Costabile
Maria Francesca Costabile
Full Professor, retired since 2025
Founder and former Director of the IVU Laboratory
Dipartimento di Informatica
Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro

Maria Francesca Costabile

Research Interests

Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Pervasive systems, Usability Engineering, UX, Information Visualization, End-User Development, Usable Security, Human-Centred Artificial intelligence

Curriculum

Maria Francesca Costabile has been full professor of human-computer interaction at the Computer Science Department of the University of Bari, Italy, since 2000. She retired on January 1st, 2025. Together with some young collaborators of her, she founded the IVU (Interaction Visualization Usability & UX) Lab and was the director until Dec. 2024. Formerly, she worked at the University of Calabria, Italy, as researcher with a CNR fellowship from 1978 to 1980 and as assistant professor from 1981 to 1988; then, she was associate professor at the University of Bari from 1989 to 1999.

She carried out research in various Italian and foreign universities. The longer periods of research at foreign institutes were at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA, the University of Munster, Germany, the University of Bonn, Germany, the University of Houston, TX, USA, the University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

She received research funds from many Italian and foreign organizations.

Her research interests while she was working at the University of Bari were in human-computer interaction, in particular interaction design, mobile systems, usability engineering, UX, information visualization, end-user development, usable security, human-centred artificial intelligence. She has published more than three hundred papers in scientific journals, books and proceedings of international conferences, and edited seven conference proceedings, published by ACM Press and Springer.

Prof. Costabile has been regularly in program committees of international conferences and workshops. In 1992, with Stefano Levialdi and Tiziana Catarci of Sapienza University of Rome, she conceived and organized the workshop on “Avanced Visual Interfaces” (AVI), the first international event on HCI issues promoted in Italy by computer scientists. It was so successful that they decided to organize it again. Since then, the AVI conferences are held every two years and have become well appreciated by the international community. The proceedings are publshed by ACM Press and are available in the ACM Digital Library. She was also Co-Chair of the Program Committee in the editions of 1996 and 1998, General Chair of the 2004 edition held in Gallipoli (LE) and of the 2016 edition held in Bari, and was in the Steering Committee for several years.

She started the Italian Chapter of ACM SIGCHI, called ACM SIGCHI Italy, and served as first Chair from 1996 to 2000. In February 1999, Maria Francesca Costabile and Fabio Paternò (of ISTI-CNR, PISA) conceived the idea and organised HCITALY’99, the first Italian conference organized by ACM SIGCHI ITALY, whose purpose was to bring together both scientific and industrial communities with interests in HCI. The conference were largely successful, emphasising the increasing importance of HCI in Italy. Since then, SIGCHI Italy Conferences (now called CHItaly) are held every 2 years.

She was Program Co-Chair of IFIP INTERACT 2005, Program Co-Chair of CHI 2008 (the most important international conference on HCI), General Co-Chair of IS-EUD 2011. She has also been in the Steering Committee of VL/HCC, the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing.

She is Life Senior Member of IEEE and Member of ACM. In 2018 she has been awarded the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award. In 2024 she has been awarded the Lifetime Service Award by the AVI and SIGCHI-Italy Community. In 2025 she has been awarded the IFIP Pioneer Award.

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Publications (a selection)

Journal Articles

  1. Fabrizio Balducci, Paolo Buono, Giuseppe Desolda, Rosa Lanzilotti, Antonio Piccinno, and Maria Francesca Costabile. 2024. Exploring the Impact of an IoT-based Game on the Experience of Visitors at a Natural Science Museum. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage 17, 4 (December 2024), 1–21. DOI:10.1145/3652163
  2. Marta K. Larusdottir, Rosa Lanzilotti, Antonio Piccinno, Ioana Visescu, and Maria Francesca Costabile. 2024. UCD Sprint: A Fast Process to Involve Users in the Design Practices of Software Companies. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction 40, 23 (December 2024), 8360–8377. DOI:10.1080/10447318.2023.2279816
  3. Giuseppe Desolda, Andrea Esposito, Rosa Lanzilotti, Antonio Piccinno, and Maria Francesca Costabile. 2024. From Human-Centered to Symbiotic Artificial Intelligence: A Focus on Medical Applications. Multimedia Tools and Applications 84, 27 (November 2024), 32109–32150. DOI:10.1007/s11042-024-20414-5
  4. Giuseppe Desolda, Rosa Lanzilotti, Danilo Caivano, Maria Francesca Costabile, and Paolo Buono. 2023. Asynchronous Remote Usability Tests Using Web-Based Tools Versus Laboratory Usability Tests: An Experimental Study. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems 53, 4 (August 2023), 731–742. DOI:10.1109/THMS.2023.3282225
  5. Giuseppe Desolda, Joseph Aneke, Carmelo Ardito, Rosa Lanzilotti, and Maria Francesca Costabile. 2023. Explanations in Warning Dialogs to Help Users Defend against Phishing Attacks. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 176, (August 2023), 103056. DOI:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2023.103056
  6. Giuseppe Desolda, Lauren S. Ferro, Andrea Marrella, Tiziana Catarci, and Maria Francesca Costabile. 2022. Human Factors in Phishing Attacks: A Systematic Literature Review. ACM Computing Surveys 54, 8 (November 2022), 1–35. DOI:10.1145/3469886
  7. Paolo Buono, Danilo Caivano, Maria Francesca Costabile, Giuseppe Desolda, and Rosa Lanzilotti. 2020. Towards the Detection of UX Smells: The Support of Visualizations. IEEE access : practical innovations, open solutions 8, (2020), 6901–6914. DOI:10.1109/access.2019.2961768
  8. Patrizia Russo, Rosa Lanzilotti, Maria Francesca Costabile, and Christopher J. Pettit. 2018. Towards Satisfying Practitioners in Using Planning Support Systems. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 67, (January 2018), 9–20. DOI:10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2017.08.009
  9. Giuseppe Desolda, Carmelo Ardito, Maria Francesca Costabile, and Maristella Matera. 2017. End-User Composition of Interactive Applications through Actionable UI Components. Journal of Visual Languages & Computing 42, (October 2017), 46–59. DOI:10.1016/j.jvlc.2017.08.004
  10. Patrizia Russo, Rosa Lanzilotti, Maria Francesca Costabile, and Christopher James Pettit. 2017. Adoption and Use of Software in Land Use Planning Practice: A Multiple-Country Study. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction 34, 1 (May 2017), 57–72. DOI:10.1080/10447318.2017.1327213
  11. Carmelo Ardito, Paolo Buono, Maria Francesca Costabile, and Giuseppe Desolda. 2015. Interaction with Large Displays: A Survey. ACM Computing Surveys 47, 3 (February 2015), 1–38. DOI:10.1145/2682623
  12. Carmelo Ardito, Paolo Bottoni, Maria Francesca Costabile, Giuseppe Desolda, Maristella Matera, and Matteo Picozzi. 2014. Creation and Use of Service-Based Distributed Interactive Workspaces. Journal of Visual Languages & Computing 25, 6 (December 2014), 717–726. DOI:10.1016/j.jvlc.2014.10.018
  13. Carmelo Ardito, Maria Francesca Costabile, and Hans-Christian Jetter. 2014. Gestures That People Can Understand and Use. Journal of Visual Languages & Computing 25, 5 (October 2014), 572–576. DOI:10.1016/j.jvlc.2014.07.002
  14. Carmelo Ardito, Maria Francesca Costabile, Giuseppe Desolda, Rosa Lanzilotti, Maristella Matera, Antonio Piccinno, and Matteo Picozzi. 2014. User-Driven Visual Composition of Service-Based Interactive Spaces. Journal of Visual Languages & Computing 25, 4 (August 2014), 278–296. DOI:10.1016/j.jvlc.2014.01.003
  15. Carmelo Ardito, Paolo Buono, Danilo Caivano, Maria Francesca Costabile, and Rosa Lanzilotti. 2014. Investigating and Promoting UX Practice in Industry: An Experimental Study. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 72, 6 (June 2014), 542–551. DOI:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2013.10.004
  16. Carmelo Ardito, Paolo Buono, Maria Francesca Costabile, Rosa Lanzilotti, Antonio Piccinno, and Li Zhu. 2014. On the Transferability of a Meta-Design Model Supporting End-User Development. Universal Access in the Information Society 14, 2 (February 2014), 169–186. DOI:10.1007/s10209-013-0339-7
  17. Carmelo Ardito, Rosa Lanzilotti, Maria Francesca Costabile, and Giuseppe Desolda. 2013. Integrating Traditional Learning and Games on Large Displays: An Experimental Study. Journal of Educational Technology & Society 16, 1 (2013), 44–56. Retrieved June 18, 2025 from www.jstor.org/stable/jeductechsoci.16.1.44
  18. Carmelo Ardito, Maria Francesca Costabile, Antonella De Angeli, and Rosa Lanzilotti. 2012. Enriching Archaeological Parks with Contextual Sounds and Mobile Technology. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 19, 4 (December 2012), 1–30. DOI:10.1145/2395131.2395136
  19. Carmelo Ardito, Paolo Buono, Maria Francesca Costabile, Rosa Lanzilotti, and Antonio Piccinno. 2012. End Users as Co-Designers of Their Own Tools and Products. Journal of Visual Languages & Computing 23, 2 (April 2012), 78–90. DOI:10.1016/j.jvlc.2011.11.005
  20. Rosa Lanzilotti, Carmelo Ardito, Maria Francesca Costabile, and A. De Angeli. 2011. Do Patterns Help Novice Evaluators? A Comparative Study. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 69, 1–2 (January 2011), 52–69. DOI:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2010.07.005
  21. Maria Francesca Costabile, Carmelo Ardito, and Rosa Lanzilotti. 2010. Enjoying Cultural Heritage Thanks to Mobile Technology. Interactions 17, 3 (May 2010), 30–33. DOI:10.1145/1744161.1744169
  22. Carmelo Ardito, Paolo Buono, Maria Francesca Costabile, Rosa Lanzilotti, and Antonio Piccinno. 2009. Enabling Interactive Exploration of Cultural Heritage: An Experience of Designing Systems for Mobile Devices. Knowledge, Technology & Policy 22, 1 (March 2009), 79–86. DOI:10.1007/s12130-009-9079-7
  23. Qibin Sun, Carmelo Ardito, Paolo Buono, Maria Francesca Costabile, Rosa Lanzilotti, Thomas Pederson, and Antonio Piccinno. 2008. Experiencing the Past through the Senses: An m-Learning Game at Archaeological Parks. IEEE Multimedia 15, 4 (October 2008), 76–81. DOI:10.1109/mmul.2008.87
  24. Maria Francesca Costabile, Daniela Fogli, Andrea Marcante, Piero Mussio, Loredana Parasiliti Provenza, and Antonio Piccinno. 2008. Designing Customized and Tailorable Visual Interactive Systems. International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering 18, 03 (May 2008), 305–325. DOI:10.1142/s0218194008003702
  25. Maria Francesca Costabile, Daniela Fogli, Piero Mussio, and Antonio Piccinno. 2007. Visual Interactive Systems for End-User Development: A Model-Based Design Methodology. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and Humans 37, 6 (November 2007), 1029–1046. DOI:10.1109/tsmca.2007.904776
  26. Carmelo Ardito, Maria Francesca Costabile, A. De Angeli, and F. Pittarello. 2006. Navigation Help in 3D Worlds: Some Empirical Evidences on Use of Sound. Multimedia Tools and Applications 33, 2 (December 2006), 201–216. DOI:10.1007/s11042-006-0060-0
  27. Rosa Lanzilotti, Carmelo Ardito, Maria Francesca Costabile, and Antonella De Angeli. 2006. eLSE Methodology: A Systematic Approach to the e-Learning Systems Evaluation. Journal of Educational Technology & Society 9, 4 (2006), 42–53. URL: www.learntechlib.org/p/75204
  28. Carmelo Ardito, Maria Francesca Costabile, M. De Marsico, Rosa Lanzilotti, Stefano Levialdi, T. Roselli, and V. Rossano. 2005. An Approach to Usability Evaluation of E-Learning Applications. Universal Access in the Information Society 4, 3 (December 2005), 270–283. DOI:10.1007/s10209-005-0008-6
  29. Maria Francesca Costabile and Donato Malerba. 2003. Editor’s Foreword: Special Issue on Visual Data Mining. Journal of Visual Languages & Computing 14, 6 (December 2003), 499–501. DOI:10.1016/j.jvlc.2003.08.001
  30. Antonella De Angeli, Maristella Matera, Maria Francesca Costabile, F. Garzotto, and P. Paolini. 2003. On the Advantages of a Systematic Inspection for Evaluating Hypermedia Usability. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction 15, 3 (June 2003), 315–335. DOI:10.1207/s15327590ijhc1503_01
  31. Maria Francesca Costabile, T. Roselli, Rosa Lanzilotti, P. Plantamura, and A. De Angeli. 2003. Does Hypermedia Really Work for Tutoring Children? IEEE Multimedia 10, 2 (April 2003), 65–69. DOI:10.1109/mmul.2003.1195162
  32. Maria Francesca Costabile, Antonella De Angeli, Teresa Roselli, Rosa Lanzilotti, and Paola Plantamura. 2003. Evaluating the Educational Impact of a Tutoring Hypermedia for Children. Information Technology in Childhood Education Annual 2003, 1 (2003), 289–308. URL: www.learntechlib.org/p/18867
  33. Paolo Bottoni, Maria Francesca Costabile, and Stefano Levialdi. 2002. Analyzing, Modelling, and Specifying Visual Interaction. Soft Computing 7, 1 (November 2002), 9–19. DOI:10.1007/s00500-002-0168-8
  34. Paolo Bottoni, Shi-Kuo Chang, Maria Francesca Costabile, Stefano Levialdi, and Piero Mussio. 2002. Modeling Visual Interactive Systems through Dynamic Visual Languages. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and Humans 32, 6 (November 2002), 654–669. DOI:10.1109/tsmca.2002.807028
  35. M. Matera, Maria Francesca Costabile, F. Garzotto, and P. Paolini. 2002. SUE Inspection: An Effective Method for Systematic Usability Evaluation of Hypermedia. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and Humans 32, 1 (2002), 93–103. DOI:10.1109/3468.995532
  36. Maria Francesca Costabile and M. Matera. 2001. Guidelines for Hypermedia Usability Inspection. IEEE Multimedia 8, 1 (2001), 66–69. DOI:10.1109/93.923955
  37. Paolo Bottoni, Maria Francesca Costabile, and Piero Mussio. 1999. Specification and Dialogue Control of Visual Interaction through Visual Rewriting Systems. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 21, 6 (November 1999), 1077–1136. DOI:10.1145/330643.330644
  38. Maria Francesca Costabile, F. Esposito, G. Semeraro, and N. Fanizzi. 1999. An Adaptive Visual Environment for Digital Libraries. International Journal on Digital Libraries 2, 2–3 (September 1999), 124–143. DOI:10.1007/s007990050042
  39. Paolo Bottoni, Maria Francesca Costabile, S LEVIALDI, and P MUSSIO. 1999. On Orders in Visual Interaction. Journal of Visual Languages & Computing 10, 4 (August 1999), 343–380. DOI:10.1006/jvlc.1999.0132
  40. Paolo Bottoni, Maria Francesca Costabile, S. LEVIALDI, and P. MUSSIO. 1998. Specifying Dialog Control in Visual Interactive Systems. Journal of Visual Languages & Computing 9, 5 (October 1998), 535–564. DOI:10.1006/jvlc.1998.0095
  41. Tiziana Catarci, Maria Francesca Costabile, Stefano Levialdi, and Carlo Batini. 1997. Visual Query Systems for Databases: A Survey. Journal of Visual Languages & Computing 8, 2 (April 1997), 215–260. DOI:10.1006/jvlc.1997.0037
  42. Paolo Bottoni, Maria Francesca Costabile, Stefano Levialdi, and Piero Mussio. 1997. Defining Visual Languages for Interactive Computing. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and Humans 27, 6 (1997), 773–783. DOI:10.1109/3468.634641

Conference Articles

  1. Andrea Esposito, Giuseppe Desolda, Rosa Lanzilotti, and Maria Francesca Costabile. 2022. SERENE: A Web Platform for the UX Semi-Automatic Evaluation of Website. In Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, ACM, Frascati, Rome Italy, 1–3. DOI:10.1145/3531073.3534464
  2. Paolo Buono, Alessandra Legretto, Enrico Bertini, and Maria Francesca Costabile. 2019. Visual Techniques to Compare Predictive Models. In Proceedings of the 13th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter: Designing the next Interaction, ACM, Padova Italy, 1–5. DOI:10.1145/3351995.3352035
  3. Carmelo Ardito, Giuseppe Desolda, Maristella Matera, and Maria Francesca Costabile. 2016. Exploiting Visual Notations for Data Exploration: The EFESTO Platform. In Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, ACM, Bari Italy, 290–291. DOI:10.1145/2909132.2926082
  4. Carmelo Ardito, Maria Francescaancesca Costabile, Giuseppe Desolda, Rosa Lanzilotti, Maristella Matera, and Matteo Picozzi. 2014. Visual Composition of Data Sources by End Users. In Proceedings of the 2014 International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, ACM, Como Italy, 257–260. DOI:10.1145/2598153.2598201
  5. Carmelo Ardito, Maria Francesca Costabile, Giuseppe Desolda, Rosa Lanzilotti, Maristella Matera, Antonio Piccinno, and Matteo Picozzi. 2013. Personal Information Spaces in the Context of Visits to Archaeological Parks. In Proceedings of the Biannual Conference of the Italian Chapter of SIGCHI, ACM, Trento Italy, 1–4. DOI:10.1145/2499149.2499173
  6. Carmelo Ardito, Maria Francesca Costabile, G. Desolda, M. Matera, Antonio Piccinno, and M. Picozzi. 2012. Composition of Situational Interactive Spaces by End Users: A Case for Cultural Heritage. In Proceedings of the 7th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Making Sense Through Design, ACM, Copenhagen Denmark, 79–88. DOI:10.1145/2399016.2399029
  7. Carmelo Ardito, Maria Francesca Costabile, Rosa Lanzilotti, A. De Angeli, and G. Desolda. 2012. A Field Study of a Multi-Touch Display at a Conference. In Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, ACM, Capri Island Italy, 580–587. DOI:10.1145/2254556.2254664
  8. Paolo Buono and Maria Francesca Costabile. 2012. Insights on the Development of Visual Tools for Analysis of Pollution Data. In Distributed Multimedia Systems. URL: api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:15320628
  9. Carmelo Ardito, Paolo Buono, and Maria Francesca Costabile. 2011. Involving End Users to Create Software Supporting Visits to Cultural Heritage Sites. In Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCHI Italian Chapter International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Facing Complexity, ACM, Alghero Italy, 157–162. DOI:10.1145/2037296.2037334
  10. Carmelo Ardito, Paolo Buono, Danilo Caivano, Maria Francesca Costabile, Rosa Lanzilotti, Anders Bruun, and Jan Stage. 2011. Usability Evaluation: A Survey of Software Development Organizations. In International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, 282–287. URL: api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:46029372
  11. Carmelo Ardito, Maria Francesca Costabile, Rosa Lanzilotti, and A. L. Simeone. 2010. Sharable Multitouch Screens in Cultural Heritage and Tourism Applications. In 2010 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, IEEE, Leganes, Madrid, Spain, 271–272. DOI:10.1109/VLHCC.2010.54
  12. Maria Francesca Costabile, Boris De Ruyter, Nikolay Mehandjiev, and Piero Mussio. 2010. End-User Development of Software Services and Applications. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, ACM, Roma Italy, 403–407. DOI:10.1145/1842993.1843078
  13. Carmelo Ardito, Paolo Buono, Maria Francesca Costabile, Rosa Lanzilotti, and Antonio Piccinno. 2009. A Tool for Wizard of Oz Studies of Multimodal Mobile Systems. In 2009 2nd Conference on Human System Interactions, IEEE, Catania, Italy, 344–347. DOI:10.1109/HSI.2009.5091003
  14. Maria Francesca Costabile, Antonella De Angeli, Rosa Lanzilotti, Carmelo Ardito, Paolo Buono, and Thomas Pederson. 2008. Explore! Possibilities and Challenges of Mobile Learning. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM, Florence Italy, 145–154. DOI:10.1145/1357054.1357080
  15. Carmelo Ardito, P. Buono, Maria Francesca Costabile, Rosa Lanzilotti, and T. Pederson. 2007. Mobile Games to Foster the Learning of History at Archaeological Sites. In IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2007), IEEE, Coeur d’Alene, ID, USA, 81–86. DOI:10.1109/VLHCC.2007.54
  16. Carmelo Ardito, Maria Francesca Costabile, Rosa Lanzilotti, and Thomas Pederson. 2007. Making Dead History Come Alive through Mobile Game-Play. In CHI ’07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM, San Jose CA USA, 2249–2254. DOI:10.1145/1240866.1240989
  17. Carmelo Ardito, Paolo Buono, Maria Francesca Costabile, and Rosa Lanzilotti. 2006. Two Different Interfaces to Visualize Patient Histories on a PDA. In Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Human-computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, ACM, Helsinki Finland, 37–40. DOI:10.1145/1152215.1152223
  18. Maria Francesca Costabile, D. Fogli, Piero Mussio, and Antonio Piccinno. 2005. A Meta-Design Approach to End-User Development. In 2005 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC’05), IEEE, Dallas, TX, USA, 308–310. DOI:10.1109/VLHCC.2005.7
  19. Maria Francesca Costabile, D. Fogli, G. Fresta, Piero Mussio, and Antonio Piccinno. 2004. Virtual Workshops for Human-Centric Computing. In 2004 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages - Human Centric Computing, IEEE, Rome, 65–68. DOI:10.1109/VLHCC.2004.62
  20. Maria Francesca Costabile, D. Fogjli, G. Fresta, Piero Mussio, and Antonio Piccinno. 2003. Building Environments for End-User Development and Tailoring. In IEEE Symposium on Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments, 2003. Proceedings. 2003, IEEE, Auckland, New Zealand, 31–38. DOI:10.1109/HCC.2003.1260199
  21. Maria Francesca Costabile, Antonella De Angeli, Fabio Pittarello, Carmelo Ardito, and others. 2003. Can Audio Help Navigating in Virtual Environments? An Experimental Evaluation. In Proc. of INTERACT 2003, IOS Press, 1–5.
  22. Maria Francesca Costabile, Daniela Fogli, Catherine Letondal, Piero Mussio, and Antonio Piccinno. 2003. Domain-Expert Users and Their Needs of Software Development. In HCI 2003 End User Development Session.
  23. Maria Francesca Costabile. 1999. Usable Multimedia Applications. In Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, IEEE Comput. Soc, Florence, Italy, 124–127. DOI:10.1109/MMCS.1999.779132
  24. Paolo Bottoni, Maria Francesca Costabile, Stefano Levialdi, and Piero Mussio. 1995. Formalising Visual Languages. In Proceedings of Symposium on Visual Languages, IEEE Comput. Soc. Press, Darmstadt, Germany, 45–52. DOI:10.1109/VL.1995.520784

Book Chapters

  1. Paolo Buono, Maria Francesca Costabile, Palmalisa Marra, Valentino Moretto, Antonio Piccinno, and Luca Tedesco. 2021. Supporting the Analysis of Inner Areas of a Territory. In Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2021, Carmelo Ardito, Rosa Lanzilotti, Alessio Malizia, Helen Petrie, Antonio Piccinno, Giuseppe Desolda and Kori Inkpen (eds.). Springer International Publishing, Cham, 285–289. DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-85607-6_23
  2. Giuseppe Desolda, Andrea Esposito, Rosa Lanzilotti, and Maria Francesca Costabile. 2021. Detecting Emotions Through Machine Learning for Automatic UX Evaluation. In Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2021, Carmelo Ardito, Rosa Lanzilotti, Alessio Malizia, Helen Petrie, Antonio Piccinno, Giuseppe Desolda and Kori Inkpen (eds.). Springer International Publishing, Cham, 270–279. DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-85613-7_19
  3. Angela Locoro, Paolo Buono, and Giacomo Buonanno. 2021. Interacting with More Than One Chart: What Is It All About? In Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2021, Carmelo Ardito, Rosa Lanzilotti, Alessio Malizia, Helen Petrie, Antonio Piccinno, Giuseppe Desolda and Kori Inkpen (eds.). Springer International Publishing, Cham, 447–450. DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-85607-6_55
  4. Carmelo Ardito, Paolo Buono, Maria Francesca Costabile, Giuseppe Desolda, Rosa Lanzilotti, Maristella Matera, and Antonio Piccinno. 2019. Enabling End Users to Define the Behavior of Smart Objects in AAL Environments. In Ambient Assisted Living, Alessandro Leone, Andrea Caroppo, Gabriele Rescio, Giovanni Diraco and Pietro Siciliano (eds.). Springer International Publishing, Cham, 95–103. DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-05921-7_8
  5. Carmelo Ardito, Maria Francesca Costabile, Giuseppe Desolda, Marco Manca, Maristella Matera, Fabio Paternò, and Carmen Santoro. 2019. Improving Tools That Allow End Users to Configure Smart Environments. In End-User Development, Alessio Malizia, Stefano Valtolina, Anders Morch, Alan Serrano and Andrew Stratton (eds.). Springer International Publishing, Cham, 244–248. DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-24781-2_24
  6. Paolo Buono, Fabio Cassano, Antonio Piccinno, and Maria Francesca Costabile. 2019. Smart Objects for Speech Therapies at Home. In Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2019, David Lamas, Fernando Loizides, Lennart Nacke, Helen Petrie, Marco Winckler and Panayiotis Zaphiris (eds.). Springer International Publishing, Cham, 672–675. DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-29390-1_60
  7. Paolo Buono, Giuseppe Desolda, Rosa Lanzilotti, Maria Francesca Costabile, and Antonio Piccinno. 2019. Visualizations of User’s Paths to Discover Usability Problems. In Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2019, David Lamas, Fernando Loizides, Lennart Nacke, Helen Petrie, Marco Winckler and Panayiotis Zaphiris (eds.). Springer International Publishing, Cham, 689–692. DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-29390-1_64
  8. Carmelo Ardito, Maria Francesca Costabile, Giuseppe Desolda, and Maristella Matera. 2017. A Three-Layer Meta-Design Model for Addressing Domain-Specific Customizations. In New Perspectives in End-User Development, Fabio Paternò and Volker Wulf (eds.). Springer International Publishing, Cham, 99–120. DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-60291-2_5
  9. Carmelo Ardito, Maria Francesca Costabile, Giuseppe Desolda, Maristella Matera, and Paolo Buono. 2016. A Meta-design Approach to Support Information Access and Manipulation in Virtual Research Environments. In Advanced Visual Interfaces. Supporting Big Data Applications, Marco X. Bornschlegl, Felix C. Engel, Raymond Bond and Matthias L. Hemmje (eds.). Springer International Publishing, Cham, 115–126. DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-50070-6_9
  10. Carmelo Ardito, Maria Francesca Costabile, Giuseppe Desolda, Markus Latzina, and Maristella Matera. 2015. Making Mashups Actionable Through Elastic Design Principles. In End-User Development, Paloma Díaz, Volkmar Pipek, Carmelo Ardito, Carlos Jensen, Ignacio Aedo and Alexander Boden (eds.). Springer International Publishing, Cham, 236–241. DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-18425-8_22
  11. Carmelo Ardito, Paolo Bottoni, Maria Francesca Costabile, Giuseppe Desolda, Maristella Matera, Antonio Piccinno, and Matteo Picozzi. 2013. Enabling End Users to Create, Annotate and Share Personal Information Spaces. In End-User Development, David Hutchison, Takeo Kanade, Josef Kittler, Jon M. Kleinberg, Friedemann Mattern, John C. Mitchell, Moni Naor, Oscar Nierstrasz, C. Pandu Rangan, Bernhard Steffen, Madhu Sudan, Demetri Terzopoulos, Doug Tygar, Moshe Y. Vardi, Gerhard Weikum, Yvonne Dittrich, Margaret Burnett, Anders Mørch and David Redmiles (eds.). Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg, 40–55. DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-38706-7_5
  12. Carmelo Ardito, Barbara Rita Barricelli, Paolo Buono, Maria Francesca Costabile, Rosa Lanzilotti, Antonio Piccinno, and Stefano Valtolina. 2011. An Ontology-Based Approach to Product Customization. In End-User Development, Maria Francesca Costabile, Yvonne Dittrich, Gerhard Fischer and Antonio Piccinno (eds.). Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg, 92–106. DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-21530-8_9
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