Academic Portfolio

Dr. Michalis Feidakis

Human-Centred AI in Learning and Education

My academic work focuses on making AI meaningful and accessible to diverse learners through research, teaching and academic supervision. I design, implement and evaluate educational interventions in realistic school and learning settings.

University of West Attica · Greece

Portrait of Dr. Michalis Feidakis

Three Research Areas

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Humanoids + AI in Education and Learning

Humanoid robots, conversational AI and human–robot interaction in educational settings.

02

Emotion AI

Affective computing, emotion recognition and emotion-aware learning systems.

03

CS & AI Unplugged

Experiential learning and collaborative activities to teach and learn computational thinking and AI literacy, without electricity.

25+ Years Across Educational Levels

Teaching learners from age 6 to 60 across primary, secondary, vocational, higher and adult education, together with teacher training and supervision.

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6–60Learner age range
Real settingsPilot evaluation in realistic school contexts
AI for non-expertsKids, educators and older adults

Journal article · 2025

TranSenseFusers

Explainable PPG-based stress detection.

Conference paper · 2024

Enrich Humanoids with Large Language Models

IEEE EDUCON.

Journal article · 2022

Emotion Recognition in Human–Robot Interaction Using the NAO Robot

Computers, 11(5), 72.

Book chapter · 2024

LLM-Based Smart Repository Platform

Computational Thinking, AI and STEM activities.