495 About the Contributors -Panagiotis BamidisisAssistantProfessorintheMedicalSchool,AristotleUniversityofThessa -loniki,Greece.Hehasco-ordinatedfourlargeEuropeanprojects(www.meducator.net;www.longlasting memories.eu,www.epblnet.eu,www.childrenhealth.eu)andwastheprincipalinvestigatorforanumber ofnationalandinternationalfundedprojects.Hispublicationrecordconsistsofmorethan90refereed journalpapers.Inaddition,hehasbeenactingasarefereeinmorethan25journals,andasGuestEditor inmorethan13journalspecialissues.Finally,heisamemberoftheAdministrationBoardoftheGreek ,FederationofAlzheimer’sAssociationsandRelatedDisorders,theInnovationZoneofThessaloniki Greece,andtheHellenicBiomedicalEngineeringSociety.HehasbeentheChairman/Organiserof7 ,international conferences (iSHIMR2001, iSHIMR2005, MEDICON2010, GASMA2010, SAN2011 MEI2012,ΜΕΙ2015)andtheConferenceProduceroftheMedicalEducationInformaticsConference andSpringSchoolSeries.HeisavisitingscientistatKarolinskaInstitute,Sweden.Hisresearchinterests includehealthinformationmanagement,affectiveandphysiologicalcomputingandhuman–computer interaction,(bio)medicalinformaticswithemphasisonneurophysiologicalsensingandambientassisted .living,collaborativee-learning,contentsharingandrepurposing,andmedicaleducationinformatics Ioannis TarnanasisaSeniorResearcherattheUniversityofBern,Switzerland,Gerontechnology andRehabilitationgroupattheARTORGCenterforBiomedicalEngineeringResearch.Hehasbeen researchinganddeveloping3Dvirtualandaugmentedrealityinnovationswithfocusondementiaand VirtualRealityrehabilitationsince2001.Heisanauthorof16peerreviewedpublications,10books andmorethan40conferencepapersinthefieldofAppliedNeuroscience.Heismemberoftheeditorial ,boardof:NeurobiologyofAging,ELSEVIER,5-YearImpactFactor:5.127,Cyberpsychology,Behavior andSocialNetworking,JCRSocialSciencesEdition,IEEEcommunications2006-2008Infovisexpert reviewer,VIS,JournalofMedicalInternetResearch,FrontiersinAgingNeuroscience,Presence2006- ,(2007andmemberoftheBiomedicalEngineeringSocietyBern,SSN(SwissSocietyforNeuroscience AAATE(AssociationfortheadvancementofAssistiveTechnologyinEurope),InternationalErgonomics Association,InternationalAssociationforPsychophysiologyinErgonomicsandInternationalSociety .forGerontechnology Leontios J. Hadjileontiadis,(π-1966)receivedtheDiplomaandthePh.D.degreeinElectricaland -ComputerEngineeringin1989and1997,respectively,bothfromtheAristotleUniversityofThessa ,loniki(AUTH),Thessaloniki,Greece.Dr.HadjileontiadisalsoholdsaDiplomainMusicology(AUTH Thessaloniki,2011)andaPh.D.degreeinmusiccomposition(UniversityofYork,UK,2004).Since December1999hejoinedtheDepartmentofElectricalandComputerEngineering,AUTH,Greeceas  About the Contributors -afacultymember,whereheisaFullProfessor,workingattheSignalProcessingandBiomedicalTech .nologyUnitoftheTelecommunicationsLaboratory.Prof.HadjileontiadisisanIEEESeniorMember Magda Tsolaki,MD,PhDwasborninThessaloniki,Greecein1954andspentmostofhertimein Thessaloniki,Greece.SheisProfessorofNeurologysince2010,Neuropsychiatristsince1983,andshe hasworkedatAristotleUniversityofThessalonikisince1982andatthe3rdDepartmentofNeurologyof ,AristotleUniversityofThessalonikisince1988.Shehasbeenthemainauthororco-authorof37Books shehasparticipatedwith372abstractsinGreekConferences,with296abstractsinEnglishInternational orEuropeanConferences,sheisthefirstauthororco-authorin178PapersinGreekJournals,andin234 ,-InternationalJournals-198inPubMedwithImpactFactor=1047.25,h-index=34,with5.552citations shehasbeenreviewerforConferencesandJournals(117).Shehasorganized27NationalConferences onADandfiveInternational.Shewasoneofthethreeorsevenadvisorymembersfor17doctora theses-completed.ShehascreatedtheGreekAlzheimerAssociationin1995andGreekFederationof .Alzheimer’sDiseasein2007,sheischairofthisFederationwith308lectures,TVandradioprograms .Shehasparticipatedin29researchprogramsand31clinicaltrials.Totallyshereceived36awards *** James AmorisabiomedicalengineerattheUniversityofWarwickandhisresearchinterestsinclude thedevelopmentofcomputationallyintelligenttechniquestoextractmeaningfrommulti-sensorsystems forapplicationsinhealthandwellbeing;andtheuseofwearabletechnologyasadatagatheringplatform withinthesesystems.Dr.Amor’sworkprimarilyinvolvestheapplicationofintelligentdataanalysis techniquestolarge,personaldata-setstoextractpersonalisedbehaviourpatternsanddetectdifferences -inbehaviourthatareindicativeofchanginghealthstate.TodatethishasbeenfocusedonBipolarDis orderandthepredictionofmanicanddepressiveepisodes.Hisworkalsoinvolvestheuseofwrist-worn wearabledevices,particularlysmart-watchesandaccelerometerstomonitorlocationandactivityina longitudinalsetting,andthedevelopmentofsignalprocessingtechniquestodetectandanalyseactivity .andmovementfromthesesensors -Panagiotis E. Antoniou isapostdoctoralresearchassociateintheLabofMedicalPhysics,depart mentofMedicine,AristotleUniversityofThessaloniki.HereceivedadegreeinPhysicsfromAristotle UniversityofThessalonikiin1997,aM.Sc.degreeinMedicalPhysicsin2001fromtheDemocritus UniversityofThraceandaPh.D.degreeinMedicalPhysicsin2004fromDemocritusUniversityof Thrace.HisresearchinterestsareintheareaofMedicalInformatics,inthefieldsofvirtualpatientsin medicaleducationandinthefieldoftheelderlyexergaminginterventions.Hehasauthoredmorethan .30publicationsinpeerreviewedjournalsandconferences Alexander AstarasisAsst.ProfessorinComputerScienceattheAmericanCollegeofThessaloniki ACT)andaResearchAssociateintheLabofMedicalPhysics,Dept.ofMedicine,AristotleUniversity) ofThessaloniki(AUTH),Greece.HeobtainedhisBAinPhysicsfromOberlinCollege,Ohio,USAand hisPhDinElectronicsandElectricalEngineeringfromtheUniversityofEdinburgh,Scotland,UK.He hasauthoredmorethan30publicationsinthefieldsofElectronicsandBiomedicalEngineering.Inthe pasthehasworkedinchipdesign,system-on-chipandlab-on-chipintegration,mappingartificialneural networksonsiliconandassistivetechnologiesforphysicalrehabilitationandsupportingtheelderly.His 496 About the Contributors ,(researchinterestsincludebiomedicalmicro-electro-mechanicaldataacquisitionsensors(bio-MEMS .lowpowermixed-signalVLSIelectronics,machinelearning,pervasivecomputingandmedicalrobotics Giorgos BamparopoulosisaresearchassistantatMedicalPhysicsLaboratory,AristotleUniversity -ofThessaloniki.Hereceivedhisbachelor’sdegreeinMathematicsin2012fromtheAristotleUniver sityofThessalonikiandtheM.Sc.degreeinWebSciencein2015fromthesamedepartment.Since hehasparticipatedinmanynationalandEuropeanprojects.HeisanactivememberofHellenic,2012 MathematicalSocietyandaProjectandWorkshopCoordinatorforSchoolofDataatOpenKnowledge FoundationGreece.Hisresearchinterestsincludeseriousgames,gameanalytics,semanticweb,open .dataandwebscience Antonis S. BillisreceivedhisdiplomainElectricalandComputerEngineeringin2007andMScin MedicalInformaticsin2011,bothfromAristotleUniversityofThessaloniki,Greece.Healsoholdsa PtychioinBusinessAdministrationandManagementfromtheUniversityofMacedonia,Greece.Heis currentlyworkingtowardthePh.D.degreeingerontechnologyandworkswiththeLaboratoryofMedical Physics,MedicalSchool,AUTH.Hismainresearchinterestslieintheareasofmedicaldecisionsupport systems,AALtechnologies,exergamingandcloudcomputing.Hehasbeenamemberofthetechnical .chamberofGreecesinceNovemberof2007 -Agisilaos ChaldogeridisgraduatedfromInformaticsDepartmentofAristotleUniversityofThes salonikiin2010.HereceivedhisMasterofInformationTechnologiesinEducationdegreein2012from theInformaticsDepartmentofAristotleUniversityofThessaloniki.Since2013hisisaPhDcandidatein -InformationTechnologiesinEducationoftheInformaticsDepartmentofAristotleUniversityofThes saloniki.Whilepursuinghisdoctoraldiplomaheworksasaresearchassociateinseveralprojectswhich includeITservicesinareassuchase-learning,linguisticanalysisandmultimediaproduction.Healso worksasafreelancermainlyinITservicesandwebdevelopment.Hisresearchinterestsismainlyinthe CognitiveTrainingareaanditsimplementationinordertoprovideandhelpspecialgroupsofpeople likeelders,dementiapatientsandothers.Accordingtothisdirectionhehaspublishedseveralpapersin .journalsandinternationalconferences -Maria ChatzidimitriouisaMedicalDoctorsince1995withaspecializationinMedicalBiopa thologysince2002.In2004sheparticipatedinpostgraduatecoursesinMedicalMicrobiologyinthe MedicalSchooloftheUniversityofEdinburgh,G.Britainandin2006completedherPh.D.Thesis