Monday 29th August 11.03 Room 454 IDI
Design and Evaluation of an Open-Source Cloud-based Application for Understanding the meaning of Video Lectures
Dr. Konstantinos Chorianopoulos
The Web has become an important medium for sharing and watching university lectures and how-to videos, but it has been difficult to search and retrieve the meaning of those videos. In this talk, we present a system that facilitates the analysis of user activity within a web video. In contrast to previous stand-alone implementations, the SocialSkip system employs a web-video player and cloud-based resources.
The system was validated with two empirical studies, which provided several hundreds of user interactions with five types of web video (sports, comedy, lecture, documentary, how-to). In practice, this system enhances the usefulness of e-learning systems that are based on Web video.
Konstantinos Chorianopoulos is Lecturer and Marie Curie Fellow in the Department of Informatics at the Ionian University, Corfu, Greece. He holds an MEng (Electronics and Computer Engineering, 1999) an MSc (Marketing and Communication, 2001), and a Ph.D. (Human-Computer Interaction, 2004). During his studies and research, he has been affiliated with engineering, business, and applied arts university departments. Since 1997, he has worked in five academic research labs (Greece, UK, Germany), which specialize in the areas of multimedia, e-commerce, intelligent systems, learning, and interaction design. He has participated in six EC-funded (FP5, FP6, FP7) research projects in the field of human-computer interaction for information, communication and entertainment applications in TV, mobile, and ubiquitous computing.
In 2002, he founded UITV.INFO, which is a newsletter (currently a
discussion-group) and web portal for interactive television research resources (papers, theses), news and events. He is the main author of more than fifty papers and he has lectured internationally (conferences, tutorials, seminars, guest lectures) on several aspects (design, engineering, science, art) of informatics. He is serving on the steering committee of the European Interactive TV organization and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting and Entertainment Computing.
He stays at NTNU as a guest researcher working on the Fabula and ArTe project.
Coffee and waffel will be served!
