Konstantinos Zachos

Konstantinos Zachos is Research Fellow at the Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice, Cass Business School of City University London.

Konstantinos’ current research focuses on intelligent digital support to enhance journalism productivity and creativity through the use of digital tools that compute creative outcomes by exploiting artificial intelligence and information retrieval techniques. In particular, Konstantinos will be researching and developing a prototype of digital creativity support for journalists during the early stages of news story and feature development, funded by the new EU-funded project called INJECT.

A second research area that Konstantinos is focusing on is digital support for the more seamless care planning, monitoring and interventions by people with chronic conditions and their carers. In particular, Konstantinos will be part of a team (funded by an EPSRC Grant called SCAMPI) that will co-design, prototype and evaluate the feasibility of the toolset with people with two example chronic conditions - dementia and Parkinson's disease. The team will work closely with the Alzheimer's Society and Parkinson's UK in order to engage people with these conditions, their families, carers and disease experts.

Finally, another current research focus is digital support for human creativity in health-and-safety management in manufacturing plants that acts as a demonstrator for the wider application of creativity techniques and digital support tools in professional practice.

Qualifications

PhD, City, University of London, United Kingdom, Oct 2004 – Dec 2007

Employment

Research Fellow, City, University of London, Oct 2007 – present

Expertise

Primary Topics

Innovation & Creativity

Geographic Areas

Europe

Research

Projects

• SeCSE
• S-CUBE
• MIRROR

Research Interests

• Requirements engineering, in particular requirements for services delivered from web-systems
• Requirements-based service discovery and service-based systems development
• Theories and models of creativity in software design
• Information Retrieval Methods, including Word Sense Disambiguation, Query Expansion and Natural Language Processing

Chapter

Zachos, K., Maiden, N., Levis, S., Camargo, K. and Allemandi, G. (2015). Creativity support to improve health-and-safety in manufacturing plants: Demonstrating everyday creativity. (pp. 225–234). ISBN 978-1-4503-3598-0

Journal Articles (7)

• Apostolou, D., Zachos, K., Maiden, N., Agell, N., Sánchez-Hernandez, G., Taramigkou, M., Star, K. and Wippoo, M. (2016). Facilitating Creativity in Collaborative Work with Computational Intelligence Software. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 11(2), pp. 29–40. doi:10.1109/MCI.2016.2532266.
• Pitts, K., Pudney, K., Zachos, K., Maiden, N., Krogstie, B., Jones, S., Rose, M., Macmanus, J. and Turner, I. (2015). Using mobile devices and apps to support reflective learning about older people with dementia. Behaviour and Information Technology, 34(6), pp. 613–631. doi:10.1080/0144929X.2015.1015165.
• Maiden, N., D'Souza, S., Jones, S., Müller, L., Pannese, L., Pitts, K., Prilla, M., Pudney, K., Rose, M., Turner, I. and Zachos, K. (2013). Computing technologies for reflective, creative care of people with dementia. Communications of the ACM, 56(11), pp. 60–67. doi:10.1145/2500495.
• Zachos, K., Maiden, N., Pitts, K., Jones, S., Turner, I., Rose, M., Pudney, K. and MacManus, J. (2013). Digital creativity in dementia care support. International Journal of Creative Computing, 1(1), pp. 35–35. doi:10.1504/IJCRC.2013.056924.
• Zachos, K., Kounkou, A.P. and Maiden, N.A.M. (2012). Exploiting Codified User Task Knowledge to Discover Services at Design-Time. IJSSOE, 3, pp. 30–66. doi:10.4018/jssoe.2012040103.
• Zachos, K. and Maiden, N.A.M. (2008). Inventing Requirements from Software: An Empirical Investigation with Web Services. RE pp. 145–154. doi:10.1109/RE.2008.39. [publisher’s website]
• Zachos, K., Maiden, N.A.M. and Tosar, A. (2005). Rich-Media Scenarios for Discovering Requirements. IEEE Software, 22, pp. 89–97. doi:10.1109/MS.2005.134.