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ACM Best Poster Award at SAC 2026

Mirko Franco, Salvatore Gatto, Matteo Noro, Lorenzo Perinello, and Claudio E. Palazzi won the Best Poster Award for the paper entitled "Crowdsensing Wayfinding for Urban Mobility Accessibility" at the ACM SAC 2026 in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Mirko Franco Earns his PhD

Following his successful thesis defense, Mirko Franco has officially earned his PhD in Brain, Mind & Computer Science. Congratulations to Mirko on this great milestone!

Visit of Prof. Stefania Serafin

We are pleased to announce that from January 19 to 22, 2026, we will host Prof. Stefania Serafin (Copenhagen hearing and balance center, Rigshospitalet). As part of the Colloquia Patavina series, Stefania Serafin will give a talk entitled โ€œThe Mathematics of Multisensory Experiences: From Musical Instruments to Accessible Virtual Worlds.

New PhD Student Joins the Lab

We welcome our new PhD student, Salvatore Gatto, who will work on digital accessibility research with a focus on mobile and web systems, multimodal interaction techniques, and inclusive user interface design.

Best Paper Award at Sense XR 2025 Conference

Our collaborator, Matteo Noro, won the Best Paper award for the paper "Virtual reality to enhance mathematical skills in children with learning difficulties: design and evaluation of NumbersPlayRoom VR."

Best Paper Award at GoodIT 2025 Conference

Our researcher, Salvatore Gatto, won the Best Paper award for the paper "An Assessment of LLM-Based Auditing and Validation for Web Accessibility."