Designing Tomorrow
CILab is an interdisciplinary hub exploring the intersection of technology and culture to design innovative applications that empower individuals and promote digital wellbeing
Embracing the transformative potential of digital technologies to drive positive social impact
Our diverse community of researchers seeks to explore, conceptualise and demonstrate the design challenges deriving both from human and system perspectives, identifying the socio-technical concepts that should be considered for an integrated implementation of cultural digital ecosystems. We aim to create a collaborative experimentation environment for the design and implementation of innovative scenarios for examining the blurring of distinctions between reality and virtuality, as well as between people, machines, and nature.
Our Research Areas
Conceptual Modeling
Promotes research in the domain of requirements engineering and information systems design, using conceptual modelling as a theoretical tool, pursuing the alignment of the cultural organisations’ objectives with supporting information and communication technologies.
New Technologies and Representation
Explores the multimedia audiovisual environment of the arts of the contemporary world, within the broader cultural context of posthumanism, while giving emphasis to the production of new theories.
E-Learning
Exploits models and theories of digital learning in the context of educational design and production of educational applications addressed to a wide range of users with varying educational background and cultural characteristics. In addition it focuses in the analysis and interpretation of data generated by learners’ interactions in e-learning environments.
Digital Wellbeing by Design
Investigates how our conceptual understanding of wellbeing has been altered by digital transformation and the new modes of collaboration between human and artificial agents, promoting a common understanding of wellbeing between social scientists and system developers.
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CILab is proud to nurture students in their educational journey and prepare them for future careers as research scientists and cultural informatics professionals. Our faculty collaborates with both undergraduate and postgraduate candidates to develop research theses or tailor internships that meet the students’ needs while aligning with CILab’s objectives and expertise. There are also opportunities to support CILab through volunteering. Some of the activities that volunteers have undertaken in the past include participation in focus groups the organization of dissemination events. Contact us to find out how to become a fundamental part of the CILab’s activities and day-to-day operations.
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News & Events
Co-organisation of the 17th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling (PoEM 2024)
Prof Evangelia Kavakli will serve as co-chair for the 17th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling (PoEM 2024).
CiLab Celebrates Successful Engagement at 2024 Mednight event
First Public Test of CiLabot at Mednight 2024: Exploring Digital Wellbeing Through AI Research
CiLab will participate in Mediterranean Researcher’s Night
CiLab is excited to announce its participation in the Mediterranean Researcher’s Night in Mytilene once again this year. Following the success of last year’s event….
Focus Group on Digital Wellbeing: Insights from Seniors at KAPI Mytilene
Prof. E Kavakli participated in NEMO 2024 summer school in the University of Vienna
Prof. Evangelia Kavakli recently participated in the 10th Edition of the NEMO Summer School, at the University of Vienna delivering a lecture on “Capability Oriented Requirements Engineering.”
MoU signed between OMiLAB and CiLAB. The CiLAB node is finally true!
The Open Models Initiative LABoratory (OMiLAB) and CiLAB have officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), marking a significant milestone with the establishment of the CiLAB node at the University of the Aegean.
2nd Focus Group Meeting Held for Digital Wellbeing Project
Participation of Prof. E Sampanikou at the 14TH BEYOND HUMANISM CONFERENCE 2024
Prof. Evi Sampanikou has recently participated in the 14th Beyond Humanism Conference 2024, themed “Technologies-Ecologies and the Networks of Posthuman Care,” hosted by the University of Lodz in Poland….
Co-organisation of the 3rd Metahuman Futures Forum, University of the Aegean in Mytilene
Prof Evi Sampanikou, PhD Candidate Nikolitsa Gourgouli and the Mytilene Bodynet-Khorós Project Team acted as local organizer of the 3rd Metahuman Futures Forum in Lesvos.