News
21 Jan 2010
A new journal for our community, the ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS), has just been announced. The initial call for papers is now available.
11 Jan 2010
OPEN Project Meeting in Karlsruhe on January 27-28.
2 Dec 2009
We are very sad to announce that our colleague and friend Antonio Scorcia has passed away.
25 Nov 2009
The paper "MARIA: A Universal, Declarative, Multiple Abstraction Level
Language for Service-Oriented Applications in Ubiquitous Environments" by F. Paternò, C. Santoro
and L. D. Spano has been published on TOCHI special issue on User Interface Description Languages for
Next Generation User Interfaces. Abstract ... Full Text ...
2 Nov 2009
Fabio Paternò has been appointed ACM Distinguished Scientist for his significant accomplishments.
23 Oct 2009
Research of the laboratory on vibro-tactile feedback for mobile blind users is reported by the popular Italian magazine 'L'Espresso'. Article ...
Our mission
Interest in design and development of interactive software applications has
increased considerably over the last few years. The underlying reason for
this interest is the need to provide the greatest number of people with
access to applications for the largest number of purposes and in the widest
number of contexts. Our research activity is in methods and tools to support
user interface designers and software developers in obtaining usable systems
that can be accessed from different contexts of use (devices, users,
physical and social environments).
The main goal is to propose new solutions in basic and applied research in
the field of human-computer interaction, specifically in user interface
software and technologies, mainly under the aegis of national and
international programmes and private sector R&D contracts. One of the first
groups in Italy in the HCI area, we have become well-known at an
International level, as demonstrated by partecipation in numerous European
projects and the board of the most important HCI conferences, and
publications in the major HCI and software engineering journals and
conferences.
The main research areas concern Methods and Tools for the Analysis, Design
and Development of Interactive Applications, Intelligent Interfaces,
Interfaces for Ubiquitous Applications, MultiModal Interfaces,
Accessibility, Usability Engineering and Models for HCI. Such work has led
to the development of a numbers of tools and applications, many of which are
publicly available for download.
