Luigi Spagnolo

Design, development and testing of the UI and restful APIs for applications supporting crisis management and risk assessment (Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen, CRITECH action)

Courses (Prof. Nicoletta Di Blas): Communication and society, Information and Communication quality (held in English), Elementi di scienze della Comunicazione (in Italian), M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Como. Activities: lectures on exploratory user experiences, classification, data visualization, communicative aspects of search engines optimization. Class and individual tutoring for the final project. Co-advisor for several bachelor and master theses in the same field.

Involved since 2007 in the HOC-lab research group at the Politecnico di Milano, PhD student from 2009 to 2013. Research interests: Exploratory user experiences, information architecture, data visualization, interaction design, HCI, usability, social web and collaborative applications.

Involvement in a research team (Logical Information Systems, supervisor Prof. Sebastien Ferré) in the field of knowledge management, for research on semantic faceted search. Design and development of advanced navigation and visualization patterns for communication-intensive exploratory user experiences, based on rich internet applications and evolved faceted search engines, as well as on my previuos and current research on search-enhanced information architectures.