Miriana Calvano
Miriana Calvano (she/her)
PhD Student
M.Sc. in Computer Science (Security Engineering)
IVU Laboratory
Dipartimento di Informatica
Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
Via Orabona, 4 - 70125 Bari - Italy
email: miriana.calvano@uniba.it

Miriana Calvano

Research Interests

Symbiotic Artificial Intelligence, Human Centered Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction

Curriculum

Miriana Calvano is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bari Aldo Moro. She is a member of the Interaction, Visualization, Usability & UX (IVU) Laboratory, where her research focuses on the design of Symbiotic Artificial Intelligence.

Miriana obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, as well as his Master’s Degree in Computer Science (Secure Software Engineering) from the University of Bari Aldo Moro. During the Master’s Degree, she won a scholarship contributing to the project eGLU-Box PA.

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Publications

In this section, you’ll find a list of my publications.

Journal Articles

  1. Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, Giuseppe Desolda, Andrea Esposito, Rosa Lanzilotti, and Antonio Piccinno. 2025. Building Symbiotic Artificial Intelligence: Reviewing the AI Act for a Human-Centred, Principle-Based Framework. Minds and Machines 36, 1 (November 2025), 1. DOI:10.1007/s11023-025-09753-w

Conference Articles

  1. Vita Santa Barletta, Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, Alessandro Pagano, and Antonio Piccinno. 2024. Evaluation of" Speech System" and" Skill": An Interaction Paradigm for Speech Therapy. In In Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2024), 568–576. DOI:https://doi.org/10.5220/0012416700003657
  2. Vita Santa Barletta, Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, Rosa Lanzilotti, and Antonio Piccinno. 2024. The Role of Customization in Supporting Speech Therapy: the Case of e-SpeechT. In Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age (CoPDA 2024), AVI ’24. URL: ceur-ws.org/vol-3685/short14.pdf
  3. Vita Santa Barletta, Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, Rosa Lanzilotti, and Antonio Piccinno. 2024. Supporting Therapies for Eating Disorders: a Case Study. In Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, 1–3. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3656650.3656731
  4. Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, Antonio Piccinno, and Veronica Rossano. 2024. Design of a Serious Game for Cybersecurity Education: Cyber Academy. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Cybersecurity Education for Industry and Academia (CSE4IA 2024), AVI ’24. URL: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3700/paper3.pdf
  5. Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, Rosa Lanzilotti, and Antonio Piccinno. 2024. The Human-Centered Approach to Design and Evaluate Symbiotic AI Systems. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Designing and Building Hybrid Human–AI Systems (SYNERGY 2024), AVI ’24, CEUR: Workshop Proceedings. URL: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3701/paper13.pdf
  6. Miriana Calvano. 2024. Design and Evaluation of High-Quality Symbiotic AI Systems through a Human-Centered Approach. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, 488–493. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3661167.3661223
  7. Vita Santa Barletta, Miriana Calvano, and Rosa Lanzilotti. 2024. The Human-Centered Approach to Developing High-Quality Symbiotic AI Systems. In womENcourage 2024 - Responsible Computing for Gender Equality, ACM Celebration of Women in Computing. URL: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3701/paper13.pdf
  8. Vita Santa Barletta, Danilo Caivano, Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, and Antonio Piccinno. 2024. CRASTE: Human Factors and Perception in Cybersecurity Education. In Proceedings of DAMOCLES’24: First International Workshop on Detection And Mitigation Of Cyber attacks that exploit human vuLnerabilitiES, AVI ‘24. URL: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3713/paper_7.pdf
  9. Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, Rosa Lanzilotti, and Antonio Piccinno. 2024. Symbiotic AI: What is the Role of Trustworthiness? In 4° Convegno Nazionale Italiano sull’Intelligenza Artificiale (Ital-IA 2024), CEUR Workshop Proceedings. URL: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3762/528.pdf
  10. Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, Chaudhry Muhammad Nadeem Faisal, Antonio Piccinno, and Qaisar Sohail. 2024. Usability Aspects Reduce Design Complexity and Help Prevent Use-Related Errors in ICU Ventilators. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Participatory Design & End-User Development- Building Bridges (PDEUD2024). URL: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3778/short6.pdf
  11. Vita Santa Barletta, Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, and Antonio Piccinno. 2023. A New Interactive Paradigm for Speech Therapy. In IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Springer, 380–385. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42293-5_39
  12. Andrea Esposito, Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, Giuseppe Desolda, Rosa Lanzilotti, Claudia Lorusso, and Antonio Piccinno. 2023. End-User Development for Artificial Intelligence: A Systematic Literature Review. In International Symposium on End User Development, Springer, 19–34. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34433-6_2
  13. Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, Alessandro Pagano, and Antonio Piccinno. 2023. Speech therapy supported by ai and smart assistants. In International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, Springer Nature Switzerland Cham, 97–104. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49269-3_10
  14. Vita Santa Barletta, Miriana Calvano, Federica Caruso, Antonio Curci, and Veronica Rossano. 2023. Serious games for cybersecurity: Evaluating a design framework. In EDULEARN23 Proceedings, IATED, 4810–4815. DOI:https://doi.org/10.21125/edulearn.2023.1279
  15. Alessandro Pagano, Mario Angelelli, Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, and Antonio Piccinno. 2023. Quantum computing for learning analytics: an overview of challenges and integration strategies. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Quantum Programming for Software Engineering, 13–16. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3617570.3617867
  16. Vita Santa Barletta, Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, Antonio Piccinno, and Alessandro Pagano. 2023. Poster: Speech Therapies and Smart Assistants: an interaction paradigm proposal. In Proceedings of the 15th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter, 1–3. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3605390.3610823
  17. Miriana Calvano, Federica Caruso, Antonio Curci, Antonio Piccinno, Veronica Rossano, and others. 2023. A Rapid Review on Serious Games for Cybersecurity Education: Are" Serious" and Gaming Aspects Well Balanced? In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Cybersecurity Education for Industry and Academia (CSE4IA 2023), ISEUD ’23. URL: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3408/short-s3-05.pdf
  18. Vita Santa Barletta, Miriana Calvano, Federica Caruso, Antonio Curci, and Antonio Piccinno. 2023. Serious Games for Cybersecurity: How to Improve Perception and Human Factors. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Engineering (MetroXRAINE), IEEE, 1110–1115. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/MetroXRAINE58569.2023.10405607
  19. Vita Santa Barletta, Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, and Antonio Piccinno. 2023. A Protocol to Assess Usability and Feasibility of e-SpeechT, a Web-based System Supporting Speech Therapies. In In Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2023), 546–553. DOI:https://doi.org/10.5220/0011893300003414
  20. Vita Santa Barletta, Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, Antonio Piccinno, and Alessandro Pagano. 2023. Poster: Speech Therapies and Smart Assistants: an interaction paradigm proposal. In CHItaly 2023, 43–1. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3605390.3610823
  21. Vita Santa Barletta, Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, Nadeem C.M. Faisal, and Antonio Piccinno. 2025. Assessing Usability and Cybersecurity of AI Systems through the Human-Centered Design. In Joint Proceedings of IS-EUD 2025: 10th International Symposium on End-User Development, CEUR Workshop Proceedings. URL: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3978/short-s3-08.pdf
  22. Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, Paloma Diaz, Andrea Esposito, and Alexander Repenning. 2025. A²ID — 1st International Workshop on Augmented Artificial Intelligence: A Symbiotic Approach to Enhance Decision-Making. In Joint Proceedings of the Workshops, Work in Progress Demos and Doctoral Consortium at the IS-EUD 2025 Co-Located with the 10th International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2025), CEUR Workshop Proceedings. URL: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3978/short-s4-00.pdf
  23. Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, Andrea Antonio Cantone, and Francesca Perillo. 2025. COL-SAI: COllaboration and Learning through Symbiotic Artificial Intelligence. In Proceedings of the 16th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter, ACM, 1–2. DOI:10.1145/3750069.3757881
  24. Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, Rosa Lanzilotti, and Antonio Piccinno. 2025. FrameSAI: A Three-Layer Framework to Create Symbiotic AI Systems. In Joint Proceedings of the Thematic Workshops at Ital-IA 2025 Colocated with the 5th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Organized by CINI (Ital-IA 2025), CEUR Workshop Proceedings. URL: ceur-ws.org/Vol-4121/Ital-IA_2025_paper_9.pdf
  25. Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, Rosa Lanzilotti, and Antonio Piccinno. 2025. Guiding Designers and Developers in Creating Symbiotic AI Systems. In Proceedings of 16th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter, ACM Press. DOI:10.1145/3750069.3750095
  26. Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, Rosa Lanzilotti, and Antonio Piccinno. 2025. Investigating the Application Domains of Symbiotic Artificial Intelligence. In Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, IOS Press. DOI:10.3233/FAIA250678
  27. Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, Andrea Esposito, Rosa Lanzillotti, Antonio Piccinno, and Alfonso Pio Pretorino. 2025. Leveraging Emotion Recognition to Power Adaptability for More Effective Speech Therapies. In Joint Proceedings of IS-EUD 2025: 10th International Symposium on End-User Development, CEUR Workshop Proceedings. URL: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3978/short-s2-05.pdf
  28. Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, Rosa Lanzilotti, Antonio Piccinno, and Azzurra Ragone. 2025. Leveraging Large Language Models for Usability Testing: A Preliminary Study. In Companion Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, ACM, 78–81. DOI:10.1145/3708557.3716341
  29. Andrea Esposito, Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, Francesco Greco, Rosa Lanzilotti, and Antonio Piccinno. 2025. Explanation-Driven Interventions for Artificial Intelligence Model Customization: Empowering End-Users to Tailor Black-Box AI in Rhinocytology. In End-User Development, Springer Nature Switzerland, 161–170. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-95452-8_10

Book Chapters

  1. Maria Cristina Lomuscio, Maria Giovanna Eva Papadopoulos, Miriana Calvano, Vittoria Nanna, Antonio Curci, Andrea Esposito, Nicola Corriero, Rosa Lanzilotti, Antonio Piccinno, and Giuseppe Felice Mangiatordi. 2025. AI-based Platforms for Drug Discovery: Current Tools and Human-Centered Design Strategies. In Applied Artificial Intelligence for Drug Discovery. Springer Nature.