Andrea Esposito
Andrea Esposito (he/him)
Research Fellow
IVU Laboratory
Dipartimento di Informatica
Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
Via Orabona, 4 - 70125 Bari - Italy
email: andrea.esposito@uniba.it

Andrea Esposito

Research Interests

Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Human-AI Interaction, Explainable Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction

Curriculum

Andrea Esposito is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bari Aldo Moro. He is an active member of the Interaction, Visualization, Usability & UX (IVU) Laboratory, where his research focuses on Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence. His interests lie in Human-Computer Interaction, eXplainable Artificial Intelligence, and Human-AI Interaction.

Andrea earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Digital Communication, as well as his Master’s Degree in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) from the University of Bari Aldo Moro. He has also worked as a scholarship researcher at the university, contributing to the ISO 25000-certified project “eGLU-Box PA” and the Human-Centred AI project “SERENE,” among other research activities.

As part of his Ph.D. studies, Andrea spent six months as a visiting researcher at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität (LMU) in Munich and another six months at a corporate research laboratory with Eusoft S.r.l., gaining valuable international and industry experience. He also collaborates with the European Network of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence “Humane-AI,” further expanding his research network and expertise.

Andrea is committed to advancing the field of Human-Centred AI, working to improve the interaction between humans and AI systems. Andrea Esposito has a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Digital Communication and a Master’s Degree in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), both at the University of Bari Aldo Moro. Currently, he started his Ph.D. in the same University. He was a scholarship researcher at the University of Bari, working on the ISO 25000-certified project “eGLU-Box PA”, on the Human-Centred AI project “SERENE”, as well as in other research activities. He collaborates with the European Network of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence “Humane-AI”.

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Publications

In this section, you’ll find a non-comprehensive list of my publications. I always try to provide a freely accessible version of all of my papers, to ensure that everyone can read them. Depending on the publisher, though, the ways I can do that may vary. Please visit my personal website for a complete list of publications and links to open-access versions: https://espositoandrea.github.io.

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
  2. Giuseppe Desolda, Andrea Esposito, Francesco Greco, Cesare Tucci, Paolo Buono, and Antonio Piccinno. 2025. Understanding User Mental Models in AI-driven Code Completion Tools: Insights from an Elicitation Study. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 205, (November 2025), 103648. DOI:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2025.103648
  3. Andrea Esposito, Giuseppe Desolda, and Rosa Lanzilotti. 2025. A Dataset of Interactions and Emotions for Website User Experience Evaluation. Scientific Data 12, 1 (November 2025), 1794. DOI:10.1038/s41597-025-06079-1
  4. Giuseppe Desolda, Andrea Esposito, Rosa Lanzilotti, Antonio Piccinno, and Maria F. 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
  5. Marco Saltarella, Giuseppe Desolda, Andrea Esposito, Francesco Greco, and Rosa Lanzilotti. 2024. Bridging the Gap between GPDR and Software Development: The MATERIALIST Framework. Multimedia Tools and Applications 84, 20 (October 2024), 22971–23010. DOI:10.1007/s11042-024-19923-0
  6. Giuseppe Desolda, Giovanni Dimauro, Andrea Esposito, Rosa Lanzilotti, Maristella Matera, and Massimo Zancanaro. 2024. A Human–AI Interaction Paradigm and Its Application to Rhinocytology. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 155, (August 2024), 102933. DOI:10.1016/j.artmed.2024.102933
  7. Andrea Esposito. 2024. ‘Accuracy per FLOP’: A Green AI Metric for Fair and Efficient AI Development. The Journal of Brief Ideas (July 2024). DOI:10.5281/ZENODO.12660216
  8. Andrea Esposito. 2024. The Need and Format for Publications Is Stifling Innovation and Science Adoption. The Journal of Brief Ideas (July 2024). DOI:10.5281/ZENODO.13129574
  9. Andrea Esposito, Giuseppe Desolda, and Rosa Lanzilotti. 2024. The Fine Line between Automation and Augmentation in Website Usability Evaluation. Scientific Reports 14, 1 (May 2024), 10129. DOI:10.1038/s41598-024-59616-0
  10. Giovanna Castellano, Andrea Esposito, Eufemia Lella, Graziano Montanaro, and Gennaro Vessio. 2024. Automated Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease: A Multi-Modal Approach with 3D MRI and Amyloid PET. Scientific Reports 14, 1 (March 2024), 5210. DOI:10.1038/s41598-024-56001-9

Conference Articles

  1. Giuseppe Desolda, Andrea Esposito, Francesco Greco, Cesare Tucci, Paolo Buono, and Antonio Piccinno. 2025. Designing Human-Centered Code Completion Tools in the Age of Generative AI. In Proceedings of the 16th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter, ACM, Salerno Italy, 1–3. DOI:10.1145/3750069.3755957
  2. Andrea Esposito, Rosa Lanzilotti, and Antonio Piccinno. 2025. Toward Better, Proactive, Adaptable and Symbiotic Conversational Agents for Digital Accessibility. In Proceedings of COL-SAI 2025: Workshop on COllaboration and Learning through Symbiotic Artificial Intelligence (CEUR Workshop Proceedings), CEUR-WS, Salerno, Italy, 63–71. URL: ceur-ws.org/Vol-4086/paper7.pdf
  3. Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, Paloma Diaz, Andrea Esposito, and Alexander Repenning. 2025. A^2ID — 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 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings), CEUR-WS, Aachen. URL: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3978/short-s4-00.pdf
  4. Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, Andrea Esposito, Rosa Lanzilotti, Antonio Piccinno, and Alfonso Pio Pretorino. 2025. Leveraging Emotion Recognition to Power Adaptability for More Effective Speech Therapies. In Joint Proceedings of the Workshops, Work in Progress Demos and Doctoral Consortium at the IS-EUD 2025 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings), CEUR-WS, Aachen. URL: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3978/short-s2-05.pdf
  5. Antonio Curci and Andrea Esposito. 2025. An AI Act-Driven Design for Detecting Brain Tumors through Reconfiguration. In Proceedings of the Workshops at the Fourth International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (CEUR Workshop Proceedings), CEUR-WS, Aachen. URL: ceur-ws.org/Vol-4074/short9-6.pdf
  6. Giuseppe Desolda, Andrea Esposito, Francesco Greco, Cesare Tucci, Paolo Buono, and Antonio Piccinno. 2025. ATHENA: A Customizable LLM-based Code Completion Tool for Visual Studio Code. In Companion Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, ACM, Cagliari Italy, 120–123. DOI:10.1145/3708557.3716357
  7. Giuseppe Desolda, Andrea Esposito, Rosa Lanzilotti, and Antonio Piccinno. 2025. Designing and Evaluating Human-Centred AI Systems: Best-Practices from a Multidisciplinary View. In Joint Proceedings of the ACM IUI Workshops 2025 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings), CEUR-WS, Cagliari, Italy, 170–178. URL: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3957/BEHAVEAI-paper05.pdf
  8. Andrea Esposito, Giuseppe Desolda, and Rosa Lanzilotti. 2025. Toward a Metric for Evaluating Trust in Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. In Joint Proceedings of the ACM IUI Workshops 2025 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings), CEUR-WS, Cagliari, Italy, 119–127. URL: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3957/AXAI-paper13.pdf
  9. Francesco Greco, Giuseppe Desolda, Andrea Esposito, and Alessandro Carelli. 2024. David versus Goliath: Can Machine Learning Detect LLM-Generated Text? A Case Study in the Detection of Phishing Emails. In Proceedings of the Italian Conference on Cyber Security (ITASEC 2024) (CEUR Workshop Proceedings), CEUR-WS, Salerno, Italy. URL: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3731/paper41.pdf
  10. Grazia Ragone, Safinah Arshad Ali, Andrea Esposito, Judith Good, Kate Howland, and Carmelo Presicce. 2024. Child-Centered AI for Empowering Creative and Inclusive Learning Experiences. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, ACM, Delft Netherlands, 1035–1037. DOI:10.1145/3628516.3661157
  11. Antonio Curci and Andrea Esposito. 2024. Detecting Brain Tumors Through Multimodal Neural Networks. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Rome, Italy, 995–1000. DOI:10.5220/0012608600003654
  12. Andrea Esposito, Giuseppe Desolda, Rosa Lanzilotti, Maristella Matera, Rossella Pizzi, and Stefano D’Ascoli. 2023. Poster: Improving Customer Service Through Rapid Prototyping of Data Exploration Chatbots. In Proceedings of the 15th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter, ACM, Torino, Italy, 1–2. DOI:10.1145/3605390.3610813
  13. Francesco Greco, Giuseppe Desolda, and Andrea Esposito. 2023. Explaining Phishing Attacks: An XAI Approach to Enhance User Awareness and Trust. In Proceedings of the Italian Conference on Cyber Security (ITASEC 2023) (CEUR Workshop Proceedings), CEUR-WS, Bari, Italy. URL: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3488/paper22.pdf
  14. Giuseppe Desolda, Andrea Esposito, Francesco Greco, Rosa Lanzilotti, and Marco Saltarella. 2023. MATERIALIST: A Web Platform for Guiding Privacy Design Pattern Selection in Software Development. In Joint Proceedings of the Workshops, Work in Progress Demos and Doctoral Consortium at the Is-Eud 2023 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings), CEUR-WS. URL: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3408/short-s3-09.pdf
  15. Francesco Greco, Giuseppe Desolda, and Andrea Esposito. 2023. A Human-Centered XAI System for Phishing Detection. In ACM CHI 2023 Workshop on Human-Centered eXplainable AI (HCXAI 2023), HCXAI Workshop Organizers, Hamburg, Germany (Online). DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15552047
  16. 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 (AVI 2022), Association for Computing Machinery, Frascati, Rome Italy, 1–3. DOI:10.1145/3531073.3534464
  17. Giuseppe Desolda, Andrea Esposito, Rosa Lanzilotti, and Maria Francesca Costabile. 2022. Interplay between AI and HCI for UX Evaluation: The SERENE Case Study. In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age: AI for Humans or Humans for AI? (CoPDA 2022. Co-located with the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces AVI 2022) (CEUR Workshop Proceedings), CEUR-WS, Aachen, 55–59. URL: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3136/paper-13.pdf
  18. Giovanna Castellano, Andrea Esposito, Marco Mirizio, Graziano Montanaro, and Gennaro Vessio. 2021. Detection of Dementia Through 3D Convolutional Neural Networks Based on Amyloid PET. In Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2021), IEEE, Orlando, FL, USA, 1–6. DOI:10.1109/SSCI50451.2021.9660102

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: From Data-Driven Insights to Therapeutic Innovation (1st ed.), Antonio Lavecchia (ed.). Springer Nature. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-98022-0_22
  2. 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, Carmen Santoro, Albrecht Schmidt, Maristella Matera and Andrea Bellucci (eds.). Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, 161–170. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-95452-8_10
  3. Giuseppe Desolda, Andrea Esposito, Florian Müller, and Sebastian Feger. 2023. Digital Modeling for Everyone: Exploring How Novices Approach Voice-Based 3D Modeling. In Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2023, José Abdelnour Nocera, Marta Kristín Lárusdóttir, Helen Petrie, Antonio Piccinno and Marco Winckler (eds.). Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, 133–155. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-42293-5_11
  4. 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, Lucio Davide Spano, Albrecht Schmidt, Carmen Santoro and Simone Stumpf (eds.). Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, 19–34. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-34433-6_2
  5. Giuseppe Desolda, Andrea Esposito, Rosa Lanzilotti, and Maria F. 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

Miscellaneous & Preprints

  1. Andrea Esposito, Giuseppe Desolda, and Rosa Lanzilotti. 2025. The Need for Human-Centered Design in Creating AI Systems: A Demonstration by Contradiction.
  2. Andrea Esposito. 2025. Automation vs Augmentation: The Need for Human-Centered Design for Symbiotic AI. DOI:10.54985/peeref.2504p5507567
  3. Eleonora Cappuccio, Andrea Esposito, Francesco Greco, Giuseppe Desolda, Rosa Lanzilotti, and Salvatore Rinzivillo. 2025. Explanation User Interfaces: A Systematic Literature Review. DOI:10.48550/ARXIV.2505.20085
  4. Andrea Esposito, Rosa Lanzilotti, Maristella Matera, Antonio Piccinno, Ludovica Piro, Emanuele Pucci, and Grazia Ragone. 2025. Conversational AI for Digital Accessibility: An Experimental Study Involving Blind and Visually Impaired Users. DOI:10.2139/ssrn.5266872
  5. Andrea Esposito. 2024. Oltre l’automazione, verso una simbiosi: le interazioni tra esseri umani e intelligenza artificiale. MagIA. Retrieved November 25, 2024 from magia.news/oltre-lautomazione-verso-una-simbiosi-le-interazioni-tra-esseri-umani-e-intelligenza-artificiale/
  6. Andrea Esposito. 2024. Is Automation Really the Best Use of AI? AI Advances. Retrieved July 30, 2024 from ai.gopubby.com/is-automation-really-the-best-use-of-ai-9620352ab531
  7. Andrea Esposito. 2024. To Automate or To Augment Humans? That Is the Question for AI, and The Answer Depends on Users’ Requirements. AI Advances. Retrieved June 26, 2024 from ai.gopubby.com/to-automate-or-to-augment-humans-c3f805d35d55
  8. Andrea Esposito. 2024. How to Design AI for Empowering Humans. Bootcamp (UX Design). Retrieved July 8, 2024 from bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/how-to-design-ai-for-empowering-humans-9d7cf49fe6c4
  9. Andrea Esposito. 2024. Detecting Brain Tumors through Multi-modal AI Models. Medium. Retrieved July 8, 2024 from espositoandrea.medium.com/detecting-brain-tumors-through-multi-modal-ai-models-416c89edcc78
  10. Andrea Esposito. 2024. SERENE: The Semi-Automatic User Experience Detector. DOI:10.48550/arXiv.2407.11980
  11. Andrea Esposito. 2024. The Future of Alzheimer’s Diagnosis: Unlocking Insights with Multi-modal Imaging Models. Medium. Retrieved July 8, 2024 from espositoandrea.medium.com/the-future-of-alzheimers-diagnosis-unlocking-insights-with-multi-modal-imaging-models-94fdc1db1039
  12. Andrea Esposito, Giuseppe Desolda, and Rosa Lanzillotti. 2024. A Dataset of Interactions and Emotions for Website Usability Evaluation. DOI:10.6084/m9.figshare.28489601

Unpublished

  1. Francesco Greco, Giuseppe Desolda, Cesare Tucci, Andrea Esposito, Antonio Curci, and Antonio Piccinno. 2025. Improving Phishing Resilience with AI-Generated Training: Evidence on Prompting, Personalization, and Duration.

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