Andrea Esposito

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• Master of Science
• PhD Student at University of Bari Aldo Moro

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in modern society is heavily shifting the way that individuals carry out their tasks and activities. Employing AI-based systems raises challenges that designers and developers must address to ensure that humans remain in control of the interaction process, particularly in high-risk domains. This artic...

Trust is a critical human factor in the adoption and effectiveness of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, especially in high-risk domains such as medicine and cybersecurity. This paper introduces a novel probabilistic metric to objectively quantify trust in AI systems, using the degree of reliance on AI by human users as a proxy. The proposed met...

The integrated use of Large Language Models in IDEs has obtained increasing popularity given their outstanding performance in coding tasks. This leads to AI-powered code completion tools (CCT) that promise to improve developers’ performance, accuracy, and productivity when programming. However, designing these tools is not easy, mainly due to a lac...

Integrated Development Environments increasingly implement AI-powered code completion tools (CCTs), which promise to enhance developer efficiency, accuracy, and productivity. However, interaction challenges with CCTs persist, mainly due to mismatches between developers' mental models and the unpredictable behavior of AI-generated suggestions. This...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) spreads quickly as new technologies and services take over modern society. The need to regulate AI design, development, and use is strictly necessary to avoid unethical and potentially dangerous consequences to humans. The European Union (EU) has released a new legal framework, the AI Act, to regulate AI by undertaking...

The rapid growth in interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a significant driver of research and business activities in recent years. This raises new critical issues, particularly concerning interaction with AI systems. This article first presents a survey that identifies the primary issues addressed in Human-Centered AI (HCAI), focusing...

As software production evolves, privacy is becoming an increasingly important consideration. This is especially true as national and supranational regulations, such as GDPR, require privacy as a mandatory aspect of software development. However, challenges such as a lack of knowledge about privacy and data protection regulations hinder the adoption...

This article explores Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HCAI) in medical cytology, with a focus on enhancing the interaction with AI. It presents a human-AI interaction paradigm that emphasizes explainability and user control of AI systems. It is an iterative negotiation process based on three interaction strategies aimed to (i) elaborate the...

In an era where Artificial Intelligence (AI) permeates our lives, its impact on children raises critical considerations. This workshop aims to delve into the multifaceted realm of Human-Centered AI (HCAI) for children, exploring the transformative role of AI in fostering creative expression and inclusive learning environments. Our goal is to unite...

SERENE (uSer ExpeRiENce dEtector), also known as UX-SAD (User eXperience-Smells Automatic Detector), is a research project born in 2020, which comprises different components. As its name suggests, its primary goal is to provide a way to quickly and (semi-) automatically detect problems in the user experience of websites and web-based systems. Throu...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are becoming widespread in all aspects of society, bringing benefits to the whole economy. There is a growing understanding of the potential benefits and risks of this type of technology. While the benefits are more efficient decision processes and industrial productivity, the risks may include a potential progr...

As software production evolves, privacy is becoming an increasingly important consideration. This is especially true as national and supranational regulations, such as GDPR, require privacy as a mandatory aspect of software development. However, challenges such as a lack of knowledge about privacy and data protection regulations hinder the adoption...

As software production evolves, privacy is becoming an increasingly important consideration. This is especially true as national and supranational regulations, such as GDPR, require privacy as a mandatory aspect of software development. However, challenges such as a lack of knowledge about privacy and data protection regulations hinder the adoption...

Large Language Models (LLMs) offer numerous benefits, but they also pose threats, such as cybercriminals creating fake, convincing content such as phishing emails. LLMs are more convenient for criminals than handcrafting, making phishing campaigns more likely and more widespread in the future. To combat these attacks, detecting whether an email is...

Recent advances in deep learning and imaging technologies have revolutionized automated medical image analysis, especially in diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease through neuroimaging. Despite the availability of various imaging modalities for the same patient, the development of multi-modal models leveraging these modalities remains underexplored. This...

Tumors can manifest in various forms and in different areas of the human body. Brain tumors are specifically hard to diagnose and treat because of the complexity of the organ in which they develop. Detecting them in time can lower the chances of death and facilitate the therapy process for patients. The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and, more...

Companies are increasingly using relational databases to store their business data. In most cases, they would benefit from adopting conversational user interfaces to explore this data, allowing non-technical users to perform complex queries without the need to involve customer service or developers. This poster presents the details on the re-engine...

Phishing is a cyber-attack that is a plague in today's digital society. AI solutions are already being used to detect phishing emails, but they typically do not address the problem of explaining to users why certain emails are considered dangerous. This leads to users not understanding the risk and/or not trusting the defense system, resulting in h...

How can Human-Computer Interaction best practices and techniques improve Artificial Intelligence's reliability, safety, and trustworthiness? This is the main research question that drives my Ph.D. With a focus on humans as users of AI systems, I'm studying how AI systems can leave control to the users while still automating tasks, and I'm analyzing...

Manufacturing tools like 3D printers have become accessible to the wider society, making the promise of digital fabrication for everyone seemingly reachable. While the actual manufacturing process is largely automated today, users still require knowledge of complex design applications to produce ready-designed objects and adapt them to their needs...

Manufacturing tools like 3D printers have become accessible to the wider society, making the promise of digital fabrication for everyone seemingly reachable. While the actual manufacturing process is largely automated today, users still require knowledge of complex design applications to produce ready-designed objects and adapt them to their needs...

In recent years, Artificial Intelligence has become more and more relevant in our society. Creating AI systems is almost always the prerogative of IT and AI experts. However, users may need to create intelligent solutions tailored to their specific needs. In this way, AI systems can be enhanced if new approaches are devised to allow non-technical u...

In recent years, Artificial Intelligence has become more and more relevant in our society. Creating AI systems is almost always the prerogative of IT and AI experts. However, users may need to create intelligent solutions tailored to their specific needs. In this way, AI systems can be enhanced if new approaches are devised to allow non-technical u...

Phishing is a cyber-attack that is a plague in today's digital society. AI solutions are already being used to detect phishing emails, but they typically do not address the problem of explaining to users why certain emails are considered dangerous. This leads to users not understanding the risk and/or not trusting the defence system, resulting in h...

In recent years, Artificial Intelligence has become more and more relevant in our society. Creating AI systems is almost always the prerogative of IT and AI experts. However, users may need to create intelligent solutions tailored to their specific needs. In this way, AI systems can be enhanced if new approaches are devised to allow non-technical u...

AI models are widely used in cybersecurity to identify digital content that could be malicious. This is also the case with phishing emails: when a defense system detects a suspicious message, users are typically presented with warning dialogs that inform them of the risks. However, warnings are often designed without adequate consideration of the e...

- Title of related micro project: Making for Everyone: Interactive, voice-based support for the design of 3D objects for digital fabrication - Main take away: Creating digital modeling voice assistants for the wider society requires a systematic analysis of the widely diverging mental models of novice users. The digital fabrication revolution aims...

In an era where the “metaverse” is becoming real, Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) are undoubtedly being put under the spotlight, as highlighted by the number of companies that are trying to claim their position in this world. As part of the process of adopting these new realities, we are witnessing at a huge attempt at the digitalis...

This demo presents SERENE, a Web platform for the UX semi-automatic evaluation of websites. It exploits Artificial Intelligence to predict visitors’ emotions starting from their interaction logs. The predicted emotions are shown by interactive heatmaps overlapped to the webpage to be analyzed. The concentration of negative emotions in a specific ar...

Dementia is one of the most common diseases in the elderly and a leading cause of mortality and disability. In recent years, a research effort has been made to develop computer aided diagnosis tools based on machine (deep) learning models fed with neuroimaging data. However, while much work has been done on MRI imaging, very little attention has be...

Although User eXperience (UX) is widely acknowledged as an important aspect of software products, its evaluation is often neglected during the development of most software products, primarily because developers think that it is resource-demanding and complain about the fact that is scarcely automated. Various attempts have been made to develop tool...