for CHI 2020 papers
• 1 recognition for CHI PLAY 2019 papers
• 1 recognition for CHI 2019 papers

Gary Marsden Travel Award (2021)

I was awarded with Gary Marsden Travel Award to attend CHI 2021 (Virtual Event, originally Yokohama, Japan) and present our work titled 'Better, Funner, Stronger: A Gameful Approach to Nudge People into Making Less Predictable Graphical Password Choices'.

UMAP Student Travel Award (2017)

I was awarded with UMAP Student Travel Award to attend UMAP 2017 (Bratislava, Slovakia) and present our work titled 'Using Eye Gaze Data and Visual Activities to Infer Human Cognitive Factors: Method and Feasibility Studies'.

SIGCHI Student Travel Grant (2016)

I was awarded with SIGCHI Student Travel Grant (SSTG) to attend CHI PLAY 2016 (Austin TX, USA) and present our work titled 'Do Field Dependence-Independence Differences of Game Players Affect Performance and Behaviour in Cultural Heritage Games?'.