Fabio Pittarello

Fabio Pittarello

Partner
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

pitt@unive.it

Fabio Pittarello is Associate Professor in Computer Science at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
He has a multidisciplinary background that includes a master’s degree in architecture and a PhD in computer science at the University of Bologna.

His research interests include all the theoretical and practical aspects of HCI and information visualization, for different paradigms that include desktop and mobile interaction, virtual and augmented reality, tangible and ubiquitous interaction. Information accessibility is a transversal research interest started from accessible web design and then widened to other paradigms.
The application fields of his research span through different fields, including design, humanities, arts and environmental sciences.
Collaboration with private and public institutions (La Biennale di Venezia, Regione Veneto, Palazzo Grassi) has been often part of his research path for experimenting solutions in the real world. 
He has been one of the founding members of the first academic spin-off of the Ca’ Foscari of Venice.

He has written more than 100 peer-reviewed papers published in the proceedings and scientific journals related to his research field.
His contribution to the research community includes the contribution to the organization of scientific conferences and workshops and his reviewer activity for several conferences and scientific. 

He has been involved in a number of research programs at a national and international level. Currently he is PI, for the University Ca’ Foscari 
of Venice, for the three-years H2020 European Project Bauhaus of the Sea Seals.

Concerning education, he has a long teaching experience in the field of HCI, UX and information design, which includes courses for the bachelor and master in Computer Science and the master in Digital and Public Humanities at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, the bachelor and master in New Technologies for the Art at the Fine Arts Academy of Venice, the bachelor in Design at the IUAV University of Venice.