Dimitri Darzentas
dimitri darzentas

Dr Dimitri Darzentas

Lecturer

 0131 455 4799

  D.Darzentas@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Dr Dimitrios Darzentas is a lecturer in the School of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment (SCEBE) at 麻豆社区 and formerly a multidisciplinary Research Fellow at the Mixed Reality Lab of the University of Nottingham.
His work is situated at an intersection between Human-Computer Interaction and Design with a broad interdisciplinary scope that includes and combines Mixed Reality Technologies, Experience Design, Meaningful Digital Interactions, MXR Storytelling and Cultural Heritage, Physical/Digital Service & Interaction Design, Wellbeing, Technology Sustainability, Political Engagement, Equitable Technology Access, and harnessing Data (AI)-Supported Design & Creativity.
His diverse work is underpinned by a longitudinal research focus on the way meaningfulness and values motivate users and audiences to engage with the experiences, products and services

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Conference Organising Activity

  • Programme Committe ACM CHIGREECE 2025

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Fellow (FHEA)

 

Invited Speaker

  • Panel Chair - Historical Games Network, Technology Theme

 

Media Activity

  • Video, Panel on Technology, Historical Games Network

 

Public/Community Engagement

  • STEM Ambassador

 

Reviewing

  • Reviewer for Springer Nature
  • Reviewer for Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Springer Nature
  • Reviewer for Digital applications in archaeology and cultural heritage - Elsevier
  • Reviewer for International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction - Taylor & Fancis
  • Reviewer for Computers in human behavior Journal - Elsevier
  • Reviewer for ACM Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies - IMWUT
  • Reviewer for Digital Creativity Journal - Taylor & Francis
  • Reviewer for Interacting with Computers Journal - Oxford Press
  • Reviewer for ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality - ISMAR
  • Reviewer for ACM Designing Interactive Systems - DIS
  • Reviewer for ACM Creativity & Cognition
  • Reviewer for ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI

 

Visiting Positions

  • Associate Research Fellow - Mixed Reality Lab - University of Nottingham

 

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UbiFix: Tackling Repairability Challenges in Smart Devices

Conference Proceeding
Sailaja, N., Castle-Green, T., Coulton, P., Stead, M., Lindley, J. G., Urquhart, L. D., & Darzentas, D. (2023)
UbiFix: Tackling Repairability Challenges in Smart Devices. In M. Tentori, N. Weibel, K. Van Laerhoven, & Z. Zhou (Eds.), UbiComp/ISWC '23 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing & the 2023 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computing (802-806). https://doi.org/10.1145/3594739.3605113
IoT products are increasingly becoming the default, with non-IoT versions of common hardware (e.g., TVs and printers) harder to find. Alongside this adoption surge, lack of su...

Proceedings of the 18th International Audio Mostly Conference

Conference Proceeding
(2023)
Proceedings of the 18th International Audio Mostly Conference. . https://doi.org/10.1145/3616195
Audio Mostly is an interdisciplinary conference on design and experience of interaction with sound that prides itself on embracing applied theory and reflective practice. Its ...

鈥淚t鈥檚 not just for the Past but it鈥檚 for the Here and Now鈥: Gift-Giver Perspectives on the Memory Machine to Gift Digital Memories

Conference Proceeding
Gibson, R., Babbage, C. M., Wagner, H. G., Price, D. J., Martindale, S., Chadborn, N. H., 鈥erez Vallejos, E. (2023)
鈥淚t鈥檚 not just for the Past but it鈥檚 for the Here and Now鈥: Gift-Giver Perspectives on the Memory Machine to Gift Digital Memories. In DIS '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (987-1001). https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3595962
We present the design of the Memory Machine (MeMa), a technology probe that can store, contextualise, and document media to represent memories. We accumulate vast physical and...

History is written by the Modders: The landscape and implications of Sandboxes, Modding and User-Generated Content in Historical Games

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Darzentas, D. (2023, June)
History is written by the Modders: The landscape and implications of Sandboxes, Modding and User-Generated Content in Historical Games. Paper presented at 2023 DiGRA International Conference, Seville, Spain

C&C Festival of Hybrid Gifting

Conference Proceeding
Spence, J., Koleva, B., Flintham, M., Thorn, E., Glover, K., Gibson, R., 鈥agner, H. G. (2023)
C&C Festival of Hybrid Gifting. In C&C '23: Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Creativity and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1145/3591196.3593052
This workshop uses the outputs of a two-year Research through Design project as a springboard for bringing together a community of researchers interested in Hybrid Gifting. We...

"More Than a Clich茅": Experiencing Hybrid Gifting in the Wild

Journal Article
Spence, J., Koleva, B., Benford, S., Darzentas, D., Flintham, M., Glover, K., Wagner, H., Gibson, R., & Thorn, E. (2023)
"More Than a Clich茅": Experiencing Hybrid Gifting in the Wild. ACM transactions on computer-human interaction, 30(4), Article 55. https://doi.org/10.1145/3577015
Gifting is socially and economically important. Studies of gifting physical objects have revealed motivations, values, and the tensions between them, while HCI research has re...

Sensitive Pictures: Emotional Interpretation in the Museum

Conference Proceeding
Benford, S. D., Sundnes L酶vlie, A., Ryding, K., Rajkowska, P., Bodiaj, E., Paris Darzentas, D., 鈥panjevic, B. (2022)
Sensitive Pictures: Emotional Interpretation in the Museum. In CHI '22: Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3502080
Museums are interested in designing emotional visitor experiences to complement traditional interpretations. HCI is interested in the relationship between Affective Computing ...

Data-inspired co-design for museum and gallery visitor experiences

Journal Article
Darzentas, D., Cameron, H., Wagner, H., Craigon, P., Bodiaj, E., Spence, J., 鈥enford, S. (2022)
Data-inspired co-design for museum and gallery visitor experiences. Artificial intelligence for engineering design, analysis and manufacturing : AI EDAM, 36, https://doi.org/10.1017/s0890060421000317
The capture and analysis of diverse data is widely recognized as being vital to the design of new products and services across the digital economy. We focus on its use to insp...

Gifting in Museums: Using Multiple Time Orientations to Heighten Present-Moment Engagement

Journal Article
Spence, J., Darzentas, D., Cameron, H., Huang, Y., Adams, M., Farr, J. R., 鈥enford, S. (2022)
Gifting in Museums: Using Multiple Time Orientations to Heighten Present-Moment Engagement. Human-Computer Interaction, 37(2), 180-210. https://doi.org/10.1080/07370024.2021.1923496
HCI has recently increased its interest in the domains of museums and gifting. The former is often oriented primarily towards the past, while the latter is often oriented towa...

VRtefacts: Performative Substitutional Reality with Museum Objects

Conference Proceeding
Spence, J., Darzentas, D. P., Huang, Y., Cameron, H. R., Beestin, E., & Benford, S. (2020)
VRtefacts: Performative Substitutional Reality with Museum Objects. In DIS '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395459
We explore how a combination of manipulations and transitions can extend Substitutional Reality to create a highly personal Virtual Reality experience. Our design aimed to mee...

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