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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HiStory: a hierarchical storyboard interface design for video browsing on mobile devices

Presentation / Conference Contribution
H眉rst, W., & Darzentas, D. (2012, December)
HiStory: a hierarchical storyboard interface design for video browsing on mobile devices. Presented at MUM '12: 11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, Ulm, Germany
This paper presents an interactive thumbnail-based video browser for mobile devices such as smartphones featuring a touch screen. Developed as part of on-going research and su...

Quantity versus quality: the role of layout and interaction complexity in thumbnail-based video retrieval interfaces

Presentation / Conference Contribution
H眉rst, W., & Darzentas, D. (2012, June)
Quantity versus quality: the role of layout and interaction complexity in thumbnail-based video retrieval interfaces. Presented at ICMR '12: International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, Hong Kong
In this paper we present our findings from an experiment designed to test the effectiveness of complex, thumbnail based layouts and the interaction methods required, in video ...

Fast fuzzy vector quantization

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tsekouras, G. E., Darzentas, D., Drakoulaki, I., & Niros, A. D. (2010, July)
Fast fuzzy vector quantization. Presented at 2010 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE), Barcelona, Spain
In this paper we introduce a novel fuzzy vector quantization algorithm that tries to solve certain problems related to the implementation of fuzzy cluster analysis in vector q...

HUDS and Senses: Leveraging Game Design to Enhance Situational Awareness for Telepresence Robot Operation

Conference Proceeding
Darzentas, D., Zeller, F., & Robson, E. HUDS and Senses: Leveraging Game Design to Enhance Situational Awareness for Telepresence Robot Operation. In MobileHCI '23 Companion: Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction. https://doi.org/10.1145/3565066

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Darzentas, D., Zeller, F., & Robson, E. HUDS and Senses: Leveraging Game Design to Enhance Situational Awareness for Telepresence Robot Operation. In MobileHCI '23 Companion: Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction. https://doi.org/10.1145/3565066
Remotely operated telepresence robots are increasing in prevalence across several domains ranging from highly critical and difficult tasks in challenging and contested spaces,...

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