Browsing NTNU Open by Author "Giannakos, Michail"
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An Exploratory Study on the Influence of Cognitive and Affective Characteristics in Programming-Based Making Activities
Pappas, Ilias; Papavlasopoulou, Sofia; Giannakos, Michail; Sampson, Demetrios G. (Chapter, 2017)Programming-based making activities are at the core of teaching strategies to engage young students in learning programming for developing computational thinking skills. Despite the initial evidences of enthusiastic ... -
Assessing Student Behavior in Computer Science Education with an fsQCA Approach: The Role of Gains and Barriers
Pappas, Ilias; Giannakos, Michail; Jaccheri, Maria Letizia; Sampson, Demetrios G (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This study uses complexity theory to understand the causal patterns of factors that stimulate students’ intention to continue studies in computer science (CS). To this end, it identifies gains and barriers as essential ... -
Big data analytics capabilities: a systematic literature review and research agenda
Mikalef, Patrick; Pappas, Ilias; Krogstie, John; Giannakos, Michail (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)With big data growing rapidly in importance over the past few years, academics and practitioners have been considering the means through which they can incorporate the shifts these technologies bring into their competitive ... -
Big Data and Business Analytics Ecosystems: Paving the way towards digital transformation and sustainable societies
Pappas, Ilias; Mikalef, Patrick; Giannakos, Michail; Krogstie, John; Lekakos, George (Journal article, 2018)The digitalization process and its outcomes in the 21st century accelerate transformation and the creation of sustainable societies. Our decisions, actions and even existence in the digital world generate data, which offer ... -
Building pipelines for educational data using AI and multimodal analytics: A “grey‐box” approach
Sharma, Kshitij; Papamitsiou, Zacharoula; Giannakos, Michail (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Students' on‐task engagement during adaptive learning activities has a significant effect on their performance, and at the same time, how these activities influence students' behavior is reflected in their effort exertion. ... -
Coding activities for children: Coupling eye-tracking with qualitative data to investigate gender differences
Papavlasopoulou, Sofia; Sharma, Kshitij; Giannakos, Michail (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Computational thinking and coding are becoming an integral part of K-12 education, with female students being underrepresented in such subjects. The proliferation of technological tools and programming environments offers ... -
Coding games and robots to enhance computational thinking: How collaboration and engagement moderate children’s attitudes?
Sharma, Kshitij; Papavlasopoulou, Sofia; Giannakos, Michail (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Collaboration and engagement while coding are vital elements for children, yet very little is known about how children’s engagement and collaboration impact their attitudes toward coding activities. The goal of the study ... -
Computational thinking education: Issues and challenges
Angeli, Charoula; Giannakos, Michail (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Computational Thinking is a term applied to describe the increasing attention on students' knowledge development about designing computational solutions to problems, algorithmic thinking, and coding. It focuses on skills ... -
Cross-Platform Analytics: A step towards Personalization and Adaptation in Education
Mangaroska, Katerina; Vesin, Boban; Giannakos, Michail (Chapter, 2019)Learning analytics are used to track learners' progress and empower educators and learners to make well-informed data-driven decisions. However, due to the distributed nature of the learning process, analytics need to be ... -
Cultural and Personality Predictors of Facebook Intrusion: A Cross-Cultural Study
Błachnio, Agata; Przepiorka, Aneta; Benvenuti, Martina; Cannata, Davide; Ciobanu, Adela Magdalena; Senol-Durak, Emre; Durak, Mithat; Giannakos, Michail; Mazzoni, Elvis; Pappas, Ilias; Popa, Camelia; Seidman, Gwendolyn; Yu, Shu; Wu, Anise M.S.; Ben-Ezra, Menachem (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)The increase in the number of users of social networking sites (SNS) has inspired intense efforts to determine intercultural differences between them. The main aim of the study was to investigate the cultural and personal ... -
Cultural Correlates of Internet Addiction
Błachnio, Agata; Przepiorka, Aneta; Gorbaniuk, Oleg; Benvenuti, Martina; Ciobanu, Adela Magdalena; Senol-Durak, Emre; Durak, Mithat; Giannakos, Michail; Mazzoni, Elvis; Pappas, Ilias; Popa, Camelia; Seidman, Gwendolyn; Wu, Anise MS; Yu, Shu; Ben-Ezra, Menachem (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Increasing problems connected with excessive Internet use can be observed all over the world. Internet addiction is defined as excessive involvement in the Internet with negative consequences. The main aim of the study was ... -
Design Principles for Serious Video Games in Mathematics Education: From Theory to Practice
Chorianopoulos, Konstantinos; Giannakos, Michail (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)There is growing interest in the employment of serious video games in science education, but there are no clear design principles. After surveying previous work in serious video game design, we highlighted the following ... -
Designing for uprooted children: Issues, challenges, and opportunities
Antle, Alissa N.; Hourcade, Juan Pablo; Fails, Jerry Alan; Garzotto, Franca; Giannakos, Michail; Markopoulos, Panos; Palumbos, Andrea; Read, Janet C. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019) -
Designing social commerce platforms based on consumers ’ intentions
Mikalef, Patrick; Giannakos, Michail; Pappas, Ilias (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Social commerce has been gaining momentum over the last few years as a novel form of e- commerce, creating substantial changes for both businesses and consumers. However, little is known about how consumer behaviour is ... -
Determining consumer engagement in word-of-mouth: Trust and network ties in a social commerce setting
Mikalef, Patrick; Pappas, Ilias; Giannakos, Michail; Sharma, Kshitij (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Prompted by the popularity of social commerce in the past few years, this study seeks to examine how online reviews influence consumer’s tendency to engage in word-of-mouth (WOM). We investigate how different aspects ... -
Developing a web-based gamified application to increase physical activity throughout monetary incentives
Tran, Y Nhu Camilla (Master thesis, 2019)Hjerte- og karsykdommer er den ledende dødsårsaken verden over (McKay, Eliasziw, Chen, & Blumberg, 2018). I 2016 ble det dokumentert at 1,3 milliarder mennesker hadde problemer knyttet til overvekt på global basis. (Abarca-Go ... -
Discovering children's competences in coding through the analysis of Scratch projects
Papavlasopoulou, Sofia; Giannakos, Michail; Jaccheri, Maria Letizia (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Computational thinking and coding has received considerable attention over the past several years. Considerable efforts worldwide suggest the need for more empirical studies providing evidence-based practices to introduce ... -
Dual Gaze as a Proxy for Collaboration in Informal Learning
Sharma, Kshitij; Leftheriotis, Ioannis; Noor, Jama; Giannakos, Michail (Chapter, 2017)Interactive displays are increasingly employed in informal learning environments as a technology for enhancing students’ learning and engagement. Interactive displays allow students to collaborate and interact with the ... -
EEGlass: An EEG-Eyeware Prototype for Ubiquitous Brain-Computer Interaction
Vourvopoulos, Athanasios; Niforatos, Evangelos; Giannakos, Michail (Chapter, 2019)Contemporary Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs) are progressively becoming socially acceptable by approaching the size and design of normal eyewear. Apart from the exciting interaction design prospects, HMDs bear significant ... -
Elo-Rating Method: Towards Adaptive Assessment in E-Learning
Mangaroska, Katerina; Vesin, Boban; Giannakos, Michail (Chapter, 2019)The success of technology enhanced learning can be increased by tailoring the content and the learning resources for every student; thus, optimizing the learning process. This study proposes a method for evaluating content ...