Eleonora Mencarini

Eleonora Mencarini has been collaborating with FBK since 2009. She holds a PhD (cum laude) in Computer Science from the University of Trento (Italy) and an MA (cum laude) in Communication Science from the University of Siena (Italy). She has experience in user studies, UI and UX design, conduction of co-design workshops, prototyping, and formative and summative evaluations.

Eleonora Mencarini's research interests include participatory design, embodied interaction, i.e., the use of technologies that require interaction with the body, such as tangible and wearable devices, the design and use of digital devices in natural environments and technologies that promote awareness, participation, and change towards environmental sustainability. The main application fields where she has conducted her research so far are outdoor sports, playful education, and HCI for climate change.

1. Mencarini, Eleonora; Zambon, Tommaso,
   Becoming a Speleologist: Design Implications for Coordination in Wild Outdoor Environments,
   Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23),
   ACM,
   2023
   , pp. 1-
   12
2. Mencarini, Eleonora; Bremer, Christina; Leonardi, Chiara; Liu, Jen; Nisi, Valentina; Jardim Nunes, Nuno; Soden, Robert,
   HCI for Climate Change: Imagining Sustainable Futures,
   CHI EA '23: Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems,
   ACM,
   2023
   , pp. 1-
   6
3. Mencarini, Eleonora; Rapp, Amon; Tirabeni, Lia; Zancanaro, Massimo,
   Designing Wearable Systems for Sports: A Review of Trends and Opportunities in Human–Computer Interaction,
   in «IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON HUMAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS»,
   vol. 49,
   n. 4,
   2019
   , pp. 314-
   325
4. Mencarini, Eleonora; Rapp, Amon; Zancanaro, Massimo,
   Underground Astronauts: Understanding the Sporting Science of Speleology and its Implications for HCI,
   in «INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER STUDIES»,
   vol. 151,
   2021
   , pp. 1-
   12
5. Wozniak, Paweł W.; Fedosov, Anton; Mencarini, Eleonora; Knaving, Kristina,
   Soil, Rock, and Snow: On Designing for Information Sharing in Outdoor Sports,
   Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems - DIS '17,
   ACM,
   2017
   , pp. 611-
   623