Activities

Reviewing

I review for CHI, CSCW, UbiComp, IEEE Pervasive, IEEE SocialCom, ACM SAC, OzCHI, Interacting with Computers, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Computing, The Computer Journal, IEEE Infocom, Geographical Analysis, Computers Environment and Urban Systems, International Journal of Arts and Technology, International Journal of Health Geographics, Journal of Systems and Software, Transportation Research Part C, Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction.

Editorials & Organisation

  • I edited a Special issue of Interacting with Computers: The social implications of emerging technologies. May 2005, 17(4). [html]
  • I organised UbiSoc 2005: First international workshop on the social implications of ubiquitous computing. Held on April 4 at CHI 2005, Portland, US. [html]
  • I organised the first workshop on Social Networks and Ubiquitous Computing at the NetSci 2008 conference. Held on June 23rd 2008 at Norwich, UK. [html]
  • TEI 2011 Demo chair [html]
  • Ubicomp 2010 Workshop chair [html]

Technical Programme Committees

  • ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2007, track on Ubiquitous Computing. [html]
  • W3C workshop on the Future of Social Networking, 2008 [html]
  • International Workshop on Social Interaction and Mundane Technologies, 2008. [html]
  • HotPlanet 2009 - the 1st ACM International Workshop on Hot Topics of Planet-scale Mobility Measurements. [html]
  • U-NET'09 - Workshop on User-provided Networking, 2009 [html]
  • WEIA’09 - Workshop on Emerging Internet Applications, 2009 [html]
  • FSKD'10 - International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery [html]
  • PerCom'10 work in progress [html]
  • HotPlanet 2010 - the 2nd ACM International Workshop on Hot Topics of Planet-scale Mobility Measurements. [html]
  • U-NET'10 - Workshop on User-provided Networking, 2010
  • SocialCom 2010 [html]
  • EC-2010 - the 1st International Workshop on Enterprise Crowdsourcing [html]
  • C&T 2010 - International Conference on Communities & Technologies [html]
  • Digital Cities 7 (with Communities & Technologies 2010), Brisbane, Australia.

Outreach

Media Mentions

  • Scientific American: Manipulation of the Crowd: How Trustworthy Are Online Ratings? (1/7/2010) [html]
  • MIT Technology Review: Can You Trust Crowd Wisdom? (16/9/2009) [html]
  • SIC: Sinais project: Sensors in public transport anticipate users' needs (8/9/2009) [video]
  • Eleftherotipia: The cityware project (In Greek) (26/10/2008) [html1 html2 pdf]
  • The Guardian: Bluetooth is watching (21/7/2008) [html]
  • New Scientist: Bluetooth provides spies with a window into your life (30/4/2008) [html]
  • Slashdot: Bluetooth Surveillance Tested In the UK (22/4/2008) [html]
  • New Scientist: Towards the Facebook phone (8/2/2008) [html]
  • BBC Radio: Interview on Drivetime show (20/8/2007)
  • BBC News: Bluetooth helps Facebook friends (16/08/2007) [html]
  • BBC News: Futuristic phones tested in city (22/2/2006) [html]
  • Unwired magazine: Cityware for Facebook (09/2007)
  • The Register: Boffins wrestle with future in Roman Bath (20/2/2006) [html]
  • TVNZ: Historic city hosts modern experiment (21/2/2006) [html]

Talks

  • Privacy: The final frontier. UbiOulu Forum, University of Oulu, 2010. [pdf].
  • Making friends in life and online: Equivalence, micro-correlation and value in spatial and transpatial social networks (given at SCA/SocialCom 2010,Minneapolis) [pdf].
  • Urban Social Networks: Sensing, Modelling and Visualising Urban Mobility and Copresence Networks (given at the 2nd Open Ubiquitous City Seminar, Oulu, 2010) [pdf].
  • Brief Encounters: Sensing, Modeling and Visualizing Urban Mobility and Copresence Networks (given at CHI 2010, Atlanta) [pdf].
  • Novel sensing techniques for urban transport (given at University of Oulu, 2009) [pdf].
  • Urban encounters of the 3rd type (keynote at the 2009 ICA workshop on Geospatial Analysis and Modeling, Gavle, Sweden) [pdf].
  • Designing trustworthy situated services (given at CHI 2009, Boston) [pdf].
  • Human-Computer Interaction presentation at the Living Science Expo (given at FIL, Lisbon, 2008) [pdf]
  • Cityware: Interplay between physical and digital space (given at The Bartlett, UCL, 2008) [pdf]
  • Understanding spatial and transpatial networks (given at Cambridge University, 2008) [pdf]
  • Urban deployment of Bluetooth (given at Carnegie Mellon University, 2007) [pdf]
  • City-ware: space, technologies & people (given at The Bartlett, UCL, 2007) [pdf]
  • Pervasive Computing 1.0 (given at Dorkbot & Spike Media, Bristol, 2007) [pdf]
  • Brief encounter networks (given at the University of Oxford, 2007) [pdf]
  • Pervasive Computing 1.0 (given at the AgentCities workshop, Bath, 2007) [pdf]
  • Quantifying the effect of space on encounter (given at the Space Syntax Symposium, Istanbul, 2007) [pdf]
  • Experiences with urban deployment of Bluetooth (given at Computer Science, UCL, 2007) [pdf]
  • Understanding mobility and encounter in the digital landscape (given at EPSRC WINES workshop, Warwick University, 2007) [pdf]
  • Experiences with urban deployment of Bluetooth (given at University of California, San Diego, 2007) [pdf]
  • NFC: Issues, lessons and future research (given at Percom, New York, 2007) [pdf]
  • City-ware: space, technologies & people (given at The Bartlett, UCL, 2006) [pdf]
  • Cityware and Bluetooth tracking (given at Cambridge University, 2006) [pdf]
  • Instrumenting the city (given at Ubicomp, California, 2006) [pdf]
  • Cityware: Urban design and pervasive systems (given at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, 2006) [pdf]
  • Building common ground by sharing mobile device context (given at LoCA, IBM Dublin, 2006) [pdf]
  • A design framework for pervasive systems (given at Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bristol, 2006) [pdf]
  • Research overview of Bluetooth in urban space (given at The Bartlett, UCL, 2006) [pdf]
  • The Cityware Project: Pervasive computing and urban space (given at the University of Bath, 2005) [pdf]
  • Pervasive computing: Interaction and design (given at Lancaster University, 2005) [pdf]
  • Pervasive computing: Interaction and design (given at Athens University of Economics and Business, 2005) [pdf]
  • Pervasive computing in emergency situations (given at HICSS 04, Hawaii) [pdf]
  • A novel approach for identification and authentication of users in a pervasive environment (given at UkUbinet, Cambridge University, 2004) [pdf]
  • Designing pervasive systems for society (given at Pervasive, Vienna, 2004) [pdf]
  • A directional stroke recognition technique (given at HCI, Bath, 2003) [ppt]
  • Introducing pervasive systems to society (given at Imperial College, UkUbinet 2003) [pdf]
  • Public spaces and pervasive computing (given at the University of Bath, 2002) [ppt]

Publications

Journals

  • Kostakos, V. (2010). The challenges and opportunities of designing pervasive systems for deep-space colonies. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, online first (DOI 10.1007/s00779-010-0317-5). [pdf]
  • Kostakos, V., O'Neill, E., Penn, A., Roussos, G., Papadongonas, D. (2010). Brief encounters: sensing, modelling and visualizing urban mobility and copresence networks. ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction, 17(1):1-38. [pdf]
  • Kostakos, V. (2009). Temporal graphs. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 388(6):1007-1023. [pdf]
  • Roussos, G. and Kostakos, V. (2009). RFID in Pervasive Computing: State-of-the-art and Outlook. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 5:110-131. [pdf]
  • Kostakos, V., Nicolai, T., Yoneki, E., O’Neill, E., Kenn, H. and Crowcroft, J. (2009). Understanding and measuring the urban pervasive infrastructure. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Springer, 13(5):355-364. [pdf]
  • Kostakos, V., O'Neill, E. and Penn, A. (2006). Architectural Space, Interaction Space and Information Spheres: Designing Urban Pervasive Systems. IEEE Computer, 39(9):52-59. [pdf]
  • O'Neill, E., Kaenampornpan, M., Kostakos, V., Warr, A. and Woodgate, D. (2005). Can we do without GUIs? Gesture and speech interaction with a patient information system. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Springer, 10(5):269-283. [pdf]
  • Kostakos, V., O'Neill, E., Little, L., Sillence, E. (2005). The social implications of emerging technologies. Interacting with Computers, 17(5):475-483. [pdf]

Conference proceedings

  • Kostakos, V., Camacho, T. and Mantero, C. (2010). Wireless detection of end-to-end passenger trips on public transport buses. International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Funchal, Portugal. [pdf]
  • Camacho, T., Kostakos, V., and Mantero, C. (2010). A Wireless Infrastructure for Delivering Contextual Services and Studying Transport Behavior. In proceedings of International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Funchal, Portugal. [pdf]
  • Kostakos, V. and Venkatanathan, J. (2010). Making friends in life and online: Equivalence, micro-correlation and value in spatial and transpatial social networks. In proceedings of Symposium on Social Computing Applications (with IEEE SocialCom), Minneapolis, USA. [pdf]
  • Wagner, D., Lopez, M., Doria, A., Pavlyshak, I., Kostakos, V., Oakley, I., Spiliotopoulos, T. (2010). Hide And Seek: Location Sharing Practices With Social Media. In proceedings of MobileHCI conference, Lisbon, Portugal. [pdf]
  • Kostakos, V. and Oakley, I. (2009). Designing Trustworthy Situated Services: an Implicit and Explicit Assessment of Locative Images’ Effect on Trust. In proceedings of Conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI 2009), Boston, USA, pp. 329-332. [pdf]
  • Kostakos, V. (2009). Is the crowd's wisdom biased? A quantitative analysis of three online communities. In proceedings of International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (with IEEE SocialCom), August 29-31, Vancouver, Canada, 4:251-255. [pdf] [update]
  • van Leeuwen, J.P., Oakley, I., Nunes, N.J., Nisi, V., and Kostakos, V. (2009). Sensory Social Networks to Motivate Sustainable Behaviour. In proceedings of the 12th International EuropIA Conference. Paris, France, March 18-20, pp. 45-55. [pdf]
  • O'Neill, E. and Kostakos, V. (2008). Measuring urban mobility and encounter. In proceedings of Measuring Behavior 2008, Maastricht, The Netherlands, August 26-29, pp. 66-67. [pdf]
  • Kindberg, T., O’Neill, E., Bevan, C., Kostakos, V., Stanton Fraser, D.S., Jay, T. (2008). Measuring Trust in Wi-Fi Hotspots. In proceedings of the conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI 2008), Florence, Italy, pp. 173-182. [pdf]
  • da Silva, M.L., Kostakos, V. and Matsumoto, M. (2008). Improving emergency response to mass casualty incidents. Percom 2008, 17-21 March, Hong Kong, pp. 256-259. [pdf]
  • da Silva, M.L., Kostakos, V. and Matsumoto, M. (2007). Study on the Use of Pervasive Technology to Improve the Emergency Response to Mass Casualty Incidents.GITS GITI Forum, October 10, Tokyo, Japan. [pdf]
  • Kostakos, V. and O’Neill, E. (2007). Quantifying the effects of space on encounter. In proceedings of Space Syntax Symposium 2007, Istanbul, pp. 9701-9709. [pdf]
  • O'Neill, E., Kostakos, V., Kindberg, T., Fatah gen. Schiek, A., Penn, A., Stanton Fraser, D. and Jones, T. (2006). Instrumenting the city: developing methods for observing and understanding the digital cityscape. In proceedings of UbiComp 2006, Lecture notes in Computer Science 4206, Springer, pp. 315-332. [pdf]
  • Fatah gen. Schieck, A., Penn, A., Kostakos, V., O'Neill, E., Kindberg, T., Stanton Fraser, D., Jones, T. (2006). Design tools for pervasive computing environments. In proceedings of Design and Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning (DDSS 2006), 2-7 July 2006, Springer Netherlands, pp. 467-486. [pdf]
  • Kostakos, V., O'Neill, E., Shahi, A. (2006). Building Common Ground for Face to Face Interactions by Sharing Mobile Device Context. In proceedings of the workshop on Location and Context Awareness (LOCA 2006), Dublin, Ireland. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3987, Springer, pp. 222-238. [pdf]
  • O'Neill, E., Woodgate, D., and Kostakos, V. (2004). Easing the wait in the Emergency Room: building a theory of public information systems. In proceedings of the ACM Desiging Interactive Systems 2004 (DIS 2004), Boston, MA., August 2004, pp. 17-25. [pdf]
  • Kostakos, V. and O'Neill, E. (2004). Pervasive Computing in Emergency Situations. In proceedings of The Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2004), January 5-8, 2004, Computer Society Press, 2004. [pdf]
  • Kostakos, V. and O'Neill, E. (2003). A directional Stroke Recognition Technique for Mobile Interaction in a Pervasive Computing World. In People and Computers XVII, proceedings of HCI 2003: Designing for Society. Bath, UK: Springer, pp. 197-206. [pdf]

Book chapters

  • Kostakos, V. (2010). Space Syntax and pervasive systems. In B. Jiang and X. A. Yao (Eds.), Geospatial Analysis and Modeling of Urban Structure and Dynamics (pp. 31-52). Springer, New York. [pdf]
  • Fatah gen. Schieck, A., Kostakos, V., Penn, A. (2009). Exploring the Digital Encounters in the Public Arena. In K. Willis, G. Roussos, K. Chorianopoulos, M. Struppek (Eds.), Shared Encounters (pp. 179-198), Springer, Germany. [pdf]
  • Kostakos, V. and O’Neill E. (2008). Cityware: Urban Computing to Bridge Online and Real-world Social Networks. In M. Foth (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City (pp. 195-204). Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, IGI Global. [pdf]
  • Kostakos, V. and O'Neill, E. (2006). Interacting with mobile and pervasive systems. In I. K. Ibrahim (Ed.), Handbook of research on mobile multimedia (pp. 71-85). Hershey: Idea Group Inc, ISBN 1591408660. [pdf]

Workshops and posters

  • Smus, B. and Kostakos, V. (2010). Running Gestures: Hands-free Interaction During Physical Activity. Adjunct proceedings of Ubicomp 2010, Copehnagen, Denmark. [pdf]
  • Ferreira, D., Kostakos, V., Rogstadius, J. and Venkatanathan, J. (2010). Design, Prototyping and Evaluation of Ambient Media: Lessons Learned from the Ambient Notifier. Adjunct proceedings of MobileHCI, International Workshop on Tool-Support for Mobile and Pervasive Application Development (TSMPAD 2010), September 7-10, Lisbon, Portugal. [pdf]
  • Catano, N., Kostakos, V., Oakley, I. (2009). Poporo: A Formal Framework for Social Networking. 3rd International Workshop on Formal Methods for Interactive Systems (FMIS). [pdf]
  • Kostakos, V. and O’Neill, E. (2008). Human-in-the-loop: rethinking security in mobile and pervasive systems.In extended abstracts of the conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI 2008), Florence, Italy, pp. 3075-3080. [pdf]
  • Kostakos, V. and O’Neill, E. (2008). Urban encounters: the game of real life.In extended abstracts of the conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI 2008), Florence, Italy, pp. 3381-3386. [pdf]
  • Kostakos, V., O’Neill, E. and Jones, S. (2008). Social Networking 2.0. In extended abstracts of the conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI 2008), Florence, Italy, pp. 3555-3560. [pdf]
  • Kostakos, V. and O’Neill, E. (2008). Capturing and visualising Bluetooth encounters. In adjunct proceedings of the conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI 2008), workshop on Social Data Analysis, Florence, Italy. [pdf]
  • Fatah gen Schiek, A. and Kostakos, V. (2007). Exploring digital encounters in the city.In adjunct proceedings of the conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI 2007), workshop on Shared Encounters, San Hose, CA, April 29. [pdf]
  • Kostakos, V. and O’Neill, E. (2007). NFC on mobile phones: issues, lessons and future research.In adjunct proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (Percom 2007), March 19-23, Pervasive RFID/NFC Technology and Applications Workshop (Pertec 2007). White Plains, NY, pp. 367-370. [pdf]
  • Coroama, V., Kostakos, V., Magerkurth, C. and de Vallejo, I.L. (2005). UbiSoc 2005: first international workshop on social implications of ubiquitous computing. In adjunct proceedings of the conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI 2005), ACM Press, pp. 2111-2112. [pdf]
  • Kostakos, V. and O'Neill, E. (2005). A space oriented approach to designing pervasive systems. In proceedings of the 3rd Uk-UbiNet Workshop, 9-11 February 2005, University of Bath, UK. [pdf]
  • Kaenampornpan, M., O'Neill, E., Kostakos, V. and Warr, A. (2004). Classifying Context Classifications: an Activity Theory Perspective. In proceedings of the 2nd UK-UbiNet Workshop, 5-7th May 2004, University of Cambridge, UK. [pdf]
  • Garzonis, S., O'Neill, E., Kostakos, V., Kaenampornpan, M., and Warr, A. (2004). A Novel Approach for Identification and Authentication of Users in a Pervasive Environment. In proceedings of the 2nd UK-UbiNet Workshop, 5-7th May 2004, University of Cambridge, UK. [pdf]
  • Kostakos, V. and O'Neill, E. (2004). Designing Pervasive Systems for Society. In adjunct proceedings of the Second International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2004), April 18-23, First International Workshop on Sustainable Pervasive Computing. Vienna, Austria. [pdf]
  • Kostakos, V. and O'Neill, E. (2004). Extending Traditional Design approaches for Pervasive Computing. In adjunct proceedings of PREP2004, 5-7th April, University of Hertfordshire, UK. [pdf]
  • Kostakos, V. and O'Neill, E. (2003). Introducing Pervasive Computing to Society. In proceedings of the 1st UK-UbiNet Workshop, 25-26th September 2003, Imperial College, London, UK. [pdf]

Others

  • Kostakos, V. (2009). An empirical study of spatial and transpatial social networks using Bluetooth and Facebook. arXiv:0910.4292. [pdf]
  • Kostakos, V. (2009). Is the crowd's wisdom biased? A quantitative assessment of three online communities. arXiv:0909.0237. [pdf]
  • Kostakos, V. (2008). Bluetooth monitoring can bring many benefits.The Guardian, July 21st, 2008. [html]
  • Kostakos, V. (2008). Towards sustainable transport: wireless detection of passenger trips on public transport buses. arXiv:0806.0874. [pdf]
  • Kostakos, V. and O’Neill, E. (2008). Size matters: performance declines if your pixels are too big or too small. arXiv:0804.3103. [pdf]
  • Kostakos, V. (2008). The privacy implications of Bluetooth. arXiv:0804.3752. [pdf]
  • Kostakos, V. and Kostakos, P. (2008). Intelligence gathering by capturing the social processes within prisons. arXiv:0804.3064. [pdf]
  • Kostakos, V. and Kostakos, P. (2007). Social Network Analysis: Real world methodological challenges. ESRC Standing Group on Organised Crime Newsletter, 6(1):7-9. [pdf]
  • Kostakos, V., O’Neill, E., Penn, A. (2007). Brief encounter networks. arXiv:0709.0223. [pdf]
  • Kostakos, V. (2007). Prepare for Ubicomp’s judgement day. Communications of the ACM, 50(2):13. [pdf]
  • Kostakos, P. and Kostakos, V. (2006). Criminal group behaviour and operational environments. ESRC Standing Group on Organised Crime Newsletter, 5(2):6-7. [pdf]
  • Kostakos, V. (2005). A design framework for pervasive computing systems. PhD Thesis, University of Bath, UK. Technical Report CSBU2005-02, ISSN 1740-9497. [pdf]