Vassilis Kostakos

Departamento de Matemática e Engenharias
Universidade da Madeira

Campus Universitário da Penteada
9000-390 Funchal
Portugal

Telefone: +351 291705264
Fax: +351 291705199
Email: vk(at)uma.pt
www: http://dme.uma.pt/people/faculty/vassilis.kostakos/
Office: Room 2.91

Actividade Profissional

  • Professor Auxiliar, Universidade da Madeira, desde 2007
  • Member of BCS
  • Member of ACM

Habilitações Académicas

  • PhD Computer Science, University of Bath, 2004
  • BSc Computer Science (1st class), University of Bath, 2001

Áreas de Investigação

  • Mobile and pervasive computing, interaction design, complex networks

Publicações

  • da Silva, M.L., Kostakos, V. and Matsumoto, M. (In press).  Improving emergency response to mass casualty incidents. Percom 2008, 17-21 March, Hong Kong.
  • Roussos, G. and Kostakos, V.  (In press). RFID in Pervasive Computing: State-of-the-art and Outlook.  Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Elsevier.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Kostakos, V., O’Neill, E., Penn, A. (2007). Brief encounter networks. arXiv:0709.0223v1
  • Kostakos, V. (2007). Prepare for Ubicomp’s judgement day. Communications of the ACM, 50(2):13. [txt]
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Kostakos, P. and Kostakos, V. (2006). Criminal group behaviour and operational environments. ESRC Standing Group on Organised Crime Newsletter, 5(2):6-7.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Kostakos, V., O'Neill, E., Little, L., Sillence, E. (2005). The social implications of emerging technologies. Interacting with 
    Computers, 17(5):475-483.
  • 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.
  • Kostakos, V. (2005). A design framework for pervasive computing systems. PhD Thesis, University of Bath, UK. Technical Report CSBU2005-02, ISSN 1740-9497.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 Collene, London, UK.
  • 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.