Gregorio Convertino
Researcher at Xerox Research Centre Europe, France
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News	Conferences & Journals Leading the 3rd Workshops on "Large-Scale Idea Management and Deliberation Systems", following the COOP 2012 and CSCW 2012 venues Courses cochair at CHI 2013 and CHI 2012; in conference committees of CSCW 2013, ECSCW 2013, CTS 2013, CW 2013, CSCW 2012, Group 2012 Co-editor in chief of Journal on Social Media in Organizations (MITRE, USA) Recent Publications Communities & Tech. 2013: "Agora2.0: Enhancing Civic Participation through a Public Display". W ith Schiavo et al. (ex students) and Massimo Zancanaro Pervasive Health 2013: "Adding Individual Patient Case Data to The Melanoma Targeted Therapy Advisor". With Stevovic et al. (ex students) and Jeff Shrager CHI 2013: "A Timeline Visualization for Multi-Team Collaborative Planning". With Batrinca et al. (ex students) and Dorrit Billman (NASA) IJHCS "Supporting collaborative sense-making in emergency management through geo-visualization". Wu, Convertino, et al. JCSCW: Special Issue on Collective Intelligence with A. Grasso, 2012.
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Profile	I am senior researcher at the Xerox Research Center Europe (XRCE). Previously at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and contract professor at the universities of Trento (DISI) and Rome La Sapienza. I conduct research in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Collaborative Computing (or CSCW), Social Computing, and Information Visualization. See my Xerox page in Europe and a list of PARC publications.
Bio	Since 2008 I have worked at Xerox Research. 2011-2013: senior user researcher at Xerox Research Center Europe (XRCE), Work Practices Technologies group. 2008-2011: user researcher at Xerox PARC, Augmented Social Cognition group. 2012: contract professor teaching collaborative and social computing (user research) at the universities of Trento (host: prof. Fabio Casati) and La Sapienza of Rome (host: prof. Tiziana Catarci). 1998-2008: I trained and worked at PARC, IBM Research Almaden, Penn State's College of IST, Virginia Tech's Computer Science Deptartment, the ITC-IRST center in Italy, La Sapienza of Rome. In 2002 I was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship. I have a Ph.D. degree in Information Sciences & Technologies from Penn State and M.S. and equivalents of B.S. degrees from La Sapienza University of Rome in Psychology and Computer Science. I co-authored 50+ publications and 9+ patent applications. I have 10+ years of experience in human-computer interaction, UI prototyping and evaluation, collaborative computing, and social computing research. I had the opportunity to work with masters such as John M. Carroll (my PhD advisor), Mary Beth Rosson (co-advisor), Ed H. Chi (PARC manager), Peter Pirolli, Antonietta Grasso, Tom Moran, Daniela Petrelli, and Antonella De Angeli.
Projects	Over the past five years, my research at Xerox (XRCE and PARC) focused on analyzing requirements, prototyping, and systematically evaluating tools for knowledge workers in the enterprise or citizens in communities (web2.0, enterprise2.0, enterprise crowdsourcing, gov2.0). My recent projects focus on building prototypes that via novel user interfaces (for desktop, mobile, public displays) support idea management & large-scale deliberation (Innovation Cockpit at XRCE), efficient Q&A services (Q&A analytics at XRCE), or behavior change (sustainable commuting at XRCE) within enterprises or cities, or help knowledge workers by connecting email to corporate blogs and wikis (PARC's Mail2tag and Mail2Wiki) or aggregating information streams (PARC's FeedWinnower). Pre-Xerox projects have focused on CSCW applications, information visualizations, and smart mobile applications.

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