Andrea Gaggioli

Current

• Researcher at Psychology Faculty, Catholic University of Milan
• Senior Researcher at Applied Technology for Neuro-Psychology Lab, Istituto Auxologico Italiano

Past

• Researcher at Istituto Auxologico Italiano
• Research collaborator at Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering

Education

• Università degli Studi di Milano
• Faculty of Psychology University of Bologna

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Websites

• My Blog
• My University
• My Publications

Andrea Gaggioli’s Summary

I am a human-computer interaction researcher focusing on the intersection between psychology, neuroscience and emerging technologies. I am the founder of Positive Technology, a field that studies how new technologies can be used to promote mental and physical wellbeing.

Andrea Gaggioli’s Specialties:

human-computer interaction: participatory design
usability: user needs assessment, design walkthroughs, competitive/comparative analysis, heuristic evaluations, task analysis, persona creation, field studies

Andrea Gaggioli’s Experience

• Researcher

  Psychology Faculty, Catholic University of Milan

  (Research industry)

  October 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)

  General and experimental psychology: group creativity, computer-supported collaborative work

• Senior Researcher

  Applied Technology for Neuro-Psychology Lab, Istituto Auxologico Italiano

  (Research industry)

  January 2001 — Present (8 years 11 months)

  - user need analysis
  - requirements specification
  - usability evaluation
  - project management

• Researcher

  Istituto Auxologico Italiano

  (Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  2001 — 2009 (8 years )

• Research collaborator

  Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering

  (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; IAO; Research industry)

  March 1999 — January 2001 (1 year 11 months)

  - investigated the effects of immersive virtual reality on cognitive and perceptual processes
  - designed and evaluated interaction techniques in immersive virtual reality systems (CAVE system)

Andrea Gaggioli’s Education

• Università degli Studi di Milano

  Ph.D , Psychobiology , 2002 — 2005

  Activities and Societies:

  positive psychology, quality of user experience

• Faculty of Psychology University of Bologna

  Master of Science , Psychology , November 1993 — February 1999

Additional Information

Andrea Gaggioli’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My University
• My Publications

Andrea Gaggioli’s Honors:

Honourable Mention, E-europe Award for e-Health (2004) for the research carried out within the EU-funded project "VEPSY" Virtual Environments and Telemedicine for Clinical Psychology

Annual Prize of the European Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine (2005) for the development of a novel virtual reality tool for stroke rehabilitation

Italian eContent Award (2007) for the best E-Health application