Education
* 2016 PhD in Computer Science, University of Bologna
* 2013 ISDC - EIT ICT Labs Summer School, Intelligent Services for Digital Cities
* 2013 BISS - Bertinoro International Spring School
* 2011 MSc degree (with honors) in Computer Science , University of Bologna
* 2008 BSc degree in Computer Science, University of Bologna
Past Experiences
*2021-2024 (Senior) Assistant professor at the University of Bologna, Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
* 2018-2021 (Junior) Assistant professor at the University of Bologna, Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
* 2017-2018 Post-doc Research at ARDITI - Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação, Tecnologia e Inovação. Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, in the CIVITAS-DESTINATIONS European Project, in the field of Urban Mobility with knowledge and experience on behavioral change in the context of Urban Mobility.
* 2017-2018 Post-doc fellow at Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (M-ITI), LARSYS Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
* 2016-2017 Adjunct Professor of the “Web technologies” course, in the Computer science and engineering Bachelor degree, Campus of Cesena, University of Bologna* 2016 Research assistant in TIME (Integrated Technology for Electric Mobility), a project funded by the Emilia Romagna region and that involves different departments of the University of Bologna
* 2015-2016 Adjunct Professor of the “Web applications and systems” course, in the Computer science and engineering Master degree, Campus of Cesena, University of Bologna.
* 2015 Visiting PhD Student at Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
* 2015 Research assistant in Sensing Smar City, project at Smart City Lab, University of Bologna, Cesena
* 2014 Visiting PhD Student at Interactive Technologies Institute (M-ITI), Madeira, PT
* 2013–2014 Teaching assistant in Operating Systems course, University of Bologna, Cesena
* 2013–2014 Research assistant in Accessibility Smart City project at Smart City Lab, University of Bologna, Cesena
* 2012–2013 Teaching assistant in Operating Systems course, University of Bologna, Cesena
* 2011–2014 Tutor for MSc and BSc thesis in Computer Science, University of Bologna, Cesena
* 2011–2014 Google Summer of Code Mentor for the Inclusive Design Institute (Canada)
* 2012 Research assistant in OERTest project, University of Bologna, Bologna
* 2010–2011 Tutor for students with disabilities, University of Bologna, Bologna
Awards and acknowledgments
* 2022 Best Work-in-progress award (WIP: Are all the flowers the same? A Citizen Science mobile app for increasing awareness about insect pollinators) NES2022 workshop, Co-Located with the 42nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2022)
* 2019 Honourable Mention Pictorial (Pictorial: See the World Through the Eyes of a Child: Learning from Children Cognitive Maps for the Design of Children-Targeted Locative Systems) ACM Designing Interactive Systems 2019 (DIS 2019)
* 2019 Best Pictorial Award (Pictorial: Towards Locative Systems for, and by, Children: A Cognitive Map Study of Children's Perceptions and Design Suggestions) The 12th conference on Creativity & Cognition (C&C 2019)
* 2017 Best Paper Audience Award (Paper: "Enhancing Sustainable Mobility Awareness by Exploiting Multi-sourced Data: the Case Study of the Madeira Islands") The Fifth IFIP Conference on Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability (SustainIT 2017)
* 2017 Best Demo Audience Award (Paper: "ViTFlow: a platform to visualize tourists flows in a rich interactive map-based interface") The Fifth IFIP Conference on Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability (SustainIT 2017)
* 2016 Best Creative Solution Award (Paper: "MecWilly in your pocket: On evaluating a mobile serious game for kids") IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (IEEE ISCC 2016)
* 2014 Google Student Award (Paper: "Accessibility and smart data: the case study of mPASS") ACM International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A 2014), funded by Google
* 2011 Best Paper Award (Paper: "Augment browsing and standard profiling for enhancing web accessibility") ACM International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A 2011). ACM
Organization of conferences and related activities (more recent activities):
Dal 2024, Catia Prandi è Professoressa associata, al Dipartimento di Informatica - Scienza e Ingegneria, Università di Bologna.
Nel 2020 ha conseguito l’abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale di seconda fascia, per il Settore Concorsuale 01/B1 Informatica, e nel 2025 l’abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale di prima fascia per il settore concorsuale 09/H1 Sistemi di Elaborazione delle Informazioni.
Formazione
* 2016 Dottorato in Informatica, Università di Bologna
* 2013 ISDC - EIT ICT Labs Summer School, Intelligent Services for Digital Cities
* 2013 BISS - Bertinoro International Spring School
* 2011 Laurea Magistrale in Informatica, Università di Bologna
* 2008 Laurea Triennale in Scienze di Internet, Università di Bologna
Partecipazione alle attività di un gruppo di ricerca caratterizzato da collaborazioni a livello nazionale o internazionale
* Febbraio 2024 - oggi: Coordinatore scientifico del progetto "REALIZZAZIONE DEL PROGETTO DIGITAL TWIN PER AUMENTARE LA SOSTENIBILITÀ, LA CONSAPEVOLEZZA E LATTRATTIVITÀ DI AREE DINTERESSE NATURALISTICO E TURISTICO (DISCOV.ER)", finanziamento PR FESR 2021-2027 PRIORITA 1 AZIONE 1.1.2 (Regione Emilia Romagna).
* Settembre 2023 - oggi: Co-PI e coordinatore unità locale del progetto "Improving digital wellbeing with and for teens: a gamified and personalized intelligent system", finanziamento “Fondo per il Programma Nazionale di Ricerca e Progetti di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale" (PRIN 2022).
*Gennaio 2021 - oggi: UniBo leader del progetto H2020 FET-proactive Environmental Intelligence, SMARTLAGOON (https://www.smartlagoon.eu/)
* Gennaio 2017- Giugno 2018: Post-doc researcher ad ARDITI (Madeira, Portugal) nell'ambito del progetto H2020 CiViTAS DESTINATIONS (http://civitas.eu/destinations), che coinvolge sei isole con lo scopo di investigare e testare soluzioni innovative per turismo e mobilita', considerati fattori chiave per lo sviluppo sostenibile di destinazioni turistiche dove il turismo ha effetti rilevanti non solo sull'economia, ma anche sull'ambiente. In particolare, sono responsabile di due misure relative a Madeira, ovvero: (i) Gamification and gameful experince as a way to induce behavioural change in Mobility e (ii) Smart metering/sensing and user generated content to improve planning and mobility services.
* Gennaio 2017- Giugno 2018: Post-doc fellow a Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (M-ITI), dove sono membro del gruppo di ricerca Sense and Tell - Making Sense of Complex Data through Storytelling and Interactive Media. Inoltre, i miei interessi di ricerca sono in particolar modo relativi a due aree (impact cases): Geographic HCI e Interactive Storytelling and Gaming.
* 2016 Assegnista di ricerca presso Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca Industriale (CIRI) ICT dell'Università di Bologna, nel progetto "Tecnologia Integrata per la Mobilita' Elettrica (TIME)", progetto finanziato nell'ambito del "Bando per progetti di ricerca industriale strategica rivolti agli ambiti prioritari della Strategia di Specializzazione Intelligente" della Regione Emilia-Romagna, POR-FESR 2014-2020 ASSE 1 Ricerca e Innovazione Azione 1.2.2: Supporto alla realizzazione di progetti complessi di attivita' di ricerca e sviluppo su aree tematiche di rilievo e all'applicazione di soluzioni tecnologiche funzionali alla realizzazione della strategia di S3.
* 2015 Visiting PhD student a Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), The Open University (Milton Keynes, UK) dove ho collaborato alle attività di ricerca inerenti al progetto MK:Smart, An innovation programme developing sustainable smart solutions for Milton Keynes (http://www.mksmart.org).
* 2011–2012 Assegnista di ricerca all'interno del progetto europeo OERTest, progetto di 2 anni finanziato da Programma Lifelong Learning della commissione Europea. in collaborazione con il dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione, Università di Bologna.
Attivita' di didattica/tutoring
* 2022 Titolare del corso di INGEGNERIA DEI SISTEMI WEB (6 cfu), Laurea in Tecnologie dei sistemi informatici, Cesena
* 2021-oggi Titolore del modulo 2 di WEB AND MOBILE SYSTEMS, Laurea Magistrale in Digital transformation management, Cesena
* 2021 Titolare del corso di PROGRAMMAZIONE (CL.B) (12 cfu), Laurea in Ingegneria e scienze informatiche, Cesena
* 2019-oggi Titolare del corso di Programmazione di sistemi mobile (6 cfu), Laurea in Ingegneria e scienze informatiche, Cesena
* 2018 Titolare del modulo 2 del corso APPLICAZIONI E SERVIZI WEB, Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria e scienze informatiche, Cesena
* 2018 Titolare del modulo 2 del corso FONDAMENTI DI INFORMATICA A, Laurea in Ingegneria elettronica per l'energia e l'informazion, Cesena
* 2017-oggi Correlatore di tesi di studenti del Master in Information Systems and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa
* 2016-2017 Professore a contratto, Modulo del corso di Tecnologie Web, Laurea in Ingegneria e scienze informatiche, Cesena, Università di Bologna
* 2016 Core Faculty per l' Executive Master in Digital Business, Bologna Business School
* 2015-2016 Professore a contratto, Modulo del corso di Sistemi e Applicazioni Web, Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria e scienze informatiche
* 2015-2016 Tutor del corso di Tecnologie Web, Ingegneria e Scienze Informatiche, Cesena, Università di Bologna
* 2014-2015 Tutor del corso di Sistemi Operativi, Laurea in Ingegneria e Scienze Informatiche, Cesena, Università di Bologna
* 2013–2014 Tutor del corso di Sistemi Operativi, Laurea in Ingegneria e Scienze Informatiche, Cesena, Università di Bologna
* 2012–2013 Tutor del corso di Sistemi Operativi, Laurea in Scienze e Tecnologie Informatiche, Cesena, Università di Bologna
* 2012–2013 Mentor per il Google Summer of Code di progetti in collaborazione con l'Inclusive Design Institute (Canada)
* 2011–2016 Correlatore per tesi magistrali e triennali in Scienze e Tecnologie Informatiche, Informatica, Università di Bologna
* 2011–2012 Mentor per il Google Summer of Code di progetti in collaborazione con l'Inclusive Design Institute (Canada)
* 2010–2011 Tutor per studenti con disabilità, Università di Bologna
Premi e riconoscimenti per l'attività scientifica
* 2022 Best Work-in-progress award (WIP: Are all the flowers the same? A Citizen Science mobile app for increasing awareness about insect pollinators) NES2022 workshop, Co-Located with the 42nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2022)
* 2019 Honourable Mention Pictorial (Pictorial: See the World Through the Eyes of a Child: Learning from Children Cognitive Maps for the Design of Children-Targeted Locative Systems) ACM Designing Interactive Systems 2019 (DIS 2019)
* 2019 Best Pictorial Award (Pictorial: Towards Locative Systems for, and by, Children: A Cognitive Map Study of Children's Perceptions and Design Suggestions) The 12th conference on Creativity & Cognition (C&C 2019)
* 2017 Best Paper Audience Award (Paper: "Enhancing Sustainable Mobility Awareness by Exploiting Multi-sourced Data: the Case Study of the Madeira Islands") The Fifth IFIP Conference on Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability (SustainIT 2017)
* 2017 Best Demo Audience Award (Paper: "ViTFlow: a platform to visualize tourists flows in a rich interactive map-based interface") The Fifth IFIP Conference on Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability (SustainIT 2017)
* 2016 Best Creative Solution Award (Paper: "MecWilly in your pocket: On evaluating a mobile serious game for kids") IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (IEEE ISCC 2016)
* 2014 Google Student Award (Paper: "Accessibility and smart data: the case study of mPASS") ACM International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A 2014), funded by Google
* 2011 Best Paper Award (Paper: "Augment browsing and standard profiling for enhancing web accessibility") ACM International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A 2011). ACM
Coinvolgimento nell'organizzazione delle seguenti conferenze:
* 2025 ICIDS [https://icids2025.ardin.online/], Track chair, Malta
* 2025 CHItaly, Doctoral Consortium Chair, Italy
* 2025 ECSCW 2025, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Cultures & Translation Chair
* 2025 ACM TEI 2025, Proceedings chair, 04-07.03.2025, Bordeaux , France
* 2025 ACM DIS 2025, Demo chair, Funchal, Madeira 5-9 July 2025
* 2024 AC and 2AC for MobileHCI 2024
* From 2023 to June 2024, AC for Volunteers support at SIGCHI EC (executive committee).
* 2024 ECSCW 2024 General Chair, 17-21 June 2024, Rimini, Italy
* 2024 Workshop chair at ACM AVI 2024, Workshop on "Digital Wellbeing for Teens: Designing Educational Systems (DIGI-Teens)", Arenzano (Genova, Italy) & online - June 4, 2024
* 2023 ACM GoodIT 2023 General Chair, 6-8 September 2023, Lisbon, Portugal
* 2023 AC and 2AC for MobileHCI 2023
* 2023 Publication chair at CHItaly 2023 [https://chitaly2023.it/]
* 2022 Workshop chair at ACM SIGCOMM 2022 Workshop on Networked Sensing Systems for a Sustainable Society (NET4us 2022) NET4us [https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2022/workshop-net4us.html]
* 2022 Doctoral School Chair, ACM MUM 2022 [https://mum-conf.org/2022/], 27-30 November 2022
* 2022 Program Chair, ACM GoodIT 2022, 7-9 September 2022
* 2022 AC and 2AC for DIS 2022 [https://dis.acm.org/2022/]
* 2022 Publication Chair, ACM TEI 2022, 13-16 February 2022
* 2021 Special Track Chair, ACM GoodIT 2021, 9-11 September 2021, Rome, Italy.
* 2021 Workshop Chair, ACM CHItaly 2021 (the Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter), 11-13 July, 2021, Bolzano, Italy.
* 2021 Senior PC member, The Web Conference 2021, Track: User experience and Accessibility, 19-23 April, 2021, Slovenia.
* 2020 Track chair, track "Interactive Narrative Impact and Application", International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS), 3-6 Novembre 2020, Bournemouth, UK.
* 2020 TPC Chair, 1st Workshop on Experiences with the Design and Implementation of Frugal Smart Objects, MobiCom 2020 (The 26th Annual International Conference on
* 2020 General Chair, 6th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good (GoodTechs 2020). September 14-15, 2020. Antwerp, Belgium.
* 2020 TPC Chair, 2nd International Workshop on Social (Media) Sensing (SMS’20), ISCC 2020 (the 25th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications), 7th July, 2020. Rennes, France.
* 2020 Program Chair, 4rd IEEE International Workshop on Accessible Devices and Services (ADS’20), nell’ambito della 17th IEEE Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE CCNC 2020), Las Vegas (Nevada, USA).
* 2019 General Chair, International Workshop on Emerging Smart Technologies and Infrastructures for Smart Mobility And Sustainability (SMAS ’19), nell’ambito di The 25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2019), 21-25 ottobre, Los Cabos, Mexico.
* 2019 Local Arrangement Chair: 5th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good (GoodTechs 2019) per l’edizione 2019, 25-27 Settembre 2019, Valencia (Spagna).
* 2019 Chair della Special Session "Smart Moving": 5th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good (GoodTechs 2019) per l’edizione 2019, 25-27 Settembre 2019, Valencia (Spagna).
