Publications

Projects

• SPACES Project 2024-Now

  Role: Principal Investigator.
  Fund: Fondazione CRT.
  Description: The project, proposed in collaboration with the Regional Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders in Adulthood, ASL City of Turin, involves the development of a software application that enables the formation of thematic groups in order to increase the sociability of people with mid- to high-functioning autism spectrum disorder. The challenge is the formation of groups in which the interests and idiosyncrasies and interaction needs of people with autism spectrum disorder are shared.

• ACCESS Project 2024-Now

  Role: researcher.
  Fund: PRIN: Progetti di Ricerca di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale – Bando 2022.
  Description: The project "Accessibility to clinical care for people with ASD through anxiety management by using personalized applications and IoT" aims to develop technologies to support the anxiety management of people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) when they face clinical treatment.

• NODES Project - Nord Ovest Digitale e Sostenibile - Industria del turismo e cultura. 2022-Now

  Role: representative for the Computer Science Department of the University of Torino and researcher.
  Fund: PNRR, M4C2.
  Description: Innovative knowledge transfer for the enhancement of tourism through new products, destinations, itineraries. In particular, my contribution will focus on the design and development of a recommender system in the field of cultural heritage and the related presentation of suggestions to users.

• RevIs Project 2022-Now

  https://silentscapes.eu/

  Role: workpackage leader and researcher.
  Fund: PRIN: Progetti di Ricerca di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale – Bando 2020.
  Description: The project "Revisualizing Italian Silentscapes 1896-1922. Landscapes and Locations in Early Italian Cinema a Hundred Years Later" focuses on increasing the visibility of film heritage with the development of new forms of semantic data organisation and new digital databases (DB). Moreover, the project aims to develop an application with thematic searches for individual sections of the audiovisual product and to combine the access to geo-localised data of film heritage with metadata search.

• CARES Project 2022-Now

  http://cares.di.unito.it/

  Role: researcher, research and development about recommender systems of Points of Interest for people with autism.
  Fund: Fondazione CRT.
  Description: The project "Inclusive Personalised Tourism Systems for Autism (CARES)" focuses on the needs and interests of people with autism to support them in their tourism exploration. In particular, the project aims to enable adults with autism to have an enjoyable tourist experience for them, their caregivers and family members.

• Triangolazioni 2021

  https://www.triangolazioni.unito.it/

  Role: task leader of the design of the mobile guide, researcher.
  Fund: Fondi di Public Engagement dell'Università degli Studi di Torino.
  Description: The Triangolazioni project focuses on the idea of triangulation as a tool to reconstruct a network of interconnections between histories - ancient and recent - scientists, intellectuals, discoveries, progress, revolutions. The project involves the development of a web application to visualize the semantic interconnections between different Points of Interest within a geographic map.

• OPENALPLAB - "Rete di laboratori per la valorizzazione della didattica outdoor sugli ecosistemi alpini e prealpini piemontesi" 2021

  https://www.openalplab.unito.it/

  Role: task leader of the design of the mobile guide, researcher.
  Fund: Fondazione CRT.
  Description: The OPENALPLAB project focuses on the areas near to the Istituto Mosso (Passo Salati, Monte Rosa) and the laboratorio didattico Geodidalab (Lago San Michele, Ivrea). These sites have an high number of visitors but they show some problems in the contents fruition caused by the diverse environmental ecosystems. The project aims in improving the data fruition and the public engagement in these areas by paying attention to the environmental protection. Specifically, the project aims to actively involve the population and the schools with the use of ICT technologies in order to share and improve the information about territories. Within OPENALPLAB, my research focuses on the development of an intelligent system useful to explore the territorial information through the use of interactive widgets that allow to search and filter the desired data.

• OnToMap 2016-Now

  https://ontomap.ontomap.eu/

  Role: initially software developer; since 2016 researcher and developer; since 2019 researcher and project manager.
  Fund: MIMOSA (MultIModal Ontology-driven query system for the heterogeneous data of a SmArtcity) - Progetto di Ateneo, 2015-17.
  Description: The web application OnToMap - Mappe di Comunità 3.0 was developed with the aim of responding to citizenship emerging needs, being configured as an easy and quick tool to consult spatial data, create custom maps, report to local administrators critical issues or new proposals. Within the OnToMap project, my research focused on the development of methodologies for information exploration support and geographic data visualization.

• PIUMA Project 2019-2022

  http://piuma.di.unito.it/

  Role: researcher, research and development about recommender systems of Points of Interest for people with autism.
  Fund: Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation.
  Description: The project Personalized Interactive Urban Maps for Autism (acronym PIUMA) aims to help people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) move and live within cities by means of a new digital service that provides interactive personalized maps. Within the PIUMA project, my research focused on the development of a recommender system of Points of Interest for people with autism that takes into account users' sensory aversions and preferences in making suggestions.

• co3project 2019-Now

  https://www.projectco3.eu/it/

  Role: research fellowship (assegno di ricerca) for the design of the CO3OTM component (https://ontomap.eu/co3) that has the following roles in the co3project: semantic data interoperability among platform applications, cross-application logging of user actions, data hub for the CO3 applications and user achievements management (for gamification).
  Fund: the European Community through co3project: co3Project: co-create – co-produce – co-manage (H2020-SC6-TRANSFORMATIONS-2018-2019-2020 - CO3 Grant Agreement 822615).
  Description: CO3, Digital Disruptive Technologies to Co-create, Co-produce and Co-manage Open Public Services along with Citizens, aims at assessing the benefits and risks of disruptive technologies, namely: blockchain, augmented reality, geolocated social network, liquid democracy tools and gamification, in the co-creation, co-production and co-management of public services with citizens as PAs partners. Within the co3project, I focused on the design of data structures and inferential models for the attribution of achievements (points, badges, etc.) for a gamification model.

Awards

• Women in RecSys: Journal Paper of the Year Awards 2022

  at the 16th ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2022).

  Paper: L. Ardissono and N. Mauro. A compositional model of multi-faceted trust for personalized item recommendation. Expert Systems with Applications, 2020.

• Young Researcher Award 2022

  University of Turin.

• Best Paper Award 2020

  at the 28th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2020).

  Paper: N. Mauro, L. Ardissono and F. Cena. Personalized Recommendation of PoIs to People with Autism.

• Outstanding PC Member Award 2020

  at the 31st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT '20).

• Best Artificial Intelligence Master's Thesis Award 2017

  in memory of Leonardo Lesmo, University of Turin.

Travel Grants

• Student Travel Grant to attend the ACM Conference On Recommender Systems (RecSys 2019), Copenhagen, Denmark. 2019
• Student Travel Grant to attend the conference UMAP 2019, ACM Conference On User Modeling, Adaptation And Personalization, Larnaca, Cyprus. 2019
• Erasmus Traineeship Grant to support a visiting research period at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria. 2018
• Student Travel Grant to attend the conference IUI 2018, ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Tokyo, Japan (ACM SIGAI). 2018
• Erasmus Traineeship Grant to support a visiting research period at University College Dublin, Ireland. 2018
• Student Travel Grant to attend the ESSIR Summer School, Barcelona, Spain. 2017
• Student Travel Grant to attend the conference IUI 2017, ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Limassol, Cyprus (ACM SIGAI). 2017

Courses

• Recommender Systems and Personalized User Experience 2023 - 2024

  of the Computer Science Doctoral Course of the University of Torino.

• Basi di dati (Database) 2023 - 2024

  of the Computer Science Degree Course of the University of Torino.

• Recommender Systems and Personalized User Experience 2022 - 2023

  of the Computer Science Doctoral Course of the University of Torino.

• Basi di dati (Database) 2022 - 2023

  of the Computer Science Degree Course of the University of Torino.

• Basi di dati (Database) 2021 - 2022

  of the Computer Science Degree Course of the University of Torino.

Teaching Assistant

• Teaching assistant for the course "Basi di dati" (Database) 2018 - 2019 - 2020 - 2021

  of the Computer Science Degree Course of the University of Torino.

• Teaching assistant for the course "Basi di dati" (Database) 2018 - 2019 - 2020 - 2021

  of the Computer Science Degree Course of the University of Torino.

• Tutoring for the course "Programmazione 2" (Programming 2) 2017

  of the Computer Science Degree Course of the University of Torino.

PhD Students Supervisor

• Angelo Geninatti Cossatin: Personalization, ethics and environmental sustainability in item recommendation. 2022 - 2025

Thesis Advisor

• Master Thesis: Development of a mixed-initiative planning system to support users when organizing a tourist or school trip. 2023
• Bachelor Thesis: Development of a web application for the creation and participation to groups and activities. 2023
• Bachelor Thesis: Development of a User Interface for Planning Routes for People with Autism Spectrum Disorders. 2023
• Bachelor Thesis: Development of an Application for Planning Itineraries for People with Autism Spectrum Disorders. 2023
• Master Thesis: Ethics and environmental sustaibility in recommender systems. 2022
• Bachelor Thesis: Exploration of cultural and tourist heritage for people with Autism Spectrum Disorders. 2022
• Bachelor Thesis: Environmental sustainability and second-hand products: criteria for the exploration of lists of suggestions. 2022
• Bachelor Thesis: Justification of the suggestions of a Recommender System through visual explanation. 2021
• Bachelor Thesis: Logging user actions within a mobile guide for users in the Autism Spectrum Disorder. 2021
• Bachelor Thesis: Programming and developing a web application for testing recommender systems. 2021
• Bachelor Thesis: Personalized recipe suggestions based on ingredient preferences. 2020
• Bachelor Thesis: Review analysis: search by keyword. 2020
• Bachelor Thesis: Overview of suggested items by a recommender system in the home booking domain. 2020
• Bachelor Thesis: Development of a content-based recommender system for a personalized suggestion of services. 2020
• Bachelor Thesis: Accessibility and usability for applications for people with Autism Spectrum Disorder. 2020
• Bachelor Thesis: "Around Me": a web application about the new digital cartography on Leaflet.js. 2020
• Master Thesis: "Integration of session-aware recommendation algorithms into an evaluation framework and performance assessment. 2020
• Bachelor Thesis: Development of a content-based recommender system for the personalized suggestion of experiential goods to users. 2020
• Bachelor Thesis: A web application for the analysis and evaluation of the appreciation of an Airbnb service based on clients’ reviews. 2020
• Master Thesis: Item suggestion in an experiential domain. 2019
• Bachelor Thesis: Review evaluation: factors at play and quality prediction. 2019
• Bachelor Thesis: Interactive and feature-based information filter for geographical maps. 2019
• Bachelor Thesis: Integration of users’ reputation into a personalized recommender system based on Collaborative Filtering. 2018
• Bachelor Thesis: Development of a 3D visualization system for a participatory WebGIS framework: OnToMap and Cesium.js. 2017
• Bachelor Thesis: Domain conceptualization mapping: from OnToMap to OpenStreetMap. 2017

Organizing Committee

• Workshop and Tutorial Chair 2024

  32th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2024). July 2024, Cagliari, Italy.

• Student Volunteers Chair 2024

  18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2024). October 2024, Bari, Italy.

• Program Track Chair "Personalized Recommender Systems" 2023

  31th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2023). June 2023, Limassol, Cyprus.

• Proceedings Chairs Mentor 2023

  31th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2023). June 2023, Limassol, Cyprus.

• Tutorials Program Co-chair 2022

  16th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2022). September 2022, Seattle, US.

• Proceedings Co-chair 2022

  30th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2022). July 2022, Barcelona, Spain.

• Proceedings Co-chair 2022

  33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT 2022). July 2022, Barcelona, Spain.

• Proceedings Co-chair 2021

  15th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2021). September 2021, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

• Doctoral Consortium Co-chair 2021

  29th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2021). June 2021, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

• Workshop Program Co-chair 2024

  14th Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2024) in conjunction with ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2024). July 2024, Cagliari, Italy.

• Workshop Program Co-chair 2023

  13th Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2023) in conjunction with ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2023). June 2023, Limassol, Cyprus.

• Workshop Program Co-chair 2022

  13th Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2022) in conjunction with ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2022). July 2022, Barcelona, Spain.

• Workshop Program Co-chair 2021

  12th Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2021) in conjunction with ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2021). June 2021, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

• Workshop Program Co-chair 2020

  11th Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2020) in conjunction with ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2020). July 2020, Genoa, Italy.

• Workshop Program Co-chair 2019

  10th Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2019) in conjunction with ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2019). June 2019, Larnaca, Cyprus.

Editorial Activities

• Editorial Board Member 2022

  User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI).

  Members list.

• Co-editor 2023

  Special issue on "Intelligent Systems for People with Diverse Cognitive Abilities" in the Human-Computer Interaction journal.

  Special issue details.

• Co-editor 2021

  Special issue on "AI and HCI Methods and Techniques for Cultural Heritage Curation, Exploration and Fruition."

  Special issue details.

Program Committee Member

• 2021 to 2024 - SIGIR - Full Papers and Resource Track, ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.
• 2022 to 2024 - WWW - Web Mining and Content Analysis Track, The ACM Web Conference.
• 2023 - AAAI, 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
• 2022 - CHI - Late Breaking Results, The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
• 2017 to 2024 - IUI, ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces.
• 2021 to 2023 - RecSys - Full Papers and Reproducibility Track, ACM Conference on Recommender Systems.
• 2020 - CIKM 2020 - Resource Track, ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.
• 2024 - ECIR Full Papers, European Conference on Information Retrieval).
• 2018 to 2024 - UMAP, ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization.
• 2020 to 2022 - HT, ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media.
• 2019 - MUM, International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia.
• 2023 - BehavRec, Workshop on Behavior Change and Persuasive Recommender Systems held in conjunction with RecSys.
• 2023 - HCAI4U, Workshop on User Perspectives in Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence held in conjunction with CHItaly 2023.
• 2021 to 2024 - SOCIALIZE, Workshop on Social and Cultural Integration with Personalized Interfaces (SOCIALIZE) held in conjunction with IUI.
• 2022 - AIxPA, Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Public Administration held in conjunction with AiXiA.
• 2022 - XAI, Workshop on Explainable Artificial Intelligence held in conjunction with AixiA.

Journals Reviewer

• User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI), Springer.
• Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier.
• Information Processing & Management, Elsevier.
• Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, ACM.
• Behaviour & Information Technology, Taylor and Francis Online.
• International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Taylor and Francis Online.
• IEEE Access, IEEE.
• PeerJ Computer Science.
• Applied Sciences, MDPI.

Community Contributions

• Student Volunteer 2018

  at the ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2019). September 2019, Copenaghen, Denmark.

• Student Volunteer 2018

  at IUI 2018, ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. March 2018, Tokyo, Japan.

• Student Volunteer 2017

  at IUI 2017, ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. March 2017, Limassol, Cyprus.