Ινστιτούτο Πληροφορικής (ICS) Ίδρυμα Τεχνολογίας και Έρευνας (FORTH)
Νικολάου Πλαστήρα 100, Βασιλικά Βουτών ΤΚ-70013 Ηράκλειο Κρήτης
Τηλέφωνο: +30 2810 391743 FAX: +30 2810 391740 E-mail: antonaATics.forth.gr
Dr. Margherita Antona is collaborating researcher at the Human - Computer Interaction Laboratory of ICS-FORTH.
2018 - 2021 Greece-Germany Collaboration - CuRe - Cultures and Remembrances
2018 - 2021 MIS-Τ1ΕΔΚ - InCulture
2018 - 2021 MIS-Τ1ΕΔΚ - Invisible Museum
2017 - 2021 KRIPIS “Quality of life” II
2017 - 2018 H2020-EU.4.a Teaming - CRSC - Center for STEAM Education Research, Science Communication and Innovation
2015 - 2018 H2020-EU.3.1-RAMCIP - Robotic Assistant for MCI patients at home
2013 - 2015 KRIPIS “Quality of life”
2011 - 2014 FP7-ICT-HOBBIT “HOBBIT - The Mutual Care Robot”
2010 - 2013 FP-7-ICT-VERITAS “Virtual and augmented environments and realistic user interactions to achieve embedded accessibility design”
2010 - 2013 FP7-ICT-CARDIAC “Coordination Action in R&D in Accessible and Assistive ICT”
2009 - ongoing ICS-FORTH Ambient Intelligence Programme
2009 - 2012 AAL-REMOTE
2008 - 2012 FP7-ICT-ACCESSIBLE “Accessibility Assessment Simulation Environment for New Applications Design and Development”
2008 - 2011 FP7-ICT-OASIS “Open architecture for Accessible Services Integration and Standardisation”
2007 - 2009 FP6-ICT-DfA@ eInclusion “Design for All for in eInclusion”
2006 - 2009 FP6-ICT-FET-InterLink “International Cooperation Activities in Future and Emerging ICTs”
2004 - 2007 FP5-ICT- DELOS “A Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries”
2004 - 2005 FP5-ICT- eUser “Evidence-based support for the design and delivery of user-centred on-line public services”
2003 - 2005 FP5-IST-D4ALLnet “Design for All Network of Excellence”
2001 - 2003 FP5-IST-SEN-IST-NET “European Network of Excellence in Information Society Technologies for Special Educational Needs”
2000 - 2003 FP5-IST-IS4ALL “Information Society for All”
2000 - 2001 EPET-II – HERMES “New Technologies for Distance Education”
2000 - 2001 EPET-II - SOFTWARE USABILITY “Human Network on Software Usability”
1999 - 2001 EPET-II - DIALEXIKO “Development of a Lexical Database for the Modern Greek language organised into semantically interrelated sets”
1996 - 1998 HORIZON – HESTIA “Vocational Training of People with Special Needs in Computer-based Working Environments”
1994 - 1996 TIDE TP1001 – ACCESS “Development platform for unified ACCESS to enabling environments”
Dr. Margherita Antona holds a B.A. in Computational Linguistics from the University of Pisa, Italy, and a PhD from the Department of Electronic Engineering of the University of Kent, UK, in the area of Human-Computer Interaction. She is member of the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Laboratory of ICS-FORTH since 1993, where she has served as a Principal Researcher from 2013 to January 2024. She has been Deputy Head of the HCI Laboratory and of the Ambient Intelligence Programme of ICS‐FORTH from 2014 to 2023. Her research interests include design for all and assistive technologies, adaptive and intelligent interfaces, Ambient Intelligence, Human Robot Interaction and Human-Centred AI. She has participated in more than 25 European and national R&D projects. She has coauthored more than 160 scientific publications. She is Co‐Chair of the International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction (UAHCI), coeditor the Universal Access in the Information Society International Journal published by Springer, and member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the International Journal of Human Computer Interaction published by Taylor&Francis. From 1989 to 1993 she has been researcher at the Institute of Computational Linguistics of CNR is Pisa (Italy).
