Dr. Nikolaos Katzakis

Dr. Nikolaos Katzakis

Short Bio

Nikolaos Katzakis received his B.Sc. in Computer Hardware and Software Engineering from Coventry University, UK in 2001. Following some years of work in the industry he earned his M.Sc. in Human-Computer Interaction from Kansai University, Japan under Prof. Masahiro Hori and his Ph.D. from Osaka University, Japan, under the supervision of Prof. Kiyoshi Kiyokawa. He is currently working as part of the Cross Modal Learning project.

Research Interests

• Social Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality
• Computer Graphics
• AI Cinematography/Streaming

Teaching

• Interactive Computer Graphics (ICG) - Winter Semester 2018
• Introduction to Deep Learning (Seminar) 
• 3D User Interfaces - Summer Semester 2018
• User Interface Science and Technology - Summer Semester 2017

Publications

Please see my google scholar profile.

Past Supervised Theses

University of Hamburg

• Robin Schlusseln  - An evaluation of 3D UI Widgets for Virtual and Augmented Reality
• Lasse Haffke - Automatic Camera Positioning for 3D Environments
• Josephine Höltermann - Design User Interface Design Methodology
• Tino Raupp - Color Priming for Subtle Suggestions in Virtual Reality 
• Britta Noack - 3D Goal-Oriented Learning App for Vietnamese Language with Parent Engagement

Technical University of Munich

• Nickolas Schneider - A Study of the Effect of Hand Posture in 3D Pointing
• Renee Schleese - Observing the Effects of First-person Exploration in Narrative Gaming Environments
• Jonas Mayer - A Metric for Hand Comfort/Discomfort Evaluation: Towards Expressivity in Spatial Control

Osaka University

• Kazuteru Seki - Mesh-grab and Arcball 3D
• Donghee Kim - Touchy Keyboard
• Wei-Hsuan Liao - A System for Puppetry Animation using Tangible Props
• Yuki Mochizuki - Pen Based Animation Authoring System