CHItaly 2021

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Frontiers of HCI

11-13 July, Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) and online (www)

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Hybrid Program


All times are in CEST.

Sunday 11th July


14:00 - 18:30 : Registration desk

14:30 - 18:30 : Workshops
Session Chairs: Barbara Rita Barricelli - Catia Prandi
W2 - Virtual Reality, Inclusion and special language needs (VR Island)
Giulia Staggini and Rita Cersosimo
Physical Room: D1.01
Virtual Room
W3 - Speculative Design for Transurban Futures (TransUrban)
Mattia Thibault, Nikoletta Zampeta Legaki, Oğuz “Oz” Buruk, Seda Suman Buruk and Daniel Fernández Galeote
Physical Room: D1.02
Virtual Room
W4 - Critical Tools for Machine Learning: Figuring, fabulating, situating, diffracting machine learning systems design (CritML)
Goda Klumbytė, Claude Draude, and Alex Taylor
Physical Room: D1.03
Virtual Room

15:30 - 18:30 : Interactive Experiences (free entrance)
(DIS) ASSEMBLING FUTURES: Co-imagining interactions
The Interactive Experiences track materialise in the exhibition "(DIS) ASSEMBLING FUTURES: Co-imagining interactions". A total of 11 prototypes and installations from authors located in 9 different countries prompt us to collectively imagine the boundaries of technology-mediated interactions through artistic, playful, and speculative works.


  • IE #01: Coronavirus in a World after Anthropocene: Multiple Forms of Looking through Apprentice Gaze Luis Teixeira, Manuel Silva and Rodrigo Assaf
  • IE #02: IAQOS Bolzano Hannes Egger and Massimiliano Gianotti
  • IE #03: Dedo Ricardo O'Nascimento
  • IE #04: Interactive Still Life Jeanne Bloch and Jonathan Perret
  • IE #05: Love about Food Xavier Ho, Indae Hwang and Yun Tae Nam
  • IE #06: A critical game for collective interactions around money: survival of the fittest? Pinar Apaydin and Oyge Subasi
  • IE #07: Atrapados Jaime Alejandro Rodríguez Ruiz, Daniel Salamanca Díaz and Diego Hernando Sosa Ruiz
  • IE #08: messyBIM: Augmenting a Building Information Model with Messy Talk to Improve a Building’s Design Process Anca-Simona Horvath, Clara Vite, Naja L. Holten Møller and Gina Neff
  • IE #09: IoTgo + Arts Mehdi Rizvi, Qurrat ul Ain Shaukat (Annie), Vagelis Kolotsios, Veronica Zen, Mamtaz Bano and Riccardo Zen
  • IE #10: Beyond Touch Screen Marika Grasso
  • IE #11: Sustainable Smart Parasites Nitzan Cohen and Ignacio Merino
Physical Room: Ground floor - Virtual Room

18:30 - 19:30 : Welcome aperitif - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Monday 12th July


8:00 - 18:00 : Registration desk

8:30 - 12:30 : Workshops
Session Chairs: Barbara Rita Barricelli - Catia Prandi
W6 - The Role of Digitalization in Improving the Quality of Live in Rural (Industrialized) Regions
David Unbehaun, Myriam Lewkowicz, Chiara Bassetti, Volker Wulf, Mark Ackerman, Ann Arbor and Johannes Schädler
Physical Room: D1.01
Virtual Room
W7+W9 - Joint workshop on Game-Human Interaction (GHITALY 2019) and Multi-party Interaction in eXtended Reality (MIXR)
Davide Gadia, Maria De Marsico, Laura Anna Ripamonti, Dario Maggiorini and Ilaria Mariani

Maurizio Mancini, Giovanna Varni, David Murphy, Fabio Pellacini, Laura Maye and Patrick O’Toole
Physical Room: D1.03
Virtual Room
9:00 - 12:00

W8 - Designing for/with/around Nature: Exploring new frontiers of outdoors-related HCI (NatureHCI)
Eleonora Mencarini, Amon Rapp, Linda Tonolli, Maurizio Teli, Roberto Cibin, Vincenzo D’Andrea and Massimo Zancanaro
Physical Room: D1.02
Virtual Room

Mon 14:00 - 19:20 8:30 - 12:30 : Doctoral Consortium
Session Chairs: Daniela Fogli - Fabio Paternò
  • DC Dynamic models for emotion estimation from physiological signals Isabel Barradas – Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
  • DC HCI methodologies and Data Visualization to foster user awareness Chiara Ceccarini – University of Bologna, Italy
  • DC Knowledge graphs within everyone's means Maria Angela Pellegrino – University of Salerno, Italy Best student project
  • DC Prototyping an app to assist game-based activities: co-design using a qualitative approach Maria H. Reis - University of Aveiro, Portugal
  • DC The Recruitment and Selection HR process through Artificial Intelligence: an analysis of the aspects of acceptance, validity and interaction with the human decision maker Andrea Rezzani - University of Torino, Italy
  • DC Concepts, logic, and cognitive adequacy Guendalina Righetti – Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
  • DC Taking it to the next level: the potential of the EduPARK app to promote nature’s conservation in an urban park Rita Rodrigues – University of Aveiro, Portugal
  • DC Explainability in enterprise architecture models Elena Romanenko – Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
  • DC Young smart thing designers Eftychia Roumelioti – Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Best student project
  • DC The maturing of automatic speech recognition in healthcare practices Silja Vase – University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • DC Robot personality for cognitive training Eleonora Zedda – University of Pisa, Italy
Physical Room: D0.01 - Virtual Room

10:00 - 13:00 : Interactive Experiences
(DIS) ASSEMBLING FUTURES: Co-imagining interactions
The Interactive Experiences track materialise in the exhibition "(DIS) ASSEMBLING FUTURES: Co-imagining interactions". A total of 11 prototypes and installations from authors located in 9 different countries prompt us to collectively imagine the boundaries of technology-mediated interactions through artistic, playful, and speculative works.


  • IE #01: Coronavirus in a World after Anthropocene: Multiple Forms of Looking through Apprentice Gaze Luis Teixeira, Manuel Silva and Rodrigo Assaf
  • IE #02: IAQOS Bolzano Hannes Egger and Massimiliano Gianotti
  • IE #03: Dedo Ricardo O'Nascimento
  • IE #04: Interactive Still Life Jeanne Bloch and Jonathan Perret
  • IE #05: Love about Food Xavier Ho, Indae Hwang and Yun Tae Nam
  • IE #06: A critical game for collective interactions around money: survival of the fittest? Pinar Apaydin and Oyge Subasi
  • IE #07: Atrapados Jaime Alejandro Rodríguez Ruiz, Daniel Salamanca Díaz and Diego Hernando Sosa Ruiz
  • IE #08: messyBIM: Augmenting a Building Information Model with Messy Talk to Improve a Building’s Design Process Anca-Simona Horvath, Clara Vite, Naja L. Holten Møller and Gina Neff
  • IE #09: IoTgo + Arts Mehdi Rizvi, Qurrat ul Ain Shaukat (Annie), Vagelis Kolotsios, Veronica Zen, Mamtaz Bano and Riccardo Zen
  • IE #10: Beyond Touch Screen Marika Grasso
  • IE #11: Sustainable Smart Parasites Nitzan Cohen and Ignacio Merino
Physical Room: Ground floor - Virtual Room

10:30 - 11:00 : Coffee Break - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

13:00 - 14:30 : Lunch - Museion Café

14:30 - 16:00 : Opening
Chairs: Antonella De Angeli - Luca Chittaro
  • Prof. Paolo Luigi, Rector of Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
  • In memory of Gregorio Convertino: John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State University) - Daniela Petrelli (Sheffield Hallam University)
  • Keynote by Prof. Albrecht Schmidt
    THE END OF SERENDIPITY: Will Artificial Intelligence Remove Chance and Choice in Everyday Life?
Physical Room: D0.01 - Virtual Room

In the sessions, each long paper is allocated 20 min, each short paper and workshop is allocated 5 minutes, and each doctoral consortium paper is allocated 1 minute. Short, workshop and doctoral consortium papers are also presented as posters.

16:00 - 16:40 : Session 1 - Game & Play
Session Chairs: Fabio Buttussi (Physical) - Maristella Matera (Virtual)
  • long Design of a Recommender System for Video Games based on In-Game Player Profiling and Activities Lorenzo De Simone, Davide Gadia, Dario Maggiorini and Laura Anna Ripamonti
  • short Analyzing goal-leading actions in soccer with a visual tool Paolo Buono, Miguel Ceriani, Maria Francesca Costabile and Paola Valdivia
  • short Player behaviour metrics for adjusting content in VR games: the case of fear Stefano Palma, Laura Anna Ripamonti, Nunzio Alberto Borghese, Dario Maggiorini and Davide Gadia
  • workshop GHItaly21-4th Workshop on Games-Human Interaction Davide Gadia, Maria De Marsico, Laura Anna Ripamonti, Dario Maggiorini and Ilaria Mariani
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    workshop Multi-party Interaction in eXtended Reality (MIXR) Maurizio Mancini, Giovanna Varni, David Murphy, Fabio Pellacini, Laura Maye and Patrick O’Toole
  • DC Prototyping an app to assist game-based activities: co-design using a qualitative approach Maria H. Reis - University of Aveiro, Portugal
Physical Room: D0.01 - Virtual Room

16:40 - 17:10 : Coffee Break - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

17:10 - 18:40 : Session 2 - Learning & Education
Session Chairs: Rosa Lanzillotti (Physical) - Massimo Zancanaro (Virtual)
  • long Automated Feedback to Students in Data Science Assignments: Improved Implementation and Results Alessandra Galassi and Pierpaolo Vittorini Best long paper
  • short Pandemics throughout history and geography – an interactive environment to educate the new generation of students Marianna Di Gregorio, Monica Sebillo, Genny Tortora and Giuliana Vitiello
  • short What is it like to be a UX designer in Italy? An initial analysis of job advertisements to improve training and education in HCI Ana Dalila Butiurca and Massimo Zancanaro
  • long HCI in K12 Computer Science Education - Using HCI as a Topic and a Didactic Tool Andreas Bollin, Stefan Pasterk, Max Kesselbacher, Elisa Reci, Markus Wieser and Nina Lobnig
  • short Engaging Children in Remotely Ideating and Programming Smart Things Maria Angela Pellegrino, Eftychia Roumelioti, Rosella Gennari and Mauro D'Angelo
  • short "Sail with Columbus": Navigation through Tangible and Interactive Storytelling Luca Ciotoli, Mortaza Alinam and Ilaria Torre
  • long The Use of Interactive Technologies for Education in Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Contexts: Design Implications Duarte L Sousa, Pedro Campos and Sónia Matos
  • workshop Virtual Reality, Inclusion and special language needs (VR Island) Giulia Staggini and Rita Cersosimo
  • DC Young smart thing designers Eftychia Roumelioti – Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Physical Room: D0.01 - Virtual Room

18:40 - 19:40 : SIGCHI Italy townhall meeting
Physical Room: D0.01 - Virtual Room

20:00 - 23:00 : Social dinner – Gasthaus Fink restaurant - Mustergasse Nr. 9

Tuesday 13th July


In the sessions, each long paper is allocated 20 min, each short paper and workshop is allocated 5 minutes, and each doctoral consortium paper is allocated 1 minute. Short, workshop and doctoral consortium papers are also presented as posters.

9:00 - 10:30 : Session 3 - Methods & Tools
Session Chairs: Barbara Rita Barricelli (Physical) — Davide Spano (Virtual)
  • long Pict-Place Authentication: Recognition-based Graphical Password using Image Layout for a Better Balance of Security and Operation Time Tetsuji Takada
  • short Integrating Security and Privacy in HCD-SCRUM Maria Teresa Baldassarre, Vita Santa Barletta, Danilo Caivano and Antonio Piccinno
  • short Challenges for Recommender Systems Evaluation David Massimo, Francesco Ricci and Antonella De Angeli
  • long The Influence of Personas’ Gender in Design Milena Lopes and Carl Vogel
  • short Virtual Assistants for Personalizing IoT Ecosystems: Challenges and Opportunities Barbara Rita Barricelli and Daniela Fogli
  • short MONICA vision: an approach, a model and the interactive tools for CPSs designers Giacomo Valente, Tania Di Mascio, Federica Caruso and Laura Tarantino
  • long Comparing Persona Analytics and Social Media Analytics for a User-Centric Task Using Eye-Tracking and Think-Aloud Joni Salminen, Sercan Şengün, Soon-Gyo Jung and Bernard Jansen
  • short At the Frontiers of Art and IoT: the IoTgo Toolkit as a Probe for Artists Rosella Gennari and Mehdi Rizvi
  • workshop Designing for/with/around Nature: Exploring new frontiers of outdoors-related HCI (NatureHCI) Eleonora Mencarini, Amon Rapp, Linda Tonolli, Maurizio Teli, Roberto Cibin, Vincenzo D’Andrea and Massimo Zancanaro
  • DC Explainability in enterprise architecture models Elena Romanenko – Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
  • DC HCI methodologies and Data Visualization to foster user awareness Chiara Ceccarini – University of Bologna, Italy
Physical Room: D0.01 - Virtual Room

10:30 - 11:00 : Coffee Break - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

11:00 - 12:25 : Session 4 - Care & Share
Session Chairs: María Menéndez-Blanco (Physical) - Luigi de Russis (Virtual)
  • long Complementing Studies on Vulnerable Youths with Reddit Data Andrea Mauri, Achilleas Psyllidis, Alessandro Bozzon, Ju-Sung Lee, Jason Pridmore, Liesbet van Zoonen and Sarah Giest
  • short Reporting Revenge Porn: a Preliminary Expert Evaluation Antonella De Angeli, Mattia Falduti, Maria Menendez Blanco and Sergio Tessaris
  • short A System to Support Children in Speech Therapies at Home Giuseppe Desolda, Rosa Lanzilotti, Antonio Piccinno and Veronica Rossano
  • long Unpacking the Challenges and Future of Assistive Technology Adaptation by Occupational Therapists Leila Aflatoony
  • short Boris: a Spoken Conversational Agent for Music Production for People with Motor Disabilities Fabio Catania, Pietro Crovari, Eleonora Beccaluva, Giorgio De Luca, Erica Colombo, Nicola Bombaci and Franca Garzotto
  • short Charlie: A chatbot to improve the elderly quality of life and to make them more active to fight their sense of loneliness Stefano Valtolina and Liliana Hu
  • long ‘Thinking Problematically’ as a Resource for AI Design in Politicised Contexts Anette C M Petersen, Marisa Leavitt Cohn and Naja Holten Møller
  • short VoiceWriting: a completely speech-based text editor Maria De Marsico and Francesca Romana Mattei
  • DC Knowledge graphs within everyone's means Maria Angela Pellegrino – University of Salerno, Italy
  • DC The maturing of automatic speech recognition in healthcare practices Silja Vase – University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Physical Room: D0.01 - Virtual Room

12:25 - 13:10 : Hybrid Poster Sessions 1, 2 and 3
Physical Room: Ground and First floor - Virtual Room

13:10 - 14:10 : Lunch - Museion Café

14:10 - 15:10 : Session 5 - Mind & Body
Session Chairs: Eleonora Mencarini (Physical) — Francesco Ricci (Virtual)
  • long Supporting Depression Screening with Multimodal Emotion Detection Rita Francese and Pasquale Attanasio
  • short A qualitative analysis of users' attitudes towards the Italian contact tracing app Cristina Bosco and Martina Cvajner
  • short Automatic Emotion Recognition from Facial Expressions when Wearing a Mask Giovanna Castellano, Berardina De Carolis and Nicola Macchiarulo Best short paper
  • long Wearable Mapping Suit: Body Mapping for Identification Wearables Friederike Fröbel, Marie Beuthel and Gesche Joost
  • workshop Critical Tools for Machine Learning: Figuring, fabulating, situating, diffracting machine learning systems design (CritML) Goda Klumbytė, Claude Draude, and Alex Taylor
  • DC Concepts, logic, and cognitive adequacy Guendalina Righetti – Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
  • DC Dynamic models for emotion estimation from physiological signals Isabel Barradas – Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
  • DC Robot personality for cognitive training Eleonora Zedda – University of Pisa, Italy
Physical Room: D0.01 - Virtual Room

15:10 - 16:00 : Session 6 - Spaces & Places
Session Chairs: Myriam Lewkowicz (Physical) - Pierpaolo Vittorini (Virtual)
  • long Bringing Human-Centredness to Technologies for Buildings Clara Vite, Anca-Simona Horvath, Gina Neff and Naja L. Holten Møller
  • short Expressive digital place making as means of aggregation. A case study from the COVID-19 pandemic Beatrice Gobbo and Andrea Benedetti
  • short Realizing Ontology-based Reusable Interfaces for Data Access via Virtual Knowledge Graphs Diego Calvanese, Linfang Ding, Alessandro Mosca and Guohui Xiao
  • short Forward Reasoning Decision Support: Toward a More Complete View of the Human-AI Interaction Design Space Zelun Tony Zhang, Yuanting Liu and Heinrich Hussmann
  • short The "AI Style Experience": design and formative evaluation of a novel phygital technology for the retail environment David Harrison Ii Ferrell, Giorgio Grando and Massimo Zancanaro
  • workshop Speculative Design for Transurban Futures (TransUrban) Mattia Thibault, Nikoletta Zampeta Legaki, Oğuz “Oz” Buruk, Seda Suman Buruk and Daniel Fernández Galeote
  • DC Taking it to the next level: the potential of the EduPARK app to promote nature’s conservation in an urban park Rita Rodrigues – University of Aveiro, Portugal
  • DC The Recruitment and Selection HR process through Artificial Intelligence: an analysis of the aspects of acceptance, validity and interaction with the human decision maker Andrea Rezzani - University of Torino, Italy
Physical Room: D0.01 - Virtual Room

16:00 - 17:00 : Coffee Break & Hybrid Poster Sessions 4, 5 and 6
Physical Room: Ground and First floor - Virtual Room

17:00 - 18:00 : Closing
Chairs: Rosella Gennari - Michael Haller
  • Keynote by Prof. Paola Bertola
    FASHION WITHIN THE BIG DATA SOCIETY: How can data enable fashion transition towards more meaningful and sustainable products?
Physical Room: D0.01 - Virtual Room

18:00 - 18:45 : Collective reflection on the past and futures of CHItaly
Chairs: Antonella De Angeli - Ilaria Torre
Panelists: Maria Francesca Costabile, Francesco Ricci, Myriam Lewkowicz, Federico Bomba, Maria-Menendez Blanco, Luigi De Russis
Physical Room: D0.01 - Virtual Room

19:00 - 20:30 : Good-bye aperitif and music event, a tribute to A. Piazzolla - Museion Café


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