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Antonio Piccinno is currently Associate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) at the Computer Science Department of the University of Bari Aldo Moro (UNIBA).

He received the Laurea Degree in Computer Science with full marks and honors from the University of Bari in 2001. In March 2005 he got the PhD in Computer Science from UNIBA, discussing a thesis titled “Software environments for supporting End-User Development”.

Since April 2005, he worked at the Computer Science Department of UNIBA, first as research fellow, next as Assistant Professor and now as Associate Professor.

He is founding member of the IVU (Interaction, Visualization, Usability & UX) Lab of the University of Bari, where he coordinates research on the interplay between Human-Computer Interaction and Software Engineering through techniques of End-User Development.

During January-March 2008 he has been visiting scientist at the Center for LifeLong Learning and Design (L3D) - Department of Computer Science and Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Colorado at Boulder (USA).

He has performed several shorter visits to international research institutions, collaborating with colleagues that are co-authors of some of his publications.

His research interests focus on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), specifically: Human-Centered Design (HCD), End-User Development (EUD), Adaptive Interfaces, Adaptive Multimedial and Multimodal Interaction, Interplay between Human-Computer Interaction and Software Engineering and, more recently, Secure software analysis and design.

He is, or has been, involved in the design, development and evaluation of software frameworks and methodologies for applying End-User Development in various domains and context, included ambient intelligence applied to the smart home.

He is author and co-author of more 100 papers published in journals, international conferences and collections.

He has collaborated to the network of excellence on End-User Development “EUD-Net IST-2001-37470”, funded by the European Community, of which the Department of Computer Science of the University of Bari has been managing node. He also collaborated to other projects: IST-1999-12641 “FAIRWIS - Trade Fair Web-based Information Services” (during 2000-2001) and IST-2001-34290 “FairsNet - On-line Solutions for Trade Fairs” (during 2002-2003), funded by the European Community; DE_VISU project (during 2001-2002), funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research.

He is an Expert Member, WG Coordinator, and Websites Coordinator of the IFIP TC13 International Federation for Information Processing IFIP Technical Committee on Human–Computer Interaction (IFIP TC13), an international committee of 30 member national societies and eleven Working Groups, representing specialists in human factors, ergonomics, cognitive science, computer science, design, and related disciplines. He is on the Steering Committee of the International Symposium on End-User Development IS-EUD and has been on the Steering Committee of EUSSET, a European networked organizational forum dedicated to the development of technological tools and infrastructures that incorporate a human-centred design perspective.

He has been involved in the scientific organization of several conferences:

Full Papers Co-Chair of the 19th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction INTERACT 2023, York, UK, 2023.
Full Papers Co-Chair of the 18th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction INTERACT 2021, Bari, Italy, 2021.
Long Paper Co-Chair of the 16th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter (CHItaly), Vietri sul Mare (SA), Italy, 2025.
Program Co-Chair of the Third International Symposium on End User Development IS-EUD 2011, Torre Canne (Brindisi), Italy, 2011.
Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair of the 11th Biannual Conference on Italian SIGCHI Chapter (CHItaly), Rome, Italy, 2015.
Poster Co-Chair of the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, Bari, Italy, 2016.
Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair of the fifth International Symposium on End User Development IS-EUD 2017, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2017.

He served as Associate Chair (AC) in the Program Committee of many International Conferences:

INTERACT 2019 - International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Paphos, Cyprus.
INTERACT 2017 - International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Mumbai, India.
INTERACT 2015 - International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Bamberg, Germany.
ACM AVI 2022 - International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, Frascati, Rome, Italy.
ACM AVI 2020 - International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, Ischia Island, Italy.
ACM AVI 2018 - International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, Castiglione della Pescaia, Grosseto, Italy.
ACM NordiCHI 2020, online.
ECIS 2019 - European Conference on Information Systems, Associate Editor della track “Contemporary Socio-Technical Perspectives”, Stockholm, Sweden.
ECIS 2018 - European Conference on Information Systems, Associate Editor track “Socio-technical Change: a Dialectic among Individuals, Technologies and Social Contexts”, Portsmouth, UK.

He served in the Program Committee of many International Conferences:

INTERACT - IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2007.
AVI - International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, 2014, 2016.
HEALTHINF - International Conference on Health Informatics, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.
SEKE - International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019.
DMS - International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015.
DMSVLSS - International DMS Conference on Visual Languages and Sentient Systems, 2016.
DMSVIVA - International DMS Conference on Visualization and Visual Languages, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023.
EICS - The ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020.
ESEM - International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2021.
HCSE - Working Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering, 2020, 2021, 2022.
MUM - Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, 2019.
CHSI - International Conference on Human System Interaction, 2010.
IS-EUD - International Symposium on End-User Development, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023.
COOP - International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, 2016.
ISAMI - International Conference on Ambient Intelligence, 2018.
CHItaly - Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023.
WIVACE - Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation, 2015.
KITA - International Workshop on the design, development and use of Knowledge IT Artifacts in professional communities and aggregations, 2015.
DIDAMATICA 2012.
EUD4Services - Workshop on End-User Development of Software Services and Applications, 2010.
Special track on Multimedia Software Engineering at DMS’2008.

He is one of the founders and Co-Chairs of the seven editions of the International Workshop on Culture of Participation in the Digital Age (CoPDA), 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. Other Co-chairs are Prof. Gerhard Fischer, University of Colorado, US, Prof. Anders Morch, University of Oslo, Norway and Prof. Daniela Fogli, University of Brescia, Italy.

He is one the founders and Co-Chairs of the International Workshop on Participatory Design & End-User Development – Building Bridges PDEUD 2024, 2024 held in conjunction with NordiCHI conference, Uppsala, Sweden. He is one of the founders and Co-Chairs of the International Workshop on Human Factors in Software Development Processes (HuFo), 2016 and 2017.

He is member of ACM (Association of Computing Machinery), IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), ACM SIGCHI (ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction) and SIGCHI Italy){:target=”_blank”} (the Italian Chapter of ACM SIGCHI).

Currently, he is teaching Software Engineering, a basic course for undergraduates in Computer Science at the University of Bari, and Cloud Computing for graduate students in Computer Science at the University of Bari. He taught several courses for both undergraduate and graduate Computer Science curricula, for undergraduate Business Economics curricula, and for the PhD Program in Computer Science.

He has been the supervisor of about 70 bachelor’s and master’s theses, has supervised one PhD student, and was and is on the evaluation committee of several PhD students.