Mazza, Riccardo

University of Lugano
Facluty of Communication Sciences
Facluty of Informatics

Academic Grade

Ph.D in Communication Sciences, Universita della Sivzzera Italiana/ University of Lugano (Switzerland). Title of the dissertation „Using Information Visualisation to Facilitate Instructors in Web-based Distance Education“ Promoted in June 2004

Graduated in Computer Science, University of Pisa, 1997

Postgraduate specialisation in Information Technologies, Centro Cefriel - Milano, 1997

CV

Current Employment

Universitá della Svizzera Italiana/ University of Lugano, faculty of Communication Sciences: PostDoc researcher and teaching assistant
Universitá della Svizzera Italiana/ University of Lugano, faculty of Informatics: PostDoc teaching assistant
Telos Internet Solutions SAGL, founding partner

Research Interest

Information Visualization
Student modelling and external graphical representations in distance education

Current Research Projects

PENG - Personalized News Content Programming
Official Peng Project Homepage

Viz.ch
The Fundamental Programming Modules

List of Publications

Because there are so many publications of Riccardo Mazza, you can find the full list here.

Awards

2004 - Best Alternate Tracks Paper Award
Riccardo Mazza, Vania Dimitrova. Visualising Student Tracking Data to Support Instructors in Web-Based Distance Education. In: 13th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2004) - Educational Track. New York May 17-22.

1998 - “1st Silicon-Cray Award”
supported by Silicon Graphics Italia & Cray Research. Special mention for the work with title: "Un sistema per il riconoscimento di comandi gestuali".

External Links

Personal Homepage
University of Lugano
University of Pisa
Centro Cefriel - Milano