20 posts tagged with "research"

The e-Lite group will attend the 29th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '26), held from October 10-14, 2026, in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

I will present the full paper "Digital Wellbeing by Design: Safeguarding End-Users' Time and Attention in UI/UX Practices", published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACM HCI). The work explores how to support UI/UX designers in identifying Attention-Capture Damaging Patterns (ACDPs) in their prototypes and in discovering alternative designs that prioritize users' digital wellbeing.

I will also present the poster "ACDPs Transparency Labels: Supporting User Agency Against Attention-Capture Damaging Patterns", a work that proposes contextual, in-app notices that make ACDPs visible to social media users and give them a clear way to regain control.

The two contributions are detailed below.

We are excited to welcome Andrea De Luca, who joined the e-Lite research group as a PhD student on September 15, 2026!

Andrea is beginning his PhD in Computer and Control Engineering (42nd cycle), supervised by Alberto Monge Roffarello with the collaboration of Luigi De Russis.

Sabato 26 settembre, dalle 10:30 alle 19:00, parteciperemo alla Notte Europea delle Ricercatrici e dei Ricercatori a Torino, nei pressi del Castello del Valentino, con un Laboratorio di Ricerca intitolato "Tu, al centro della tecnologia".

We are pleased to announce that the e-Lite group will attend the 18th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS '26), held from June 30 to July 3, 2026, in Patras, Greece.

Giuseppe Arbore will present the Late-Breaking Results titled "A Persona-Augmented Multi-Agent System for Varied Narrative Generation", a work that explores how persona-driven multi-agent architectures can support the generation of more diverse, stylistically varied, and semantically rich narratives from a single prompt.

I will attend the ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference (C&C '26), held from July 13-16, 2026, in London, United Kingdom, where I will present "Reframe: Rethinking Versioning as a Creative Practice in Coding", a paper co-authored with Stefano Di Leo.

The work introduces Reframe, a web-based Creative Coding environment for p5.js that explores how versioning can become part of the creative process itself, rather than being treated only as a technical mechanism for saving and recovering previous states.

Creative Coding practices are often highly exploratory: artists and designers develop code-based works through small edits, parameter tuning, visual inspection, and repeated experimentation. In this context, even minor changes in code or numerical values can lead to substantially different visual outcomes. However, many existing tools provide limited support for capturing, comparing, and revisiting the intermediate states that emerge during this process.

Reframe addresses this challenge by combining non-linear navigation, direct code editing, parameter-level exploration, and continuous visual feedback within a single workspace. The system distinguishes between Frames, which represent structural changes in a sketch, and Explorations, which capture value-level variations within a given direction. In doing so, Reframe supports divergence, reflection, and continued iteration while keeping source code at the center of creative practice.

The e-Lite group (Giuseppe and Luigi, and I) will attend the 18th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI '26), held from June 10-12, 2026, in Venice, Italy.

I will present "Brainy: A Virtual Pet Encouraging Digital Wellbeing", a short paper exploring how a gamified approach to digital wellbeing can encourage healthier digital behaviors leveraging a virtual pet whose health is linked to the user's habits.

Giuseppe will present the poster titled "Towards Design Guidelines to Support Young Adults' Digital Wellbeing with Large Language Models", a work that explores how LLMs can be integrated to bridge the gap in digital wellbeing applications, moving beyond one-size-fits-all systems by leveraging their personalization capabilities.

The two contributions are detailed below.

The e-Lite group will attend the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26) on April 13-17, 2026, in Barcelona, Spain.

The contributions come from both current and former group members, as well as international collaborators. Luigi, Alberto, Tommaso, Luca, Francesca, Andrea S., Riccardo, Giuseppe, and Andrea D.L. 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 two full papers (🏅), a TOCHI paper, six posters, and three workshop papers, along with organising a workshop and participating in the Student Mentoring Program.

We are pleased to announce that the e-Lite group will attend the 41st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC '26), held from March 23–27, 2026, in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Rob Schwartz will present the paper titled "Intervention Design at the Intersection of Accessibility and Digital Wellbeing," a work that explores how interventions for digital wellbeing can be designed to support both individuals with cognitive/learning disabilities and those seeking better digital self-control.

We are excited to welcome Giuseppe Arbore, who joined the e-Lite research group as a PhD student on March 1, 2026!

Giuseppe is beginning his PhD in Computer and Control Engineering (41st cycle), supervised by Luigi De Russis with the collaboration of Tommaso Calò from the IT University of Copenhagen.

This year, we welcome two new PhD students to the group: Andrea Sillano and Riccardo Graziosi. They will be working in the areas of digital wellbeing and human-centred AI.