Patrizia GrifoniPatrizia Grifoni has been a researcher of the National Research Council of Italy since 1990, where she works within the staff researchers of MultiModal Laboratory of the Institute of Research on Population and Social Policies. She received her degree in Electronics Engineering at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. From 1994 to 2000 she was a professor of "Elaborazione digitale delle immagini" at the University of Macerata.She is the author of more than 70 papers in international journals, books and conferences. She served as referee of several international conferences, books and journals and is co-organiser of international research workshops and events. Her scientific interests have evolved from query languages for statistical and geographic databases to human-computer interaction, multimodal interaction and languages, visual languages, visual interfaces, sketch-based interfaces, web technologies, social networks. She was responsible of several projects funded by Italian and International Institutions. Read More Read Less