Massimo Zancanaro

Since 2008, I am the head of the i3 Research Unit at FBK

My main research interest is on the study of technologies that facilitate human communication and human-computer interaction. Initially, I was mainly focussed on the field of intelligent interfaces and in particular language-based interfaces. Later, I focused on the applications of IT in the domain of cultural heritage with a particular focus the design issues related to mobile multimedia. Recently, I became interest in the areas of co-located collaborative interfaces and multimodal systems for behavioral analysis.

In 2012, I served as

• Area Chair for ICMI2012, Santa Monica, October 2011
• Area Chair for IUI2012 – International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. Lisbon, February 2012
• Programme Committee member of LREC2012. Instanbul, May 2012

Currently, I am a member of the faculty for the Doctoral School on Cognitive and Brain Sciences at the University of Trento and I teach Designing of Graphical Interfaces (in Italian) at the undergraduate degree on Interfaces and Technology Communication at the Faculty of Cognitive Science.

Some recent Publications

• Alessandrini A., Cappelletti A. Zancanaro M. Audio-Augmented Paper for the Therapy of Low-Functioning Autism Children. In Proceedings of CHI2013 - Work-in-Progress (preprint)
• Schiavo G., Mencarini E., Vovard K., Zancanaro M. Sensing and Reacting to Users’ Interest: an Adaptive Public Display. In Proceedings of CHI2013 - Work-in-Progress (preprint)
• Zancanaro M., Stock O., Eisikovitz T., Koren C., Weiss P.L. Co-narrating a conflict: An interactive tabletop to facilitate attitudinal shifts. ACM Transaction on Computer-Human Interaction – TOCHI. In press. (preprint)

My full list of publications can be accessed from Google Scholar: MZ on Google Scholar