| 2021 |
EXIST Business Start-up Scholarship (EXIST-Gründerstipendium), German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)
For the innovative technology-based project “Next Talent Academy-LUNA”, a human-centred AI-driven matchmaking platform for (and between) students, companies and academic institutions. |
| 2020 |
SAP UX InnoDays 2020 - Winner Innovation Idea (out of 34)
For the innovative contribution “Use Case Library”. |
| 2019 |
Outstanding PC member (Honorable Mention)
At the 27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2019). |
| 2019 |
SAP CreativeIT Global Hackathon 2019 Initiative - Winner Innovation Idea (out of 118)
For the solution “DANOS - Dynamic and Anthropomorphic Network of Objects System”, an agent-based framework for best-fit recommendations considering the eXperience + Operational (X+O) data of users. |
| 2018 |
SAP.iO Venture Challenge 2018: In the top 8 finalists (out of 90)
For the method and tool, “EUREKA: Engineering Usability Research Empirical Knowledge & Artifacts”. |
| 2015 |
SAP Appreciation Award
For the innovative contribution “Usee - Use Case Methodology & Collaborative Tool”. |
| 2014 |
Best Paper Nomination
For the paper, "A Personalisation Method based on Human Factors for Improving Usability of User Authentication Tasks", in the 22nd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2014), Aalborg, Denmark, July 7-11, 2014. |
| 2013 |
Best Paper Award
For the paper, “Individual Differences in Cognitive Processing and their Effects on CAPTCHA Efficiency and Effectiveness”, in the 1st International Conference on Human Factors in Computing & Informatics (SouthCHI 2013), Maribor, Slovenia, July 1-3, 2013. |
| 2012 |
Best Paper Nomination
For the paper, "On the Development of Smart Adaptive User Interfaces for Mobile e-Business Applications: Towards Enhancing User Experience – Some Lessons Learned", in the International Conference of e-Business (ICE-B 2012), Rome, Italy, July 24-27, 2012. |
| 2011- 2012 |
European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) Fellowship
Hosted for 12 months at the Institute of Informatics and Telematics (IIT) – Italian National Research Council (CNR) for post-doctoral research.
Research Visits: (a) Mobile Life Centre, Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), Stockholm, Sweden; (b) Human-Computer Interaction for Medicine and Healthcare Research Unit, Institute of Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation (IMI), Medical University Graz (MUG), Graz, Austria. |
| 2009 |
1st Praise Award - Research Promotion Foundation Cyprus’ Student Competition “FOITO”
Co-supervising (MSc Thesis): Mario Belk, “A SemanticWeb Editor for the Automated Generation of Web-based Personalization Content – The AdaptiveWeb Case”. |
| 2008 |
Best Student Paper Award
For the paper, “User-centered Profiling on the basis of Cognitive and Emotional Characteristics: An Empirical Study”, in the 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems (AH 2008), Hannover, Germany, July 28 – August 1, 2008. |
| 2007 |
Best Poster Nomination
For the paper, "Embracing Cognitive Aspects in Web Personalization Environments - The AdaptiveWeb Architecture", in the 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2007), Niigata, Japan, July 18-20, 2007. |