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Kostas Karpouzis

Kostas Karpouzis

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Computer Science

D-Index
33
Citations
4834
World Ranking
12657
National Ranking
104

Overview

Kostas Karpouzis is affiliated with the National Technical University of Athens in Greece. Their research intersects multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on computer science, psychology, and social sciences.

Their main areas of study include:

  • Computer Science
  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences

Karpouzis's work is further specialized across several subfields, notably artificial intelligence, sociology and political science, developmental and educational psychology, computer science applications, and clinical psychology.

Key topics explored in their publications are:

  • Educational Games and Gamification
  • Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
  • Digital Games and Media
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)

The scientist has contributed to a significant number of publications in various venues, with multiple works appearing in the following:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Frontiers in Computer Science
  • Preprints.org
  • Electronics
  • The Lancet Digital Health

A selection of recent papers authored or co-authored by Karpouzis includes:

  • "The effect of challenge-based gamification on learning: An experiment in the context of statistics education" (2020) - International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
  • "Gamification to avoid cognitive biases: An experiment of gamifying a forecasting course" (2021) - Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • "Plato's Shadows in the Digital Cave: Controlling Cultural Bias in Generative AI" (2024) - Electronics
  • "Using Big and Open Data to Generate Content for an Educational Game to Increase Student Performance and Interest" (2020) - Big Data and Cognitive Computing
  • "Adaptive game-based learning in education: a systematic review" (2023) - Frontiers in Computer Science

Their collaborative network features frequent co-authors such as:

  • George Tsatiris
  • Georgios Tsatiris
  • Fiona C Warren
  • Alexandra Newbold
  • Claire Hulme

Karpouzis has also been involved in book publications, with a noted contribution from Frontiers Media as editor of "2022 Computer Science - Editor's Pick" published in 2023.

Best Publications

  • The HUMAINE Database: Addressing the Collection and Annotation of Naturalistic and Induced Emotional Data

    Ellen Douglas-Cowie;Roddy Cowie;Ian Sneddon;Cate Cox

  • 2005 Special Issue: Emotion recognition through facial expression analysis based on a neurofuzzy network

    Spiros V. Ioannou;Amaryllis T. Raouzaiou;Vasilis A. Tzouvaras;Theofilos P. Mailis

  • Estimation of behavioral user state based on eye gaze and head pose--application in an e-learning environment

    Stylianos Asteriadis;Paraskevi Tzouveli;Kostas Karpouzis;Stefanos Kollias

  • Multimodal emotion recognition from expressive faces, body gestures and speech

    George Caridakis;Ginevra Castellano;Loïc Kessous;Amaryllis Raouzaiou

  • Parameterized facial expression synthesis based on MPEG-4

    Amaryllis Raouzaiou;Nicolas Tsapatsoulis;Kostas Karpouzis;Stefanos Kollias

  • Emotion analysis in man-machine interaction systems

    T. Balomenos;A. Raouzaiou;S. Ioannou;A. Drosopoulos

  • Emerging Artificial Intelligence Applications in Computer Engineering - Real Word AI Systems with Applications in eHealth, HCI, Information Retrieval and Pervasive Technologies

    Ilias Maglogiannis;Kostas Karpouzis;Manolis Wallace;John K. Soldatos

  • Modeling naturalistic affective states via facial and vocal expressions recognition

    George Caridakis;Lori Malatesta;Loic Kessous;Noam Amir

  • Emotion in games

    Georgios N. Yannakakis;Kostas Karpouzis;Ana Paiva;Eva Hudlicka

  • Educational resources and implementation of a Greek sign language synthesis architecture

    K. Karpouzis;G. Caridakis;S. E. Fotinea;E. Efthimiou

  • Fusing Visual and Behavioral Cues for Modeling User Experience in Games

    Noor Shaker;Stylianos Asteriadis;Georgios N. Yannakakis;Kostas Karpouzis

  • Modeling naturalistic affective states via facial, vocal, and bodily expressions recognition

    Kostas Karpouzis;George Caridakis;Loic Kessous;Noam Amir

  • Emotional face expression profiles supported by virtual human ontology

    Alejandra García-Rojas;Frédéric Vexo;Daniel Thalmann;Amaryllis Raouzaiou

  • User and context adaptive neural networks for emotion recognition

    George Caridakis;Kostas Karpouzis;Stefanos Kollias

  • SOMM: Self organizing Markov map for gesture recognition

    George Caridakis;Kostas Karpouzis;Athanasios Drosopoulos;Stefanos Kollias

  • Exploring trace transform for robust human action recognition

    Georgios Goudelis;Konstantinos Karpouzis;Stefanos Kollias

  • Visual Focus of Attention in Non-calibrated Environments using Gaze Estimation

    Stylianos Asteriadis;Kostas Karpouzis;Stefanos Kollias

  • A game-based corpus for analysing the interplay between game context and player experience

    Noor Shaker;Stylianos Asteriadis;Georgios N. Yannakakis;Kostas Karpouzis

  • Robust feature detection for facial expression recognition

    Spiros Ioannou;George Caridakis;Kostas Karpouzis;Stefanos Kollias

  • Virtual agent multimodal mimicry of humans

    George Caridakis;Amaryllis Raouzaiou;Elisabetta Bevacqua;Maurizio Mancini

  • Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Emerging Artificial Intelligence Applications in Computer Engineering: Real Word AI Systems with Applications in eHealth, HCI, Information Retrieval and Pervasive Technologies

    Ilias Maglogiannis;Kostas Karpouzis;Manolis Wallace;John Soldatos

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefanos Kollias
Stefanos Kollias National Technical University of Athens
Ilias Maglogiannis
Ilias Maglogiannis University of Piraeus
Georgios N. Yannakakis
Georgios N. Yannakakis University of Malta
Roddy Cowie
Roddy Cowie Queen's University Belfast
Ana Paiva
Ana Paiva Instituto Superior Técnico
Elisabeth André
Elisabeth André University of Augsburg
Laurence Devillers
Laurence Devillers Sorbonne University
Daniel Thalmann
Daniel Thalmann École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Louis-Philippe Morency
Louis-Philippe Morency Carnegie Mellon University
Catherine Pelachaud
Catherine Pelachaud Sorbonne University

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