Dr. Nikolaos Mavridis

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

(>3400 citations in total as per Google Scholar, h-index > 30):

98  Nikolaos Mavridis, “A Review of Verbal and Non-Verbal Human-Robot Interactive Communication”, Elsevier Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 63, no. 1, January 2015, pp. 22-35, DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2014.09.031, IF: 1.462 (download.pdf) (More than 480 citations, so far!)

97 Nikolaos Mavridis, Engelbert Quack, Kai Wussow, Leveraging artificial intelligence and digital tech to help citizens, societies, and economies survive and strive during pandemics. In: Gruenwald L, Jain S. Groppe S (eds) Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Global Epidemics, Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2021),  ISBN: 9780323897778

96 Nikolaos Mavridis, Engelbert Quack, Kai Wussow K, Towards an alternative to lockdown: Pandemic management leveraging digital technologies and artificial intelligence. In: Gruenwald L, Jain S. Groppe S (eds) Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Global Epidemics, Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2021), ISBN: 9780323897778

95 Stuart Forsyth and Nikolaos Mavridis, "Short Answer Marking Agent for GCSE Computer Science", 2021 IEEE World Conference on Engineering Education (EDUNINE). IEEE, 2021.

94 Nikolaos Mavridis, "How gender is intertwined with Robots and Affective technologies: A short review", In: Cirillo D, Catuara Solarz S, Guney E (eds) Sex and Gender Bias in Technology and Artificial Intelligence: Biomedicine and Healthcare Applications, Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2022), ISBN: 9780128213926 (in press)

93 Gabrielle Trovato, Nikolaos Mavridis, Alexander Huerta-Mercado, and Ryad Chellali, Cross-cultural timeline of the history of thought of the artificial, The Thirteenth International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), 10-13 November 2021, Singapore (best paper award)

92 Alberto Ferrari, Enrico Santus, Davide Cirillo, Miguel Ponce-de-Leon, Nicola Marino, Maria Teresa Ferretti, Antonella Santuccione Chadha, Nikolaos Mavridis, and Alfonso Valencia. "Simulating SARS-CoV-2 epidemics by region-specific variables and modeling contact tracing app containment." NPJ digital medicine 4, no. 1 (2021): 1-8.

91 Davide Cirillo et al., "Sex and gender differences and biases in Artificial Intelligence for Biomedicine and Healthcare", Nature Research npj Digital Medicine, May 2020  

90  Sandra Costa, Alberto Brunete, Byung-Chull Bae, and Nikolaos Mavridis, “Emotional Storytelling using Virtual and Robotic Agents”, World Scientific International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, Vol. 15, 2018, 1850006, 31pp., DOI: 10.1142/S0219843618500068, IF: 1.25 (download.pdf)

89  Nikolaos Mavridis, Nicola Bellotto, Konstantinos Iliopoulos and Nico Van de Weghe, “QTC3D: Extending the Qualitative Trajectory Calculus to Three Dimensions”, Elsevier Journal of Information Sciences, vol. 322, November 2015, pp.20-30, DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2015.06.002, IF: 4.221 (download.pdf

88 Thirimachos Bourlai, Nikolaos Mavridis, Neeru Narang, “On designing practical long range near infrared-based face recognition systems”, Elsevier Journal of Image and Vision Computing, vol. 52, no. 3, August 2016, pp. 25-41, DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2016.04.013, IF: 2.584 (download.pdf)

87  Haider Ali, Faisal Shafait, Eirini Giannakidou, Athena Vakali, Nadia Figueroa, Theodoros Varvadoukas, Nikolaos Mavridis, “Contextual Object Category Recognition in RGB-D Scene Labeling”, Elsevier Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 62, no. 2, February 2014, pp. 241–256, DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2013.10.001, IF: 1.462 (download.pdf)

86 Leonidas Anthopoulos , Christopher Reddick , Irene Giannakidou, Nikolaos Mavridis , “Why e-government projects fail? An analysis of the Healthcare.gov website”, Elsevier Government Information Quarterly, Available online 12 August 2015, in Press for printed version, DOI:10.1016/j.giq.2015.07.003, IF: 2.453 (download.pdf)

85  Jermsak Jermsurawong, Umair Ahsan, Abdulhamid Haidar, Haiwei Dong and Nikolaos Mavridis, “One-Day Long Statistical Analysis of Parking Demand by Using Single-Camera Vacancy Detection”, Journal of Transportation Systems Engineering and Information Technology, Elsevier, Vol. 14, No. 2, April 2014, pp. 33-44, DOI: 10.1016/S1570-6672(13)60136-1, 2009 IF: 1.0123 (download.pdf)

84  Susanne Quadflieg, Israr Ul-Haq, Nikolaos Mavridis, “Now you feel it, now you don’t: How observing robots and people can make you feel eerie”, Interaction Studies, vol. 17, no. 2, November 2016, pp. 203-240, IF: 1.000 (download.pdf)

83 Manolis Koubarakis, et al. "AI in Greece: The Case of Research on Linked Geospatial Data." AI Magazine 39, no. 2 (2018): 91-96.

82 Nikolaos Mavridis. “Robots Interacting with Humans: Measuring User Experiences”, In Proceedings of BioVision Alexandria 2018

81 Dmitry Popov, Alexandr Klimchik, and Nikolaos Mavridis. "Collision detection, localization & classification for industrial robots with joint torque sensors." In 2017 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), pp. 838-843. IEEE, 2017.

80 Kevin Khanda, Dilshat Salikhov, Kamill Gusmanov, Manuel Mazzara, and Nikolaos Mavridis. "Microservice-based iot for smart buildings." In 2017 31st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops (WAINA), pp. 302-308. IEEE, 2017.

79 Maxim Sokolov, Ilya Afanasyev, Alexandr Klimchik, and Nikolaos Mavridis. "HyperNEAT-based flipper control for a crawler robot motion in 3D simulation environment." In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), pp. 2652-2656. IEEE, 2017.

78 Oleg Bulichev, Alexandr Klimchik, and Nikolaos Mavridis. "Optimization of centipede robot body designs through evolutionary algorithms and multiple rough terrains simulation." In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), pp. 290-295. IEEE, 2017.

77 Vladislav Berezhnoy, Alexandr Klimchik, and Nikolaos Mavridis. "Real-world large-step stair-climbing for small humanoids using Evolutionary Computation." In 2017 Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys), pp. 1010-1018. IEEE, 2017.

76 Vadim Reutskiy, and Nikolaos Mavridis. "Gagarin: A Cognitive Architecture Applied to a Russian-Language Interactive Humanoid Robot." Cognitive Robot Architectures (2017): 69.

75 Kamille Gusmanov, Kevin Khanda, Dilshat Salikhov, Manuel Mazzara, and Nikolaos Mavridis. "Jolie good buildings: Internet of Things for smart building infrastructure supporting concurrent Apps utilizing distibuted microservices." In Cognitive Information Technologies and their Applications 12, no. 1 (2016).

74 Andrey Getmanskiy, Margarita Dmitrienko, and Mavridis Nikolaos. "Applying qualitative trajectory Calculus to human motion analysis: a case study towards robot social path planning." In Cognitive Information Technologies and their Applications 12, no. 2 (2016)

73 Bardh Hoxha, Nikolaos Mavridis, Georgios Fainekos, “VISPEC: A graphical tool for easy elicitation of MTL requirements”, In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), September 28-October 2, 2015 (download.pdf)

72  Javier Gomez, Santiago Garrido, and Nikolaos Mavridis, “Fast Marching Solution for the Social Path Planning Problem”, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2014), Hong Kong, China, May 31 - June 7, 2014, pp. 2243-2248 (download.pdf)

71  Konstantinos Iliopoulos, Nicola Bellotto, Nikolaos Mavridis, “From Sequence to Trajectory and Vice Versa: Solving the Inverse QTC Problem and Coping with Real-World Trajectories”, In Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium, Palo Alto, California, March 24-26, 2014, pp. 57-64 (download.pdf) 

70 Nikolaos Mavridis, Georgios Pierris, Paolo Gallina, Nikolaos Moustakas, Alexandros Astaras, “Subjective Difficulty and Indicators of Performance of Joystick-based Robot Arm Teleoperation with Auditory Feedback”, In Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics, July 27-31, 2015 (download.pdf)

69 Nikolaos Mavridis, Stefanos Kundig, Nikolaos Kapellas, “Acquisition of grounded models of adjectival modifiers supporting semantic composition and transfer to a physical interactive robot”, In Proceedings of the 17^th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics, July 27-31, 2015 (download.pdf)

68 Nikolaos Mavridis, Georgios Pierris, Paolo Gallina, Zacharoula Papamitsiou, Umair Saad, “On the subjective difficulty of Joystick-based robot arm teleoperation with auditory feedback”, In Proceedings of the 8^th IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition, February 1-4, 2015 (download.pdf)

67 Nikolaos Mavridis, Georgios Pierris, Chiraz BenAbdelkader, Aleksandar Krstikj, Christos Karaiskos, “Smart buildings and the human-machine cloud”, In Proceedings of the 8^th IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition, February 1-4, 2015 (download.pdf)

66  Marios Daoutis and Nikolaos Mavridis, “Towards a Model for Grounding Semantic Composition”, in Proceedings of the 50th Annual Convention of the Society for Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behavior (AISB 2014), London, UK, April 1-4, 2014 (download.pdf)

65  Eirini Giannakidou, Athena Vakali and Nikolaos Mavridis, “Towards a Framework for Social Semiotic Mining”, in Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS 2014), June 2-4, 2014, DOI: 10.1145/2611040.2611087 (download.pdf)

64  Leonidas Anthopoulos, Christopher Reddick, Eirini Giannakidou and Nikolaos Mavridis, “E-Government as an Innovative Product: Theories and Case Study”, in C. Reddick and L. Anthopoulos (Eds.), Information and Communication Technologies in Public Administration: Innovations from Developed Countries, CRC Press, 2014 (read "E - Government as an Innovative Product:Theories and Case Study)

63  Nikolaos Mavridis, Thirimachos Bourlai: “Granting Space and Time to Words: Blind Semantic Spatial Localization for the case of Facial Images”, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Emerging Allied Technologies in Engineering (IEEE iCreate 2014), pp. 125-132 (download.pdf)

62  Amir Salarpour, Hassan Khotanlou and Nikolaos Mavridis, “Long-term estimation of human spatial interactions through multiple laser ranging sensors”, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Emerging Allied Technologies in Engineering (IEEE iCreate 2014), pp. 109-114 (download.pdf)

61  Nadia Barbara Figueroa, Florian Schmidt, Haider Ali, Nikolaos Mavridis, “Joint Origin Identification of Articulated Robots with Marker- based Multi-Camera Optical Tracking Systems,” Elsevier Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 61, no. 6, June 2013, pp. 580–592, DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2013.02.008, IF: 1.462 (download.pdf)

60  Nikolaos Mavridis, Stasinos Konstantopoulos, Ioannis Vetsikas, Ilona Heldal, Pythagoras Karampiperis, Gustav Mathiason, Serge Thrill, Kostas Stathis, Vangelis Karkaletsis, “CLIC: A Framework for Distributed, On-Demand, Human-Machine Cognitive Systems”, pp. 1-32, arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.2242, 08/12/2013, accepted at Elsevier Cognitive Systems Research Journal, IF: 1.193 (download.pdf)

59  Haiwei Dong, Nikolaos Mavridis, “Muscle Force Distribution for Adaptive Control of a Humanoid Robot Arm with Redundant Bi-articular and Mono-articular Muscle Mechanism”, Springer International Journal of Artificial Life and Robotics, vol.18, 2013, pp. 41-51, DOI: 10.1007/s10015-013-0097-x, 2008 IF: 0.468 (download.pdf)

58  Haiwei Dong, Nikolas Giakoumidis, Nadia Figueroa, Nikolaos Mavridis, “Approach Behavior Monitoring and Vibration Indication in Developing General Moving Object Alarm System (GMOAS), ” International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, full-length paper, Vol.10, 290: 2013 DOI: 10.5772/56586, 2008 IF: 1.122 (download.pdf) 

57  Javier Gomez, Nikolaos Mavridis, Santiago Garrido, “Social Path Planning: Generic Human-Robot Interaction Framework for Robotic Navigation Tasks”, In Proceedings of the IEEE IROS 2013 Cognitive Robotics Systems, November 2013 (download.pdf)

56  Nikolaos Mavridis, Marina-Selini Katsaiti, Silvia Naef, Abdullah Falasi, Abdulrahman Nuaimi, Hamdan Araifi, Ahmed Kitbi, “Opinions and attitudes towards humanoid robots in the Middle East,” Springer Journal of AI and Society, vol. 27, no. 4, November 2012, pp. 517-534, DOI: 10.1007/s00146-011-0370-2, 2010 IF: 0.967 (download.pdf)

55  Nikolaos Mavridis, Nikolas Giakoumidis and Emerson Lopes Machado, “A novel evaluation framework for tele-operation and a case study on natural human-arm-imitation through motion capture,” Springer International Journal of Social Robotics, vol. 4, no. 1s, November 2012, pp. 5-18, DOI: 10.1007/s12369-011-0117-8, 2012 IF: 2.609 (download.pdf)

54  Haiwei Dong, Zhiwei Luo, Akinori Nagano and Nikolaos Mavridis, “An adaptive treadmill-style locomotion interface and its application in 3D interactive virtual market system,” Springer Journal of Intelligent Service Robotics, vol. 5, no. 3, 2012, pp. 159-167, DOI 10.1007/s11370-012-0110-6, 2010 IF: 1.327 (download.pdf)

53  Nikolaos Mavridis, “Autonomy, Isolation, and Collective Intelligence”, Journal of Artificial General Intelligence, vol. 3, no. 2, 2012, DOI: 10.2478/v10229-011-0016-2 (download.pdf)

52  Kanna Al Falahi, Nikolaos Mavridis and Yacine Atif, “Social networks and recommender systems: A world of current and future synergies,” In A. Abraham and A. Hassanien (Eds.). Computational Social Networks: Tools, Perspectives and Applications, Springer Verlag, 2012, pp. 445-465, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-4048-1 18 (download.pdf)

51  Haiwei Dong and Nikolaos Mavridis, “Adaptive biarticular muscle force control for humanoid robot arms,” in Proceedings of IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2012), November 2012, pp. 284-290 (download.pdf)

50  Byung-Chull Bae, Alberto Brunete, Usman Malik, Evanthia Dimara, Jermsak Jermsurawong and Nikolaos Mavridis, “Towards an empathizing and adaptive storyteller system,” in Proceedings of the eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, Stanford, CA, October 2012, pp. 63-65 (download.pdf)        

49  Basem Yousef, Nabil Bastaki, Nikolaos Mavridis et. al, “In-pipe inspection robot”, in Adaptive Mobile Robotics: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, Baltimore, USA, July 2012, pp. 289-296 

48  Nikolas Giakoumidis, Jin Bak, Javier Gomez, Arber Lenga, Nikolaos Mavridis, “Pilot-Scale Development of a UAV-UGV Hybrid with Air-Based UGV Path Planning”, In Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Applications of Mathematics and Informatics in Military Science (AMIMS), Athens, April 2013 (download.pdf)

47  Andry Tanoto, Javier Gómez, Nikolaos Mavridis, et. al, “Teletesting: Remote Path Planning Experimentation and Benchmarking in the TeleWorkbench”, IEEE European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR'13). Barcelona, Spain, September, 2013. (download.pdf)

46  Jermsak Jermsura Wong, Mian Umair Ahsan, Abdulhamid Haidar, Haiwei Dong and Nikolaos Mavridis, “Car parking vacancy detection and its application in 24-hour statistical analysis,” in Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT 2012), December 2012, pp. 84-90 (download.pdf)

45  Nikolas Giakoumidis, Jin U Bak, Javier V. Gómez, Arber Llenga and Nikolaos Mavridis, “Pilot-scale development of a UAV-UGV hybrid with air-based UGV path planning,” in Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT 2012), December 2012, pp. 204-208 (download.pdf)

44  Theodoros Varvadoukas, Eirini Giannakidou, Javier V. Gomez and Nikolaos Mavridis, “Indoor furniture and room recognition for a robot using internet-derived models and object context,” in Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT 2012), December 2012, pp. 122-128 (download.pdf)

43  Nikolaos Mavridis and Haiwei Dong, “To ask or to sense? Planning to integrate speech and sensorimotor acts,” in Proceedings of International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems (ICUMT 2012), October 2012, pp. 234-240 (downloadpdf)

42  Abudulhamid Haidar, Haiwei Dong and Nikolaos Mavridis, “Image-based date fruit classification,” in Proceedings of International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems (ICUMT 2012), October 2012, pp. 369-375 (download.pdf)

41  Nikolaos Mavridis, Thirimachos Bourlai, and Dimitri Ognibene, “The human-robot cloud: Situated collective intelligence on demand,” in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Cyber Technology in Automation, Control and Intelligent Systems, May 2012, pp. 360-365 (download.pdf) 

40  Noora Albalooshi, Nikolaos Mavridis, Nabeel Al-Qirim, “A survey on Social Networks and Organization Development,” in Proceedings of ACM/IEEE International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems, May 2012, pp. 539-545 (download.pdf)

39  Xiaohua Liu, Haoran Liang, Haiwei Dong and Nikolaos Mavridis, “Development of a novel conversational calculator based on remote online computation,” in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, vol. 7663, November 2012, pp. 142-151 (download.pdf) 

38  Katy Blumer, Hala Halaseh, Mian Ahsan, Haiwei Dong and Nikolaos Mavridis, “Cost-effective single-camera multi-car parking monitoring and vacancy detection towards real-world parking statistics and real-time reporting,” in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, vol. 7667, November 2012, pp. 506-515 (download.pdf)

37  Jin U Bak, Nikolas Giakoumidis, Gagyung Kim, Haiwei Dong and Nikolaos Mavridis, “An intelligent sensing system for sleep motion and stage analysis,” Procedia Engineering, Elsevier, vol. 41, September 2012, pp. 1128-1134 (download.pdf)

36  Haiwei Dong, Nikolas Giakoumidis, Joseph B Juma, Dmitriy A Tretyakov and Nikolaos Mavridis, “A fast laser motion detection and approaching behavior monitoring method for moving object alarm system (MOAS),” Procedia Engineering, Elsevier, vol. 41, September 2012, pp. 749-756 (download.pdf)

35  Thirimachos Bourlai, John Von Dollen, Nikolaos Mavridis, and Christopher Kolanko, “Evaluating the efficiency of a nighttime, middle-range infrared sensor for applications in human detection and recognition,” In Infrared Imaging Systems: Design, Analysis, Modeling, and Testing XXIII, edited by Gerald C. Holst, Keith A. Krapels, Proceedings of SPIE vol. 8355 (SPIE, Bellingham, WA, April 2012) CID Number 83551B, Baltimore, USA (download.pdf)

34  Nikolas Giakoumidis, Nikolaos Mavridis and Zachos Ioannou, “Simulating an autonomous and global robotic telescope network,” in Future Science with Meter Class Telescopes Conference, Belgrade, Serbia, September 2012 (poster presentation) (download.pdf)

33  Nikolaos Mavridis, Shervin Emami, Chandan Datta, Wajahat Kazmi, Chiraz BenAbdelkader, Panos Toulis, Andry Tanoto, Tamer Rabie, “FaceBots: Steps Towards Enhanced Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction by Utilizing and Publishing Online Social Information”, Springer Paladyn Journal of Behavioral Robotics, Vol 1:3, 2011, pp. 169-178, DOI: 10.2478/s13230-011-0003-y (download.pdf)

32  Nikolaos Mavridis “Social information assisted person identification”, European Patent Registry, GR1007371, issued August 16, 2011. 

31  Nikolaos Mavridis, Alexander Tsamakos, Nikolas Giakoumidis, Helal Baloushi, Saeed Ashkari, Mohammed Shamsi, Ahmed Kaabi, “Steps towards affordable Android Telepresence”, published in Proceedings of the IEEE Human-Robot Interaction Conference (HRI) Social Telepresence, Lausanne, March 2011, pp. 36-42 (download.pdf)

30  Nikolaos Mavridis, Alia Dhaheri, Latifa Dhaheri, Maitha Khanji, Noura Darmaki, “Transforming IbnSina into an Advanced Multilingual Interactive Android Robot”, published in Proceedings of the IEEE GCC Conference, Dubai, February 2011, pp. 120-123 (download.pdf)

29  Nikolaos Mavridis, Wajahat Kazmi and Panos Toulis, “Friends with Faces: How Social Networks Can Enhance Face Recognition and Vice Versa”, in book “Computational Social Networks Analysis: Trends, Tools and Research Advances”, Springer Verlag, Germany, 2010, pp. 453-482, ISBN 978-1-84882-236-8 (download.pdf) 

28  Nikolaos Mavridis, “Robot Friends: Artificial Agents entering Human Social Networks”, in book “The Networked Self: Identity, Community and Culture on Social Network Sites”, Routledge, New York, 2010, pp. 291-303, ISBN 978-0-41580-181-2 (download.pdf)

27  Nikolaos Mavridis, “Grounded Situation Models for Situated Conversational Assistants“, Lambert Academic, Germany, 2010, 267 pages, ISBN: 978-3-83831-242-2 (download.pdf)

26  N. Mavridis, “On Artificial Agents within Human Social Networks: Examples, Open Questions, and Potentialities”, IEEE DEST 2010, April 2010, pp. 685-690 (download.pdf)

25  N. Mavridis, M. Petychakis, “Human-like Memory Systems for Interactive Robots: Desiderata and Two Case Studies utilizing Grounded Situation Models and Online Social Networking”, The Thirty Sixth Annual Convention of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behavior (AISB 2010), Proceedings of the Symposium on Human-like memory for Artificial Agents, SSAISB, March 2010, pp. 31-36 (download.pdf)

24  L. Riek, N. Mavridis, et al. “Ibn Sina Steps Out: Exploring Arabic Attitudes Toward Humanoid Robots”, The Thirty Sixth Annual Convention of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behavior (AISB 2010), Proceedings of the Symposium on New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction, SSAISB, March 2010, pp. 88-94 (download.pdf)

23  N. Mavridis, E. Machado et al., “Real-time Teleoperation of an Industrial Robotic Arm Through Human Arm Movement Imitation”, International Symposium on Robotics and Intelligent Sensors (IRIS 2010), March 2010, pp. 288-293  (download.pdf)

22  C. Christoforou, N. Mavridis et al., “Android tele-operation through Brain-Computer Interfacing: A real-world demo with non-expert users”, International Symposium on Robotics and Intelligent Sensors (IRIS 2010), March 2010, pp. 294-299 (download.pdf)

21  N. Mavridis, N. Giakoumidis, “Natural Robot Teleoperation through Human Arm Imitation”, TEE Robotics Conference, Patras, December 2010, pp. 157-164 

20  N. Mavridis, “ICT Education & Research in the Emirates”, 20-slide presentation and talk at the Inconet-GCC workshop, ICT – the major European Commission ICT research conference, Brussels, September 2010 (workshop presentation) (download.pdf)

19  N. Mavridis, “WRO 2011 in Abu Dhabi and Robotics in the Emirates”, 24-slide presentation and talk at the World Robotics Olympiad Hellas educational robotics workshop, Athens, April 2010 (workshop presentation) (download.pdf)

18  N. Mavridis, M. Petychakis et al., “FaceBots: Shared Memories and Shared Friends towards meaningful long-term HRI”, poster presentation at CogSys 2010, Zurich, January 2010 (poster presentation)  (download.pdf)

17  N. Mavridis, “Building the Arab World’s first Interactive Robotics and Media Laboratory: Challenges and Opportunities”, Peer-reviewed article at IEEE GOLD Magazine, March 2010, pp. 16-17 (download.pdf)

16  N. Mavridis and D. Hanson, “The IbnSina Center: An Augmented Reality Theater with Intelligent Robotic and Virtual Characters”, 18th IEEE International Symposium on  Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RoMAN09), Toyama, Japan, September 2009, pp. 681-686 (download.pdf)

15  N. Mavridis, W. Kazmi, P. Toulis, C. Ben-AbdelKader, “On the synergies between online social networking, Face Recognition, and Interactive Robotics”, IEEE Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networking CaSoN, June 2009, pp. 48 – 56. (download.pdf)

14  N. Mavridis, A. Rashdi, M. Ketbi, S. Ketbi, A. Marar, “Exploring Behaviors & Collaborative Mapping through Mindstorms Robots: A case study in applied constructionism at senior-project level”, IEEE Innovations in IT, December 2009, pp. 272-277 (download.pdf)

13  N. Mavridis, “Approaches towards Natural Language Communication for Interactive Robots”, IEEE International Conference of Robotics and Automation ICRA 2009 cognitive factors workshop proceedings, Kobe, Japan, May 2009

12  N. Mavridis, S. Emami et al.: “Facebots: Embodied Conversational Social Robots”, First TEE Robotics Conference, Athens, February 2009, pp. 181-186

11  N. Mavridis, C. Datta et al, “Facebots: Social robots utilizing and publishing social information in Facebook”, IEEE Human-Robot Interaction Conference HRI 2009, San Diego, USA, March 2009 (download.pdf)

10  N. Mavridis, T. Rabie, “FaceBots: Robots utilizing and publishing Social Information on FaceBook“, poster presentation at Microsoft External Research Symposium, Seattle, March 2009 (poster presentation)

9  V. Kwee, N. Mavridis, H. Tair, A. Shehi, A. Yammahi, S. Maqdahi, “Digital Extensions to Cultural Objects”, Digital Media for Architecture and Cultural Heritage DMACH, Amman, November 2008, pp. 473-483 (download.pdf)

8  N. Mavridis, D. Roy, “Grounded Situation Models for Robots: Where words and percepts meet”, IEEE Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems IROS 2006,  Beijing, October 2006, pp. 4690-4697 (download.pdf)

7  D. Roy, R. Patel, P. DeCamp, R. Kubat, M. Fleischman, B. Roy, N. Mavridis, S. Tellex, A. Salata, J. Guinness, M. Levit, P. Gorniak: “The Human Speechome Project”, Annual Cognitive Science Society Conference, Vancouver, July 2006, pp. 192-196 resources/7%20 (download.pdf)

6  N. Mavridis, D. Roy, “Grounded Situation Models for Robots: Bridging Language, Perception, and Action”, Conference of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence AAAI MCHLI, Pittsburgh, July 2005, pp. 32-39 (download.pdf)

5  Deb Roy, Kai-yuh Hsiao and Nikolaos Mavridis, “Mental Imagery for a Conversational Robot”, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man & Cybernetics Part B, Vol. 34:3, 2004, pp. 1374-1383, IF: 4.88 (download.pdf)

4  K. Hsiao, N. Mavridis and D. Roy, “Coupling Perception and Simulation: Steps Towards Conversational Robotics”, IEEE Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems IROS 2003, Las Vegas, October 2003, pp. 928-933 (download.pdf)

3  D. Roy, K. Hsiao and N. Mavridis, “Conversational Robots: Building Blocks for Grounding Word Meanings”, North American Association for Computational Linguistics Human Language Technologies Conference NAACL HLT, Edmonton, May 2003, pp.70-77 (download.pdf)

2  S. Malasiotis et al., “A face and gesture recognition system based on an active stereo sensor”, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2001 Conference, Vol. 3, Thessaloniki, October 2001, pp. 955-958, (download.pdf)

1  N. Mavridis et al., “The HISCORE face recognition application: Affordable desktop face recognition based on a novel 3D camera”, European Association for Signal and Image Processing Conference on Augmented Virtual Environments and 3D Imaging EURASIP ICAV3D, Mykonos, May 2001, pp. 157-160 (download.pdf)

A draft popular science article entitled: "RoboCop, RoboEthics, and the future of warfare: Myths and Reality" (in Greek)