Valentina Nisi
Biography
Valentina Nisi is a tenured Associate Professor in Design Thinking at IST, U. of Lisbon (Portugal), Adjunct Faculty at the HCI Institute Carnegie Mellon University (USA) and founding researcher at the Interactive Technologies Institute (ITI LARSyS). Her research encompasses Interactive Digital Storytelling, Gaming, and HCI, bringing awareness and care to pressing social and environmental issues. Spanning from Fine Arts, to Design and HCI, Valentina’s background contributes to an interdisciplinary view on sustainability and climate change issues combining a Research-through- Design approach with post-humanistic concerns. Her most recent funded research Project deal with the participation and preservation of various forms of heritage through storytelling and gaming.
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2022
Passive Wi-Fi monitoring in the wild: a long-term study across multiple location typologies Journal Article
In: Pers. Ubiquitous Comput., vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 505–519, 2022.
SeaStory: An interactive narrative using collaborative features Proceedings Article
In: IDC, pp. 633–636, ACM, 2022.
Catering for Students' Well-being during COVID-19 Social Distancing: a Case Study from a University Campus Proceedings Article
In: GoodIT, pp. 146–153, ACM, 2022.
Using Storytelling to Teach Children Biodiversity Proceedings Article
In: ICIDS, pp. 3–27, Springer, 2022.
Writing with (Digital) Scissors: Designing a Text Editing Tool for Assisted Storytelling Using Crowd-Generated Content Proceedings Article
In: ICIDS, pp. 139–158, Springer, 2022.
Addressing children and caregivers' concerns in the design of child-targeted locative systems Proceedings Article
In: MUM, pp. 100–109, ACM, 2022.
A Co-Design Method for Museums to Engage Migrant Communities with Cultural Heritage Proceedings Article
In: DRS2022: Design Research Society, 2022.
Designing mobile museum experiences for teenagers Journal Article
In: Museum Management and Curatorship, pp. 1–21, 2022.
2021
Collecting Qualitative Data During COVID-19 Proceedings
Springer, Cham, vol. 12936, 2021, ISBN: 978-3-030-85607-6.
Leveraging Transmedia storytelling to engage tourists in the understanding of the destination’s local heritage Journal Article
In: Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2021.