Who we are

Giuseppe Desolda - Principal Investigator

Giuseppe Desolda is Assistant Professor (RTD-B) at the Computer Science Department, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy. He is a member of the Interaction Visualization Usability (IVU) and UX Laboratory, where he coordinates research on novel interaction techniques, Internet of Things, and usable security.

He is co-author of more than 80 papers published in journals, international conferences and collections. He is (has been) either member of the scientific program committee or reviewer of International Conferences. He is also on the reviewer board of international journals. He chaired several international events as: Short Paper Chair at INTERACT 2021; Proceeding Chair at PerDis 2019; Demo Chair at INTERACT 2019; Posters & Demo Chairs at AVI 2018; Publicity Chair at AVI 2016.

He has been regularly involved in various research projects (e.g., eGLU-BOX PA, PA++, CHAT, LOGIN, VINCENTE) sponsored by EU and Italian organizations, where he coordinated different Work Packages. He is also a founder and member of the Italian Working Group on Usability and User eXperience called GLU-X (Gruppo di Lavoro per l’Usabilità e User eXperience). He is a member of ACM, ACM SIGCHI, and SIGCHI Italy (the Italian Chapter of ACM SIGCHI).

Rosa Lanzilotti

She is Full Professor at the Computer Science Department, UNIBA. She is a co-founding member of the IVU (Interaction, Visualization, Usability & UX) Lab of the UNIBA. At IVU, she coordinates the research on Usability Engineering and UX to promote the use of usability and UX practices in industry and public institutions, and the research on Human-Centered Artificial intelligence to foster a new vision of human-centered intelligent systems. She is a member of ACM, ACM SIGCHI, and SIGCHI Italy. She is also a member of the Gruppo di Lavoro per l’Usabilità (GLU), set up by the Italian Ministry of Public Administration, to spread the culture of usability and user experience.

Paolo Buono

Paolo Buono is Associate Professor at the CS Department of the University of Bari and founding member of IVU Lab where he coordinates the research on Information Visualization and Visual Analytics. His research interests also include HCI, Mobile Computing and Human-Centred AI. He has/had several international collaborations such as INRIA-Saclay (France), St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences (Austria), HCIL (MD, USA), Fraunhofer IPSI (Darmstadt, Germany). He is co-author of more than 100 papers published in journals, international conferences and collections.

Lucio Davide Spano - Substitute Principal Investigator

Lucio Davide Spano is Associate Professor at the University of Cagliari, Italy from 2019. He got his PhD in Computer Science from the School for Graduate Studies "Galileo Galilei" at the University of Pisa, in 2013. He got a Master Degree in Computer Science cum laude in the same University in 2009. From 2012 to 2018 was an Assistant professor at the University of Cagliari. From 2009 to 2012, he worked in the Human Interfaces in Information Systems laboratory at ISTI-CNR in Pisa.

He is the chair of the IFIP 2.7/13.4 working group on User Interface Engineering since June 2022. He is the Delegate for the Research of the Extended Committee of SIGCHI-Italy, He is vice-director of the GLab (https://sites.unica.it/g-lab/) an interdepartmental research center (Architecture and Civil Engineering and Mathematics and Computer Science). He has been a member of the Model-Based User Interface Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

He is member of the Senior Programme Committee of different high-level international conferences in Human-Computer Interaction (e.g., IUI, INTERACT, EICS, NordiCHI). He has been the principal investigator of different research projects, awarded through a competitive call at an European, National and Regional level. He has been an associate editor for a special issue in ACM TiiS and in IJHCS by Elsevier.

Vincenzo Deufemia

Vincenzo Deufemia is Associate Professor at the University of Salerno, Italy from 2016. He received the Laurea Degree (cum laude), and the PhD degree in computer science from the University of Salerno, in 1999 and 2003, respectively. He has been a visiting researcher with the Laboratory of Advanced enterprise Information Management Systems (AeIMS) of University of Western Sydney, Australia, in 2013. He is co-director of the DAIS research lab at Department of Computer Science of University of Salerno. He has been a member of IAPR TC10 Technical Committee 10 on Graphics Recognition. He has been program chair of several international conferences and is associate chair of the Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) conference. He has been the local coordinator of a PRIN 2017 project and a FIRB 2010 project. He has been an associate editor for a special issue in ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality and Big Data Research by Elsevier.

Loredana Caruccio

Loredana Caruccio is an Assistant Professor (RTD-B) at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Salerno, Italy. She completed her Ph.D. in Management & Information Technology at the University of Salerno in 2018. From 2018 to 2021 she has been a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Salerno. In 2017, she has been visiting student at the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) of the University of Potsdam, Germany. In 2020, she has been visiting researcher at the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France. In that period, she has been Adjunct Professor for the “Deductive Databases” course at the Département-composante informatique of the same university. Her research interests lie in the area of Data Profiling, Data Privacy, and Artificial Intelligence.