I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Control and Computer Engineering (DAUIN) at Politecnico di Torino, member of the e-Lite group.
My main research interest is in Human-Computer Interaction.

News and Updates

Jan 1, 2023 - Happy new year!
Nov 16, 2022 - Promoted to Associate Professor

Jan 19, 2022 - Asked to serve as a Subcommittee Chair for DIS 2022
Jan 15, 2022 - Just concluded the HCI course... and ready to start the Ph.D.-level course on Human-AI Interaction!
Jan 1, 2022 - Happy new year!
Oct 13, 2021 - Appointed as Adjuct Chair for Community Support in the ACM SIGCHI EC
Sept 21, 2021 - Preparing for a new semester, in person!
Aug 30-Sept 3, 2021 - Attending INTERACT 2021 in Bari.
Aug 2021 - Vacation?!
July 12, 2021 - Becoming a member of the extended board of SIGCHI Italy
July 10, 2021 - CHItaly 2021 starts in Bolzano!
May 10, 2021 - The week of CHI 2021: one paper, one LBW, one session to chair
Mar 1, 2021 - New semester, a new course
Jan 26, 2021 - The HCI4AI Ph.D. course started @ PoliMi
Jan 4, 2021 - Asked to be in the PC of IS-EUD 2021
Jan 1, 2021 - Happy new year!
Nov 23, 2020 - I also got the habilitation for associate professorship in the 01/B1 area
Nov 13, 2020 - I got the habilitation for associate professorship (09/H1)!
<2020> - Shifting everything remotely, due to the pandemic
Feb 3, 2020 - I'll be part of the SIGCHI Global Development Fun(d) Committee
Jan 29, 2020 - Half-day workshop at AVI 2020 accepted! Topic: AI for social good 
Jan 24, 2020 - Asked to help in the organization of CHItaly 2021! More details soon!
Jan 16, 2020 - The HCI course @PoliTo ends. The HAII course starts! 
Jan 1, 2020 - Happy 2020!
Dec 25, 2019 - Merry Christmas!
Dec 24, 2019 - The EUIoT workshop received too few submissions, and it will not be held at IUI 2020 :(
Dec 22, 2019 - Asked to serve in the scientific commitee of IEEE EDUCON 2020
Dec 16-17, 2019 - Third ACM FCA meeting: it's the "welcome" meeting for all new members!
Dec 13, 2019 - Off to NYC for the annual ACM FCA meeting
Dec 12, 2019 - The TAPrec paper was accepted to ACM IUI 2020
Nov 16, 2019 - Start serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE IoT journal
Nov 14, 2019 - Talk about digital wellbeing at the local edition of the World Usability Day
Nov 4, 2019 - I will start as an Assistant Professor (in tenure-track, RTDb) at Politecnico di Torino in a couple of weeks!
Nov 1, 2019 - Enrollment open for the Human-AI Interaction course (PhD level)
Nov 1, 2019 - CHI 2020 reviews: done!
Oct 25, 2019 - Another year, another DAUIN PhD Poster Day!
Oct 14, 2019 - A workshop about Intelligent User Interfaces for EUD in the IoT was accepted to IUI 2020
Oct 1, 2019 - First lecture of the new HCI course @ PoliTo
Sept 21, 2019 - A special issue proposal on "Internet of Food" (IEEE IoT journal) was accepted
Sept 20, 2019 - Another year, another CHI submission
Aug 21, 2019 - Happy to start as an Associate Editor for IEEE Access
July 30, 2019 - Received (in order!) a paper rejection, a revise-and-resubmit, and an acceptance (JSS)
July 16, 2019 - The second-ever ACM FCA recruitment cycle is open!
July 10-12, 2019 - At IS-EUD 2019, University of Hertfordshire (Hatfield, UK) 
July 5, 2019 - A paper about recommending IF-THEN rules to end users was accepted at ACM TIST
July 3, 2019 - Accepted Ubicomp 2019 poster: "Towards detecting and changing smartphone habits"
July 2, 2019 - A paper on dysarthric speech in smart environment was accepted in a special issue of JoRIE 
May 30, 2019 - Appointed Vice-Chair of ACM FCA for the next 2 years, starting July 1st
May 4-9, 2019 - Off to CHI 2019. 2 full papers and a LBW, this year.
Apr 19-23, 2019 - Easter vacation
Apr 19, 2019 - A paper about a jigsaw-based approach to end-user debugging was accepted at IS-EUD 2019 
Apr 5, 2019 - Invited as a member to the editorial board of IJHCS
Mar 13, 2019 - EUDoptimizer accepted for publication in IEEE Access (open access)
Mar 12, 2019 - First lecture of the year at UPO: last edition of the "Reti 2: practice" course
Mar 7, 2019 - Start of the semester, for me: first AmI lecture, last edition of the course
Mar 1, 2019 - A workshop about "care networks" was accepted at ECSCW 2019
Feb 8, 2019 - A LBW about IoT computational notebooks was accepted at CHI 2019
Jan 23, 2019 - First lecture (of mine) in the Semantic Web course
Jan 1, 2019 - Happy new year!
Dec 13, 2018 - A paper about EUPont was accepted for publication in IJHCS (journal)
Dec 10, 2018 - Two papers conditionally accepted at CHI 2019: EUDebug and Socialize!
Nov 10, 2018 - IUI 2019 papers: reviews done
Nov 1, 2018 - CHI 2019 paper reviews: completed!
Oct 31, 2018 - I will serve as an Associate Chair (PC member) for Late-Breaking Works at CHI 2019
Oct 29, 2018 - Joined the SIGCHI conferences working group
Oct 22-24, 2018 - In Galway (Ireland), for presenting two papers at ACM ASSETS 2018
Oct 11, 2018 - Another year, another edition of the DAUIN PhD Poster Day!
Oct 3, 2018 - First Computer Vision lecture
Sept 25, 2018 - First time in the annual evaluation committee of PhD students
Aug 4-26, 2018 - Summer holiday
July 23, 2018 - "An Unsupervised and Non-Invasive Model for Predicting Network Resource Demands" accepted by the IEEE IoT Journal
June 7-8, 2018 - ACM FCA 2nd annual meeting @ PoliTo. First time in Europe, first time as a meeting chair
June 6, 2018 - Bushra Anjum (Amazon) is visiting. She holds a seminar on "women in STEM"
June 6, 2018 - A paper on vocal assistants and dysarthria was conditionally accepted at ACM ASSETS 2018
May 29-June 1, 2018 - Off to AVI 2018, also joining the "Future of Computing & Food" satellite event
May 12, 2018 - I will be one of the judges of the Italian Scratch Festival
May 08, 2018 - The paper "Collaborative Accessible Gameplay with One-Switch Interfaces" was accepted to IEEE GEM 2018
Apr 22-26, 2018 - Off to CHI 2018. Alberto presents a LBW on "A Debugging Approach for Trigger-Action Programming"
Apr 21, 2018 - A paper analyzing which IoT services can be moved into the 5G network was accepted to the IEEE 5G World Forum
Apr 20, 2018 - Traveling to Montréal (Canada) for CHI 2018
Apr 11, 2018 - A paper on Virtual Assistants and Dysarthria was accepted to WoRIE 2018
Apr 4, 2018 - The SQLassistant paper was accepted to IEEE COMPSAC 2018 (CELT)
Mar, 29 - April 3, 2018 - Easter vacation
Mar 30, 2018 - MobileHCI 2018 reviews: done!
Mar 7, 2018 - Temporary web chair for ACM-FCA... website migration and fixes!
Feb 16, 2018 - A LBW on end-user debug accepted to CHI 2018
Feb 16, 2018 - First day as an Assistant Professor (with time contract)
Feb 15, 2018 - First time at the IEEE Italy ExCo meeting, this time at Politecnico di Milano
Feb 4, 2018 - CHI LBW reviews: completed.
Jan 29, 2018 - I will start as an Assistant Professor (RTDa) at Politecnico di Torino in the coming month!
Jan 23, 2018 - The paper "Easing IoT Development for Novice Programmers Through Code Recipes" was accepted to ICSE SEET 2018
Jan 8, 2018 - Appointed as chair of the next ACM FCA annual meeting, together with Bushra Anjum.
Jan 1, 2018 - Happy new year!
Dec 8, 2017 - Invited as a member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE GEM 2018 conference
Nov 30, 2017 - AwareNotifications paper accepted by the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environment
Nov 7, 2017 - Invited as a member of the Technical Program Committee of the Intelligent Environments '18 conference
Oct 31, 2017 - CHI 2018 reviews: done!
Oct 19, 2017 - Co-organized the second edition of the DAUIN PhD Poster Day
Oct 5, 2017 - First Computer Vision lab (M.S. in Computer Engineering)
Sept 13, 2017 - Nominated as the Young Professionals representative for the IEEE Italy Section
Sept 8, 2017 - "A Semantic Web Approach to Simplifying Trigger-Action Programming in the IoT" will be published in IEEE Computer 
Sept 6, 2017 - A paper about the latest version of DogOnt was accepted by the Semantic Web Journal
July 12, 2017 - The IEEE IoT journal accepted a paper about a visual approach towards CEP for smart city officers
July 6, 2017 - Participate at (and help to set up) the Eta Kappa Nu panel about Computing Education
July 5, 2017 - Student Research Symposium at IEEE COMPSAC 2017
June 25, 2017 - Inaugural meeting of the ACM Future of Computing Academy
June 23-24, 2017 - Celebration of the 50th anniversary of the A.M. Turing Award, in San Francisco
June 22, 2017 - Off to San Francisco for the inaugural meeting of the ACM Future of Computing Academy
June 02, 2017 - A paper about the Energy-aware study room has been accepted to ISGT Europe 2017
May 25, 2017 - AmI students publicly present their projects ideas to local IT companies
May 23, 2017 - Invited to be the IEEE Young Professional representative for the IEEE CS Italy Chapter 
May 22, 2017 - One LBR about cross-device notification strategies accepted to EICS 2017
May 16, 2017 - Time to update this page!
May 9, 2017 - ACM-FCA webinar... live in Denver with other CHI folks
May 8-9, 2017 - Presenting a LBW at CHI 2017, in Denver
May 6, 2017 - Traveling to Denver, CO (USA) for CHI 2017
Apr 21, 2017 - Selected as a member of the ACM Future of Computing Academy (ACM-FCA)!
Apr 13, 2017 - Easter vacation. Finally.
Apr 21, 2017 - GNomon accepted for publication to ACM TACCESS!
Apr 3, 2017 - Start teaching the "Computer Networks 2: practice" course at UPO (Vercelli)
Mar 23, 2017 - One paper accepted to IEEE COMPSAC 2017 (SETA symposium)
Mar 20, 2017 - Inducted as a professional member of Eta-Kappa Nu (HKN), the honor society of IEEE
Mar 14, 2017 - Invited to be Co-Chair of the Student Research Symposium (SRS) at IEEE COMPSAC 2017
Feb 12, 2017 - Two LBWs accepted to CHI 2017
Feb 6, 2017 - Involved in a project to teach Python/CS at high-school students. Log start.