This year, we welcome three new PhD students to the group: Luca Scibetta, Francesca Russo, and Robert Schwartz. They work in the areas of digital wellbeing, human-centered AI, and education.

Italian AccessCoVE partners join Handimatica to promote inclusion through accessible technology.

Join us on November 28th at the ASPHI stand for a dedicated talk about the activity of he AccessCoVE project, that will lead to a European center of Vocational Training for Accessibility Professionals.

The Interaction Design & Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A) has scheduled a special issue on the topic "Digital Wellbeing for Teens: Designing Educational Systems".

On Wednesday, November 6, 2024, students enrolled in the Ph.D. in Computer and Control Engineering and in the National Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence present and discuss their research activities in the context of the DAUIN PhD Day 2024.

Among them, Tommaso Calò will be available to talk about his research with a poster that summarizes three years of work on enhancing human-AI interaction.

On Thursday, October 24, 2024, at 11:00, Luca Mannella defended his Ph.D. final dissertation titled "Security IoT Gateways in Smart Home Environments".

The defense was evaluated by the international commission composed of: Giorgio Giacinto (Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy), Luigi Patrono (Università del Salento, Italy), Davide Ferraris (Universidad del Malaga, Spain), Andrea Vesco (Fondazione LINKS, Italy); and coordinated by Claudio Ettore Casetti (Politecnico di Torino, Italy).

Sabato 28 settembre, dalle ore 10.30 alle 19.00, parteciperemo alla Notte Europea delle Ricercatrici e dei Ricercatori a Torino, in Piazzetta Reale (Musei Reali di Torino), con un Laboratorio di Ricerca intitolato "Riconquista il tuo Tempo, Imparando il Benessere Digitale".

On September 4-6, 2024, the e-Lite group will attend (in person) the 4th International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2024) in Bremen, Germany. Luca Scibetta will present the work-in-progress paper "Dialogues with Digital Wisdom: Can LLMs Help Us Put Down the Phone?" on Wednesday, 4 September at 10:00 (WiP 1).

Il progetto Erasmus+ Critical Making, i cui partner includono il Politecnico di Torino e la Fondazione Links, ed in cui la associazione Dschola è partner associato, entra nella fase operativa e lancia il suo corso per aiutare i docenti a combattere la disinformazione in ambito scientifico attraverso la progettazione didattica e l'integrazione delle tecnologie.

Il corso si svolgerà all'interno del laboratorio specificatamente attrezzato al Politecnico di Torino nei mesi di ottobre e novembre, dove si sperimenterà in pratica come integrare nella propria disciplina tecnologie hardware e software (robot, stampanti 3D, videogiochi, audio/video) con il duplice obiettivo di aumentare le competenze digitali degli studenti e combattere la loro disinformazione in ambito scientifico.

In questo percorso sarai accompagnatə nello sviluppo di un progetto didattico e farai parte di un ambiente di apprendi- mento composto da te, altri docenti, ricercatori, facilitatori e vari strumenti da esplorare, che potrai utilizzare come “materiale da costruzione” per realizzare il tuo progetto.

Le iscrizioni sono aperte fino al 30 settembre: i posti sono limitati, affrettarsi a prenotarsi per non perdere questa bella opportunità.

We are excited to announce the publication of our latest research paper in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. The study, titled "Enhancing smart home interaction through multimodal command disambiguation," and conducted by me and Luigi De Russis, explores an innovative approach to making smart homes more intuitive and responsive to user commands.

On July 15 and 16, the partners of the AccessCoVE project met for the 2nd plenary meeting of the project (following the kick-off meeting in Thessaloniki in September 2023, and many on-line meetings).

The partners were hosted for two very dense days in the Ciminiera Meeting Room at the Department of Control and Computer Engineering, in Politecnico di Torino. The partners revised the different Workpackages and pending activities, and planned a significant number of activities for the next Autumn.