University of Limerick

Faculty Member, Computer Science and Information Systems

Lecturer

About

Dr. Luigina Ciolfi is lecturer in Interaction Design in the Dept. of Computer Science and Information Systems, and senior researcher at the Interaction Design Centre at the University of Limerick, Ireland. She has also served as Course Director for the B.Sc. in Digital Media Design from 2006 to 2010, a new undergraduate programme she designed and implemented in collaboration with department colleagues.

She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Limerick and a Laurea in Communication Sciences (summa cum laude), from the University of Siena (Italy), specialising in Human-Machine Interaction.

Luigina's research is concerned with the design of technologies to support human interaction within the physical space, based on an understanding of the relationship between people, activities and their locales. During the past number of years, she has developed a conceptual framework for place-centred design, incorporating socio-scientific sensitivities for understanding the human experience of space and place into Interaction Design practice. She studies a variety of domains including museums and other heritage sites, urban environments, transitional spaces and placemaking "on the move" by nomadic workers.

She is skilled in qualitative fieldwork, design methodologies and theories underpinning the study of human practices in context.

She has participated in a number of national and international research projects, including “SHAPE-Situating Hybrid Assemblies in Public Environments”, “HIPS - Hyper Interaction Within Physical Space”, "Shared Worlds" and "NomadS". She is currently co-leading a PRTLI-funded project on the topic of "Nomadic Work/Lives in the Knowledge Economy", in collaboration with the Dept. of Sociology at UL.

Luigina has published extensively in the areas of human-computer interaction and interaction design, as well as having organised a number of international workshops on the topic of museum technologies, ubiquitous computing and mobile work. She is the co-editor of a special issue of the Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Journal on "Settings fro Collaboration: the Role of Place".

Luigina currently serves as Associate Editor and Book Review Editor for the Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Journal, and is member of the programme committee of several international conferences. Current roles include Associate Chair for ACM CSCW (she has also served as Demos co-chair for the CSCW 2010 and 2012 Conferences); Associate Chair for ACM DIS 2012; Workshops co-chair for ACM GROUP 2012; Program committee member for ACM TEI, PDC,ECSCW, COOP, ACM GROUP among others.

She is a member of ACM SIGCHI and a funding member current Secretary of SigCHI Ireland, the British HCI Group and ADI-the Italian PhDs Association.

At the University of Limerick, she teaches a variety of subjects within the human-centred computing field to undergraduates and postgraduates in Digital and Interactive Media, Computer Science, New Media and English and Computer Games Development students.

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