Fabio Paternò is Research Director and Head of the Laboratory on Human Interfaces in Information Systems at

Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione The "Alessandro Faedo" Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (''Institute of Information Science and Technologies'') is an institute of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). The institute is located in the CNR research area in ...

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in Pisa,

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Career

He received his PhD in Computer Science from University of York (UK). He wrote one book on ''Model-Based Design and Evaluation of Interactive Applications'', and has long been working on

user interface modeling User interface modeling is a development technique used by computer application programmers. Today's user interfaces (UIs) are complex software components, which play an essential role in the usability of an application. The development of UIs req ...

languages, and tools for design, development or evaluation of

interactive systems Interactive Systems Corporation (styled INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, abbreviated ISC) was a US-based software company and the first vendor of the Unix operating system outside AT&T, operating from Santa Monica, California. It was founded in 19 ...

. In the field of

Task analysis Task analysis is the analysis of how a task is accomplished, including a detailed description of both manual and mental activities, task and element durations, task frequency, task allocation, task complexity, environmental conditions, necessary cl ...

he developed the ConcurTaskTrees notation for specifying task models, which has inspired the W3C document on Task Models. He then worked on the TERESA and

MARIA XML MARIA (Model-based lAnguage foR Interactive Applications) is a universal, declarative, multiple abstraction level, XML-based user interface markup language for modelling interactive applications in ubiquitous environments. MARIA one of the l ...

languages for the logical description of multi-device user interfaces. He has also investigated novel solutions for End-User development in various contexts. He coordinated a European Network of Excellence (EUD-net), co-edited (together with Henry Lieberman from MIT, and Volker Wulf from University of Siegen) one of the best-known books on End User Development (widely cited), and carried out various research studies in the area. He has actively worked at the design of various authoring environments and tools, such as Puzzle for intuitively editing interactive applications from a smartphone, a mashup tool for creating new Web applications by composing existing components using the familiar copy-paste interaction across them, and an environment for specifying trigger action rules able to personalize Internet of Things applications. He has addressed research issues related to multi-device environments by proposing original solutions for migratory and cross-device user interfaces, which allow seamless access through a variety of devices ranging from wearable to large public displays, and dynamic allocation of interactive components across them. He also edited and wrote part of a book on Migratory Interactive Applications for Ubiquitous Environments. He has been co-chair of the

World Wide Web Consortium The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. Founded in 1994 and led by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations that maintain full-time staff working ...

(W3C) Group on Model-based User Interfaces. He has been the chair of the

International Federation for Information Processing The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) is a global organisation for researchers and professionals working in the field of computing to conduct research, develop standards and promote information sharing. Established in 196 ...

's WG 2.7/13.4 group on user interface engineering. He has been a member of the Programme Committee of the main international HCI conferences, including Papers Co-Chair of the ACM CHI 2000 conference, IFIP INTERACT 2003 and IFIP INTERACT 2005, and chair of

MobileHCI The Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI) is a leading series of academic conferences in Human–computer interaction and is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI, the Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction. MobileHCI has b ...

2002, EICS 2011, Ambient Intelligence 2012, ACM EICS 2014, Mobile HCI 2016, MUM 2019, and ACM IUI 2020

Awards

In 2009 he was appointed a Distinguished Scientist of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He has been awarded the IFIP Silver Core in 2013, and the TC13 Pioneer in HCI in 2014.,, IFIP Fellow in recognition of substantial and enduring contributions in the ICT field in 2020, and has been elected in the ACM SIGCHI Academy in 2021.SIGCHI Academy
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