From June 16 to June 20, 2025, Francesca will attend the 9th Summer School on Computational Interaction 2025 (CIX 2025) in Paris, France.
If you’re around during the summer school, don’t hesitate to say hi, always happy to connect and chat! 😊
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.
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.
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.
At the Politecnico di Torino, the e-Lite research group from the Department of Control and Computer Engineering (DAUIN) presented their advancements at the PhD poster day 2023. The event featured research posters by two PhD students.
The first poster by Luca Mannella, titled "Supporting Developers in the Cybersecurity of IoT Systems," presented some tools for helping developers create more secure IoT applications (with a particular focus on smart homes). The goal set forth was to make the development process accessible for developers with varying levels of expertise in cybersecurity. The poster introduced a threat model for smart home gateways, pointing out the risks associated with these central devices in managing smart home applications, especially when third-party plug-ins are involved. The poster also discussed the application of the Manufacturer Usage Description (MUD) standard inside an extensible smart home gateway. Allowing plug-in developers to define their plug-ins' network requirements can help secure the whole smart home.
Tommaso Calò's poster, "Code Generation From Visual Representations," addressed the challenge of translating web UI designs into code. It underscored the labor-intensive aspect of this translation process, necessitating frequent revisions between the design and development phases. To address this, the research presented a multimodal Transformer architecture designed to automate the translation process by concurrently processing textual and visual information. The approach aims to advance existing methodologies by enhancing the architectural framework and introducing a challenging dataset that serves as a new benchmark for future advancements in the field.
For those interested in delving deeper into the research presented at the DAUIN PhD poster day 2023, we have made available the posters for downloading: