Short Bio: Konstantinos Chorianopoulos 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 universities. Since 1997, he has worked in four academic research labs (Greece, UK, Germany), which specialize in the areas of multimedia, e-commerce, intelligent systems and interaction design. He has participated in many EC-funded research projects in the field of human-computer interaction for information, communication and entertainment applications in TV, mobile, and situated computing devices. In 2002, he founded UITV.INFO, which is a newsletter and web portal for interactive television research resources (papers, theses), news and events. He is the main author of more than ten journal papers and he has lectured internationally (conferences, tutorials, seminars, guest lectures) on several aspects (design, engineering, evaluation, management) of interactive TV. He is serving on the steering committee of the European Interactive TV organization and on the editorial boards of ACM Computers in Entertainment and of the Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting.
Research: Most designers with an information technology (IT) background think about interactive television in personal computer terms. Although the academic background is in computer engineering, empirical research on the broadcast and the media industry --Hellenic Broadcasting, RAI research, Canal+, Danish Broadcasting-- has taught me several lessons, in complement to the IT mentality. In particular, I have done research on:
- multimedia authoring tools that are suitable for the workflow of TV producers (see papers: User Interface Programing for Interactive TV, Methods and Applications in Interactive Broadcasting and User Interface Software Technology for Interactive TV: Research Survey and Future Directions),
- user interface design that facilitates viewer interactivity with the rich TV visual language (see papers: user interface design principles for interactive TV, Social TV: Enhancing the shared experience with interactive TV)
- user evaluation methodology that concerns the uses and gratifications of TV by the audience (see papers: User Interface Evaluation of Interactive TV: A Media Studies Perspective and Learn and Play with Interactive TV)
- digital media management strategy that augments the established business model with alternative distribution and consumption channels, such as the Internet, mobile devices, etc (see papers: Coping with TiVo: Opportunities of the Networked Digital Video Recorder and Cross-media digital rights management for online music stores).
contact: konstantinos at gmail dot com