15 posts tagged with "research"

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.

Venerdì 26 settembre, dalle 17:00 a mezzanotte, parteciperemo alla Notte Europea delle Ricercatrici e dei Ricercatori a Torino, nei pressi del Castello del Valentino, con un Laboratorio di Ricerca intitolato "Digitalmente umani: la tecnologia centrata sulle persone".

On July 21-23, 2025, the e-Lite group will attend the 12th Learning @ Scale Conference (L@S 2025) in Palermo, Italy.

Francesca Russo will present her latest publication "Towards Step-Aware ITSs: Generation and Evaluation of Synthetic Step-by-Step Exercise Solutions" on Tuesday, July 22 during the poster session from 16:00 to 17:30.

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!