Fabio PATERNO'

Contact Information: Via G.Moruzzi 1  56124 Pisa Italy Tel.: + 39 050 3153066 Fax: + 39 050 3152810 Email: fabio.paterno @ isti.cnr.it Room: Building B - Entrance 17 - II Floor - Number I 94

Research

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 has also been working on the design of the MultiModal TERESA tool, whose main purpose is to support designers of multi-device, multi-modal interactive applications starting with user interface logical descriptions. The tool is associated with an XML-based language 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 (the last one is WebRemUSINE ) that perform their analyses using information contained in task models and automatically created logs of user sessions . 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.

In recent years, his research interests has broadened to include Ubiquitous Interfaces, Methods and Tools for Multimodal User Interface Design and Evaluation, Accessibility, User Interfaces for Mobile Devices, Model-Based Design of Interactive Systems, End-User Development, and Design of User Interfaces for Safety Critical Interactive Systems. He has published over one hundred-seventy papers in refereed international conferences or journals. He is the author of the book on Model-Based Design and Evaluation of Interactive Applications (widely cited in the scientific literature).

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). He has been a 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 Incubator 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). Recently he acted as co-chair of the EIS'08 conference and the IFIP HCI Symposium. He is Chair of the ACM EICS conference 2011, which will take place in Pisa.

He represents Italy in the IFIP Technical Committee 13 on Human Computer Interaction, and is a member of IFIP WG 2.7 and WG 13.2, and chaired the ACM SIGCHI Italy (from 2000 to 2004). He has been appointed ACM Distinguished Scientist.

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
 

Selected Publications

• chronological order

Projects

• OPEN VII Framework EU STREP project
• Servface EU Project
• SIMILAR VI Framework European Network of Excellence
• MAUSE COST Action 294
• C.A.S.A (Comfort, Attenzione ai consumi, Servizi e Assistenza agli anziani) funded by Almaviva-CNR
• CAMELEON Research & Development IST Project
• ADVISES EC Research Training Network
• EUD-Net European Network of Excellence
• MEFISTO Reactive Long Term Research Esprit Project
• GUITARE Research & Development Esprit Project
• Project on Effective and Adaptative User Interfaces for Different Types of Use of Museum Systems - part of Progetto Finalizzato Beni Culturali

Journals and Books

• Co-Editor of Book on End-User Development, Springer Verlag
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Interacting with Computers Journal, Elsevier
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Universal Access in the Information Society Journal, Springer Verlag
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces
• Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal on Mobile HCI
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Springer Verlag Series on Human-Computer Interaction
• Guest Editor Special Issue on Formal Methods for Visual Interaction of the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
• Co-Guest Editor Special Issue on Interface Issues and Designs for Safety-Critical Interactive Systems of ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction (ToCHI)
• Book on Model-based Design and Evaluation of Interactive Applications
• Co-Editor Book on Formal methods in Human Computer Interaction

Conferences

• Mobile HCI 2010, Lisboa, Portugal
• Engineering Interactive Computing Systems 2010, Berlin, Germany
• Intelligent Interactive Assistance and Mobile Multimedia Computing, Rostock, Germany
• 5th International Workshop on Model-Driven Development of Advanced User Interfaces, Atlanta, U.S.A.

Teaching

• Progettazione di Interfacce, Corso di Laurea di Informatica Umanistica, Università di Pisa
• Interazione Uomo-Macchina: Progettazione e Valutazione dell'Usabilità, Corso di Laurea di Informatica, Universita' di Pisa
• 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

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