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.

On November 12, 2025, Alberto participated as a panellist in the ECAT Research Workshop 2025, held in Seville, Spain. The workshop was organized by the European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT), which provides technical and scientific expertise for the enforcement of the Digital Services Act (DSA).

Alberto participated in the panel discussion "A captive audience? Social media addiction and the features that make it hard for children to leave" alongside Dr Susanne Baumgartner (Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam) and Dr Elisa Benedetti (Researcher, Laboratory of Epidemiology, Institute of Clinical Physiology, Italian National Research Council). The session was chaired by Dr Astrid Bertrand, Scientific Officer at ECAT.

Last week, on October 8-10, 2025, the e-Lite group has attended (in person) the 16th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter (CHItaly 2025) in Salerno, Italy.

Luca, Francesca, and Luigi attended the entire conference and particularly the Doctoral Consortium session during which both Luca and Francesca presented their works recieving feedback and precious suggestions from experts and peers.

Luca presented "Novel Interactive Systems Promoting More Intentional Technology Use", joining and linking the works he has done during his first year and half of PhD along with the future works that will follow them.

Francesca presented "Supporting, not Solving: Human-Centered AI Systems in Education", where she shared her initial works explored during her first year of PhD followed by many ideas of new possible directions to undergo.

We are excited to announce that our latest research, Intelligent Support for Digital Wellbeing: a Design Framework through a Systematic Literature Review, has been published in the prestigious Elsevier International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS). The research, led by Luca Scibetta, Massimiliano Pellegrino, Alberto Monge Roffarello, and Luigi De Russis from the e-Lite group, introduces a design framework of 6 dimensions and 23 sub-dimensions providing a guide for the design of AI-powered digital wellbeing applications.

The paper reflects on how to apply AIs to digital wellbeing, accounting for the sensitivity of the topic to ensure that users are protected. Designers need to put great attention on the use of AI in this field: while there is a need for respecting the users, it is possible to exploit the flexibility of AI to improve current digital wellbeing tools, making them personalised and adaptive to user specific needs. Our design framework provides a set of aspects that require serious attention for a well-considered choice along with reflections over the available options.

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".

From September to December 2025, I will be undertaking a 4-month research stay in Lisbon within the framework of the ERASMUS+ project for PhD students. I will be hosted at the Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCI Lab), Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, under the supervision of Professor Augusto Esteves.

From July 21 to 25, 2025, I have attended the ACM SIGCHI MedCHI Summer School on "Designing Human-centric Interactive and Intelligent Technology" in Como, Italy.

On Monday, July 14, 2025, at 14:00, Tommaso Calò defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled "From Human Representations to AI Realization: Algorithms and Tools for Creating and Refining Interactive Systems".

The defence was evaluated by the international committee composed of Sven Mayer (TU Dortmund University, Germany), Maristella Matera (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Niels van Berkel (Aalborg University, Denmark), and Davide Spano (University of Cagliari, Italy), and coordinated by Luca Ardito (Politecnico di Torino, Italy).

Tommaso discussed his research and was awarded his Ph.D. cum laude. Congratulations, Tommaso!

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.

In June 2025, Francesca Russo received the Best Late Breaking Results Award at the 17th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS 2025)!