Publications

Ferron, M., Mana, N., Mich, O., Reeves, C., & Schiavo, G. (2020). Designing Mobile Multimodal Interaction for Visually Impaired and Older Adults: Challenges and Possible Solutions. Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting, 16(2019), no. 2, December 2019, urn:nbn:de: 0009-6-348, ISSN 1860-2037.

Scanagatta, M., Ferron, M., Deppieri, G., & Marconi, A. (2020, March). IUI2020_Calibration_of_game_dynamics. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (pp. 443-453).

Farella, E., Ferron, M., Giovanelli, D., Leonardi, C., Marconi, A., Massa, P., Murphy, A.L., Nori, M., Pistore, M., & Schiavo, G. (2020). CLIMB: A Pervasive Gameful Platform Promoting Child Independent Mobility. IEEE Pervasive Magazine.

Mich, O., Schiavo, G., Ferron, M., & Mana, N. (2020). Framing the Design Space of Multimodal Mid-Air Gesture and Speech-Based Interaction With Mobile Devices for Older People. International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction (IJMHCI), 12(1), 22-41. doi:10.4018/IJMHCI.2020010102

Ferron, M., Loria, E., Marconi, A., & Massa, P. (2019). Play&Go, an Urban Game Promoting Behaviour Change for Sustainable Mobility. Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal – IxD&A, N.40, 2019, pp. 24 – 45.

Ferron, M., Leonardi, C. Massa, P., Schiavo, G., Murphy, A. L., Farella, E. (2019). ACM DL Author-ize serviceA Walk on the Child Side: Investigating Parents’ and Children’s Experience and Perspective on Mobile Technology for Outdoor Child Independent Mobility. CHI ’19 Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2019.
iconfinder_icon-17-medal_316225Best Paper Honourable mention at CHI 2019

Ferron, M., Mana, N., & Mich, O. (2019). Designing Mid-Air Gesture Interaction with Mobile Devices for Older Adults. In S. Sayago (Ed.) Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction Research with Older People (pp. 81-100). Springer.

Mana, N., Mich, O., & Ferron, M. (2019). How to Increase Older Adults’ Accessibility to Mobile Technology? The New ECOMODE Camera. In N. Casiddu, C. Porfirione, A. Monteriù, & F. Cavallo (Eds.), Ambient Assisted Living (pp. 85–98). Springer International Publishing.

Ferron, M., Mana, N., Mich, O., & Reeves, C. (2018). Design of multimodal interaction with mobile devices. Challenges for visually impaired and elderly users. In 3rd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction Theory and Applications (HUCAPP).
iconfinder_icon-17-medal_316225Selected for publication of an extended version in the Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting

Mana, N., Mich, O., & Ferron, M. (2018). Are mid-air gestures perceived as strenuous when used to interact with mobile technology by older adults?. GERONTECHNOLOGY, 17(s), 85-85.

Mana, N., Schiavo, G., Ferron, M., & Mich, O. (2018). Investigating redundancy in multimodal interaction with tablet devices for older adults. GERONTECHNOLOGY, 17(s), 183-183.

Schiavo, G., Ferron, M., Mich, O., & Mana, N. (2018). Trade-offs in the Design of Multimodal Interaction for Older Adults. In CEUR WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS (Vol. 2101, pp. 15-20).

Ferron, M., Mana, N., Mich, O., Badino, L., & Benosman, R. (2017) ACM DL Author-ize serviceDesigning, Implementing and Evaluating Mid-Air Gestures and Speech-Based Interaction. CHItaly ’17 Proceedings of the 12th Biannual Conference on Italian SIGCHI Chapter, 2017.

Schiavo, G.,  Ferron, M.,  Mana, N., Mich, O. (2017). ACM DL Author-ize serviceMobile multimodal interaction for older and younger users: exploring differences and similarities. MUM ’17 Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, 2017.

Baez, M., Far, I. K., Ibarra, F.,  Ferron, M., Didino, D., & Casati, F. (2017). Effects of online group exercises for older adults on physical, psychological and social wellbeing: a randomized pilot trial. PeerJ.

Baez, M., Ibarra, F., Far, I. K., Ferron, M., & Casati, F. (2016). Online Group-exercises for Older Adults of Different Physical Abilities. arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.05329.

Ferron, M., Mana, N., & Mich, O. (2015). ACM DL Author-ize serviceMobile for older adults: towards designing multimodal interaction. MUM ’15 Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, 2015.

Massa, P., Venturini, A., & Ferron, M. (2015). Exploiting Web Analytics Tracking for Bootstrapping a Case-based Recommender System, ENTER 2015 Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism.

Far, I. K., Ferron, M., Ibarra, F., Baez, M., Tranquillini, S., Casati, F., & Doppio, N. (2015). The interplay of physical and social wellbeing in older adults: investigating the relationship between physical training and social interactions with virtual social environments. PeerJ Computer Science, 1, e30.

Bogomolov, A., Lepri, B., Ferron, M., Pianesi, F., & Pentland, A. S. (2014, November). ACM DL Author-ize serviceDaily Stress Recognition from Mobile Phone Data, Weather Conditions and Individual Traits. MM ’14 Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Multimedia, 2014.

Bogomolov, A., Lepri, B., Ferron, M., Pianesi, F., & Pentland, A. S. (2014, March). Pervasive stress recognition for sustainable living. In Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops), 2014 IEEE International Conference on (pp. 345-350). IEEE.

Ferron, M., & Massa, P. (2013). ACM DL Author-ize serviceTranstheoretical model for designing technologies supporting an active lifestyle. CHItaly ’13 Proceedings of the Biannual Conference of the Italian Chapter of SIGCHI, 2013.

Ferron, M. (2013). Wikimemories: La costruzione della memoria collettiva del terremoto dell’Aquila in Wikipedia. In M. Farinosi & A. Micalizzi (Eds.), Netquake. Media digitali e disastri naturali. Dieci ricerche empiriche sul ruolo della rete nel terremoto dell’Aquila (139-163). Milano: Franco Angeli. (preprint paper).

Ferron, M., & Massa, P. (2013). Beyond the encyclopedia: Collective memories in Wikipedia. Memory Studies. doi: 10.1177/1750698013490590

Ferron, M., & Massa, P. (2012). ACM DL Author-ize servicePsychological processes underlying Wikipedia representations of natural and manmade disasters. WikiSym ’12 Proceedings of the Eighth Annual International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration, 2012.

Massa, P., Napolitano, M., Scrinzi, F., & Ferron, M. (2012). ACM DL Author-ize serviceWikiTrip: animated visualization over time of geo-location and gender of Wikipedians who edited a page. WikiSym ’12 Proceedings of the Eighth Annual International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration, 2012.

Ferron, M., & Massa, P. (2011). ACM DL Author-ize serviceCollective memory building in Wikipedia: the case of North African uprisings. WikiSym ’11 Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration, 2011.

Ferron, M., & Massa, P. (2011). Studying collective memories in Wikipedia. 3rd Digital Memories Conference (Prague, Czech Republic, March 14-16, 2011).

Ferron, M., & Massa, P. (2011). Wiki Revolutions: Wikipedia as a lens for studying the real-time formation of collective memories of Revolutions. International Journal of Communication, 5.

Ferron, M., Massa, P., & Odella, F. (2011). Analyzing collaborative networks emerging in Enterprise 2.0: the Taolin Platform. In Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, 10, 68–78.

Gamberini, L., Martino, F., Spagnolli, A., Baù, R., & Ferron, M. (2011). Your Team Cohesion is Low: A Systematic Study of the Effects of Social Network Feedback on Mediated Activity. HCI (18) 2011: 172-181.

Ferron, M., Frassoni, M., Massa, P., Napolitano, M., & Setti, D. (2010). An Empirical Analysis on Social Capital and Enterprise 2.0 Participation in a Research Institute. In Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM ’10). IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, 391-392.