Carmelo Ardito

Research Interests
Interaction with Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems, Usability and User Experience, Information Visualization, End-User Development


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Carmelo Ardito

Carmelo Ardito
PhD in Computer Science
IVU laboratory
Dipartimento di Informatica
Università degli Studi di Bari
Via Orabona, 4 - 70125 Bari - Italy
phone: +39 080 544 3289 ---fax: +39 080 544 3196
email: ardito@di.uniba.it
room 759 (7th floor)

 

Curriculum

Carmelo Ardito is assistant professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Bari "Aldo Moro".
He studied at the University of Bari and he got the “laurea” (BC) degree in Computer Science in June 2002, the “laurea specialistica” (MS) degree in Computer Science in October 2004, the PhD in Computer Science in May 2008.
His research interests are in Human-Computer Interaction, particularly Interaction with Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems, Usability and User Experience, Information Visualization, End-User Development. He is co-author more than 60 papers published in journals, international conferences and collections.
He has collaborated to the supervision of thesis for BC and MS in Computer Science.
Since 2001 he has been involved in various research projects of the Department of Computer Science (De_VISU, VICE, Stressafish, CHAT, DIPIS, Learning for All) sponsored by EU and Italian organizations.
During February-May 2007 he has been visiting scientist at HIIT, "Helsinki Institute for Information and Technology", Finland. During this period he started working on large multitouch displays. A paper co-authored with HIIT researchers received the Best Paper Award at the MUM (Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia) 2007 conference. He has organized a research group of the IVU Lab @Brindisi developing and experimenting in the field various multitouch systems.
He was invited speaker at the “New Media Technologies: International FORUM among Museums, Universities and Companies” conference that took place, in November 2009, at “Universidad Autonoma de Madrid”. He was also invited by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid for the seminar “Enabling interactive exploration of cultural heritage: an experience of designing systems for mobile devices”.
During June 2010, sponsored by EU through the COST action IC0904 "Twintide", he visited the HCI research group at the University of Patras, Greece, working on "designing games for visiting cultural heritage sites".
He was invited in June 2011 to Autrans (France), for a talk to the Game Based Learning School (GBL) 2011, where he also co-organized, with Christos Sintoris from the HCI research group at the University of Patras, two practical sessions for designing games for learning ancient history.
He attended several National and International Conferences to present his published works, including CHI, MobileHCI, AVI. He was in the local organization of INTERACT 2005 Conference, collaborating to editing of both Proceedings and Adjunct Proceedings of the conference. He was co-chair of the demo track at the ACM IDC 2009 international conference on Interaction Design and Children. He was in the Local Organizing Committee of the closing conference of the COST294 MAUSE project that took place in Brindisi, Italy, during March 2009. He was Local Arrangement Chair of the third International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2011, Torre Canne (BR), Italy, June 7-11, 2011). He co-organized, with Prof. Nikolaos Avouris of the University of Patras, the "DEG: Involving End Users and Domain Experts in Design of Educational Games" workshop at the IS-EUD 2011 conference. He is or has been in the Program Committee of several International Conference as reviewer (AVI, CHI, HCI International, HCSE, HSI, IASTED, INTERACT, SEKE, VL/HCC, VLC, VIIP).

MAUSE Closing Conference @Brindisi

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Courses

Courses taught at the Dept. of Computer Science of the University of Bari

Degree in Computer Science (Laurea Triennale in Informatica, Brindisi)

Degree in Computer Science (Laurea Triennale in Informatica e Comunicazione Digitale, Taranto)

Degree in Modern Literature (Laurea in Progettazione e Gestione delle attività culturali, Brindisi)

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Projects

He is currently (has been) involved in the following projects:

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Software

Software developed

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