Andreas Komninos

Lecturer

T: 0141 331 3095
E: Andreas.Komninos@gcal.ac.uk

Dr. Andreas Komninos was born in Patras, Greece in 1979. He received his B.Sc (Honours) in Computer Science from Glasgow Caledonian  University in 2001 and a Ph.D. in Mobile Computing from the University of Strathclyde, UK. His main  research interests include Pervasive Computing, HCI, Mobile Information Access and Adaptive Information Retrieval. He has worked as a programmer/analyst at Compaq Computer MFG and subsequently as a  researcher and part-time lecturer at the University of Strathclyde since 2001. He is currently a lecturer in   Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing at Glasgow Caledonian University, where he  leads the Mobile and Ubiquitous Research Group. He has authored several publications and is a reviewer for the CHI and Mobile HCI conferences.

Peer- Reviewed Publications

Komninos, A., Baillie, L., Barrie, P. (2008): “Holistic PIM: Managing Personal Information for a Nomadic Generation”, Third International Workshop on Personal Information Management (PIM2008), CHI2008, Florence, Italy

Ahmad, D., Komninos, A., Baillie, L. (2008): “Designing Personal Health Assistants For The Impending Aged Generation”, 6th IADIS International Conference on e-Society, Algarve, Portugal

Komninos, A Dunlop, MD (2007): “A calendar based Internet content pre-caching agent for small computing devices”, Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (on-line First)

Komninos, A., Milligan, C. (2007) : “Increasing the speed of Information Access on the Mobile web using HTML feature extraction”, 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, Web Information-Seeking and Interaction Workshop, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Komninos, A., Dunlop, MD., Baillie, L.(2007) : "Augmenting entry: the possibilities for utilizing geo-referenced information to improve mobile calendar applications", Mobile Spatial Interaction Workshop, CHI2007, San Jose, California

Komninos, A., Barrie, P.(2007) : "Monitoring of Facial Characteristic Movement for the Control of Mobile Devices: Issues and Recommendations", 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, , Beijing, China

Komninos, A Barrie, P, Newman, J (2006): me-Commerce: Predictive Personal Shopping Infrastructures, Microsoft Intelligent Environments Symposium (IE06) Cambridge, UK

Komninos, A Barrie, P Newman, J Landsburgh, S (2006): me-Commerce: An Infrastructure for Personal Predictive Mobile Commerce Fifth IEEE International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB06) Copenhagen, Denmark

Komninos, A Stamou, S (2006): HealthPal: An Intelligent Personal Medical Assistant for Supporting the Self-Monitoring of Healthcare in the Ageing Society 4th International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing for Pervasive Healthcare Applications, UbiComp 2006 Orange County, CA, USA

Komninos, A Dunlop, MD (2005): Calendar based Contextual Information as an Internet Content Pre-Caching Tool 2nd Information Retrieval in Context Workshop (IRiX), 28th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference Salvador, Brazil

Komninos, A Dunlop, MD (2004): Keyword based categorisation of diary entries to support personal Internet content precaching on mobile devices Mobile and Ubiquitous Information Access Workshop, Mobile HCI 2004 Conference Glasgow, UK

Komninos, A Dunlop, MD (2003):Towards a model for an internet content pre-caching agent for small computing devices 10th International Conference on Human - Computer Interaction -HCII2003 Crete, Greece

Research

As founder and co-director of the Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Group at GCU, my research is focussed primarily in the area of Mobile Personal Information Management, Mobile Information Access, Context Awareness and Intelligent Mobile Services. More about our current projects can be seen at the Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Resarch Group

My Ph.D. Thesis: Personal Predictive Internet Content Pre-Caching for Mobile Devices  (1.2Mb PDF)

Teaching at GCU

Teaching at Strathclyde