Dr. Monica Landoni

Biography

Monica Landoni is a senior research fellow at the Università della Svizzera italiana in the Faculty of Informatics since January 2007. She previously served as a lecturer in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Strathclyde from 1998, and spent a sabbatical in 2005 at PARC (formerly Xerox Parc) in Palo Alto, USA. She holds a PhD in Information Science from the University of Strathclyde, obtained in 1997, and a Laurea in Information Sciences from the Università degli Studi Milan. Monica has authored over thirty papers focusing on Electronic Publishing and Hypermedia. She has been involved in various projects, including the JISC Project "EBONI" and several EU projects such as STAMP, PENG, and REVEAL-THIS. Additionally, she participates in SNSF sponsored projects like DEDUCE and HEBE, and is a member of the EUGAIN COST ACTION aimed at promoting gender balance in Informatics. Her research interests mainly encompass Information Retrieval, Electronic Publishing, and user interface design for electronic books, with additional focus on Hypertext, Hypermedia, Human-Computer Interaction, Affective Computing, Electronic Libraries, and E-learning. She also leads discussions on ethical aspects of Artificial Intelligence as part of her academic role.

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