Thursday March 17th, 2022, 2:00–3:30pm Instructors Kalliopi Gkika, Georgia Dimitriadou, Elena S. Lazaridou, Eleni D. Lazaridou, Eirini Preka, Vivi Stylou, Graduate StudentsSchool of French, AUTh Abstract The shift to the digital age influenced—among other fields—the field of humanities, through the creation of applications of multimodal and multisemiotic communication. Accordingly, our team members collaborated in order to create a multimodal application, which will combine purely textual as well as non-verbal elements, such as image and kinesthetic movements. The practical part of this se...

Thursday November 26th, 2020, 2:00–5:00pm Instructors: Eleni Gouli, Athanasios Karasimos, Eirini Mergoupi-Savaidou, Giorgos Tzedopoulos, Anastasia Falierou, Gerasimos Chrysovitsanos, ResearchersDARIAH-GR Network-Apollonis of the Academy of Athens Abstract The aim of this seminar is to familiarize teachers of all levels of education with tools, media, data, and techniques of digital humanities in order to utilize and integrate them into the educational process. The seminar includes an introduction to the use of digital tools in in-person and distance learning, the presentation of related di...

May 26th, 2022, 2:00–3:15pm Instructor: Ilaria Torre, Postdoctoral ResearcherDivision of Robotics, Perception and Learning, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Abstract of Seminar Social robots are becoming more ubiquitous in our daily lives. They are being used to assist the elderly in their homes, as fitness coaches, and as children's learning aids, among many other uses. They have great potential to improve our lives, but their deployment in society presents several challenges. For example, even though many of these applications require spoken verbal interaction, not much resear...

Thursday October 14th, 2021, 2:15–4:15pm Instructors: Stavroula Antonopoulou, ResearcherAUTh, Hellenic Open University Athanasios Karasimos, ResearcherDARIAH-GR Network-Apollonis of the Academy of Athens Abstract In recent years, a large number of digital media has been developed, which could be used in the humanities, at any level of education, from primary to tertiary. What is most important is not the tool per se but how it is used didactically and thus what the roles of the teacher and students are. The aim of this seminar is to present different ways of the educational use of digital...

Friday May 13th, 2022, 1:45–3:00pm Instructors: Chrysoula Chaziraki, LibrarianDigitization Service of the Library and Information Center, AUTh Efstathios Amanatidis, Archivist and LibrarianDepartment of Rare Collections and Digitization of the Library, AUTh Abstract PART I The creation and the content of the “Digital Collections” (Chrysoula Chaziraki) Starting with a brief historical overview of the creation of the Library of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) and the enrichment of its collections, this presentation highlights at the same time the reasons that deemed necess...