Georgios Kouroupetroglou

Georgios KouroupetroglouGeorgios Kouroupetroglou holds a B.Sc. in physics and a Ph.D. in Communications and Signal Processing. He is member of the Academic Staff, Division of Communication and Signal Processing, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications (www.di.uoa.gr), University of Athens (www.uoa.gr) and leader of the Speech and Accessibility Laboratory (http://speech.di.uoa.gr) and the e-Accessibility Unit for Students with Disabilities (http://access.uoa.gr). His current research interests focuses on the area of Computer Accessibility and Voice User Interfaces, as a part of the major domain of Human-Computer Interaction, with emphasis in: Accessible Computing, Spoken Dialogue Human Computer Interaction, Usability, VoiceWeb, Voice Agents, Voice Processing; Analysis and Synthesis of Speech and Singing, Computer Mediated Interpersonal Communication, Information Systems/Services and Assistive Technologies for Disabled and Elderly People, Music Computing; Singing Voice Analysis, Virtual Musical Istruments, and Byzantine Chanting Analysis and Synthesis, Gesture-based User Interfaces, and Information Technologies for Interactive Learning. Professor Kouroupetroglou has actively participated in a number of European Union funded and National research projects. He has been reviewer/evaluator and member of working groups/technical panels of various European Union's projects/programs. He is author of more than 105 scientific papers in journals/conference proceedings and numerous technical reports in the fields of his interest.

Publications

Indoor Navigation and Location-Based Services for Persons with Motor Limitations
Indoor Navigation and Location-Based Services for Persons with Motor Limitations
Paraskevi Riga, Georgios Kouroupetroglou. © 2016. 32 pages.
Persons with motor limitations constitute a group-challenge when building indoor navigation and Location-Based Services (LBS). The authors present here the systematic approach...
Accessibility of Documents
Accessibility of Documents
Georgios Kouroupetroglou. © 2015. 9 pages.
Assistive Technologies and Computer Access for Motor Disabilities
Assistive Technologies and Computer Access for Motor Disabilities
Georgios Kouroupetroglou. © 2014. 433 pages.
Individuals with disabilities that impede their range of motion often have difficulty accessing technologies. With the use of computer-based assistive technology; devices, tools...
Disability Informatics and Web Accessibility for Motor Limitations
Disability Informatics and Web Accessibility for Motor Limitations
Georgios Kouroupetroglou. © 2014. 443 pages.
As technology becomes an increasingly vital aspect of modern social interaction, the field of disability informatics and web accessibility has made significant progress in...
Indoor Navigation and Location-Based Services for Persons with Motor Limitations
Indoor Navigation and Location-Based Services for Persons with Motor Limitations
Paraskevi Riga, Georgios Kouroupetroglou. © 2014. 32 pages.
Persons with motor limitations constitute a group-challenge when building indoor navigation and Location-Based Services (LBS). The authors present here the systematic approach...
VoiceWeb: Spoken Dialogue Interfaces and Usability
VoiceWeb: Spoken Dialogue Interfaces and Usability
Dimitris Spiliotopoulos, Georgios Kouroupetroglou, Pepi Stavropoulou. © 2011. 20 pages.
This chapter presents the state-of-the-art in usability issues and methodologies for VoiceWeb interfaces. It undertakes a theoretical perspective to the usability methodology and...
Design and Development of an Automated Voice Agent: Theory and Practice Brought Together
Design and Development of an Automated Voice Agent: Theory and Practice Brought Together
Pepi Stavropoulou, Dimitris Spiliotopoulos, Georgios Kouroupetroglou. © 2011. 23 pages.
Sophisticated, commercially deployed spoken dialogue systems capable of engaging in more natural human-machine conversation have increased in number over the past years. Besides...
Integrating Usability Engineering for Designing the Web Experience: Methodologies and Principles
Integrating Usability Engineering for Designing the Web Experience: Methodologies and Principles
Tasos Spiliotopoulos, Panagiota Papadopoulou, Drakoulis Martakos, Georgios Kouroupetroglou. © 2010. 440 pages.
As methods that enable or facilitate the development of usable systems for the Web can provide complementary results in enhancing the Web experience, it is important to examine...
Usability Methodologies for Spoken Dialogue Web Interfaces
Usability Methodologies for Spoken Dialogue Web Interfaces
Dimitris Spiliotopoulos, Georgios Kouroupetroglou. © 2010.
This chapter presents the state-of-the-art in usability issues and methodologies for spoken dialogue web interfaces along with the appropriate designer-needs analysis. It is...
Usability Methodologies for Real-Life Voice User Interfaces
Usability Methodologies for Real-Life Voice User Interfaces
Georgios Kouroupetroglou, Dimitris Spiliotopoulos. © 2009. 17 pages.
This paper studies the usability methodologies for spoken dialogue web interfaces along with the appropriate designer-needs analysis. The work unfolds a theoretical perspective...