2009 - Associate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento (Italy).

• 2007 - 2009 Senior Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction Manchester Business School University of Manchester)
• 2004 - 2007 Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction School of Informatics University of Manchester (probation released 2005)
• 2001 - 2004 Senior HCI Researcher Advanced Technology and Research – Discovery Centre, Dundee (UK) NCR Ltd Responsibilities: proposing and conducting research projects, sourcing
• 2000-2001 Research Fellow Knowledge Lab, London (UK) NCR Ltd
• 1998-200 Post-doc in Applied Cognitive Psychology Department of Psychology, University of Trieste (Italy) Research topics: multimodal communication (gesture & natural lan-guage).
• 1996-1997 Research Associate IRST, ITC (currently FBK), Trento, Italy Cognitive and Communication Technologies Division

• 2002-2004 Honorary Associate Research Fellow University of Abertay, Dundee, UK Division of Psychology, School of Social and Health Sciences.
• 2008 - Honorary Associate Research Fellow Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies CNR - Roma (Italy)

• 1998 (3 months) Invited Researcher Language and Dialogue research team LORIA, Nancy, France Wizard of Oz experiments with multimodal systems (gesture & speech)
• 1998 (4 months) Invited Researcher Cognitive and Communication Technologies Division Fondazione Bruno Kessler (nee ITC-IRST) Trento, Italy User evaluation of NL systems
• 1997 (6 months) Invited Researcher Language and Dialogue research team LORIA, Nancy, France Wizard of Oz experiments with multimodal systems

• 1995 (3 months) NSF founded internship Center for Human-Computer Communication, Department of Computer Science Oregon Graduate Institute, USA
• 1993 Attendance at selected modules of the Graduate School for Perception and Technology, IPO, Institute for Perception Research, Eindhoven, The Nederland
• 1992 (6 months) Visiting Research Student Department of Social Psychology, UVA University of Amsterdam, The Nederland
• 1991 (11 months) Internship ITC-IRST (currently Fondazione Bruno Kessler), Trento, Italy

• 1998 2-year CNR (Italian National Research Council) grant for research on ap-plied cognitive psychology (declined)
• 1992-1996 4-year doctoral scholarship from the Italian Ministry for Higher Education and Scientific and Technological Research
• 1995 NSF grant to work at OGI, USA .
• 1993 NATO-ASI Grant to attend the summer school ‘Basics of Man-Machine Communication for the Design of Educational Systems’, Eindhoven, Hol-land.
• 1992 – 2000 Several travel grants from the University of Trieste
• 1991 6-month Erasmus grant and University of Trieste grant for young re-searchers

From 1993 to 1999 I have worked as HCI-HF consultant. Principal customers and projects are listed below.

• CRF (FIAT Research Center, Torino, Italy). INFOCAR: expert-based and user-based evaluation of innovative on-board information systems. Steering-wheel commands: lab-experiments to provide ergonomic guidelines for command design.
• EC-project CEMVOCAS: driving-simulator experiments to investigate the workload induced by car-phones.
• Elderly drivers: lab-experiments to provide design guidelines on an age-related perspective. Headlights: field study. Multifunctional on-board systems: field study (in collaboration with Magneti Marelli).
• AINE Consortium (Autostrade Italiane Nord Est, North East Italian Motorways).
• EC project TROPIC: survey to investigate the semantic content of Variable Message Systems - VMS's. EC project GEMINI: survey and field study to investigate drivers' reaction's to VMS and RDS technology.
• Autovie Venete (Venetian Motorways, Trieste, Italy). VMS: survey to investigate expectations and attitudes towards VMS.

• Ph.D. Experimental Psychology, University of Trieste, Italy (1997). Thesis: Valutare i sistemi flessibili: Un approccio globale alla HCI (Evaluating flexible systems: A global approach to HCI).
• University degree (Italian Laurea cum Laude), Philosophy, Human Sciences, University of Trieste (1991). Dissertation: Dillo a Maia: Un esperimento di interazione uomo-macchina (Talking to Maia: a Human-Machine Interaction Experiment).

• Honorary Associate Research Fellow, Division of Psychology, School of Social and Health Sciences, University of Abertay Dundee, UK (2002-2004).
• Scientific advisory board member EC project PF-STAR (2002-2004).
• CNR grant for research on applied cognitive psychology (declined) (1999 2-year).
• National Science Foundation grant for 3-month Internship at Oregon Graduate Institute (1995).
• Grant by NATO-ASI to attend the summer school Basics of Man-Machine Communication for the Design of Educational Systems, Eindhoven, Holland (1993).
• Studentship by Ministero Università e Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Ph.D. program in Experimental Psychology (1992-96).

Associate Editor

• International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
• PsychNology Journal
• International Journal of Knowledge and Web Intelligence

• CHI 2008
• International Conference on Information Systems ICIS 2010, Track Human Behavior and IT

• IUI 2011, International Conference on Intelligent User Interface, February 13-16, Standford, Palo alto, California

15th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference RE’07

• ECSCW 2011: European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 24-28 September, Aarhus, Denmark
• COOP2010
• British HCI 2008
• Designing Interactive Systems DIS’06, DIS’08
• Interact (since 2005)
• Advanced Visual Interfaces AVI (since 2002) HCItaly (since 2000), Interaction Design for Children 2009

• Computer and Fun 2000
• IWIPS2003
• Workshop on user-centred design and evaluation of services for human-human communication and collaboration (ICMI’05)
• User Experience Workshop NordiCHI2006, 2nd International Workshop on Model-Driven User-Centric Design & Engineering (MDUCDE).

• 2002-2004 EC-project PF-STAR International Academic Advisory Board Msc Human-Computer Interaction, University of Siegen, Germany Doctoral Consortium Academic Advisor, Interact 2009.

• Facing emotions responsible interaction design & Design Principles for Software that Engages its Users, Interact 2007
• Gender & Interaction: real and virtual women in a male world (AVI 2006)
• Abuse the dark side of HCI, Interact 2005 (www.agentabuse.org)
• Misuse and Abuse of Interactive Technologies, CHI 2006 (www.agentabuse.org).

• Abuse the darker side of HCI an Interact 2005 workshop (with Peter Wallis and Sherly Brahnam).

• Interact 2005
• Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI02 - AVI04)
• International Workshop on Internationalisation of Products and Systems (IWIPS 2003)
• SIGCHItaly 2005
• HCItaly 2005
• Workshop on user-centred design and evaluation of services for human-human communication and collaboration (ICMI’05 workshop).

• ACM TOCHI
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Interacting with Computers
• International Journal of Speech Technology
• Journal of Visual Language and computing
• Journal of Computing and Information Technology
• Journal of Organizational and End User Computing.

• CHI2002, CHI2003, CHI2005
• Interact 2005
• AVI1998, AVI2000, AVI2002 , AVI2004
• Computer and Fun 2001
• IWIPS 2003
• HCItaly 2005.