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IVU Talk: From Professional Design & Development to End-User Development through Meta-Design, Symbiotic AI Systems, and Generative AI (Feb 6, 2026)
The IVU Lab is pleased to announce a visiting talk by Prof. Antonio Piccinno during his visiting period at the Programa de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computação (PESC), COPPE - Instituto Alberto Luiz Coimbra, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, invited by Prof. Guilherme Horta Travassos (Full Professor, PESC/COPPE/UFRJ). Read more...
Maria Francesca Costabile wins IFIP TC13 Pioneer Award 2025 (Sep 10, 2025)
We are proud to announce that Maria Francesca Costabile, founder of the IVU Laboratory and its director until her retirement at the end of December 2024, has been honored with the IFIP TC13 2025 Pioneer Award. The award was conferred during the INTERACT 2025 conference, held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Read more...
Celebrating IVU Involvement in the University’s Ethical Review Board (Oct 11, 2024)
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. Read more...
Antonio Piccinno wins the 2024 IFIP Service Award! (Oct 4, 2024)
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. Read more...
Latest Research Summary - To Automate or To Augment Humans? That is the Question for AI (May 2, 2024)
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. Read more...
Shielding Italian Public Administrations: Introducing DAMOCLES Project - A New Approach to Cybersecurity (Apr 12, 2024)
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) PNRR grant for the year 2022. Giuseppe Desolda serves as the Principal Investigator for the entire project and holds the position of Principal Investigator at the University of Bari. Read more...
IVU's "DevProDev" Project Wins PRIN 2022 Grant (Nov 21, 2023)
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. Read more...