@conference {724,
	title = {TripMentor: Challenges and prospects for culture and tourism in the Attica region (Greek title: {\textquotedblleft}TripMentor: προκλήσεις και προοπτικές για τον πολιτισμό και τον τουρισμό στην περιφέρεια Αττικής{\textquotedblleft})},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3nd Pan-Hellenic Conference on Digital Cultural Heritage-EuroMed 2019},
	year = {2019},
	abstract = {This paper presents the TripMentor project which is related to the tourism and civilization in the region of Attica. The main goal of the project is the presentation, in two languages, of the rich cultural content of the region to the tourists, through an Internet-based environment and through mobile applications. The goal of the project is to guide the visitors through many possible alternative routes, which include points of interest, as well as enterprises with tourism-related offers, while at the same time attempts to combine these routes with cultural points of interest. The project interrelates information, venues and visitor profiles with an automated way, striving to offer a unique personalized experience, tailored to the needs and preferences of each user. The project challenges are mainly technical, since through the project procedures (a) information regarding the points of interest should be gathered in an automated fashion (b) information about events related to points of interest must be taken into account and (v) data related to users, and especially the user profiles must be discovered and exploited so that the available information can be synthesized into a unique experience. In this context, we present the project application domain and the related challenges.},
	keywords = {cultural information, culture, geospatial data, Social Networks, tourism, visitor profile},
	author = {Costas Vassilakis and Vassilis Poulopoulos and Manolis Wallace and Angeliki Antoniou and George Lepouras}
}
@conference {713,
	title = {TripMentor Project: scope and challenges},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Cultural Informatics, co-located with the 14th International Workshop On Semantic And Social Media Adaptation And Personalization (SMAP 2019)},
	year = {2019},
	abstract = {We present Tripmentor, a novel project, that is related to tourism in the region of Attica. The project has as main scope to provide rich media content to tourists through a web and mobile environment in two languages trying to guide them through alternative routes that include places of interest as well as organizations with offers to tourists. The project interconnects people with places and events in an automated manner trying to personalize on each tourist{\textquoteright}s personality. The challenges of the project are mainly technological as through the processes of the project a) automated information about venues must be collected, b) information about events related to venues must be fetched and finally c) data related to system users and mainly their profile should be discovered and created in order to offer a unique experience to each of them. We present the scope of the project as well as the challenges of its implementation.},
	keywords = {cultural related information, geodata, personalization, social media, tourism, tripmentor},
	url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2412/paper6.pdf},
	author = {Costas Vassilakis and Vassilis Poulopoulos and Manolis Wallace and Angeliki Antoniou and George Lepouras},
	editor = {Angeliki Antoniou and Manolis Wallace}
}
@conference {lep14a,
	title = {Towards a Learning Analytics Platform for Supporting the Educational Process},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems \& Application (IISA2014)},
	year = {2014},
	month = {7},
	abstract = {In this paper, we present the vision of an open source learning analytics platform, able to harvest data from different sources, including e-learning platforms and environments, registrar{\textquoteright}s information systems, alumni systems, etc., so as to provide all stakeholders with the necessary functionality to make decisions on the learning process. The platform{\textquoteright}s architecture is modular, allowing the introduction of new functionality or connection to new systems to collect needed data. All data can be analyzed and presented though interactive visualizations to find correlations between metrics, to make predictions for students or student groups, to identify best practices for instructors and let them explore {\textquoteright}what-if{\textquoteright} scenarios, to offer students personalized recommendations and personalized detailed feedback, etc. Our objective is to inform and empower all stakeholders to improve the learning experience.},
	doi = {10.1109/IISA.2014.6878750},
	url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6878750/},
	author = {Giorgos Lepouras and Akrivi Katifori and Costas Vassilakis and Angela Antoniou and Nikos Platis}
}
@article {antoniou11,
	title = {Towards a methodological framework for the cognitive-behavioural evaluation of educational e-games},
	journal = {International Journal of Learning Technology},
	volume = {6},
	number = {3},
	year = {2011},
	pages = {263{\textendash}287},
	abstract = {The proposed methodological framework reviews and uses knowledge from the field of cognitive psychology in order to evaluate aspects of educational games. In particular, we concentrate on two components of human cognition that play a central role to learning, namely memory and motivation. After having reviewed theories in the field, we created a questionnaire in order to evaluate educational games. The questionnaire incorporates different experimental findings of cognitive psychology. Especially, we have applied Maslow{\textquoteright}s motivation theory, Behavioural findings on reinforcement, experimental findings about attention and memory. We present the results obtained from the evaluation of two games, PAC-MAN and Mega Jump. The results confirmed the user ratings of the two games, showing that there seem to be cognitive reasons for the success/failure of different games. Finally, lists of guidelines for developers and instructors are included.},
	doi = {10.1504/11.43580},
	author = {Angela Antoniou and Dimitris Diakakis and Giorgos Lepouras and Costas Vassilakis}
}
