Barbara Rita Barricelli - Curriculum Vitae
Personal details
Birth date:
31 August 1977
Email:
[email protected]
Website:
http://www.barricelli.net
Nationality:
Italian
Languages:
Italian, English, and German
Current position
Research fellow (“Assegno di tipo A”) at the Department of Computer Science of Università degli
Studi di Milano. Project: “Socio-technical design of Internet of Things Systems”. Supervisor: Dr.
Stefano Valtolina.
Research interests
Topics: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), User-Centered Design (UCD), End-User Development
(EUD), User-Centered Computing (UCC), User eXperience (UX), internationalization and
localization of interactive systems, computer semiotics and semiotic engineering, creative and
participatory design.
In my research I had the opportunity to focus on several aspects of Human-Computer Interaction,
User-Centered Computing and Design, Software Engineering and Information Systems domains. In
particular I developed and applied my expertise in defining methodologies for and in development of
interactive visual environments. I developed a very good expertise in End-User Development and
meta-design and in methods for collaborative knowledge bases management. My research is
particularly focused on addressing the communication problems between different communities of
practice working in common interdisciplinary work by means of interactive information systems built
taking into account internationalization and localization needs of the end users.
I applied computer semiotics theories and semiotic engineering methods for designing and developing
internationalized interactive systems, localized to users’ culture, gender, role played in specific
contexts/domains and to the digital platform in use to access the systems. I have been active in this
field since 2005 and applied my research in industrial design, cultural heritage, building and
construction, hospitality and tourism, and medical domains. In the frame of the various projects I
participated in I had the opportunity to collaborate with other universities (several departments in
different fields), high schools, hospitals and healthcare institutions, small and medium enterprises and
public bodies and administrations and I created a good network of relationships with researchers in
several institutions in Europe and USA.
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I pair off theoretical studies of general models to the design of methods and techniques and their
application (and validation) in several domains with the development of prototypes (for desktop, Web
and mobile – Android/iOS).
Education
2011
PhD in Computer Science at the Doctorate School in Computer Science Università degli
Studi di Milano. Dissertation title: “An Architecture for End-User Development
Supporting Global Communities”. Advisor: Prof. Ernesto Damiani (formerly: Prof. Piero
Mussio). Co-advisor: Dr. Stefano Valtolina. Recipient of a 3 years national PhD research
grant.
Second International Summer School “Models of Creative Design for Innovation in
Science and Technology”. Project “DESIRE: Creative Design for Innovation in Science
and Technology”. Aveiro (Portugal), 19-25 September 2010.
Erasmus visiting student for 5 months (February-June) at the Media Research Institute,
University of Siegen (Germany). Recipient of a LLP Erasmus Research Grant. Tutor: Prof.
Volker Wulf.
First International Summer School “Theories of Creative Design for Innovation in Science
and Technology”. Project “DESIRE: Creative Design for Innovation in Science and
Technology”. Gargnano (Italy), 20-26 September 2009.
Summer School SCS 2008 “Scienza Comunicazione Società - La scienza è di tutti? La
conoscenza scientifica come bene pubblico globale”. Università degli Studi di Torino.
Turin (Italy), 7-12 September 2008.
M.Sc. in “Information and Communication Technologies” at Università degli Studi di
Milano. Thesis title: “Systems for collaboratively contents creation and management: an
approach based on the Semantic Web standards”. Supervisor: Prof. Piero Mussio. Cosupervisor: Dr. Stefano Valtolina, Marco Padula.
B.Sc. in “Digital communication” at Università degli Studi di Milano. Thesis title:
“Internationalization and localization of visual interactive systems”. Supervisor: Prof. Piero
Mussio. Co-supervisor: Marco Padula.
High school diploma in “Accounting and Programming” at I.T.C. “Cesare Battisti” of
Bolzano (Italy).
2010
2009
2009
2008
2007
2005
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Research
06/2014 - ongoing
01/2014 - 05/2014
01/2013 - 12/2013
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Research fellow (“Assegno di tipo A”) at the Department of Computer Science
of Università degli Studi di Milano. Project: “Socio-technical design of Internet
of Things Systems”. Supervisor: Dr. Stefano Valtolina.
Research fellow (“Assegno di tipo B”) at the Department of Computer Science
of Università degli Studi di Milano. Project: “Perceptual aspects in 3D
visualization and stereoscopical monitor calibration for medical imaging”.
Supervisor: Prof. Alessandro Rizzi.
Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellow at University of West London. Project:
MANTRA (Leverhulme Trust). Supervisor: Dr. Jose Abdelnour-Nocera.
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01/2011 - 12/2012
02/2009 - 06/2009
11/2007 - 10/2010
04/2007 - 03/2008
01/2007 - 12/2007
01/2006 - 12/2006
03/2005 - 12/2005
Research fellow (“Assegno di tipo B”) at the Department of Computer Science
and Communication of Università degli Studi di Milano. Projects: DESIRE
(Marie Curie Initial Training Network, FP7 People Programme, PITN-GA2008-215446), CulturalWiki (Lombardy Region, European Social Fund 20072013), SCV (Cariplo Foundation), ESISTE (Italian Ministry of Research),
IESP. Supervisor: Dr. Stefano Valtolina.
Visiting PhD Student at the University of Siegen (Germany). LLP Erasmus
grant. Supervisor: Prof. Volker Wulf.
PhD in Computer Science at the Doctorate School in Computer Science of
Università degli Studi di Milano. Recipient of a 3 years national PhD research
grant. Projects: DESIRE (Marie Curie Initial Training Network, FP7 People
Programme, PITN-GA-2008-215446), QUATRO Plus (EU SAFER
INTERNET PLUS), SCV (Cariplo Foundation). Advisors: Prof. Piero Mussio,
Prof. Ernesto Damiani. Co-advisor: Dr. Stefano Valtolina.
Research assistant at Italian National Research Council (CNR), Institute for
Construction Technologies, Information Technologies Unit, Via Bassini 15,
20133 Milano, Italy. Projects: A3C Albania (INTERREG III-A
FESR/CARDS). Supervisor: Marco Padula.
Research assistant at Italian National Research Council (CNR), Institute for
Construction Technologies, Information Technologies Unit, Via Bassini 15,
20133 Milano, Italy. Projects: COL (Italian Ministry of Research), CONNIE
(EU ECONTENT). Supervisor: Marco Padula.
Research assistant at Italian National Research Council (CNR), Institute for
Construction Technologies, Information Technologies Unit, Via Bassini 15,
20133 Milano, Italy. Projects: CONNIE (EU ECONTENT). Supervisor:
Marco Padula.
Research assistant at Italian National Research Council (CNR), Institute for
Construction Technologies, Information Technologies Unit, Via Bassini 15,
20133 Milano, Italy. Projects: WIL (Italian Ministry of Research). Supervisor:
Marco Padula.
Projects
Socio-technical design of Internet of Things Systems: This project is framed in the Internet of
Things (IoT) research domain and proposes the study, design, implementation, and validation of
visual interactive systems for lifelogging activity, that is the collection, integration and sharing of
personal data about health, wellness and domotics (smart homes). The data sharing pushes IoT
towards a more social dimension that offers approaches bound to recommendation and evolution of
intelligent and distributed systems. In fact, the community seen as family, friends or acquaintances,
colleagues or even virtual aggregation, may play a central role in the development of better life habits
thanks to the sharing of data collected by all its members. Moreover, the experience developed by the
single members of the community can become collective knowledge and can be used as base for the
recommendation systems. Tools and data, users and community are the key points of a sociotechnical project. The socio-technical approach focuses on the social and the technological aspects
without considering them as distinct but seeing them as closely interconnected and related. Such an
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approach is based on user-centric design and development methodologies (User-Centered Design) in
which the user is seen in his activity but also directly involved in the creation and design processes.
The objectives of this project are related to the study and definition of models and methods aimed at
coordinating the people’s and objects’ activities in order to design a User eXperience suitable for
culture, needs, context of use and activity, considering not just the single user but the entire
community.
MANTRA (Mobile ANticoagulant TheRApy) was framed in mHealth domain and its aim was to
investigate about the acceptability and feasibility of the introduction of mobile devices (and mobile
applications) for supporting the management of patients under anticoagulant therapy, in urban and
rural settings. For the urban setting the MANTRA project was developed in London, while for rural
one we chose a resource-constrained environment in Venezuela (Maniapure). As to the urban setting,
the project aimed at providing the patient with an self-testing device and a mobile device (an iPod or
other model) that transmits the test result to the patients’ doctor/clinic. The doctor is then able to
review the result and transmit back to the patients the correct dose of anticoagulant that they need to
take and when they need to repeat the test. This would reduce the frequency of visits at the hospitals
or clinics. The rural case applies to remote areas in which people do not have direct access to the
Internet, from home or from mobile phones. The nearest medical center is typically in the village and
serves all the people who leave in that area. The medical Centre is usually provided with satellite
Internet connection and represents the bridge between the rural area patients and the main city
hospital staff. The idea is to provide the rural doctor working at the medical center with a self-testing
device and a tablet (an iPad or other model), by which they may send the test results to a doctor
working in the hospital of the main city and will then receive back the prescription details. The goal of
this setting is to reduce the time needed for patients living in rural areas to receive their prescription
and to provide the rural doctor with a tool to monitor the clinical history of several patients, not only
affected by coagulation diseases. In this case, the MANTRA project was focused on studying ways to
simplify the communication between rural doctor and hospital doctor by using mobile applications
aimed at transmitting information overcoming current communication problems. I developed 4
prototypes for Apple mobile devices (iOS) in Objective-C (for iPod/iPhone and iPad).
IESP: The International Etruscan Sigla Project (IESP) aims to assemble documentation on the
thousands of examples of Etruscan nonverbal writing (sigla) of one or more letters, numbers or
symbols, dating from around 700 BCE to the first century BCE, which were incised, painted or
stamped on objects of many different types made of clay, metal, bone, ivory and stone. The
International Etruscan Sigla Project (IESP) aims to assemble documentation on the thousands of
examples of Etruscan nonverbal writing (sigla) of one or more letters, numbers or symbols, dating
from around 700 BCE to the first century BCE, which were incised, painted or stamped on objects of
many different types made of clay, metal, bone, ivory and stone. I participated to the definition of the
requirements, the organization and moderation of the focus groups/workshops with the
archaeologists and to the development of an incremental prototype of an interactive system for the
collaborative study of Etruscan artefacts with written signs. Today the Etruscan language is not yet
completely deciphered and therefore this project could be a very important contribution toward this
objective, thanks to the collaborative tools that permit the archaeologists to discuss and collaborate
even if geographically distributed around the world. In collaboration with the Florida State University.
DESIRE (Marie Curie Initial Training Network, FP7 People Programme, PITN-GA-2008-215446):
The DESIRE network aimed to advance the understanding of creative design processes applied in the
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scientific and technological domains. Involved in research and management activities. In particular I
participated to the project since its beginning from the selection of candidates and actively
participated to the organization of the summer school that was part of the objectives of the UNIMI’s
WP. I did part of my PhD research on the topics of the project (creative design) and discussed my
results with the people in the DESIRE network.
CulturalWiki (Lombardy Region, European Social Fund 2007-2013): Definition of a method of
integration of several information sources through the use of ontological models aimed at
conceptualizing the knowledge developed by domain experts. Design and development of an
interactive system for cultural routes aggregation with integration in the system of annotation tools
aimed at supporting collaboration among end users. Research and management responsibilities.
SCV (Cariplo Foundation): The goal of the project was to create a system for managing and recording
georeferenced objects for the dissemination of cultural content through innovative and flexible tools,
useful to scholars but at the same time able to satisfy needs of a wide audience.
ESISTE (Italian Ministry of Research): Design and development of an interactive system for the
implementation of WHO (World Health Organization) ICF (International Classification of
Functioning, Disability and Health) classification in Italian schools. Involved in user requirements
analysis, low-fidelity prototyping and usability evaluation of the system. I used evaluation methods to
study the quality of the system in terms of usability and accessibility and I studied the acceptability in
the stakeholders involved (teachers, medical doctors, technicians).
QUATRO Plus (EU SAFER INTERNET PLUS): Promotion of quality labelling as a means of
building trust and empowering end users to make their own decisions over the content they wish to
access. I participated to the development of the system and tested its usability.
A3C Albania (Albania: Conoscere, Comunicare, Condividere) Project, funded with the INTERREG
III-A FESR/CARDS scheme. Design and development of an authoring environment for
geographical information management and Web publishing, integrated with personalized services. I
studied methods and techniques for data aggregation and conversion in formats suitable for the Web
and also localized and internationalized the interface.
COL (Cantiere On Line) Project, funded by the Italian Ministry of Research. Design and
development of a prototype of a mobile application to support design, development and maintenance
of construction sites with the collaboration of interdisciplinary communities of interests. I applied
end-user development methodologies to the problem at hand and I defined a markup language for
localization and internationalization of the prototypes.
CONNIE (CONstruction News and Information Electronically) EU ECONTENT Project.
Development of methods and techniques for extraction, organization and indexing of the relevant
information from existing publicly available European building regulations and standards into value–
added task-specific information and practical know-how for construction professionals and delivering
of the information as networked electronic cross-border services scalable in content across the EU. In
particular, I studied how to internationalize and localize interfaces and information using existing
multilingual components for the CMS. I also integrated in the system a services for Single-Sign-On
authentication.
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WIL (Web Indexing Language) Project, funded by the Italian Ministry of Research. Definition of a
methodology for defining and describing documents and their content, and to index, load and retrieve
them in a distributed environment. I studied models for indexing documents with an ontology created
by using several existing technology for the building and construction sector.
Teaching
My teaching approach is based on Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory. I start with presenting
concrete experiences and discussing with students making them aware of the relationship between
what is taught in the course and the application in every day matters. After this I dedicate time for
observation and reflection inviting the students in actively discuss about the topics. Then there is a
phase of abstract conceptualization that allows to formalize what experiences and observed so far in a
scientific approach. At the end I promote active experimentation in which the students can use what
learned so far and put it in practice. I usually dedicate time for practical experimentation both as
individual homework and during some lectures as individual or teamwork. I strongly support the
importance of teamwork, especially in master degree courses, so as the importance of presenting the
work in front of the class to practice presentation skills and ability to defend the validity of a work.
My teaching experience is resumed in what follows.
2014 - 2015
2013 - 2014
2012 - 2013
2011 - 2012
2010 - 2011
2009 - 2010
2008 - 2009
“Human-Computer Interaction” (Prof. Alessandro Rizzi) at Università degli Studi di
Milano. 8 hours.
“User-Centered Design” (Dr. Jose Abdelnour-Nocera) at University of West London.
42 hours.
Guest lecture: “Research Methods” (Dr. Jose Abdelnour-Nocera) at University of
West London. 3 hours.
“Databases” (Dr. Paolo Perlasca) at Università degli Studi di Milano. 48 hours.
Invited lecture: “Interaction Design” (Prof. Fiorella De Cindio) at Università degli
Studi di Milano. 1 hour.
“Databases” (Dr. Paolo Perlasca) at Università degli Studi di Milano. 48 hours.
“Human-Computer Interaction” (Prof. Alessandro Rizzi) at Università degli Studi di
Milano. 24 hours.
“Basics of Digital Communication” (Dr. Stefano Valtolina) at Università degli Studi di
Milano. 20 hours.
“Basics of Digital Communication” (Dr. Stefano Valtolina) at Università degli Studi di
Milano. 20 hours.
“Informatics” (Dr. Sabrina Gaito) at Università degli Studi di Milano. 24 hours.
“Informatics” (Dr. Iuri Frosio) at Università degli Studi di Milano. 24 hours.
“Multimedia writing techniques” (Marco Padula and Amanda Reggiori) at Università
Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia. 12 hours.
Seminars
04/11/2013
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“MANTRA Project. A case of research project in mHealth domain”. University of
West London.
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14/11/2012
01/02/2012
02/02/2009
“Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellowship: MANTRA Project”. University of West
London.
“Infrastruttura Tecnologica alla Base del Portale Culturale della Valchiavenna”.
Stazione Valchiavenna, Università degli Studi di Milano.
“Erasmus LLP Visiting PhD Student: Research Topics and PhD Project”. University
of Siegen (Germany).
Organizational activity
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011 - 2012
2011
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Program Committee member of “IS-EUD 2015: International Symposium on End
User Development”. Madrid (Spain), May 26-29, 2015.
Program Committee member of “CHItaly 2015”. Rome (Italy), September 28-30,
2015.
Co-organizer of the workshop “Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age. Coping
with Information, Participation, and Collaboration Overload” (CoPDA 2015) at ISEUD 2015, Madrid (Spain), May 25 2015.
Co-organizer of the conference “HWID 2015”, London (United Kingdom), June 2526 2015.
Co-organizer of the workshop “Human Work Interaction Design (HWID): Design for
Challenging Work Environments” at INTERACT 2015, Bamberg (Germany),
September 14 2015.
Program Committee member at “AVI 2014: Advanced Visual Interfaces”. Como
(Italy), May 27-30, 2014.
Scientific secretariat for the workshop “Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age.
Social Computing for Working, Learning and Living.” (CoPDA 2014). Como (Italy),
May 27-30, 2014.
Workshops Co-Chair and Program Committee member at “IS-EUD 2013:
International Symposium on End User Development”. Copenhagen (Denmark), June
11-13, 2013.
Program Committee member at “International Conference on Advances in
Information Mining and Management” (IMMM 2013). Lisbon (Portugal), November
17-22, 2013.
Co-organizer of the workshop “CDCH 2012: Creative Design for Interdisciplinary
Projects in Cultural Heritage”. At VL/HCC 2012, Innsbruck (Austria), September
30th, 2012.
Program Committee member of “International Conference on Advances in
Information Mining and Management” (IMMM 2012). Venice (Italy), October 21-26,
2012.
Postdocs representative at Department of Computer Science and Communication,
Università degli Studi di Milano.
Co-organizer of the workshop “Creativity and complexity in interdisciplinary design
teams”. Tarquinia (VT), July 11-12, 2011.
Program Committee member of “International Conference on Advances in
Information Mining and Management” (IMMM 2011). Barcelona (Spain), October 2328, 2011.
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Program Committee member of “2nd Desire Conference on Creativity and Innovation
in Design” (DESIRE’11). Eindhoven (Netherlands), October 19-21, 2011.
Member of the Scientific Secretariat of the workshop“EUD4Services”, at AVI2010
(Advanced Visual Interfaces). Rome (Italy), May 25, 2010.
Program Committee member of the “First International DESIRE Summer School
Theories of Creative Design for Innovation in Science and Technology”, Gargnano
del Garda (Italy), September 20-26, 2009.
Support to the selection process of two PhD candidates for the Doctorate School in
Computer Science of Università degli Studi di Milano in the frame of the Marie Curie
Initial Training Network DESIRE Project (PITN-GA-2008-215446).
2010
2009
2008
Review activity and editing
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Guest co-editor of International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development
(IJSKD), Special Issue on Sociotechnology and Pervasive Health, Vol. 6, No. 1 and 2, 2014.
Co-editor: Priya Davda.
Reviewer for the International Journal “Multimedia Tools and Applications”, Springer
(Editor-in-Chief: Borko Furht).
Reviewer for the following conferences: IS-EUD2009 (in support to Prof. Piero Mussio),
MONET2009 (in support to Marco Padula), AVI2010, ItAIS2010, VLC2010, INTERACT
2011, IMMM 2011, DESIRE, CHI 2012, IUI 2012, IMMM 2012, CSCW 2013, CHI 2013,
IUI 2013, EICS 2013, INTERACT 2013, IMMM 2013, CHI 2014, EICS 2014, AVI 2014,
CHI 2015, IS-EUD2015.
Theses Co-Supervision
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Samuele Anzani (on-going) “User eXperience in casi di bilancio partecipativo online”. Bachelor
Thesis. Supervisor: Stefano Valtolina. Università degli Studi di Milano.
Alberto Faleschini (on-going) “Ecosistema di strumenti, servizi e metodologie per
l’archeologia”. Master Thesis. Supervisor: Stefano Valtolina. Università degli Studi di Milano.
Marco Pagliotta (2014) “Sistemi interattivi visuali per la decifrazione collaborativa di linguaggi
non verbali”. Bachelor Thesis. Supervisor: Stefano Valtolina. Università degli Studi di Milano.
Yanet Devis (2013) “Mobile Health Interface Design and Development for a Rural
Environment (MANTRA Project)”. Master Thesis. Supervisor: Jose Abdelnour-Nocera.
University of West London.
Michele Amendolagine (2011) “Progettazione e sviluppo di un sistema informativo geografico a
supporto della tutela e valorizzazione di uno scavo archeologico”. Master Thesis. Supervisor:
Stefano Valtolina. Università degli Studi di Milano.
Simone Tuveri (2011) “Annotazione digitale e sviluppo di un sistema interattivo visuale per la
sua gestione”. Bachelor Thesis. Supervisor: Stefano Valtolina. Università degli Studi di Milano.
Paolo Luigi Scala (2010) “Progettazione e sviluppo di un prototipo di un Task Management
System per la gestione multimodale dell’informazione”. Master Thesis. Supervisor: Piero
Mussio. Università degli Studi di Milano.
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Claudio Francesco Sciarrabba (2010) “Internazionalizzazione di M.I.S. per l’industria grafica: il
caso Heidelberg Prinect Business Manager”. Bachelor Thesis. Supervisor: Mario Ornaghi.
Università degli Studi di Milano.
Alex Corlatti (2010) “Etichettatura visuale: esprimere emozioni, valutare e classificare”.
Bachelor Thesis. Supervisor: Stefano Valtolina. Università degli Studi di Milano.
Roberto d’Amato (2009) “Analisi dei metodi di end-user development: il refactoring
dell’architettura BANCO”. Master Thesis. Supervisor: Piero Mussio. Università degli Studi di
Milano.
Bledar Gjocaj (2009) “Gestione e fruizione di conoscenza distribuita in ambito territoriale”.
Master Thesis. Supervisor: Stefano Valtolina. Università degli Studi di Milano.
Adam Rognoni (2009) “Progettazione di un linguaggio per l’annotazione vocale e realizzazione
del suo interprete”. Bachelor Thesis. Supervisor: Piero Mussio. Università degli Studi di Milano.
Rossana Cornacchia (2009) “Politiche di gestione dell’annotazione in un sistema di conoscenza
distribuito”. Bachelor Thesis. Supervisor: Piero Mussio. Università degli Studi di Milano.
Rossella Nota (2009) “Progettazione dell’architettura dell’informazione in contesti museali: il
caso del Museo Via Spluga (MUVIS)”. Bachelor Thesis. Supervisor: Stefano Valtolina.
Università degli Studi di Milano.
Claudio Arcoria (2009) “Configurazione dell’applicativo BANCO per la fruizione da dispositivi
mobili”. Bachelor Thesis. Supervisor: Stefano Valtolina. Università degli Studi di Milano.
Serena Leggieri (2008) “Sviluppo di funzionalità di localizzazione in sistemi interattivi visuali
che operano nel web”. Bachelor Thesis. Supervisor: Piero Mussio. Università degli Studi di
Milano.
Matteo Lampugnani (2008) “FOAF (Friend-of-a-Friend) per le reti sociali: un sistema per la
gestione di profili degli studenti”. Bachelor Thesis. Supervisor: Marco Padula. Università
Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore.
Memberships
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Secretary Officer of IFIP TC 13: Human-Computer Interaction, Working Group 13.6 on
Human-Work Interaction Design.
Professional member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Voting member of
ACM SIGCHI Italy.
Member of the Sociotechnical Centre for Innovation and User Experience (SCIUX) at
University of West London.
Member of the Computer Semiotics Laboratory (CSLab) at Università degli Studi di Milano.
Member of the Human Factors and Technology Laboratory (PHT Lab) at Università degli
Studi di Milano.
Member of Girl Geek Dinners Milano Team: Organization of events dedicated to the
promotion of female participation and career development in scientific and technological
professional domain. Participation to awareness campaigns on these topics (recently:
http://stopfemminicidio.it).
Grants and awards
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2013
2010
2010
2009
2007-2011
Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellowship for 12 months at the University of West
London.
Best paper award: Zhu, L., Iacob, C., Barricelli, B.R. (2010). New Design Strategies:
Using the Hive Mind Space Model to Enhance Collaboration. Proc. IADIS
International Conference Collaborative Technologies 2010 (pp. 12-19), IADIS Press.
ISBN: 978-972-8939-21-2.
Best paper award: Barricelli, B.R., Mussio, P., Padula, M., Piccinno, A., Scala, P.L.,
Valtolina, S. (2010). Interactive Task Management System Development Based on
Semantic Orchestration of Web Services. Proc. itAIS 2010. ISBN: 978-88-6105-124-9.
Erasmus LLP Grant for 5 months at the University of Siegen, Germany.
PhD Grant for 3 years from the Italian Ministry of Research at Università degli Studi
di Milano.
Certifications
ICH-GCP (Good Clinical Practice) for UK covering all aspects of Good Clinical Practice as laid
down in the International Committee on Harmonisation Guidelines, the EU GCP Directives
(2001/20 & 2005/28) and the UK Clinical Trials Regulations 2004 (SI 1031) and amendments of
2006 and 2008. Obtained at University of West London in 2013. Valid until 8 July 2015.
Other professional experiences
2012 - 2013
2002 - 2004
2002 - 2003
1999
1998 - 2005
1998
Design and development of a framework for the evaluation of refresher courses for
medical doctors. Development of a Web application to be accessed by iPad devices
and of a feature for real-time results analysis and their collaborative discussion.
Company: A&S s.r.l., Milan, Italy.
Web developer for various customers. Web development for various customers. User
requirements gathering, planning, design, development, testing, delivery and
maintenance.
Web developer for Università degli Studi di Milano. 300 paid semester hours for the
design and development of an e-learning Web site for the Department of Computer
Science.
Analyst for Birra Forst S.p.A., Via Venosta 9, 39022 Lagundo (BZ), Italy. Analysis,
configuration, and start-up of IBM ACG module on AS400 systems.
Web content manager for According s.r.l., Via Avezzana 1, 20139 Milano, Italy.
Gathering, management and Web publishing of highway traffic information.
Analyst for Birra Forst S.p.A., Via Venosta 9, 39022 Lagundo (BZ), Italy. Analysis,
configuration, and start-up of IBM ACG module on AS400 systems.
Technical skills and competences
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Web development (HTML, PHP, CSS, XML, AJAX, JavaScript)
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DBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
Mobile development for Android and iOS
Programming languages: C, Java
Operating systems: Microsoft Windows, Apple OS X, Linux (Debian, Ubuntu)
Publications
Journals
[1]
Barricelli, B. R., Devis, Y. (2014). mHealth in Resource-Constrained Environments.
International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD), 6(1), pp. 1835, ISSN: 1941-6253.
[2]
Valtolina, S., Barricelli, B. R., Sciarabba, M. (2013). CulturalWiki: A Semantic Map-Based Wiki
for Interdisciplinary Collaboration. IxD&A - Interaction Design and Architecture(s), Culture of
Participation in the Digital Age Empowering - End Users to Improve their Quality of Life, 18, pp. 23-39,
ISSN: 1826-9745.
[3]
Valtolina, S., Barricelli, B.R., Padula, M., Scala, P.L., Ariano, F. (2012). Knowledge
Management for Designing Business Workflows through Semantic Compositions of Web
Services. International Journal of Knowledge and Learning (IJKL), 8(1/2), pp. 62-85, ISSN: 17411009.
[4]
Valtolina, S., Barricelli, B.R., Mesiti, M., Ribaudo, M. (2012). User-Centered Design of ELearning Tools for Users with Special Needs: The VisualPedia Case Study. IXD&A –
Interaction Design and Architecture(s), Special issue on: HCI@large: Educate to the new
frontiers of the Human-Machine Interaction, 13-14, pp. 47-55, ISSN: 1826-9745.
[5]
Valtolina, S., Barricelli, B.R., Dittrich, Y. (2011). Participatory Knowledge-Management
Design: a Semiotic Approach. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing (JVLC), 23(2), pp. 103115, ISSN: 1045-926X.
[6]
Barricelli, B.R., Malcangi, M., Mussio, P. (2011). Multimodal Mood-based Annotation.
WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications, 5(8), pp. 213-222, ISSN: 1790-0832.
[7]
Barricelli, B.R., von Rekowski, T., Sprenger, M.-A., Weibert, A. (2011). Supporting
Collaborative Project Work in Intercultural Computer Clubs. International Journal of e-Education,
e-Business, e-Management and e-Learning, 1(1), pp. 35-44, ISSN: 2010-3654.
[8]
Zhu, L., Barricelli, B.R., Iacob, C. (2011). A Meta-design Model for Creative Distributed
Collaborative Design. International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies, 2(4), pp. 1-16,
ISSN: 1947-3532.
[9]
Iacob, C., Mussio, P., Zhu, L., Barricelli, B.R. (2010). Towards a Pattern Language for the
Design of Collaborative Interactive Systems. ECEASST, 31(2010), pp. 1-13, ISSN: 18632122.
[10] Barricelli, B.R., Mussio, P., Valtolina, S. (2010). Progetto DESIRE: Design Creativo per
l’Innovazione nella Scienza e nella Tecnologia. Sistema Università, 7(22), (pp. 4-5). Università
degli Studi di Milano, Italy.
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[11] Barricelli, B.R., Mussio, P., Padula, M., Scala, P.L. (2010). TMS for Multimodal Information
Processing. Multimedia Tools and Application, 54(1), pp. 97-120. Springer. ISSN: 1380-7501.
[12] Barricelli, B.R., Marcante, A., Mussio, P., Parasiliti Provenza, L., Valtolina, S., Fresta. G.
(2009). BANCO: a Web Architecture Supporting Unwitting End-User Development. IxD&A
- Interaction Design and Architecture(s), Design for the Future Experience, 5-6, pp. 23-30, ISSN: 18269745.
[13] Barricelli, B.R., Maiellaro, N., Padula, M., Scala, P.L. (2009). Dal GIS al WebGIS in Ambiente
Open Source. L’Edilizia, gennaio 2009, pp. 94-97, ISSN: 1593-3970.
[14] Aliprandi, B., Barricelli, B.R., Padula, M., Re, A., Scala, P.L., Sensolo, S. (2008). Applicazioni
Informatiche per l’Innovazione di Processi/Prodotti della Costruzione. L’Edilizia, gennaio
2008, pp. 48-53, ISSN: 1593-3970.
[15] Aliprandi, B., Artese, M. T., Barricelli, B. ìR., Gagliardi, I., Padula, M., Pagliarulo, P., Scala,
P.L., Sensolo, S., Zuffi, S. (2007). Applicazioni Informatiche a Supporto dell’Innovazione di
Processi/Prodotti della Costruzione. L’Edilizia, gennaio 2007, pp. 46-50, ISSN: 1593-3970.
Books’ chapters
[16] Barricelli, B.R., Mussio, P., Padula, M., Piccinno, A., Scala, P.L., Valtolina, S. (2011).
Interactive Task Management System Development Based on Semantic Orchestration of Web
Services. Information Technology and Innovation Trends in Organizations (pp. 237-244). Springer,
Physica Verlag Heidelberg. ISBN: 978-3-7908-2631-9.
[17] Mesiti, M., Ribaudo, M., Valtolina, S., Barricelli, B.R., Boccacci, P., Dini, S. (2011).
Collaborative Environments: Accessibility and Usability for Users with Special Needs.
Community-Built Databases (pp. 319-340). Springer. ISBN: 978-3-642-19046-9.
[18] Barricelli, B.R., Marcante, A., Mussio, P., Parasiliti Provenza, L., Padula, M., Scala, P.L.
(2010). Designing Pervasive and Multimodal Interactive Systems: An Approach Built on the
Field. Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 212233). IGI Global. ISBN: 9781605669601.
[19] Barricelli, B.R., Marcante, A., Mussio, P., Parasiliti Provenza, L., Padula, M., Scala, P.L.
(2009). Designing Pervasive and Multimodal Interactive Systems: An Approach Built on the
Field. Multimodal Human Computer Interaction and Pervasive Service (pp. 243-254). IGI Global.
ISBN: 9781605663869.
[20] Barricelli, B. R., Maiellaro, N., Padula, M., Scala, P.L. (2008). Realizzazione di un Framework
Collaborativo per l’Authoring di Informazioni Turistiche ed Ambientali e per la loro
Pubblicazione in Rete. Albania: conoscere, comunicare, condividere (pp. 223-230). Info-copy.
Conferences
[21] Barricelli, B.R., Valtolina, S. (2015). Designing for End-User Development in the Internet of
Things. Will be presented at IS-EUD 2015, May 26-29, Madrid, Spain.
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[22] Valtolina, S., Barricelli, B.R. (2015). End-User Empowerment in Lifelogging Activities. Will be
presented at the CHI 2015 "Workshop on End User Development in the Internet of Things Era", April
19th, Seoul, Korea.
[23] Barricelli, B.R., Devis, Y., Abdelnour-Nocera, J., Wilson, J., Moore, J. (2013). MANTRA:
Mobile Anticoagulant Therapy Management. PervasiveHealth 2013, pp. 278-281, IEEE, ISBN:
978-1-4799-0296-5.
[24] Valtolina, S., Barricelli, B.R., Sciarabba, M. (2013). Digital Cultural Heritage and Living Labs.
Workshop Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age (CoPDA). Copenhagen (Denmark), June 6th,
2013. Online: http://homes.di.unimi.it/cslab/copda/
[25] Valtolina, s., Barricelli, B.R., Bagnasco, G., Bortolotto, S. (2013). ArchMatrix: Knowledge
Management and Visual Analytics for Archaeologists. Proc. HCI 2013 (pp. 258-266). LNCS
8018, Springer. ISBN: 978-3-642-39225-2.
[26] Gianni, G.B., Marzullo, M., Valtolina, S., Barricelli, B.R., Bortolotto, S., Favino, P., Garzulino,
A., Simonelli, R. (2012). An Ecosystem of Tools and Methods for Archeological
Research. Proc. VSMM 2012 (pp. 133-140). IEEE. ISBN: 978-1-4673-2564-6.
[27] Varesano, A., Barricelli, B.R., Valtolina, S. (2012). Atmosphere Design for Mobile Interaction.
Mobile Science & Learning (pp. 65-70). ICTP, Trieste, Italy. ISBN: 92-95003-47-0. Invited
presentation.
[28] Barricelli, B.R., Valtolina, S., Marzullo, M. (2012). ArchMatrix: A Visual Interactive System for
Graph-based Knowledge Exploration in Archaeology. Proc. AVI ’12 (pp. 681-684), ACM
Press. ISBN: 978-1-4503-1287-5
[29] Valtolina, S., Barricelli, B.R., De Angeli, A., Battocchi, A. (2012). Archaeology and
Technology: Towards Collaborative Decipherment of Non-Verbal Markings. Workshop
Heritage Matters, held in conjunction with CHI2012. Austin (Texas, US), May 6th, 2012.
[30] Barricelli, B.R., Valtolina, S. (2012). Atmosphere design and evaluation in creative
collaborative projects. Polish IA Summit 2012. Warsaw (Poland), April 18-20, 2012.
[31] Barricelli, B.R., Valtolina, S., Gobbi, A. (2012). Towards Collaborative Decipherment of NonVerbal Markings. CAA 2012. Southampton (UK), March 26-30, 2012.
[32] Barricelli, B.R., Ressin, M. (2011). Supporting Global Design through Data Mining and
Localization. Proc. IMMM 2011 (pp. 138-142), IARIA. ISBN: 978-1-61208-162-5.
[33] Zhu, J., Vaghi, I., Barricelli, B.R. (2011). A Meta-Reflective Wiki for Collaborative Design.
Proc. WikiSym ’11 (pp. 53-62), ACM Press. ISBN: 978-1-4503-0909-7.
[34] Ardito, C., Barricelli, B.R., Buono, P., Costabile, M.F., Piccinno, A., Valtolina, S., Zhu, L.
(2011). Visual Mediation Mechanisms for Collaborative Design and Development. Proc.
UAHCI 2011 (pp. 3-11). LNCS 6765, Springer. ISBN: 978-3-642-21671-8.
[35] Zhu, L., Vaghi, I., Barricelli, B.R. (2011). MikiWiki: A Meta Wiki Architecture and Prototype
Based on the Hive-Mind Space Model. Proc. IS-EUD 2011 (pp. 343-348). LNCS 6654,
Springer. ISBN: 978-3-642-21529-2.
[36] Ardito, C., Barricelli, B.R., Buono, P., Costabile, M.F., Piccinno, A., Valtolina, S., Zhu, L.
(2011). An Ontology-based Approach to Product Customization. Proc. IS-EUD 2011 (pp. 92106). LNCS 6654, Springer. ISBN: 978-3-642-21529-2.
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[37] Ariano, F., Barricelli, B.R., Padula, M., Scala, P.L., Valtolina, S. (2011). EUD for Semantic
Orchestration of Web services in Workflow Management Systems. Second EUD4Services
Workshop (IS-EUD 2011). Torre Canne (Italy), June 7th, 2011. Online:
http://130.88.6.246/EUD4Services/Workshop2011/
[38] Barricelli, B.R. (2011). Software Localization to Gender and Culture: Fostering Female
Participation and Creativity in the Web. Feminism and Interaction Design Workshop (CHI 2011).
Vancouver, May 7-12, 2011. Online: http://feministhciworkshop.wordpress.com/
[39] Barricelli, B. R. (2011). Making all Voices Heard and Understood: a Web Architecture to
Support Global Design Communities. Proc. EAD09 (pp. 124-134). Online:
http://endlessend.up.pt/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/EAD9-ConferenceProceedings_r.pdf
[40] Weibert, A., von Rekowsky, T., Barricelli, B.R., Korn, M. (2011). Collaborative Project Work
in Intercultural Computer Clubs. Proc. IC4E 2011 (pp. 28-31), IEEE Computer Society. ISBN:
978-1-4244-9213-8.
[41] Zhu, L., Mussio, P., Barricelli, B.R. (2010). Hive-Mind Space Model for Creative Collaborative
Design. Proc. DESIRE’10 (pp. 121-130), ACM Digital Library.
[42] Barricelli, B.R., Mussio, P., Padula, M., Piccinno, A., Scala, P.L., Valtolina, S. (2010).
Interactive Task Management System Development Based on Semantic Orchestration of Web
Services. Proc. itAIS 2010. ISBN: 978-88-6105-124-9.
[43] Zhu, L., Iacob, C., Barricelli, B.R. (2010). New Design Strategies: Using the Hive Mind Space
Model to Enhance Collaboration. Proc. IADIS International Conference Collaborative Technologies
2010 (pp. 12-19), IADIS Press. ISBN: 978-972-8939-21-2. Best Paper Award.
[44] Barricelli, B.R., Iacob, C., Zhu, L. (2010). BANCO Web Architecture to Support Global
Collaborative Interaction Design. Proc. IWIPS 2010 (pp. 159-162), P&SI. ISBN:
9780972218483.
[45] Barricelli, B.R., Mussio, P., Padula, M., Piccinno, A., Scala, P.L., Valtolina, S. (2010). Visual
Workflow Composition through Semantic Orchestration of Web Services. First EUD4Services
Workshop
(AVI2010).
Rome
(Italy),
May
25th,
2010.
Online:
http://homes.dico.unimi.it/cslab/EUD4Services/
[46] Zhu, L., Mussio, P., Barricelli, B.R., Iacob, C. (2010). A Habitable Space for Supporting
Creative Collaboration. Proc. CTS2010 (pp. 617-622), IEEE Computer Society. ISBN: 978-14244-6619-1.
[47] Valtolina, S., Mussio, P., Barricelli, B.R. (2009). User-Centered Knowledge Intensive
Interactive System. Proc. itAIS 2009. ISBN: 978-88-6105-060-0.
[48] Barricelli, B.R., Iacob, C., Zhu.L. (2009). Map-Based Wikis as Contextual and Cultural
Mediators. Workshop Community Practices and Locative Media (MobileHCI09). Bonn (Germany),
September
15-18,
2009.Online:
http://www.unisiegen.de/locatingmedia/workshops/mobilehci/
[49] Costabile, M.F., Mussio, P., Piccinno, A., Ardito, C., Barricelli, B.R., Lanzilotti R. (2009).
End-User Development in the Medical Domain. Proc. DMS’09 (pp. 10-15), KSI. ISBN: 1891706-25-X.
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[50] Barricelli, B.R., Padula, M., Scala, P.L. (2009). TMS for Multimodal Information Processing.
Proc. Twentieth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (pp. 295-299),
IEEE Computer Society. ISBN: 978-0-7695-3763-4.
[51] Barricelli, B.R., Padula, M. Scala, P.L. (2009). Personalized Web Browsing Experience. Proc.
HT ‘09 (pp. 345-346), ACM Press. ISBN: 978-1-60558-486-7.
[52] Valtolina, S., Mussio, P., Barricelli, B.R., Bordegoni, M., Ferrise, F., Ambrogio, M. (2009).
Distributed Knowledge Creation, Recording and Improvement in Collaborative Design. Proc.
KES IIMSS 09 (pp. 31-41), Springer. ISBN: 9783642029363.
[53] Barricelli, B.R., Marcante, A., Mussio, P., Parasiliti Provenza, L., Padula, M., Scala, P.L.
(2008). A Design Methodology for Multimodal Interactive Systems: A Pragmatical Approach.
Proc. DEXA Workshops 2008 (pp. 142-149), IEEE Computer Society. ISBN: 978-0-7695-32998.
[54] Barricelli, B.R., Padula, M. (2008). Un Sistema Collaborativo per l’Authoring di Informazioni
Turistiche ed Ambientali e per la loro Pubblicazione in Rete. Conferenza Tutela architettonica,
paesaggistica e ambientale: politica territoriale per un turismo sostenibile. Il progetto SITRuS. Bari (Italy),
June 30th, 2008.
[55] Barricelli, B.R., Maiellaro, N., Padula, M., Scala, P.L. (2008). Strumenti Open Source per la
Pubblicazione in Rete di Informazioni Turistiche Personalizzate. Proc. ASITA 2008 (pp. 287292). ISBN: 978-88-903132-1-9.
[56] Barricelli, B.R., Maiellaro, N., Padula, M., Scala, P.L. (2008). A Collaborative System for
Environment and Tourism Information Authoring and Web Publishing: An Institutional Case
Study. Proc. ICIW 2008 (pp. 279-282), IEEE Computer Society. ISBN: 978-0-7695-3163-2.
Theses
[57] Barricelli, B.R. (2011). An Architecture for End-User Development Supporting Global
Communities. PhD Thesis in Computer Science. Advisor: Prof. Ernesto Damiani (Formerly:
Prof. Piero Mussio). Co-advisor: Dott. Stefano Valtolina. Università degli Studi di Milano.
[58] Barricelli, B.R. (2007). Sistemi per la Costruzione e la Gestione Cooperativa di Contenuti: un
Approccio Basato sugli Standard del Semantic Web. M.Sc. Thesis. Advisor: Prof. Piero
Mussio. Co-advisors:: Dott. Marco Padula, Dott. Stefano Valtolina. Università degli Studi di
Milano.
[59] Barricelli, B.R. (2005). Internazionalizzazione e Localizzazione di Sistemi Interattivi Visuali.
B.Sc. Thesis. Advisor: Prof. Piero Mussio. Co-advisor: Dott. Marco Padula. Università degli
Studi di Milano.
Technical reports
[60] Barricelli, B.R., Iacob, C., Mussio, P., Zhu, L. (2010). Map-Based Wikis as Culture, Role, and
Platform Mediators. Dipartimento di Informatica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano RT
37-10.
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[61] Zhu, L., Mussio, P., Barricelli, B.R., Iacob, C. 2010. A Habitable Space for Supporting
Creative Collaboration. Dipartimento di Informatica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano
RT 34-10.
[62] Barricelli, B.R., Iacob, C., Mussio, P., Valtolina, S. 2010. IM2L: A Meta-Language for Abstract
Descriptions of Interactive Multimodal Systems. Dipartimento di Informatica e Comunicazione,
Università degli Studi di Milano RT 33-10.
[63] Barricelli, B.R., Cerovsek, T., Murn, D., Padula, M., Scala, P.L. 2006. CONNIE Intranode
Localization. RT ITC-CNR 011/02.
[64] Barricelli, B.R., Fresta, G., Marcante, A., Mussio, P., Padula, M., Parasiliti Provenza, L. 2006.
Shapes, Colour and Geometry are Local: the Problem of Visual Localization. RT ITC-CNR
011/01.
[65] Aliprandi, A., Barricelli, B.R., Padula, M. 2006. Shibboleth Service Provider on Debian Linux.
RT ITC-CNR 004/01.
[66] Padula, M., Barricelli, B.R., Scala, P.L. 2006. CONNIE Personalization. RT ITC-CNR 003/01.
[67] Barricelli, B.R., Fogli, D., Fresta, G., Marcante, A., Padula, M. 2005. Internationalization and
Localization of Visual Interactive Systems. RT ITC-CNR 012/01.
Date
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