HCI Master

Become a UX/UI Designer, study at the HCI Master at the University of Patras. Admissions now open.

Note: This year (2021-22) the courses were run face-to-face. As from next year, we expect some changes in the modality of postgraduate studies in Greek Universities that may allow us to run this program online, as most of our students have asked. We will keep you updated on this.

We announce that applications for admission of new students for the 2022-2023 …

The timetable of the spring semester of 2021-22 has now be announced. An overview of the weekly timetable is: (update of teaching hours for HCI205)

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The Master Program in Human-Computer Interaction of the University of Patras, Greece, aims to provide specialized theoretical knowledge, but also new applied knowledge, skills and competencies, relating to the study, design and development of interactive technologies, i.e. technologies that interact with their users, as well as the study of phenomena related to user interaction with modern technologies.

Graduates of Computer science and engineering, Informatics but also graduates of faculties of science and other engineering schools, with an adequate background in …

later edition: time of course Information Visualization has changed

The timetable of the winter semester of 2021-22 has now be announced. An overview of the weekly timetable is:

Note: The lecture halls are dispersed in the Electrical Engineering Dept, Computer Engineering and Chemical Engineering, no more than 10′ walk between them (see map). More detailed description is following.

More information on the courses can …

The new students that were admitted for the academic year 2021-2022 have now be notified. We welcome our new students and wish them every success.

During the week starting October the 4th, an orientation event will be organized in Patras, an invitation will be issued soon to all students.

The semester is planned to start the week starting on October the 11th. The classes will be mainly taught face-to-face. However provisions will be made for a number of classes …

Our master student Semira Evangelou with other members of the research group under the supervision of Prof. Michalis Xenos received the best paper award for their paper :

A Serious Game for Mobile Phones used in a Software Engineering Course: Usability Evaluation and Educational Effectiveness

that was presented in the EDUCON2021 – IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference that took place in Wien/online in April 2021.

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We announce that applications for admission of new students for the 2021-2022 HCI Master in Human-Computer Interaction will be accepted starting June 1st 2021.

The eligibility criteria and the submission process are outline in the admissions 2021 page.

Applications will be accepted in two phases. Deadline for 1st call is July 15th 2021. The deadline for the second call is August 31st, 2021.…

Orientation event for the courses of the spring semester is planned for Wednesday, February the 24th, 2021.

The timetable of the courses offered is as follows:

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HCI Masters student Stefanos Balaskas will present his thesis titled “The effect of personality traits on users’ attitudes to online advertising” on Friday 8/1/2021, 10:00-11:00 a.m.

Virtual room link:
https://upatras-gr.zoom.us/j/98173227909?pwd=VU5WdE9MU1FDeFpOYWhoQ0lrRmNQZz09…

A group of our master students, involved in developing location-based games in the city of Patras in the context of the course HCI208 Design of Location-based Applications of our Master Program, were nominated as candidates for the selection of the Person of the Year 2020 in the category “Education, Research, Innovation”.

Voting for the Person of the Year 2020 is open until 12 of January 2021. You can vote for our students at:

https://www.prosopaxronias.gr/?section=6222&language=el_GR&itemid1494=6262&detail1494=1

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