27 posts tagged with "paper"

From June 23 to June 27, 2025, the e-Lite group will attend the 17th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS 2025) in Trier, Germany.

Francesca and Tommaso will attend the conference in person to showcase their latest work on enhancing the workflow for UI designers and developers using AI. Tommaso will present a paper introducing new datasets to train more capable AI models that can automatically generate code from a visual concept. Francesca will present a late-breaking result that introduces a method to translate web data into Figma-compatible designs, allowing the development of AI-powered assistants that integrate directly into designers' creative workflows.

If you see any of us, feel free to say hello: we're always happy to chat! 😊

The e-Lite group will be represented at the 10th International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2025), taking place from June 16 to 18 in Munich, Germany.

Alberto and Tommaso will attend the conference in person to present two full papers on digital wellbeing and generative AI for design. Our contributions explore how end-user development can empower people to shape their own digital experiences—whether by creating personalized self-control tools or by collaborating with AI in creative workflows.

If you're around Munich for the conference, come find us—we’d love to chat!

From April 26 to May 1, 2025, the e-Lite group will attend the ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Yokohama, Japan.

Luigi, Alberto, Tommaso, Luca, and Rob will be there in person. If you see any of us, feel free to say hello: we're always happy to chat! 😊

The team will present a full paper on scientific writing with AI, along with two Late-Breaking Works (LBWs) on digital wellbeing.

We are excited to announce that our latest research, The Digital Attention Heuristics: Supporting the User's Attention by Design, has been published in the prestigious ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). The research, led by Alberto Monge Roffarello and Luigi De Russis from Politecnico di Torino, in collaboration with Kai Lukoff from Santa Clara University, introduces a set of eight design heuristics aimed at preserving user attention and fostering digital wellbeing.

The paper addresses the growing concern around "attention-capture" designs employed by tech companies, which often exploit users' psychological vulnerabilities to maximize engagement. Examples of these attention-capture designs include the infinitely scrollable newsfeed of Instagram or the autoplay of the next video on YouTube. Unlike traditional digital wellbeing interventions that place the burden of digital self-control on users, this research shifts the focus to designers, offering actionable heuristics to create interfaces that respect users' attention and time by default.

We are thrilled to announce the publication of our latest research, "Supporting Teachers, Engaging Students: A Collaborative Model for K-12 Computing Education," in the Entertainment Computing journal.

The work shares our experience with the Batti il 5! national project, which aimed to strengthen computing skills in primary schools in the Mirafiori Sud district of Turin. In the paper, in particular, we address key challenges in integrating Computational Thinking (CT) into primary school curricula, such as teacher training and curriculum development. Through the design and evaluation of an introductory coding course for 4th-grade students—where children were guided to create a simple Scratch video game like the one shown in the figure—we explored how project-based learning and a collaborative approach involving experts, teachers, and high-school tutors can foster engaging and inclusive learning experiences.

On March 24-27, 2025, the e-Lite group will attend (in person) the 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2025) in Cagliari, Italy.

Tommaso Calò will present the paper "DeepFlow: A Flow-Based Visual Programming Tool for Deep Learning Development" on Thursday, March 27 during the Democratisation of AI session at 10:05 AM.

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).

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 June 26, I presented the work "Empowering Users: End User Development for Mobile Applications Privacy Management" at the first International Workshop on Trusted Computing and Artificial Intelligence applied to Cybersecurity, held in Paris.

Smartphones have become integral to everyday life, offering numerous benefits but also raising significant privacy and security concerns. Users often face challenges managing app permissions and protecting personal data due to the complexity of existing smartphone operating system settings. Our research addresses these issues by introducing Privacy Manager, a mobile application designed for Android devices that employs an End-User Development (EUD) approach.

On June 2024, 2024, Luigi De Russis joined (online) the closing and awards ceremony at the Intelligent Environments (IE) 2024 conference to receive the Most Influential Paper Award for the 2018 paper entitled "'Hey Siri, do you understand me?': Virtual Assistants and Dysarthria".