Maria Francesca Costabile

Author: Maria Francesca Costabile

Maria Francesca Costabile is full professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Bari, Italy, where she teaches human-computer interaction and other courses for the computer science curriculum. Formerly, she worked as assistant professor at the University of Calabria, Italy from 1981 to 1988, and as associate professor at the University of Bari from 1989 to 1999. She is currently the coordinator of the Computer Science Curriculum of the University of Bari at Brindisi.

She has been visiting scientist in several foreign universities, including Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA; University of Munster, Germany; University of Bonn, Germany; University of Houston, TX, USA; Rutgers University, NJ, USA; University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Her research interests were initially in image analysis, segmentation of time-varying images, shape matching, computer vision. Her current research interests are in human-computer interaction, interaction design, mobile systems, usability engineering, information visualization, visual analytics, end-user development. Cultural heritage is one of the main application domains currently being investigated. She has published over one hundred fifty papers in scientific journals, books and proceedings of international conferences on the above topics, and edited seven books, published by ACM Press and Springer.
Prof. Costabile is regularly in program committees of international conferences and workshops. She is in the Steering Committee of the Advanced Visual Interfaces Conference (AVI), organized every two years in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI. She is in the Steering Committee of Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing Conference, organized every year in cooperation with IEEE. She has been Program Co-Chair of CHI 2008, the most important international conference on HCI, Program Co-Chair of Interact 2005 and Program Chair of AVI 2004. She is General Co-Chair of the third International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2011) that will be in Torre Canne (Brindisi), Italy in June 2011.

She is senior member of IEEE and member of ACM; she is a founding member of the Italian Chapter of ACM SIGCHI, and served as Chair from 1996 to 2000.

Publications

Publication period start: 2010
Number of co-authors: 64

Co-authors

Number of publications with favourite co-authors
Rosa Lanzilotti
14
Piero Mussio
18
Stefano Levialdi
22

Productive Colleagues

Most productive colleagues in number of publications
Mary Czerwinski
80
Margaret M. Burnett
103
Fabio Paterno
126

Publications

Costabile, Maria Francesca, Ardito, Carmelo, Lanzilotti, Rosa (2010): Enjoying cultural heritage thanks to mobile technology. In Interactions, 17 (3) pp. 30-33. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1744161.1744169

Catarci, Tiziana, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Mussio, Piero (2007): Introduction. In J. Vis. Lang. Comput., 18 (5) pp. 455-457. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvlc.2007.10.001

Ardito, C., Costabile, Maria Francesca, Marsico, M. De, Lanzilotti, R., Levialdi, Stefano, Roselli, T., Rossano, V. (2006): An approach to usability evaluation of e-learning applications. In Universal Access in the Information Society, 4 (3) pp. 270-283. https://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&issn=1615-5289&volume=4&issue=3&spage=270

Costabile, Maria Francesca, Fogli, Daniela, Lanzilotti, Rosa (2006): Supporting Work Practice Through End-User Development Environments. In JOEUC, 18 (4) pp. 43-65. https://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=3818

Costabile, Maria Francesca, Fogli, Daniela, Fresta, Giuseppe, Mussio, P., Piccinno, Antonio (2004): Software Environments for End-User Development and Tailoring. In Psychnology, 2 (1) pp. 99-122. https://www.psychnology.org/File/PSYCHNOLOGY_JOURNAL_2_1_COSTABILE.pdf

Angeli, Antonella De, Matera, M., Costabile, Maria Francesca, Garzotto, F., Paolini, P. (2003): On the Advantages of a Systematic Inspection for Evaluating Hypermedia Usability. In International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 15 (3) pp. 315-335.

Costabile, Maria Francesca, Malerba, Donato (2003): Editor's foreword. In J. Vis. Lang. Comput., 14 (6) pp. 499-501. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvlc.2003.08.001

Costabile, Maria Francesca, Fogli, D., Fresta, G., Mussio, P., Piccinno, A. (2002): Computer Environments for Improving End-User Accessibility. In: Carbonell, Noelle, Stephanidis, Constantine (eds.) Proceedings of the 7th ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All October 23-25, 2002, Paris, France. pp. 129-140.

Bottoni, P., Costabile, Maria Francesca, Levialdi, Stefano, Matera, M., Mussio, P. (2000): Trusty Interaction in Visual Environments. In: Emiliani, Pier Luigi, Stephanidis, Constantine (eds.) Proceedings of the 6th ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All October 25-26, 2000, Florence, Italy. pp. 12. https://ui4all.ics.forth.gr/UI4ALL-2000/files/Long_papers/Bottoni.pdf

Bottoni, Paolo, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Levialdi, Stefano, Mussio, Piero (1999): On Orders in Visual Interaction. In J. Vis. Lang. Comput., 10 (4) pp. 343-380.

Bottoni, Paolo, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Levialdi, Stefano, Mussio, Piero (1998): Specifying Dialog Control in Visual Interactive Systems. In J. Vis. Lang. Comput., 9 (5) pp. 535-564.

Catarci, Tiziana, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Levialdi, Stefano, Batini, Carlo (1997): Visual Query Systems for Databases: A Survey. In J. Vis. Lang. Comput., 8 (2) pp. 215-260.

Bottoni, P., Costabile, Maria Francesca, Levialdi, Stefano, Mussio, P. (1996): A Visual Approach to HCI. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 28 (3) pp. 50-55. https://www.acm.org/sigchi/bulletin/1996.3/levialdi.html

Catarci, Tiziana, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Massari, A., Saladini, L., Santucci, G. (1996): A Multiparadigmatic Environment for Interacting with Databases. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 28 (3) pp. 89-96. https://www.acm.org/sigchi/bulletin/1996.3/catarci.html

Catarci, Tiziana, Costabile, Maria Francesca (1996): Visual Query Systems. In J. Vis. Lang. Comput., 7 (3) pp. 243-245.

Catarci, Tiziana, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Matera, Maristella (1995): Which Metaphor for Which Database?. In: Kirby, M. A. R., Dix, Alan J., Finlay, Janet E. (eds.) Proceedings of the Tenth Conference of the British Computer Society Human Computer Interaction Specialist Group - People and Computers X August, 1995, Huddersfield, UK. pp. 151-165.

Catarci, Tiziana, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Matera, Maristel la (1995): Visual Interaction Design: Visual Metaphors for Interacting with Databases. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 27 (2) pp. 15-17.

Catarci, Tiziana, Costabile, Maria Francesca (1995): Introduction to the Special Issue on Visual Query Systems. In J. Vis. Lang. Comput., 6 (1) pp. 1-2.

Costabile, Maria Francesca, Missikoff, Michele (1994): Iconit: an Environment for Design and Prototyping of Iconic Interfaces. In J. Vis. Lang. Comput., 5 (2) pp. 151-174.

Chang, Shi-Kuo, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Levialdi, Stefano (1993): Modeling Users in an Adaptive Visual Interface for Database Systems. In J. Vis. Lang. Comput., 4 (2) pp. 143-159.

Ardito, Carmelo, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Marsico, Marilena De, Lanzilotti, Rosa, Levialdi, Stefano, Plantamura, Paola, Roselli, Teresa, Rossano, Veronica, Tersigni, Manuela (2004): Towards Guidelines for Usability of e-Learning Applications. In: Proceedings of the 8th ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All , 2004, . pp. 185. https://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&issn=0302-9743&volume=3196&spage=185

Buono, Paolo, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Guida, S. P., Lanzilotti, R., Piccinno, A. (2003): Improving Web Interaction through Personalization. In: Stephanidis, Constantine (eds.) Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction June 22-27, 2003, Crete, Greece. pp. 522-526.

Costabile, Maria Francesca, Fogli, D., Letondal, C., Mussio, P., Piccinno, A. (2003): Domain-Expert Users and their Needs of Software Development. In: Stephanidis, Constantine (eds.) Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction June 22-27, 2003, Crete, Greece. pp. 532-536.

Costabile, Maria Francesca (1999): A methodology for usability evaluation. In: , 1999, . pp. 833-837.

Costabile, Maria Francesca, Angeli, Antonella De, Pittarello, F., Ardito, C. (2003): Can Audio Help Navigating in Virtual Environments? An Experimental Ecaluation. In: Proceedings of IFIP INTERACT03: Human-Computer Interaction , 2003, Zurich, Switzerland. pp. 733.

Ardito, C., Buono, Paolo, Costabile, Maria Francesca (2005): The Challenge of Visualizing Patient Histories on a Mobile Device. In: Proceedings of IFIP INTERACT05: Human-Computer Interaction , 2005, . pp. 942-945. https://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/11555261_75

Ardito, Carmelo, Buono, Paolo, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Lanzilotti, Rosa (2006): Two different interfaces to visualize patient histories on a PDA. In: Proceedings of 8th conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services , 2006, . pp. 37-40. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1152215.1152223

Catarci, Tiziana, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Levialdi, Stefano, Santucci, Giuseppe (eds.) Proceedings of 2nd ACM Workshop on Advanced Visual Interfaces AVI94 1-4 June, 1994, Bari.

Costabile, Maria Francesca, Paterno, Fabio (eds.) INTERACT 2005 , 2005, Rome, Italy.

Burnett, Margaret M., Costabile, Maria Francesca, Catarci, Tiziana, Ruyter, Boris de, Tan, Desney S., Czerwinski, Mary, Lund, Arnold (eds.) Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, CHI 2008 5-10 April, 2008, Florence, Italy.

Costabile, Maria Francesca, Angeli, Antonella De, Lanzilotti, Rosa, Ardito, Carmelo, Buono, Paolo, Pederson, Thomas (2008): Explore! possibilities and challenges of mobile learning. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008, . pp. 145-154. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1357054.1357080

Ardito, Carmelo, Buono, Paolo, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Lanzilotti, Rosa (2006): Two different interfaces to visualize patient histories on a PDA. In: Nieminen, Marko, Roykkee, Mika (eds.) Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services - Mobile HCI 2006 September 12-15, 2006, Helsinki, Finland. pp. 37-40. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1152215.1152223

Bottoni, Paolo, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Levialdi, Stefano, Mussio, Piero (2001): From user notations to accessible interfaces through visual languages. In: Stephanidis, Constantine (eds.) HCI International 2001 - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction August 5-10, 2001, New Orleans, USA. pp. 252-256.

Costabile, Maria Francesca, Roselli, Teresa, Lanzilotti, Rosa, Ardito, Carmelo, Rossano, Veronica (2007): A Holistic Approach to the Evaluation of E-Learning Systems. In: Stephanidis, Constantine (eds.) Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Applications and Services, 4th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, UAHCI 2007 Held as Part of HCI International 2007 Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007 Proceedings, Part July 22-27, 2007, Beijing, China. pp. 530-538. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73283-9_59

Costabile, Maria Francesca, Fogli, Daniela, Lanzilotti, Rosa, Marcante, Andrea, Mussio, Piero, Provenza, Loredana Parasiliti, Piccinno, Antonio (2007): Meta-design to Face Co-evolution and Communication Gaps Between Users and Designers. In: Stephanidis, Constantine (eds.) UAHCI 2007 - 4th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction - Part 1 July 22-27, 2007, Beijing, China. pp. 46-55. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73279-2_6

Costabile, Maria Francesca, Marsico, Marilena De, Lanzilotti, Rosa, Plantamura, Vito Leonardo, Roselli, Teresa (2005): On the Usability Evaluation of E-Learning Applications. In: HICSS 2005 - 38th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 3-6 January, 2005, Big Island, HI, USA. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HICSS.2005.468

Bottoni, Paolo, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Fogli, Daniela, Levialdi, Stefano, Mussio, Piero (2001): Multilevel Modelling and Design of Visual Interactive Systems. In: HCC 2001 - IEEE CS International Symposium on Human-Centric Computing Languages and Environments September 5-7, 2001, Stresa, Italy. pp. 256-263. https://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/hcc/2001/0474/00/04740256abs.htm

Bottoni, Paolo, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Levialdi, Stefano, Piccinno, Antonio (2002): Towards Formal Measures of Usability for Visual Interactive Systems. In: HCC 2002 - IEEE CS International Symposium on Human-Centric Computing Languages and Environments 3-6 September, 2002, Arlington, VA, USA. pp. 188-197. https://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/hcc/2002/1644/00/16440188abs.htm

Costabile, Maria Francesca, Angeli, Antonella De, Matera, Maristella (2001): Guiding Usability Evaluators During Hypermedia Inspection. In: HCC 2001 - IEEE CS International Symposium on Human-Centric Computing Languages and Environments September 5-7, 2001, Stresa, Italy. pp. 332-333. https://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/hcc/2001/0474/00/04740332abs.htm

Costabile, Maria Francesca, Fogli, Daniela, Fresta, Giuseppe, Mussio, Piero, Piccinno, Antonio (2003): Building environments for end-user development and tailoring. In: HCC 2003 - IEEE Symposium on Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments 28-31 October, 2003, Auckland, New Zealand. pp. 31-38.

Bottoni, Paolo, Chang, Shi-Kuo, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Levialdi, Stefano, Mussio, Piero (1998): On the Specification of Dynamic Visual Languages. In: VL 1998 , 1998, . pp. 14-21.

Bottoni, Paolo, Chang, Shi-Kuo, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Levialdi, Stefano, Mussio, Piero (1999): Dimensions of Visual Interaction Design. In: VL 1999 , 1999, . pp. 48-. https://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/vl/1999/0216/00/02160048abs.htm

Bottoni, Paolo, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Levialdi, Stefano, Mussio, Piero (1995): Formalising Visual Languages. In: VL 1995 , 1995, . pp. 45-. https://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/vl/1995/7045/00/70450045abs.htm

Bottoni, Paolo, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Levialdi, Stefano, Mussio, Piero (1996): Visual Conditional Attributed Rewriting Systems in Visual Language Specification. In: VL 1996 , 1996, . pp. 156-163.

Bottoni, Paolo, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Levialdi, Stefano, Matera, Maristella, Mussio, Piero (2000): Principled Design of Visual Languages for Interaction. In: VL 2000 , 2000, . pp. 145-155. https://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/vl/2000/0840/00/08400145abs.htm

Bottoni, Paolo, Levialdi, Stefano, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Mussio, Piero (1997): From Visual Language Specification to Legal Visual Interaction. In: VL 1997 , 1997, . pp. 238-245.

Batini, Carlo, Catarci, Tiziana, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Levialdi, Stefano (1991): Visual Strategies for Querying Databases. In: VL 1991 , 1991, . pp. 183-189.

Chang, Shi-Kuo, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Levialdi, Stefano (1994): Reality Bites - Progressive Querying and Result Visualization in Logical and VR Spaces. In: VL 1994 , 1994, . pp. 100-109.

Cinque, Luigi, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Levialdi, Stefano, Missikoff, Michele (1990): Towards a Formal Specification Methodology for Iconic Interface Design. In: VL 1990 , 1990, . pp. 149-155.

Costabile, Maria Francesca, Fogli, Daniela, Fresta, Giuseppe, Mussio, Piero, Piccinno, Antonio (2004): Virtual Workshops for Human-Centric Computing. In: VL-HCC 2004 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 26-29 September, 2004, Rome, Italy. pp. 65-68. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2004.62

Costabile, Maria Francesca, Fogli, Daniela, Mussio, Piero, Piccinno, Antonio (2005): A Meta-Design Approach to End-User Development. In: VL-HCC 2005 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 21-24 September, 2005, Dallas, TX, USA. pp. 308-310. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2005.7

Buono, Paolo, Ardito, Carmelo, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Lanzilotti, Rosa, Piccinno, Antonio (2006): DAE: a Visualization-Based System for Data Analysis. In: VL-HCC 2006 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 4-8 September, 2006, Brighton, UK. pp. 147-150. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2006.19

Ardito, Carmelo, Buono, Paolo, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Lanzilotti, Rosa, Pederson, Thomas (2007): Mobile games to foster the learning of history at archaeological sites. In: VL-HCC 2007 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 23-27 September, 2007, Coeur dAlene, Idaho, USA. pp. 81-86. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2007.40

Angeli, Antonella De, Matera, Maristella, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Garzotto, Franca, Paolini, Paolo (2000): Validating the SUE Inspection Technique. In: Advanced Visual Interfaces 2000 , 2000, . pp. 143-150.

Catarci, Tiziana, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Levialdi, Stefano, Santucci, Giuseppe (eds.) AVI 1996 - Proceedings of the workshop on Advanced visual interfaces May 27-29, 1996, Gubbio, Italy.

Costabile, Maria Francesca (eds.) AVI 2004 - Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces May 25-28, 2004, Gallipoli, Italy.

Catarci, Tiziana, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Santucci, Giuseppe, Tarantino, Laura (eds.) AVI 1998 - Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces May 24 - 27, 1998, LAquila, Italy.

Costabile, Maria Francesca, Piccinno, Antonio, Fogli, Daniela, Marcante, Andrea (2006): Supporting interaction and co-evolution of users and systems. In: Celentano, Augusto (eds.) AVI 2006 - Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces May 23-26, 2006, Venezia, Italy. pp. 143-150. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1133265.1133294

Costabile, Maria Francesca, Mussio, Piero, Provenza, Loredana Parasiliti, Piccinno, Antonio (2008): Advanced visual systems supporting unwitting EUD. In: Levialdi, Stefano (eds.) AVI 2008 - Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces May 28-30, 2008, Napoli, Italy. pp. 313-316. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1385569.1385621

Ardito, Carmelo, Buono, Paolo, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Lanzilotti, Rosa (2006): Systematic inspection of information visualization systems. In: Bertini, Enrico, Plaisant, Catherine, Santucci, Giuseppe (eds.) BELIV 2006 - Proceedings of the 2006 AVI Workshop on BEyond time and errors novel evaluation methods for information visualization May 23, 2006, Venice, Italy. pp. 1-4. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1168149.1168163

Ardito, Carmelo, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Lanzilotti, Rosa (2009): Enhancing user experience while gaming in archaeological parks with cellular phones. In: Proceedings of ACM IDC09 Interaction Design and Children , 2009, . pp. 270-271. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1551788.1551851

Degemmis, Marco, Lops, Pasquale, Semeraro, Giovanni, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Licchelli, Oriana, Guida, Stefano (2004): A Hybrid Collaborative Recommender System Based on User Profiles. In: ICEIS 2004 , 2004, . pp. 162-169.

Costabile, Maria Francesca, Ruyter, Boris de, Mehandjiev, Nikolay, Mussio, Piero (2010): End-user development of software services and applications. In: Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces , 2010, . pp. 403-404. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1842993.1843078

Costabile, Maria Francesca, Mussio, Piero, Provenza, Loredana Parasiliti, Piccinno, Antonio (2009): Supporting End Users to Be Co-designers of Their Tools. In: Pipek, Volkmar, Rosson, Mary Beth, Ruyter, Boris E. R. de, Wulf, Volker (eds.) End-User Development - 2nd International Symposium - IS-EUD 2009 March 2-4, 2009, Siegen, Germany. pp. 70-85. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00427-8_5

Ardito, Carmelo, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Lanzilotti, Rosa, Simeone, Adalberto Lafcadio (2010): Sharable Multitouch Screens in Cultural Heritage and Tourism Applications. In: Hundhausen, Christopher D., Pietriga, Emmanuel, Diaz, Paloma, Rosson, Mary Beth (eds.) IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2010 21-25 September 2010, 2010, Leganés-Madrid, Spain. pp. 271-272. https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2010.54