Vasiliki Kondyli

Hello!

I am an interdisciplinary researcher, focusing on visual perception, spatial cognition, interactions and design computing. I am exploring human visuo-locomotive experience under naturalistic embodied conditions (in-the-wild and in virtual reality) by analysing multimodal behavioural data (e.g., gaze, motion). My work is also concerned with the development of interdisciplinary methodologies needed to incorporate behavioural principles in the design and development of human-centred assistive technologies and AI systems, such as design assistance technologies and autonomous driving.

I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science (Oct 2023) at Örebro University in Sweden, as part of the Newbreed-Successful Ageing interdisciplinary programme by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action and the Örebro University. I am a trained architect with specific expertise in parametric systems and environmental psychology. My academic background includes a diploma in Architecture from the University of Patras in Greece, and interdisciplinary research in the UK and Germany.

Since 2015, I have been a member of the DesignSpace group (www.design-space.org), as well as of the CoDesign initiative (www.codesign-lab.org). My research interest involves human perception and cognition in the built environment, inclusive design principles, as well as the development of a cognitive technological framework for people-centred parametric design.

Contact: kondyli.v@gmail.com

EDUCATION

2023 Ph.D. in Computer Science, School of Science and Technology, Örebro University, Sweden

2014 Diploma in Architecture, Faculty of Architecture Engineering, University of Patras, Greece (Graduated with Honors)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

6.2023 - 9.2023 Guest Researcher Collaborative Robotic Assistants for Teams (CRAFT) lab | Facculty of Electrical Engineering, Chalmers University, Sweden. Host: Prof. Dr. Karinne Ramirez-Amaro - Topic: Joint attention in HRI & knowledge representation methods

1.2023 - 2.2023 Guest Researcher Icelandic Vision Lab | Faculty of Psychology, University of Iceland, Iceland. Host: Prof. Dr. Árni Kristjánsson - Topic: Priming and visual foraging in the context of everyday driving

10.2015 - 6.2018 Research Fellow DesignSpace Group | Human-Centred Cognitive Assistive Lab, (FB3) Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Bremen, Germany. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mehul Bhatt - Topic: Evidence-Based Design for Architecture

1.2015 - 7.2015 Research Intern DesignSpace Group | Human-Centred Cognitive Assistive Lab, (FB3) Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Bremen, Germany. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mehul Bhatt - Topic: Embodied visuo-locomotive experience in New Parkland Hospital (Dallas) Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis | Spatial Cognition Group (HCC Lab)

7.2014 - 9.2014 Research Intern Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) and the Spatial Cognition Group, University College of London (UCL), United Kingdom, Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Amir H. Javadi , Prof. Dr. Hugo Spiers, Topic: Cognition and perception experiments for navigation in urban space

AWARDS | GRANTS

2023 EU COST Action / Short Scientific Mission Research Visit, CRAFT lab, Chalmers University, Sweden

2022 Swedish Research Council / Travel Grant, EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) 2022 - Leiden, The Netherlands

2021 Advanced Course on AI (ACAI) / Full Participation Scholarship, Summer School on Human-Centered AI - Berlin, Germany

2018 Women in Aerospace Europe / Research Grant supporting 70th ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign

2018 European Space Agencies (ESA , DLR, CNES) / Grants supporting 2 Parabolic Flight Campaigns / Member of “Space Farmers” Team

2018 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Short-Term Research Grant

2016 International Summer School in Human-Centred Computing / Participation Scholarship (Achim, Germany)

2016 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), One-Year Research Grant

2015 3rd Prize in Panhellenic Architecture Competition, City of Piraeus, Greece (collaboration with the Arch.Buro: Foukas-Matrakidou)

2012 Erasmus Exchange Program - Scholarship for studying abroad, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Faculté d’ Architecture Horta-La Cambre, Belgium

2007 Student Honor Roll from Eurobank, Awarded top students of the year for excellence in academic performance (Athens, Greece)

MEDIA & COMMUNICATION

"AI får djupare förståelse för mänskligt beteende med ny metod / AI gains a deeper understanding of human behavior with a new method." Article at Oru.se February 2024 https://www.oru.se/nyheter/ai-far-djupare-forstaelse-for-manskligt-beteende-med-ny-metod/

"VARFÖR HAR VI INTE SJÄLVKÖRANDE BILAR ÄN?/WHY DON'T WE HAVE SELF-DRIVING CARS YET?" participation at the research broadcast of the Youtube-serien "Det digitala Undret" by Sopra Steria. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZDy-3SGNys

“AI and the Design of the Built Environment” Seminar Series AI@ORU, Örebro University, jointly presented with M. Bhatt, May 2022,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPkWzkB5AmU&t=347s

“What do self-driving cars need to learn about humans?“ UR Samtiden, produced by Utbildningsradion broadcasted on Kunskapskanalen Swedish TV (SVT) and UR Play, March 2021 https://urplay.se/program/221851-ur-samtiden-vad-sjalvkorande-bilar-maste-lara-sig-om-oss-manniskor

“Human fsactors & the development of human-centred technologies” Vera Roadshow talk at Örebro University, Sept 2019. Inspiration talk for female young students to strengthen their interest in technology and STEM

PUBLICATIONS

DOCTORAL THESIS

Kondyli, V. (2023). Behavioural Principles for the Design of Human-Centred Cognitive Technologies: The Case of Visuo-Locomotive Experience. (Doctoral dissertation). Örebro: Örebro University.

PEER-REVIEWED ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Kondyli, V., Bhatt, M., Levin, D. & Suchan, J. (2023). How do drivers mitigate the effects of naturalistic visual complexity? On attentional strategies and their implications under a change blindness protocol. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 8 (1).

Kondyli, V., & Bhatt, M. (2021). Visuo-Locomotive Update in the Wild: The Role of (Un)Familiarity in Choice of Navigation Strategy, and its Application in Computational Spatial Design. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 43, 2017-2023.

Kondyli, V., Bhatt, M. & Hartmann, T. (2018). Precedent Based Design Foundations for Parametric Design: The Case of Navigation and Wayfinding. Advances in Computational Design, 3 (4), 339-366.

Kondyli, V., & Bhatt, M. (2018). Rotational Locomotion in Large-Scale Environments: A Survey and Implications for Evidence-Based Design Practice. Built Environment, 44 (2), 241-258.

Kondyli, V. (2015). Integration of three important urban spaces in the city of Patras, a design research on the relationship of characteristics of space and the enriched environment. Ri-Vista Ricerche per la Progettazione del Paesaggio, 13(1), 34-47, University of Florence, Florence, Italy, ISSN: 1724-6768.

PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTIONS

Kondyli, V., Suchan, J., & Bhatt, M. (2022). Grounding Embodied Multimodal Interaction: Towards Behaviourally Established Semantic Foundations for Human-Centered AI. In: The 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Hybrid Intelligence (KR4HI 2022). Paper presented at The 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Hybrid Intelligence (KR4HI 2022), part of International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (HHAI 2022), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 13-17, 2022.

Kondyli, V., Bhatt, M., & Spyridonos, E. (2021). Visuo-Locomotive Complexity as a Component of Parametric Design for Architecture. In: Amaresh Chakrabarti; Ravi Poovaiah; Prasad Bokil; Vivek Kant, Design for Tomorrow - Volume 2 Proceedings of ICoRD 2021. Paper presented at 8th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD 2021), IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, January 7-10, 2021. (pp. 993-1004). Springer.

Kondyli, V., & Bhatt, M. (2020). Multimodality on the Road: Towards Evidence-Based Cognitive Modelling of Everyday Roadside Human Interactions. In: Lars Hanson, Dan Högberg, Erik Brolin, Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering. Paper presented at 6th International Digital Human Modeling Symposium (DHM 2020), Skövde, Sweden, August 31 - September 2, 2020. (pp. 131-142). IOS Press.

Kondyli, V., Bhatt, M., & Suchan, J. (2020). Towards a Human-Centred Cognitive Model of Visuospatial Complexity in Everyday Driving. In: Rudolph S., Marreiros G., CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Paper presented at 9th European Starting AI Researchers’ Symposium 2020 co-located with 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020), Santiago Compostela, Spain, August 29 - September 8, 2020. CEUR-WS.org.

Kondyli, V., Schultz, C. & Bhatt, M. (2017). Evidence-Based Parametric Design: Computationally Generated Spatial Morphologies Satisfying Behavioural-Based Design Constraints. In: 13th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2017). Paper presented at 13th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2017), L’Aquila, Italy, September 4-8, 2017. (pp. 11:1-11:14). Springer International Publishing AG.

Kondyli, V., Bhatt, M., & Hartmann, T. (2017). Towards People-Centred Precedents for Parametric Design: The Case of Wayfinding in Large Scale Buildings. In: Fréderic Bosché; Ioannis Brilakis; Rafael Sacks, Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Computing in Construction (JC3). Paper presented at Lean and Computing in Construction Congress (LC3), Heraklion, Crete, Greece, July 4-7, 2017. (pp. 803-810). Edinburgh, UK: Heriot-Watt University.

Kondyli, V., Bhatt, M., & Hartmann, T. (2017). Towards Precedent Based Design Foundations for Parametric Design Systems. In: Christian Koch; Walid Tizani; Jelena Ninic, Proceedings of the 24th EG-ICE International Workshop on Intelligent Computing in Engineering (EG-ICE 2017). Paper presented at 24th EG-ICE International Workshop on Intelligent Computing in Engineering, Nottingham, United Kingdom, July 10-12, 2017. (pp. 178-187). European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering (EG-ICE).

Bhatt, M., Suchan, J., Schultz, C., Kondyli, V., & Goyal, S. (2016). Artificial Intelligence for Predictive and Evidence Based Architecture Design. In: Proceedings of the Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-16). Paper presented at 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2016), Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix, United States, February 12-17, 2016. (pp. 4349-4350). AAAI press.

Bhatt, M., Suchan, J., Kondyli, V., & Schultz, C. (2016). Embodied visuo-locomotive experience analysis: immersive reality based summarisation of experiments in environment-behaviour studies. In: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP 2016). Paper presented at ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP 2016), Anaheim, California, USA, July 22-23, 2016. (pp. 133-133). USA: ACM Digital Library.

Karantza, F. and Kondyli, V. (2015). Is Athens a case of a shrinking city? Proceedings of the International Conference on Changing Cities ||: Spatial, Design, Landscape & Socio-Economic Dimensions, Porto Heli, Greece.

OTHER PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS / PRESENTATIONS

Kondyli, V., Daniel, L., & Bhatt, M. (2023). Drivers compensate for environmental complexity by attentional prioritization of safety-critical events. In: 45th European Conference on Visual Perception, (ECVP 2023) Paphos, Cyprus, August 27-31, 2023.

Kondyli, V., Daniel, L., & Bhatt, M. (2023). Drivers avoid attentional elaboration under safety-critical situations and complex environments. In: 17th European Workshop on Imagery and Cognition. 17th European Workshop on Imagery and Cognition, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, June 20- 22, 2023. (pp. 18-18).

Kondyli, V., Bhatt, M., & Suchan, J. (2022). A Cognitive Model of Visuospatial Complexity for Interactive Immersive Media Design. Paper presented at Society for the Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image Conference (SCSMI 2022), Gandia, Spain, June 1-4, 2022.

Kondyli, V., & Bhatt, M. (2022). Analysing Driver (In)Attentiveness: Towards a Cognitive Complexity Model Combining Visuospatial and Interactional Parameters. Paper presented at 8th International Conference on Driver Distraction and Inattention (DDI 2022), Gothenburg, Sweden, October 19-20, 2022.

Kondyli, V., & Bhatt, M. (2022). Visuo-locomotive Update in Naturalistic Navigation: Multimodal analysis examining the role of familiarity and rotational locomotion. In: 8th Annual Conference of Cognitive Science (ACCS8) Conference Proceedings. Paper presented at 8th Annual Conference of Cognitive Science (ACCS8), January 20-22, 2022. (pp. 139-140). Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.

Kondyli, V., & Bhatt, M. (2021). Cognitive Modelling of Visuospatial Complexity in the Streetscape. In: Thomas Hnefeldt; Marta Olivetti Belardinelli, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spatial Cognition: Cognition and Action in a Plurality of Spaces (ICSC 2021). Paper presented at 8th International Conference on Spatial Cognition: Cognition and Action in a Plurality of Spaces (ICSC 2021), September 13-17, 2021. (pp. 44-44). Springer.

Kondyli, V., & Bhatt, M. (2021). Evaluating Artificial Vision in AI Systems: The Case of Autonomous Driving. In: Perception. Paper presented at 43rd European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP 2021), August 22-27, 2021. (pp. 221-222). Sage Publications.

Kondyli, V., & Bhatt, M. (2018). Decision points in architectural space: How they affect users’ visuo-locomotive experience during wayfinding. In: Cognitive Processing. Springer Berlin/Heidelberg.

Kondyli, V., & Bhatt, M. (2018). Spatial knowledge update in rotational locomotion: On the role of visuo-spatial cues and familiarity: A case-study at the Bremen train-station. Paper presented at The 16th European Workshop on Imagery and Cognition (EWIC) - From World to Mind: Images and Representations, Padua, Italy, June 7-9, 2018.

Kondyli, V., Bhatt, M. (2016). Environmental variables influencing cognitive visuo-locomotive experience in large-scale buildings. Proceedings of the 3nd Conference by the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture: Connections BridgeSynapsis (ANFA), La Jolla, USA.

NON PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH OUTPUTS

Kondyli, V., Suchan, J., & Bhatt, M. (2023). Visuospatial Commonsense as a Practical Benchmark in Autonomous Driving : On the Role of Human-Centred Explainability in Evaluation and Standardisation. (manuscript)

Kondyli, V. Universal evidence-based design: How can new technologies support design for ageing? Chapter at: Kristoffersson, E. (ed.) & Strandberg, T. (ed.) (2019). Ageing in a changing society: Interdisciplinary popular science contributions from the Newbreed research school (1ed.). Örebro: Örebro University. (Popular Science Publication).

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