IVU Laboratory
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.
Latest News
Celebrating IVU Involvement in the University’s Ethical Review Board
Our research group celebrates the recent presentation of the university’s Ethical Review Board. Two of our members played key roles: Prof. Maria Francesca Costabile, president of the committee responsible for drafting the board’s regulations, and Prof. Rosa Lanzilotti, who is part of the Ethical Review Board itself. Their contributions help ensure that research at our university meets high ethical standards.
Continue readingAntonio Piccinno wins the 2024 IFIP Service Award!
We are thrilled to announce that our research team, in an effort led by Giuseppe Desolda, successfully secured the prestigious PRIN (Progetti di Ricerca di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale) grant for the year 2022. Giuseppe Desolda serves as the Vice Principal Investigator for the entire project and holds the position of Principal Investigator at the University of Bari.
Continue readingLatest Research Summary - To Automate or To Augment Humans? That is the Question for AI
The growing influence of AI brings benefits and risks. Our research explores how human-centred AI balances automation and human control in website usability evaluation. It shows how AI streamlines the detection of critical usability issues while augmented approaches also uncover less severe issues.
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Faculty
Full Professor
Coordinator for
Usability Engineering, UX, and Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
Associate Professor
Coordinator for Interplay between Human-Computer Interaction and Software Engineering, End-User Development
Assistant Professor
Coordinator for
Novel Interaction Techniques, Internet of Things, and Usable Security
PhD Students and Short-Term Collaborators
PhD Student
Research Fellow
Research fellow and PhD student on Human-Centered AI and Human-AI Interaction
Chaudhry Muhammad Nadeem Faisal
Research Fellow
Research Fellow
Research fellow and PhD student on Usable Security and Human-Centered Explainable AI
Postdoctoral Researcher
External Collaborators
Full Professor
Full Professor
PhD
Human-Computer Interaction, Mobile Computing, IoT, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Games user research, Gamification
Semantic Technologies, Ontology Design, and Data Integration Methods
Alumni
PhD
PhD
PhD
PhD
PhD