Francesco Gabbanini’s research while affiliated with Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences and other places

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Publications (25)


An innovative framework to support multimodal interaction with Smart Environments
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February 2012

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11 Citations

Expert Systems with Applications

Francesco Gabbanini

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Interaction with future coming Smart Environments requires research on methods for the design of a new generation of human–environment interfaces. The paper outlines an original approach to the design of multimodal applications that, while valid for the integration on today’s devices, aims also to be sufficiently flexible so as to remain consistent in view of the transition to future Smart Environments, which will likely be structured in a more complex manner, requiring that interaction with services offered by the environment is made available through the integration of multimodal/unimodal interfaces provided through objects of everyday use. In line with the most recent research tendencies, the approach is centred not only on the user interface part of a system, but on the design of a comprehensive solution, including a dialogue model which is meant to provide a robust support layer on which multimodal interaction builds upon. Specific characteristics of the approach and of a sample application being developed to validate it are discussed in the paper, along with some implementation details.


Universal Access in Ambient Intelligent Environments: A Research Agenda

July 2011

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

In this position paper the information society is supposed to emerge as some form of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) environment. On the basis of the results of the DfA@eInclusion project, it is maintained that this development asks for a different approach to the solution of inclusion problems, i.e. the Design for All (or Universal Design) approach. The main lines of research and development activity to be carried out in order to contribute to the development of an inclusive AmI environment are then pointed out.


Adaptations Based on Ontology Evolution as a Mean to Exploit Collective Intelligence

July 2011

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3 Citations

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

The paper discusses new possible facets regarding the concept of adaptation, focused on allowing users to intervene in the process by having the possibility both to insert new data and to alter the structure of ontological knowledge bases which contain adaptation determinants. The approach is based on the exploitation of the synergy between Web 2.0 and Semantic Web and may give the opportunity to obtain more personalized, comprehensive and tailored service to all users, by allowing user communities to model a domain of interest and to develop it according to their interests. The paper discusses background ideas and gives technical details of an example implementation of a software component designed to perform ontology evolution based on the analysis of contributions expressed by users of a service in natural language.


Accessibility of electronic information: Perspectives and challenges

January 2011

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Assistive Technology Research Series

Objective. An analysis of issues relevant to electronic information accessibility with respect to the evolution of ICT and the social development. Main Content. The technological and social evolution in the field of electronic information is extremely fast and deep and is going to heavily modifying the way we generate and enjoy information. Moreover Internet is changing its nature from provider of contents to repositories of interactive applications and from the social point of view, the users are no more clearly distinct from producer of information. From a theoretical point of view all these changes can be faced by WAI Guidelines, but the focus is in accomplishing a personalized and optimized experience. For a strong and concrete impact on users new perspectives must be introduced at industrial level. A support in this innovative process can come from standard organizations, such as ISO, which are improving its effort to address at least accessibility in their standards. Lastly the technical evolution can lead to cope with accessibility problem from the wider perspective of Design for All but at present these approaches seem too difficult to be integrated in the mainstream developing process. In the short term different solutions coming from social phenomena can be evaluated. The fast growth of Web 2.0 if correctly used could be an important resource in cooperating a personalized and optimized user experience. Results. A list of topics of interest is provided to stimulate the discussion in the accessibility to ICT area. Conclusion. In this paper ICT accessibility analysis is not limited to the activities about conformance to guidelines available, but takes into account the technological and social evolution in order to identify a number of elements of interest which can give a positive contribution toward a faster solution of the problem. This is also in line with the e-Inclusion definition, given by Riga declaration ("e-Inclusion" means both inclusive ICT and the use of ICT to achieve wider inclusion objectives).


A General Approach to Exploit Aspects of Intelligence on the Web .

January 2011

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This contribution discusses the architecture of a software system that can be adopted to leverage the characteristics of Web 2.0 and Semantic Web, in order to make efficient usage of information. Key aspects on the implementation of a reusable framework are discussed, and the effectiveness of the approach is illustrated in an example scenario, in the context of inclusive e-Tourism.


Technological developments and design for all

January 2011

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Assistive Technology Research Series

Objective The paper summarises activities carried out in the DfA@eInclusion (Design for All for eInclusion) Coordination Action, active from 2007 to 2009, set up to support EDeAN (the European Design for All eAccessibility Network-www.edean.org), by performing an in depth analysis of the on-going technological developments, of the use of the DfA approach to influence the development for the emergence of an inclusive environment, and of the corresponding necessary research activities. Main Content. One of the barriers to be overcome for the uptake of DfA is the insufficient penetration of the concept in the communities that are or could be active in the e-Inclusion sector. Therefore, the project was mainly on "education", i.e. in structuring information and transferring it to the relevant stakeholders: end users, professionals in eInclusion, university students and designers in industry. According to this general approach the present paper refers to the production of "educational documents" about on-going technological developments and necessary research, in order to start the diffusion of DfA ideas. Results. A set of deliverables have been produced as D2.1 "Report on the impact of technological developments on eAccessibility", which discusses the present situation and the possible impact of the on-going technological developments in ICT on the inclusion of people with activity limitations, and D2.6 "Document on necessary research activities related to DfA", which is not a list of research topics but as document for people wanting to learn how to contribute to the field. This information is structured according to the foreseeable short, medium, and long term impact of the new technology. Conclusion. At the end of the project it is possible for professionals to have information about the present situation and possible developments in the short and long term as described in the present paper, for Universities to have materials for education in the field at the undergraduate and Master's levels, and for industry to have guidelines for training courses. The Resource Centre (ARIADNE) contains organised resources to support education and training and to reach more specialist and in-depth knowledge, when necessary.


Fig. 3 A simple hotel booking service modeled through AIUs (a) and its automatic implementation on a PDA/smartphone (b) and on a simple phone (c)
Table 3 Heuristic violations
Table 4 Problems sorted in accordance with their severity and in relation to the number of mentions from the experts
A unified methodology for the evaluation of accessibility and usability of mobile applications
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November 2010

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This article reports a unified methodology developed to evaluate the accessibility and usability of mobile computing applications, which is intended to guarantee universal access as far as possible. As a basis for the methodology, this paper presents an analysis of the accessibility guidelines, conducted to take into account the specificity of mobile systems, as well as a set of usability heuristics, specifically devised for mobile computing. Finally, it presents the results of the application of the proposed methodology to applications that have been semi-automatically developed by the MAIS Designer, a new design tool that provides applications suited to different mobile devices.

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Towards the Convergence of Web 2.0 and Semantic Web for E-Inclusion

July 2010

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5 Citations

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

The paper discusses a research approach to achieve the “wider inclusion objectives” reported in the second part of the Riga declaration. The approach is based on the convergence of two forms of intelligence on the web, given by Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web. While Web 2.0 encompasses social phenomena, often undervalued in the field of e-Inclusion (exchange and collection of large amount of information), Semantic Web is designed for interlinking and reusing structured information. The paper outlines a software architecture for the exploitation of the above concepts and gives an example of a possible application built on top of the architecture, in the domain of inclusive e-Tourism, enlightening benefits that come by the adoption of the approach, with respect to current trip planning systems.


Intelligence on the Web and e-Inclusion

July 2009

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Within the context of Web, the word intelligence is often connected with the visions of Semantic Web and Web 2.0. One of the main characteristic of Semantic Web lies in the fact that information is annotated with metadata and this gives the opportunity of organizing knowledge, extracting new knowledge and performing some basic operations like query answering or inference reasoning. Following this argument, the advent of the Semantic Web is often claimed to bring about substantial progress in Web accessibility (which is part of the e-Inclusion concept). Web 2.0 sites, favoring massive information sharing, could as well be of great importance for e-Inclusion, enabling new forms of social interaction, collective intelligence and new patterns of interpersonal communication. Benefits could be substantial also for people with activity limitations. The paper tries to highlight the possible roles and convergence of Web 2.0 and Semantic Web in favoring e-Inclusion. It highlights the fact that examples of applications of these concepts to the e-Inclusion domain are few and limited to the e-Accessibility field.


Citations (14)


... This 3-step process has been modelled using classes that are structured according to the UML diagram inFigure 1. When reading this paper, it is to be noted that references are sometimes made to classes and interfaces which inFigure 1 are contained within the box named Annotation System (top left corner ofFigure 1): for a more detailed description of them, the interested reader should refer to Gabbanini (2010). The central point of the relation identification and extraction process is represented by the SimpleRelationExtractor class, which is able to process a corpus of text documents, extract terms and relate them to terms contained in a given reference terms set, by using relation manager objects, described later on in the report. ...

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Exploiting web resources for the identification of relations between concepts: a Java based implementation and case study
On a Java based implementation of ontology evolution processes based on Natural Language Processing
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  • September 2010

... Currently there is no indepth literature review of mobile app development models in peer-reviewed literature. The currently existing reviews only focus on models that are based on agile methods, e.g., Corral et al. (2013b), Corral et al. (2013a) and Flora and Chande (2013), or investigate other aspects linked to mobile apps, e.g., verification and validation of apps (Sahinoglu et al., 2015) and mobile software ecosystems (De Lima Fontao et al., 2015). Our review aims to identify mobile application models that have been proposed, evaluated and validated as reported in peer-reviewed literature, regardless of whether the models are based on agile methods or not. ...

Mobile Information Systems
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  • January 2006

... It was approved for international use in May 2001 and has its own ontology. Besides, the ICF classification has been used to model the interaction between humans and devices within the context of the information society [17]. ...

A Classification, Based on ICF, for Modelling Human Computer Interaction

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

... Design for All "Design for All" is a similar notion to universal design, but its focus and origins are more closely related to the development of technologies that are usable by all (Burzagli, et al., 2009), as opposed to the built environment. It is not intended to be a design approach to develop a single solution for everybody, but instead as a user-centred approach to providing products that can automatically address the possible range of needs, as such is it often characterized as a "Swiss army knife" approach to design (Nordby, 2004). ...

Design for All in action: An example of analysis and implementation
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  • March 2009

Expert Systems with Applications

... These new environments bring about several risks, yet they also bear the potential to effectively address old and new accessibility issues and requirements, due to their technological richness. In particular, the abundance of interactive and distributed devices can result in a relaxed and enjoyable interaction, employing multimodal interfaces, thus providing for each user those interaction modes that are more natural and suitable (Burzagli, Emiliani, & Gabbanini, 2007). Other benefits ensured by these new environments include the possibility of task delegation to the environment and its agents, which can reduce physical and cognitive strain, as well as the breadth of applications and services that will be available, addressing a wide variety of domains that are critical for the disabled and older users. ...

Ambient Intelligence and Multimodality
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  • July 2007

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

... Another factor is the actual physical environment. Studies have shown that the environmental impact on how people are performing and how much it can affect them is extremely important [22], [29]. The proposed design concept of workspace aims to modify and improve traditional way of implementing the knowledge work. ...

Is the Intelligent Environment Smart Enough?
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  • July 2007

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

... Joomla has a demonstrated capability for being utilized by non-technical users in content creation (Sharma, Sirtaj, 2009), and can be helpful for facilitating accessibility (Burzagli, 2008). It also is commonly viewed as one of the "top" CMS systems, relative to Drupal, based on a variety of factors, including available modules and extensions (Giri, Nirgude, 2009). ...

Using Web Content Management Systems for Accessibility: The Experience of a Research Institute Portal
  • Citing Conference Paper
  • July 2008

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

... Information providers, in this case the CMS users, are not usually aware of the need for creating accessible content, and the tools do not provide information to support users in this feature. Furthermore, CMS do not usually enforce users in aspects that should be taken into account in order to generate accessible Web content [12]. Related with these aspects, there are important threats regarding accessibility specific to CMS environments. ...

The Use of Current Content Management Systems for Accessibility
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  • January 2004

Lecture Notes in Computer Science