Giuseppe Lugano

Giuseppe Lugano

Visiting researcher at Helsinki Institute of Information Technology (HIIT)

Finland

Current
Past
  • Researcher at TeliaSonera
  • Author at Edizioni Cierre
  • former vice-president of ESN International at Erasmus Student Network International
Education
  • Jyväskylän yliopisto
  • Helsinki Institute of Information Technology (HIIT)
  • Università di Bologna
  • Università di Camerino
Connections
308 connections
Industry
Telecommunications

Giuseppe Lugano’s Summary

Five years of experience in the telecommunication industry. Eight years of experience in international organizations (Erasmus Student Network, Tsemppi and Maailma Tutuksi). My professional goal is to contribute to the development of a human-centric European Ubiquitous Network Society through high-quality research conducted in the public or private sector as consultant or project leader.

My current research is focusing on building a conceptual framework for design of mobile social software applications (MoSoSo) supporting social capital.

Giuseppe Lugano’s Specialties:

My expertise is in predicting societal trends, observing and investigating utilization of ICT in society through three dimensions of user experience: local/global, real/virtual, individual/collective.


Giuseppe Lugano’s Experience

  • Visiting researcher

    Helsinki Institute for Information Technology

    (Educational Institution; Research industry)

    February 2009Present (10 months)

    Hosted at HIIT as visiting researcher for the period February - June 2009. Working on revision of doctoral thesis related to "digital community design"

  • Blogger

    Cosix - Your Digital Lifestyle

    (Public Company; Myself Only; Internet industry)

    January 2007Present (2 years 11 months)

  • Member of International Committee

    Tecnalia

    (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    November 2005Present (4 years 1 month)

  • Full time Ph.d. student

    University of Jyvaskyla

    (Telecommunications industry)

    2005Present (4 years )

  • Alumnus of ESN International

    ESN

    (Telecommunications industry)

    1999Present (10 years )

  • Researcher

    TeliaSonera

    (Public Company; TLSN; Telecommunications industry)

    September 2004December 2008 (4 years 4 months)

    Researcher in Sonera Information Society Unit (SISU)
    - experiments, analyses and visualisation of "People's Interconnections in Mobile Social Networks"
    - utilisation of Information and Communication Technology (with a focus on mobile phones) in everyday life
    - Future Technologies

  • Author

    Edizioni Cierre

    (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

    January 2006December 2006 (1 year )

    Author of the book "Comunicazione Mobile. Nuove frontiere tra consumo, collaborazione e controllo di contenuti digitali", Collana "Diritto, Economia e Societá dell'Informazione", ISBN 978-88-7137-745-2, Cierre, 2007.

    Sito: www.cosix.it

  • former vice-president of ESN International

    Erasmus Student Network International

    (Telecommunications industry)

    20042005 (1 year )


Giuseppe Lugano’s Education

  • Jyväskylän yliopisto

    Cognitive Science 20052008

    Activities and Societies:
    Full time Phd student in Cognitive Science. Dissertation topic: "Tailoring mobile services on users' social networks"
  • Helsinki Institute of Information Technology (HIIT)

    Educational Technology 20032004

    Activities and Societies:
    Postgraduate research in the field of Educational Technology, within Cosco-Edutech research group of HIIT (http://cosco.hiit.fi/edutech/)
  • Università di Bologna

    Master , Computer Science , 19972003

    Final Mark: 103 / 110

    Thesis: "Finnish and Italian Technology in the Global Environment of EU: a Comparison of ICT Strategies in Education"

    Activities and Societies:
    - Member of Cosco-Edutech Research Group at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT (http://cosco.hiit.fi/edutech)
  • Università di Camerino

    Physics 19961997


Additional Information

Giuseppe Lugano’s Interests:

- Social Networks - Complex Networks - Context Aware Computing - Web-based Computer Supported Collaborative Learning - Knowledge Management - Intercultural Communication

Giuseppe Lugano’s Groups:

-Advisory Board Member of the Erasmus Student Network (ESN) (http://www.esn.org),
- Secretary of Tsemppi (http://www.tsemppi.com),
- Webmaster of Maailma Tutuksi ry, Cultural Association (http://www.maailmatutuksi.fi),
- Representative of foreign students at the Committee of International Affairs of the University of Helsinki for the period 2004-06

  •    User Modeling
  •    ESN Alumni
  •    COST Action 298 GOOD THE BAD CONFERENCES

Giuseppe Lugano’s Honors:

- Invited Speech at the orientation course for the international students of the University of Helsinki "Cultural Integration: Finland and the Finns seen from a foreigner perspective" (Sept.2004)
- Invited Speech at the annual meeting of the Finnish teachers of Italian in Päivolä: "The School of the Future: Finnish practices of new technologies in education" (Oct.2002)


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