News
2 Nov 2009
Fabio Paternò has been appointed ACM Distinguished Scientist for his significant accomplishments.
23 Oct 2009
Research of the laboratory on vibro-tactile feedback for mobile blind users is reported by the popular Italian magazine 'L'Espresso'. Article ...
21 Oct 2009
The HIIS Laboratory has been presented at the ISTI Evaluation Panel. Download the slides
5 Oct 2009
The HIIS Laboratory will host a meeting of the OPEN Project on October 8. Agenda ...
2 Oct 2009
Two Post-doctoral ERCIM fellows have started their nine-months visit in our laboratory: Margarita Kotti will work on vocal user interfaces while Kyriakos Kritikos on semantic support to model-based generation of multi-device user interfaces
7 Sep 2009
Fabio Paternò gives the opening invited talk at INTERACCION 2009 conference
on Migratory User Interfaces in Multi-device Environments in Armenia (Colombia)
Our mission
Interest in design and development of interactive software applications has
increased considerably over the last few years. The underlying reason for
this interest is the need to provide the greatest number of people with
access to applications for the largest number of purposes and in the widest
number of contexts. Our research activity is in methods and tools to support
user interface designers and software developers in obtaining usable systems
that can be accessed from different contexts of use (devices, users,
physical and social environments).
The main goal is to propose new solutions in basic and applied research in
the field of human-computer interaction, specifically in user interface
software and technologies, mainly under the aegis of national and
international programmes and private sector R&D contracts. One of the first
groups in Italy in the HCI area, we have become well-known at an
International level, as demonstrated by partecipation in numerous European
projects and the board of the most important HCI conferences, and
publications in the major HCI and software engineering journals and
conferences.
The main research areas concern Methods and Tools for the Analysis, Design
and Development of Interactive Applications, Intelligent Interfaces,
Interfaces for Ubiquitous Applications, MultiModal Interfaces,
Accessibility, Usability Engineering and Models for HCI. Such work has led
to the development of a numbers of tools and applications, many of which are
publicly available for download.
