People-Centered Computing Lab

The People-Centered Computing Lab at the Faculty of Informatics of the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) was established in 2021 and is led by Prof. Silvia Santini and Prof. Marc Langheinrich.

Key Research Areas

The group is primarily active in four different research areas: Smart Sensing Systems, Human Computer Interaction, Security and Privacy, and Mobile and Wearable Computing. 

About Us

You can find more information about our goals and projects on our research pages, as well as by perusing our list of publications. Current and prospective students might want to take a look at the courses offered by members of the group.

Our Research

Smart Sensing Systems

Miniature sensors promise to revolutionize the way our systems can understand our current context..

Human Computer Interaction

Computer systems must be useful, usable, and attractive to use. How can we design them in this fashion? 

Security and Privacy

How can we ensure personal data is used in accordance with one’s preferences?

Mobile and Wearable Systems

What are effective and efficient ways to build and maintain mobile and wearable systems?

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News

Shkurta on USI’s Speaker’s Corner

Shkurta on USI’s Speaker’s Corner

Dec 29, 2020

Group member Shkurta Gashi’s research has been featured on Lugano’s Speakers’ Corner program, an initiative that promotes concrete projects to raise awareness on digital issues by enhancing skills in the area.

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Recent Publications

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Courses

Computer Networking

The Internet provides global connectivity for applications and end-users. This course aims to convey an understanding of, on the one hand, how common distributed applications such as the world-wide web use the network (the Internet), and, on the other hand, how the network is designed and how it provides its services to applications.

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Software Atelier 2: Human Computer Interaction

' = 'Inactive'"]Class is inactive.Goal of the course is to provide students with theoretical and practical knowledge of human-centered design of interfaces for computing systems. The course starts with an introduction to ethics that investigates the many ways and venues information and communication technologies can be used maliciously. The course moves on to introduce the concept of user-centred design to produce usable, useful and used tools. The different stages from ideation to paper prototyping are covered in theory and practice. Teaching Mode Theoretical concepts will be provided through instructor-led lectures. Theory will be put to good use in practice, by ...

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Fintech Seminar

The seminar featured speakers from a range of backgrounds (practitioners and researchers, entrepreneurs and representatives from large financial institutions) offering insights into the current trends and topics in Fintech. Students used a set of references as a starting point for an in-depth term paper on a topic covered by a speaker, and completed the report with additional information from the speaker’s presentation.

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Ubiquitous Computing Lab

The goal of this class is to provide a hands-on introduction to ubiquitous computing applications. It is meant to be taken in conjunction with the Ubiquitous Computing lecture, which will provide the theoretical background. Topics covered are: Embedded Systems programming (Arduino) Mobile programming (Android) RFID The students work in teams to build a ubiquitous computing application consisting of sensing, communicating, and actuating.

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