Antonio Curci
Antonio Curci (he/him)
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: antonio.curci@uniba.it

Antonio Curci

Research Interests

Curriculum

Second-year PhD Student in Artificial Intelligence for Society at the University of Bari in co-affiliation with the University of Pisa. He is a member of the Information Visualization and Usability (IVU) Laboratory under the supervision of Full Professor Rosa Lanzilotti and Associate Professor Antonio Piccinno. His main interests are Human-Computer Interaction and its relationship with Artificial Intelligence, along with with the ramifications in Software Engineering and Cybersecurity.

His research revolves around the design of Symbiotic AI, a subset of Human-Centered AI, with the objective of delineating methodologies, techniques, and design patterns that can support designers and developers in the creation of such systems.

From September 2022 to May 2023, he worked as a scholarship researcher at the University of Bari, contributing to the ISO 25000-certified project eGLU-Box PA.

He obtained with full marks and honors, this Master’s Degree course, entirely provided in English, focused on Security Engineering. The final thesis concerned the creation of a serious game for cybersecurity following the human-centered approach of the ISO 9241:210. This serious game has the objective of offering a customizable cybersecurity course to individuals who are not familiar with the topic.

In 2021, he completed his Bachelor’s Degree and the final thesis revolved around the design and development of a Internet of Things (IoT) environment to support physicians and patients who suffer from speech therapy and usability evaluation of the underlying web-application.

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Publications

Conference Articles

  1. Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, Alessandro Pagano, and Antonio Piccinno. 2024. Speech Therapy Supported by AI and Smart Assistants. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, 97–104. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-49269-3_10
  2. Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, 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 First International Workshop on Participatory Design & End-User Development - Building Bridges Co-Located with the International Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI 2024), Uppsala, Sweden.
  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, ACM, Arenzano, Genoa Italy, 1–3. DOI: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 In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Cyber Security Education for Industry and Academia (CSE4IA 2024), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Arenzano, Genoa Italy.
  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 Co-Located with 17th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2024), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Arenzano, Genoa Italy.
  6. Antonio Curci. 2024. A Comprehensive Framework Proposal to Design Symbiotic AI Systems. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, ACM, Salerno Italy, 460–465. DOI:10.1145/3661167.3661219
  7. Vita Santa Barletta, Danilo Caivano, Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, and Antonio Piccinno. 2024. CRASTE: Human Factors and Perception in Cybersecurity Education. In Proceedings of the 1st IInternational Workshop on Detection And Mitigation Of Cyber Attacks That Exploit Human vuLnerabilitiES (DAMOCLES) Co-Located with 17th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2024), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Arenzano, Genoa Italy.
  8. 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): Differenti- Ating and Deepening the Concept of "End User" in the Digital Age, Genoa, Italy.
  9. Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, Rosa Lanzilotti, and Antonio Piccinno. 2024. Symbiotic AI: What Is the Role of Trustworthiness? In Proceedings of the 4th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Naples, Italy.
  10. Vita Barletta, Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, Alessandro Pagano, and Antonio Piccinno. 2024. Evaluation of "Speech System" and "Skill": An Interaction Paradigm for Speech Therapy: In Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Rome, Italy, 568–576. DOI:10.5220/0012416700003657
  11. Antonio Curci and Andrea Esposito. 2024. Detecting Brain Tumors Through Multimodal Neural Networks. In 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, SCITEPRESS – Science and Technology Publications, Lda., Rome, Italy, 995–1000. DOI:10.5220/0012608600003654
  12. 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, ACM, San Francisco CA USA, 13–16. DOI:10.1145/3617570.3617867
  13. Vita Santa Barletta, Miriana Calvano, Caruso, Federica, Antonio Curci, and Antonio Piccinno. 2023. Serious Games for Cybersecurity: How to Improve Perception and Human Factors. In IEEE MetroXRAINE 2023, Milan, Italy.
  14. 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, ACM, Torino Italy, 1–3. DOI:10.1145/3605390.3610823
  15. Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, Giuseppe Desolda, Rosa Lanzilotti, Stefano Federici, Giovanni Bifolchi, Giancarlo Gaudino, Massimo Amendola, Antonello Cocco, Aldo Doria, and Emilio Simonetti. 2023. A Semi-Automatic Approach to Evaluate the Usability of Italian Public Administration Websites on Mobile. In Proceedings of the 9th CINI Annual Conference on ICT for Smart Cities & Communities, Salerno, Italy.
  16. Vita Barletta, Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, and Antonio Piccinno. 2023. A New Interactive Paradigm for Speech Therapy. In Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2023, Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, 380–385. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-42293-5_39
  17. Vita Santa Barletta, Miriana Calvano, Federica Caruso, Antonio Curci, and Veronica Rossano. 2023. Serious Games for Cybersecurity: Evaluating a Design Framework. In 15th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Palma, Spain, 4810–4815. DOI:10.21125/edulearn.2023.1279
  18. Miriana Calvano, Federica Caruso, Antonio Curci, Antonio Piccinno, and Veronica Rossano. 2023. A Rapid Review on Serious Games for Cybersecurity Education: Are “Serious" and Gaming Aspects Well Balanced? In Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2023), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Cagliari, Italy.
  19. 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 End-User Development, Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, 19–34. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-34433-6_2
  20. Vita 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 Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lisbon, Portugal, 546–553. DOI:10.5220/0011893300003414

Miscellaneous & Preprints

  1. Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, Giuseppe Desolda, Andrea Esposito, Rosa Lanzilotti, and Antonio Piccinno. 2025. Building Symbiotic AI: Reviewing the AI Act for a Human-Centred, Principle-Based Framework. DOI:10.48550/arXiv.2501.08046