Biography

I got my BE degree in Information and Communication Systems Engineer from the University of the Aegean, Greece, in 2005, and my MSc degree in Advanced Computer and Communication Systems from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2008.

Currently I am a research assistant at the Informatics & Telematics Institute, Greece (http://www.iti.gr/iti/people/Nikolaos_Kaklanis.html) and a cooperative PhD student of the University of Surrey, UK. My principal supervisor is Dr Sotiris Moschoyiannis and co-supervisor is Prof Paul Krause. My cooperative PhD supervisor in Greece is Dr Dimitrios Tzovaras.

I started my cooperative PhD study since September 2009.

Research Interests

Virtual Reality technologies, 3D Virtual Environments, virtual user modelling, data mining, haptic and multimodal user interfaces, assistive technologies enhancing accessibility, internet technologies, distributed computing, databases and e-commerce

Publications

Selected Publications

• N. Kaklanis, K. Votis, K. Moustakas, D. Tzovaras, “3D HapticWebBrowser: Towards Universal Web Navigation for the Visually Impaired”, 7th International Conference on Web Accessibility, W4A, 26-27 April 2010, Raleigh, north Carolina, USA
  This work won the first award in the Web Accessibility Challenge.

Conferences

• Violentis J., Banos E., Kaklanis N., Vouros G., Platis A., Designing more Reliable Web Sites with Performability Modeling. International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment And Management 2004, ID 0189.
• Kaklanis, N., Gonzalez Calleros, J.M., Vanderdonckt, J., Tzovaras, D., A Haptic Rendering Engine of Web Pages for Blind Users, Proc. of 9th Int. Conf. on Advanced Visual Interfaces AVI'2008, Naples, May 28-30, 2008
• Kaklanis, N., Gonzalez Calleros, J.M., Vanderdonckt, J., Tzovaras, D., Hapgets, Towards Haptically-enhanced Widgets based on a User Interface Description Language, Proc. of Multimodal interaction through haptic feedback (MITH) Workshop, Naples, May 28-30, 2008
• N. Kaklanis, D. Tzovaras and K. Moustakas, Haptic Navigation in the World Wide Web", Proc. of HCI International, LNCS 5616, pp. 707-715, July 2009, San Diego
• N. Kaklanis, K. Votis, K. Moustakas, D. Tzovaras, “3D HapticWebBrowser: Towards Universal Web Navigation for the Visually Impaired”, 7th International Conference on Web Accessibility, W4A, 26-27 April 2010, Raleigh, north Carolina, USA
• N. Kaklanis, K. Moustakas, K. Votis, D. Tzovaras, “A framework for accessibility testing of virtual environments based on UsiXML”, ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, UsiXML-EICS 2010, Berlin, June 2010
• N. Kaklanis, P. Moschonas, K. Moustakas, D. Tzovaras, “Enforcing accessible design of products and services through simulated accessibility evaluation”, CONFIDENCE 2010, 9-10 December 2010, Jyväskylä, Finland
• N. Kaklanis, K. Moustakas, D. Tzovaras, “A framework for automatic simulated accessibility assessment in virtual environments”, HCI International 2011, 9-14 July 2011, Orlando, Florida, USA
• N. Kaklanis, K. Votis, P. Moschonas, D. Tzovaras, “HapticRiaMaps: Towards Interactive exploration of Web World maps for the Visually Impaired”, W4A 2011, Hyderabad, India, March 2011
• T. Oikonomou, N. Kaklanis, K. Votis, G.E. Kastori, N. Partarakis, D. Tzovaras, “WaaT: Personalised Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool”, W4A 2011, Hyderabad, India, March 2011
• T. Oikonomou, N. Kaklanis, K. Votis, D. Tzovaras, “An Accessibility Assessment Framework for Improving Designers Experience in Web Applications”, HCII 2011, Orlando, Florida, USA, July 2011
• N. Partarakis, C. Doulgeraki, M. Antona, T. Oikonomou, N. Kaklanis, K. Votis, G.E. Kastori, D. Tzovaras, “A Unified Environment for Accessing a Suite of Accessibility Evaluation Facilities”, HCII 2011, Orlando, Florida, USA, July 2011
• Moschonas, P., Kaklanis., N., Tsakiris, A., Moustakas, K., Tzovaras, D., An open simulation framework for automated and immersive accessibility engineering, CWUAAT 2012, 6th Cambridge workshop on universal access and assistive technology, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge , 26 - 29 March 2012 (accepted)
• Moschonas, P., Kaklanis, N., Tzovaras, D., Novel Human Factors for Ergonomy Evaluation in Virtual Environments Using Virtual User Models, VRCAI' 2011, Dec.11-12, 2011, Hong Kong ,China (accepted)

Book Chapter

• N. Kaklanis, K. Moustakas, D. Tzovaras, “Haptic Rendering of HTML components and 2D maps included in web pages”, in G. Ghinea, F. Andres, S. Gulliver (Eds) Multiple Sensorial Media Advances and Applications: New Developments in MulseMedia, 2010

Affiliations

Member of the Technical Chamber of Greece

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