The Interaction, Visualization, Usability & UX Lab is about research on Human-Computer Interaction. In particular: Interaction Design, Pervasive systems, Information Visualization, Visual Analytics, Usability Engineering, User eXperience, End-User Development, Serious games, Internet of Things, Usable Security, Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.

People working in IVU have national and international collaborations, as indicated by the various projects in which they were involved and by their publications.

They have been in the scientific organization of many international conferences, held in Bari or in other locations. The last conferences in Bari were AVI 2016 and INTERACT 2021.

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Faculty

Maria Francesca Costabile
Full Professor

IVU Director

maria.costabile@uniba.it

Rosa Lanzilotti
Full Professor

Coordinator for
Usability Engineering, UX, and Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

rosa.lanzilotti@uniba.it

Paolo Buono
Associate Professor

Coordinator for
Information Visualization and Visual Analytics

paolo.buono@uniba.it

Antonio Piccinno
Associate Professor

Coordinator for
Interplay between Human-Computer Interaction and Software Engineering, End-User Development

antonio.piccinno@uniba.it

Giuseppe Desolda
Assistant Professor

Coordinator for
Novel Interaction Techniques, Internet of Things, and Usable Security

giuseppe.desolda@uniba.it

PhD Students and Short-Term Collaborators

Sabina Akram
PhD Student

PhD student on Human-Centered Intelligent Systems

sabina.akram@uniba.it

Miriana Calvano
PhD Student

PhD student in Symbiotic AI

miriana.calvano@uniba.it

Eleonora Cappuccio
PhD Student

eleonora.cappuccio@uniba.it

Antonio Curci
PhD Student

PhD student in Artificial Intelligence for Society

antonio.curci@uniba.it

Andrea Esposito
PhD Student

PhD student on Human-Centered AI and Human-AI Interaction

andrea.esposito@uniba.it

Francesco Greco
PhD Student

PhD student on Usable Security and Human-Centered Explainable AI

francesco.greco@uniba.it

Grazia Ragone
Research fellow

grazia.ragone@uniba.it

External Collaborators

Carmelo Antonio Ardito
Full Professor

ardito@lum.it

Maristella Matera
Full Professor

maristella.matera@polimi.it

Fabrizio Balducci
PhD

Human-Computer Interaction, Mobile Computing, IoT, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Games user research, Gamification

Miguel Ceriani

Semantic Technologies, Ontology Design, and Data Integration Methods

Alumni

Joseph Aneke
PhD

Fabio Cassano
PhD

Alessandra Legretto
PhD

Francesca Montinaro
PhD

Patrizia Russo
PhD

Marco Saltarella
PhD

Adalberto L. Simeone

adalberto.simeone@port.ac.uk

Loredana Verardi
PhD