Lucio Davide Spano

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Cagliari

Cagliari – Italy (davide.spano@unica.it)

Brief bio

Lucio Davide Spano is an Assistant Professor at the University of Cagliari, Italy. He teaches Human Computer Interaction and Web Programming in the Computer Science programme.  He got his PhD in Computer Science from the School for Graduate Studies “Galileo Galilei” at the University of Pisa, in 2013. He previously worked in the Human Interfaces in Information Systems laboratory at ISTI-CNR in Pisa.

His main research interest is the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). In particular, he focused on gestural interaction., model-based approaches for interface engineering, end user development and advanced user interfaces.  He is co-author of more than forty papers on refereed journals and international conferences and he has been member of the programme committee of several international conferences and workshops in Human Computer Interaction (CHI, EICS, IUI, Interact, Mobile HCI).

He collaborated to different projects founded by the European Commission (Serenoa FP7 STREP p.n. 258030, ServFace FP STREP 216699, Artemis Smarcos p.n. 100249). He has been member of the Model-Based User Interface Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

 

Ludovico Boratto

Digital Humanities Department, Eurecat (Technology Center of Catalonia)

Barcelona – Spain (ludovico.boratto@acm.org)

Brief bio

Ludovico Boratto is researcher in the Digital Humanities research group at Eurecat. His research interests focus on Data Mining and Machine Learning approaches, mostly applied to recommender systems and social network analysis. The results of his research have been published in top-tier journals, such as Information Sciences (Elsevier) and IEEE Intelligent Systems. His research activity also brought him to give talks and tutorials at top-tier conferences (e.g., ACM RecSys 2016) and research centers (Yahoo! Research). He’s currently guest editor of two special issues for Springer journals, one for “Information Systems Frontiers”, titled “Behavioral-Data Mining in Information Systems and the Big Data Era”, and one for the “Journal of Intelligent Information Systems”, titled “Data-Driven User Behavioral Modeling: From Real-World Behavior to Knowledge, Algorithms, and Systems”. In 2012 he got a Ph.D. at the University of Cagliari, where he was a research assistant until May 2016. In 2010 and 2014 he spent 10 months at Yahoo! Research in Barcelona as a visiting researcher. He’s member of he ACM.