Vassilis Kostakos

Professor of Human-Computer Interaction

School of Computing and Information Systems
University of Melbourne

Deputy Director, NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence - Connected Health
Marie Curie Fellow
Fellow, Academy of Finland Distinguished Professor Program
Founding Editor, PACM IMWUT
SIGCHI Academy member

Research interests: ubiquitous computing (Ubicomp), human-computer interaction (HCI), social computing, Internet of Things. CV» Photo»

Contact:
Melbourne Connect Building 290
Level 5, Office 5325
700 Swanston Street
VIC-3053 Carlton, Australia

Tel: +61390358966
Email: vassilis.kostakos _@_ unimelb.edu.au

News

5 Oct 2024: I'm co-chairing UbiComp 2024, taking place in Melbourne. Please submit!
29 Feb 2024: I've been inducted into the SIGCHI Academy
1 Aug 2023: Check out my analysis of Victoria's car registrations as of 2023.
30 Mar 2023: Check out my analysis of Australian Health Insurance funds for 2022, 2020, 2019.
25 Sep 2021: Submit to our UbiComp workshop on Making Sense of Emotion Sensing.
15 Jun 2021: I'm giving an invited talk at Innovate Health 2021.
15 Apr 2020: Check out my analysis of the Facebook mobility data for COVID-19.
21 Feb 2020: New version of our AWARE framework, AWARE-Light is now available.
5 Sep 2019: New Centre for Research Excellence funded by NHMRC.
4 May 2019: I am chairing the Technical Program Commitee at CHI 2019.
15 Jan 2019: We have been awarded an ARC discovery project on Digital Emotion Regulation.
23 Nov 2018: Check out the Smart Hospital Living Lab.
3 Oct 2017: Giving the opening keynote at the Northern Health Research Week in Melbourne.
10 Jul 2017: I am one of the instructors at the ACM Summer School on Crowdsourcing in Suzhou, China.
8 Mar 2017: I have moved to the University of Melbourne, School of Computing and Information Systems.
15 Nov 2016: I'm one of the editors of the new journal PACM IMWUT, that will replace the main technical track of the UbiComp conference. Please submit!
12 Sep 2016: Invited speaker Symposium on HCI Grand Challenges at UCL.
22-28 Aug 2016: I'm one of the instructors at the Vienna Summer School on Smart Cities.

Potential PhD students

My group is looking for PhD students to work with us. You need to have strong technical skills, and be motivated to build novel interactive technologies that better understand and better respond to humans. Please have a look at my research and publications pages to get an understanding of the research we do. Most recently, I have been interested in further developing AWARE-Light. If you send me an email regarding doing a PhD, please include your CV, transcripts, and a summary of the kind of research you want to do.