Fabio Paternò is Research Director and Head of the Laboratory on Human Interfaces in Information Systems at ISTI-C.N.R. in Pisa.

He developed the ConcurTaskTrees notation for specifying task models and has also designed an associated environment (CTTE) to support the development and analysis of task models specified through  this notation, which has been used in various industries and universities. The tool has been applied in several application domains (including ERP, interactive safety-critical systems). He also wrote a book on Model-Based Design and Evaluation of Interactive Applications (widely cited in the scientific literature).

He has also been working on the design of tools to support designers of multi-device, multi-modal interactive applications starting with user interface logical descriptions, such as MultiModal TERESA and MARIAE Such tools are associated with XML-based languages for user interface logical descriptions.

He has also been working on methods and automatic support for usability evaluation. This work has produced a number of tools that perform their intelligent analyses of client-side logs of user sessions, detected in both stationary and mobile devices. He also turned his attention to how to integrate usability and accessibility issues, a research area for which he supervised a blind Ph.D. student. In this area, research work has also been dedicated to the design of innovative tools for checking accessibility and usability guidelines.

A considerable amount of work has also been dedicated to mobile guides. Various solutions for such guides have been designed, some in collaboration with local museums, which exploit various technologies for location awareness and multimodal interaction. One of the main recent area is design and tools for multi.device user interfaces, investigating novel solutions for service front-ends adaptation, distributed user interfaces and their migration to support mobile users.

In recent years, his research interests have broadened to include User Interface Software and Tools for Ubiquitous Environments, Methods and Tools for Supporting User Experience Evaluation, Accessibility, Adaptation in Service Front-Ends, Model-Based Design of Interactive Systems, End-User Development, and Design of User Interfaces for Safety Critical Interactive Systems. He has published about two hundred papers in refereed international conferences or journals.

He has been the scientific coordinator of five EU projects ( MEFISTO, GUITARE, EUD-Net, CAMELEON, OPEN) and one of the main investigators in several others (such as ADVISES, MAUSE, SIMILAR, SERVFACE, SERENOA, SMARCOS). He was member of the Steering Committee of the SIMILAR EU Network of Excellence on Multimodal Interfaces.

His research work has also been funded by various companies. He is one of the initiators of the W3C Working Group on Model-based User Interfaces

He was the chair of the first International Workshop on Design, Specification, Verification of Interactive Systems. He has been a member of the Programme Committee of the main international HCI conferences, including Papers Co-Chair of the ACM CHI 2000 conference , IFIP INTERACT 2003 and IFIP INTERACT 2005. He chaired the fourth Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices (September 2002), and various other events including the ACM EICS 2011 conference . He is currently co-chair for Ambient Intelligence 2012

He represents Italy in the IFIP Technical Committee 13 on Human Computer Interaction, and is the chair of IFIP WG 2.7/13.4 on User Interface Engineering and a member WG 13.2, and chaired the ACM SIGCHI Italy (from 2000 to 2004). He was appointed ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2010.

He has taught in various universituies in Italy and abroad, given tutorials in many international conferences and talks in various research centers.

He has been reviewer for about twenty research funding agencies spread all over the world.

 

Books

He has been author or editor of various books:

Conferences

He has been member of the Programme Committe of over sixty international conferences and at this time he is in the Program Committee of the following events:

• ACM IUI 2012, Lisboa, Portugal
• ACM CHI 2012, Austin, USA
• Measuring Behaviour 2012, Utrecht, The Netherlands
• Ambient Intelligence 2012, Pisa, Italy
• ACM EICS 2012, Copenaghen, Denmark
• HCSE 2012, Toulouse, France

 

Teaching

• Progettazione di Interfacce e Valutazione di Usabilità, Corso di Laurea di Informatica Umanistica, Universitá di Pisa
• Master in Sviluppo di Applicazioni Mobili, Universitá di Pisa
• Interazione Uomo-Macchina: Progettazione e Valutazione dell'Usabilità, Corso di Laurea di Informatica, Universita' di Pisa
• Tutorial on User Interface Design, Adaptation, and Migration for Multi-Device Environments, INTERACT 2011, Lisboa, Portugal, 6 September 2011
• Tutorial on Adaptation and Continuity in Multi-Device User Interfaces, Mobile HCI 2010, Lisboa, Portugal, 7 September 2010
• Courses on Usability in Multi-Device Ubiquirous Computing and Accessibility, Winter school on Usability Engineering, Anzere, Valais, Switzerland, January 28th, 2009
• Corso su Interfacce Utenti Multi-Dispositivi, Media Center CRS4, Parco Scientifico della Sardegna - Pula (Cagliari, Italy), 17 Settembre 2008
• Course on Concepts and Tools for Multi-Device User Interfaces: How to Adapt to Devices with Varying Interaction Resources, CHI2008, Firenze, Italy, 7 April 2008
• Tutorial on Task Analysis and Task Modelling for Highly Interactive Systems, TAMODIA 2007, Toulouse, 7 November 2007
• Tutorial on Designing Multi-Device User Interfaces: How to Adapt to the Changing Device , INTERACT 2007, Rio de Janeiro, September 2007
• International Summer School on Usability-Driven Software Architectures, Tampere, 22-24 August 2005
• Tutorial on Tools and Methods for the Design of Multi-Device User Interfaces, INTERACT 2005, Roma, September 2005
• Course on Tools and Methods based on Task Models, Technical University of Eindhoven USI Programme - January 5-9, 2004
• Tutorial on Methods and Tools for Design of Multi-platform Applications and Remote Usability Evaluation , INTERACT 2003, Zurich, September 2003
• Tutorial on Models, Tools, and Transformations for User Interface Design and Evaluation , AVI 2002, Trento, May 2002
• Corso di Formazione CNR, Su Progettazione e Valutazione Usabilità di Siti Web - Pisa, Novembre 2001-Gennaio 2002
• Tutorial on Models and Tools for User Interface Design, IHM-HCI 2001, Lille, September 2001
• Tutorial on Model-Based Design and Evaluation of Interactive Applications, HCI 2000, University of Sunderland, September 2000
• Tutorial on Formal Methods for Human-Computer Interaction, Formal Methods Conference, Toulouse, September 1999
• Tutorial on Engineering Task Models, AVI'98 Conference, L'Aquila, 24 Maggio 1998
• Tutorial on Formal methods for multimodal interactive systems, HCI'96 Conference, London, 20 August 1996

Community

Tesi di Laurea presso il Gruppo Interazione Uomo-Macchina dell'I.S.T.I.-C.N.R.

 

If you are a senior Researcher and would like to visit me you can apply to CNR in order to receive financial support

 

If you are a Post-Doc and would like to work with me you can apply to ERCIM for a fellowship

 

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