Dimitri Darzentas
dimitri darzentas

Dr Dimitri Darzentas

Lecturer

 0131 455 4799

  D.Darzentas@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Dr Dimitrios Darzentas is a lecturer in the School of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment (SCEBE) at 麻豆社区 and formerly a multidisciplinary Research Fellow at the Mixed Reality Lab of the University of Nottingham.
His work is situated at an intersection between Human-Computer Interaction and Design with a broad interdisciplinary scope that includes and combines Mixed Reality Technologies, Experience Design, Meaningful Digital Interactions, MXR Storytelling and Cultural Heritage, Physical/Digital Service & Interaction Design, Wellbeing, Technology Sustainability, Political Engagement, Equitable Technology Access, and harnessing Data (AI)-Supported Design & Creativity.
His diverse work is underpinned by a longitudinal research focus on the way meaningfulness and values motivate users and audiences to engage with the experiences, products and services

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Conference Organising Activity

  • Programme Committe ACM CHIGREECE 2025

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Fellow (FHEA)

 

Invited Speaker

  • Panel Chair - Historical Games Network, Technology Theme

 

Media Activity

  • Video, Panel on Technology, Historical Games Network

 

Public/Community Engagement

  • STEM Ambassador

 

Reviewing

  • Reviewer for Springer Nature
  • Reviewer for Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Springer Nature
  • Reviewer for Digital applications in archaeology and cultural heritage - Elsevier
  • Reviewer for International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction - Taylor & Fancis
  • Reviewer for ACM Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies - IMWUT
  • Reviewer for Computers in human behavior Journal - Elsevier
  • Reviewer for Digital Creativity Journal - Taylor & Francis
  • Reviewer for Interacting with Computers Journal - Oxford Press
  • Reviewer for ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality - ISMAR
  • Reviewer for ACM Designing Interactive Systems - DIS
  • Reviewer for ACM Creativity & Cognition
  • Reviewer for ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI

 

Visiting Positions

  • Associate Research Fellow - Mixed Reality Lab - University of Nottingham

 

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Thresholds: Embedding Virtual Reality in the Museum

Journal Article
Tennent, P., Martindale, S., Benford, S., Darzentas, D., Brundell, P., & Collishaw, M. (2020)
Thresholds: Embedding Virtual Reality in the Museum. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 13(2), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.1145/3369394
We examine the experience of Thresholds, a virtual reality (VR) recreation of the world's first photographic exhibition, which has toured to multiple museums. Following the me...

Demo hour

Journal Article
Mann, D., Benford, S., Hazzard, A., Chamberlain, A., Darzentas, D., Avila, J. P. M., 鈥tte, L. (2019)
Demo hour. Interactions, 26(4), 8-11. https://doi.org/10.1145/3338074
Abstract not available.

MeMa: Designing the Memory Machine

Conference Proceeding
Price, D., Jacobs, R., Darzentas, D., Perez Vallejos, E., Chadborn, N., Martindale, S., & Urquhart, L. (2019)
MeMa: Designing the Memory Machine. In DIS '19 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019 Companion (271-276). https://doi.org/10.1145/3301019.3323882
The Memory Machine is an ambitious project that aims to develop a device to capture people's memories to create a blend of personal and factual data that builds identities, an...

Card Mapper: Enabling Data-Driven Reflections on Ideation Cards

Conference Proceeding
Darzentas, D., Velt, R., Wetzel, R., Craigon, P. J., Wagner, H. G., Urquhart, L. D., & Benford, S. (2019)
Card Mapper: Enabling Data-Driven Reflections on Ideation Cards. In CHI '19: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300801
We explore how usage data captured from ideation cards can enable reflection on design. We deployed a deck of ideation cards on a Masters level module over two years, developi...

Object-focused mixed reality storytelling: technology-driven content creation and dissemination for engaging user experiences

Conference Proceeding
Darzentas, D., Flintham, M., & Benford, S. (2018)
Object-focused mixed reality storytelling: technology-driven content creation and dissemination for engaging user experiences. In PCI '18: Proceedings of the 22nd Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics (278-281). https://doi.org/10.1145/3291533.3291588
In this paper we present the creation and deployment of a concerted set of Mixed Reality Technologies designed for creating engaging public experiences and enhanced storytelli...

Harnessing the digital records of everyday things

Conference Proceeding
Darzentas, D. P., Hazzard, A., Brown, M. J. I., Flintham, M., & Benford, S. (2016)
Harnessing the digital records of everyday things.
We address how, framed by the Internet of Things, digitally-enabled physical objects may acquire rich digital records throughout their lifetimes, and how these might enhance t...

Accountable Artefacts: The Case of the Carolan Guitar

Conference Proceeding
Benford, S., Hazzard, A., Chamberlain, A., Glover, K., Greenhalgh, C., Xu, L., 鈥arzentas, D. (2016)
Accountable Artefacts: The Case of the Carolan Guitar. In CHI '16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1163-1175). https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858306
We explore how physical artefacts can be connected to digital records of where they have been, who they have encountered and what has happened to them, and how this can enhanc...

Experiencing the Carolan Guitar

Conference Proceeding
Benford, S., Hazzard, A., Chamberlain, A., Glover, K., Greenhalgh, C., Xu, L., 鈥arzentas, D. (2016)
Experiencing the Carolan Guitar. In CHI EA '16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (3651-3654). https://doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2890264
Carolan is an acoustic guitar that has been decorated with interactive patterns that can be scanned using a mobile camera so as to connect to a digital record of how the instr...

Interdisciplinary Reflections on Games and Human Values

Conference Proceeding
Darzentas, D. P., & Urquhart, L. (2015)
Interdisciplinary Reflections on Games and Human Values. In CHI PLAY '15: Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (805-810). https://doi.org/10.1145/2793107.2810259
We explore the interaction between digital games and human values. HCI as a field is increasingly focused on the importance of engaging with broader discussions around human v...

The Data Driven Lives of Wargaming Miniatures

Conference Proceeding
Darzentas, D. P., Brown, M. A., Flintham, M., & Benford, S. (2015)
The Data Driven Lives of Wargaming Miniatures. In CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2427-2436). https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702377
We present an ethnographic study of the practice of miniature wargaming in order to shed light onto the complex lives of physical things and the ways in which they acquire dat...

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