The University of Brescia represents the second largest Engineering Campus in Lombardia. Since 1991, the Department of Elettronica per l'Automazione is in charge of research and education in different fields of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

DEA develops research in the fields of Computer Science, Automatic Control, Electronics, Electromagnetic Fields, Operative Research, Telecommunications.

The Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) group at DEA develops research in the fields of visual languages, design methodologies and development of visual computing environments.

The HCI team has established various joint researches with scientists worldwide. Among them: S. K. Chang of the University of Pittsburgh and Knowledge System Institute; H. Linger of the University of Monash, Melbourne; C. Garbay of IMAG-CNRS Grenoble. The HCI group is member of the Pictorial Computing Laboratory (PCL) chaired by S. Levialdi, University of Rome, and of the European Research Network for Cognitive Vision Systems (EC-Vision).