Seminar 11: “Socio-technical Research: Frontiers and Challenges”

A research that exhibits a long-lived impact and spans over a wide range of social improvements with the use of various parameters including technical and ambient assisted living improvements, is called Socio-Technical Research (STR). In other words, STR includes the involvement of both social and technical interactions, occurring in such a way that a social benefit is gained. By considering socio-technical framework conditions, improvement of the quality of life can be ensured by various factors. In this talk we will expand the STR, how this may be initiated, created, developed, acknowledged with scientific stand, whereas an expansion of key issues on how this research can be used -in predoctoral and postdoctoral research – will follow.

Prof Constandinos Mavromoustakis
Department of Computer Science, School of Sciences and Engineering

Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis (S’01– M’06–SM’13) is currently a Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. He received a five-year dipl.Eng (BSc, BEng, Meng/KISATS approved/accredited) in Electronic and Computer Engineering from Technical University of Crete, Greece, MSc in Telecommunications from University College of London, UK, and his PhD from the department of Informatics at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Professor Mavromoustakis is leading the Mobile Systems Lab. (MOSys Lab., http://www.mosys.unic.ac.cy/) at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Nicosia. He serves as the Chair of the IEEE/ R8 regional Cyprus section since Nov. 2019, and since May 2009 he is the Chair of C16 Computer Society Chapter of the Cyprus IEEE section. Prof. Mavromoustakis has a dense research work outcome in Mobile and Wearable computing systems and the Internet-of-Things (IoT), consisting of numerous refereed publications including several Books (IDEA/IGI, Springer and Elsevier). He has served as a consultant to many industrial bodies (including Intel Corporation LLC (www.intel.com)), and he is a management member of IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Radio Communications Committee (RCC) and a board member the IEEE-SA Standards IEEE SCC42 WG2040. He has participated in several FP7/H2020/Eureka and National projects. Prof. Mavromoustakis has authored one Patent and he is the main author of one prototype Middleware for Ambient Assisted Living.