Fabio Paternò
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Fabio Paternò is Research Director and Head of the Laboratory on Human Interfaces in Information Systems at Institute of Information Science and Technologies, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
The Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche or National Research Council, is an Italian public organization set up to support scientific and technological research. Its headquarters are in Rome.-History:The institution was founded in 1923...
in Pisa
Pisa
Pisa is a city in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the right bank of the mouth of the River Arno on the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa...
, Italy.
He wrote one book on Model-Based Design and Evaluation of Interactive Applications, and has long been working on model-based
Model-based specification
Model-based specification is an approach to formal specification where the system specification is expressed as a system state model. This state model is constructed using well-understood mathematical entities such as sets and functions...
languages and tools for design, development or evaluation of interactive systems
Interactive Systems Engineering
Interactive systems engineering is considered as an interdisciplinary field with computer engineering, systems engineering, interaction design, software development, aesthetic, ethnography, psychology and usability factors involved...
. He has also investigated novel solutions for End-User development and for designing and supporting multi-device user interface
User interface
The user interface, in the industrial design field of human–machine interaction, is the space where interaction between humans and machines occurs. The goal of interaction between a human and a machine at the user interface is effective operation and control of the machine, and feedback from the...
s.
He has been active in World Wide Web Consortium
World Wide Web Consortium
The World Wide Web Consortium is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web .Founded and headed by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations which maintain full-time staff for the purpose of working together in the development of standards for the...
(W3C) Groups on Model-based User Interfaces.
He is the chair of the International Federation for Information Processing
International Federation for Information Processing
The International Federation for Information Processing is an umbrella organization for national societies working in the field of information technology. It is a non-governmental, non-profit organization with offices in Laxenburg, Austria...
's WG 2.7/13.4 group on user interface engineering.
In 2010 he has been appointed a Distinguished Scientist of the Association for Computing Machinery
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
(ACM).
He has been a member of the Programme Committee of the main international HCI conferences, including Papers Co-Chair of the ACM
ACM
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CHI 2000 conference , IFIP INTERACT 2003 and IFIP INTERACT 2005, and chair of Mobile HCI 2002, and EICS 2011.