Yannis Stavrakakis
ioannis.stavrakakis@tudublin.ie
Member of the Applied Social Computing Research group
Senior Research Assistant in Computer Science, TU Dublin
Yannis Stavrakakis is a Senior Research Assistant in the School of Computer Science at Technological University Dublin. He completed his Bachelor’s studies in the School of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology, specialising on the latter, at the University of Ioannina, Greece and then completed a MSc degree in Research Methods in Psychology at the University of Kent, UK.
He has worked in various research projects since 2010. These include eye tracking, Cognitive Psychology, Graphonomics, Gender Research, Academic – Industrial relations and Computer Ethics. Since 2017 he has been working on EU Knowledge Alliance and Erasmus+ projects. He is currently working on the Ethics4EU project, conducting research on a European level on Ethics in Computing, creating educational material and publishing academic papers.
Yannis’ research experience is in the field of Cognitive and Social Psychology, Social Science, Qualitative and Quantitative methodologies and Computer Ethics. He has conducted tens of hours of qualitative research interviews across Europe. Nowadays, his research interests revolve around the social and ethical implications of computing technology, the teaching of ethics and ethical reasoning, the use of games (and particularly video games) in ethics education and personalised education.
Current Projects
GETM3 – Horizon 2020 – €950,000
Ethics4EU – Erasmus+ – €449,000 – 3 years
Global Innovation Teams – Erasmus+ – €300,000
Previous Projects
- HubLinked Knowledge Alliance – Erasmus+ – €1,000,000
Yannis has been collaborating successfully for years with networks of international academic partners. In Greece with the IACM in the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FO.R.T.H) and the University of Crete. In France with Institute Mines-Telecom. In Sweden with Mälardalens Högskola. In Finland with OAMK. In Slovenia with University of Ljubljana. In Switzerland with Informatics Europe. In Italy with DLearn. In Poland with Warsaw University of Technology and with Warsaw University. In Korea with Kyungpook National University.
Gordon, D., O’Sullivan, D., Stavrakakis, I., & Curley, A. (2020). HOMO LUDENS MORALIS: DESIGNING AND DEVELOPING A BOARD GAME TO TEACH ETHICS FOR ICT EDUCATION. ETHICOMP, 32.
Lorentzos, O., Stavrakakis, Y., & Economou, E. (2016). Global representations of occluded objects hinder priming effects of local interpolations in a complex matching prime paradigm. ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΝΑ, 8, 149-173.
Kikis-Papadaki, K., Stavrakakis, Y., & Hatzopoulos, P. (2015) “Fylo, Έrevna kai Κenotomia stin Ellada: Synchrones Tasseis” [Gender, Research and Innovation in Greece: Modern Trends]. In Kambouri, N., Kikis-Papadaki, K., & Hatzopoulos, P. (eds.) Fylo, Έrevna kai Κenotomia stin Ellada (p. 59-74). Heraklion: Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FO.R.T.H).