Professor Luigina Ciolfi

I research how digital technologies mediate human interaction, and how people and groups use and experience these tools in their everyday lives. I have studied a variety of domains for technology design and use, including museums and other heritage sites, urban environments, transitional spaces such as airports, and nomadic work. I contribute to the academic fields of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW).

My current research is exploring participatory processes for the design and evaluation of digital technologies for cultural heritage; strategies and requirements for the technological support of dialogue and debate around heritage; and the complexities of mobile knowledge work, particularly when utilising collaborative digital technologies.

I hold a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Limerick, (Ireland) and a Laurea in Communication Sciences (summa cum laude) from the University of Siena (Italy) specialising in Human-Machine Interaction. Prior to joining SHU, I worked as lecturer in Interaction Design at the University of Limerick, visiting professor at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, and research assistant at the University of Siena.

 I led and participated in many national and international funded research projects, and I have authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications. I regularly review for many conference and journals, and I have been an expert scientific evaluator for research funding agencies in five countries and for the European Commission. I am an experienced supervisor and examiner of postgraduate research internationally and have been an invited speaker in ten countries.

I serve as Associate Editor and Book Review Editor for the CSCW Journal (Springer) and other notable service roles include: general chair, ECSCW 2017; Subcommittee Chair, ACM CHI 2018-2019; papers co-chair for ACM CSCW 2015; scientific co-chair COOP 2014; Associate Chair for ACM CHI 2013-2016; member of the Steering Committee of EUSSET - The European Society for Socially-Embedded Technologies, 2016-2018; member of the Steering Committee of ACM CSCW, 2017-present. I am a Senior Member of the ACM.

Business, Technology and Enterprise

Information Systems

• Communication and Computing Research Centre
• Cultural Communication and Computing Research Institute

The CultureLabs Project: https://culture-labs.eu/

From Sharing To Caring: http://sharingandcaring.eu/

Key Publications

Petrelli, D., Claisse, C., Ciolfi, L., Dulake, N., Marshall, M., & Durrant, A. (2020). Crafting Critical Heritage Discourses 
into Interactive Exhibition Design. In 2020 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'20), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 25 April 2020 - 30 April 2020. ACM: http://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376689

Journal articles

Avram, G., Ciolfi, L., Spedale, S., Roberts, D., & Petrelli, D. (2019). Co-design goes large. Interactions, 26 (5), 58-63. http://doi.org/10.1145/3348793

Avram, G., Ciolfi, L., & Maye, L. (2019). Creating tangible interactions with cultural heritage: lessons learned from a large scale, long term co-design project. CoDesign. http://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2019.1596288

Ciolfi, L., & McLoughlin, M. (2018). Supporting place-specific interaction through a physical/digital assembly. Human-Computer Interaction, 33 (5-6), 499-543. http://doi.org/10.1080/07370024.2017.1399061

Ciolfi, L., & Lockley, E. (2018). From Work to Life and back again: Examining the digitally-mediated work/life practices of a group of knowledge workers. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 27 (3-6), 803-839. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-018-9315-3

Soranzo, A., Petrelli, D., Ciolfi, L., & Reidy, J. (2018). On the perceptual aesthetics of interactive objects. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71 (12), 2586-2602. http://doi.org/10.1177/1747021817749228

Ciolfi, L. (2018). Can Digital Interactions Support New Dialogue Around Heritage? Interactions, 25 (2), 24-25. http://doi.org/10.1145/3181368

Lee, C.P., Ciolfi, L., & Randall, D. (2017). Introduction to ECSCW 2017. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 26 (4-6), 1-2. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-017-9294-9

Gray, B., Ciolfi, L., & Pinatti de Carvalho, A.F. (2017). Post-Fordist reconfigurations of gender, work and life : theory and practice. The British Journal Of Sociology, 68 (4), 620-642. http://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12267

Grönvall, E., Ciolfi, L., Avram, G., Rossitto, C., & Barkhuus, L. (2016). HCI at the boundary of work and life. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 20 (4), 481-485. http://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-016-0937-5

Ciolfi, L., & Petrelli, D. (2015). Walking and designing with cultural heritage volunteers. interactions: new visions of human-computer interaction, XXIII (1), 46-51. http://doi.org/10.1145/2848979

Ciolfi, L., & de Carvalho, A.F.P. (2014). Work practices, nomadicity and the mediational role of technology. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 23 (2), 119-136. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-014-9201-6

Ciolfi, L., Petrelli, D., Goldberg, R., Dulake, N., Willox, M., Marshall, M., & Caparrelli, F. (2013). Exploring historical, social and natural heritage: challenges for tangible interaction design at Sheffied General Cemetery. Proceedings of NODEM 2013.

Petrelli, D., Ciolfi, L., van Dijk, D., Horneker, E., Not, E., & Schmidt, A. (2013). Integrating material and digital: a new way for cultural heritage. interactions: new visions of human-computer interaction, 20 (4), 58-63. http://doi.org/10.1145/2486227.2486239

Ciolfi, L., & McLoughlin, M. (2012). Of turf fires, fine linen, and Porter cake : design for living history. ACM Interactions, 19 (5), 18-21. http://doi.org/10.1145/2334184.2334190

D'Andrea, A., Gray, B., & Ciolfi, L. (2011). Methodological challenges and innovations in mobilities research. Mobilities, 6 (2), 149-160. http://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2011.552769

Ciolfi, L., & McLoughlin, M. (2011). Challenges for the technological augmentation of open-air museums: bridging buildings, artefacts and activities. Nordisk Museologi, 1, 15-34. http://www.nordiskmuseologi.org/Indholdsfortegn/Indhold111.html

Avram, G., Ciolfi, L., & McLoughlin, M. (2010). Get connected: your museum and social media. Museum Ireland, 20, 110-120. http://www.irishmuseums.org/

Ciolfi, L., Fitzpatrick, G., & Bannon, L. (2008). Settings for collaboration: The role of place. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 17 (2-3), 91-96. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-007-9074-z

McCarthy, J., & Ciolfi, L. (2008). Place as dialogue: understanding and supporting the museum experience. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 14 (3), 247-267. http://doi.org/10.1080/13527250801953736

Ciolfi, L. (2007). Supporting affective experiences of place through interaction design. CoDesign, 3-1, 183-198. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15710880701309308

Ciolfi, L., & Bannon, L. (2007). Designing Hybrid Places: merging interaction design, ubiquitous technologies and geographies of the museum space. CoDesign, 3 (3), 159-180. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15710880701524559

Ciolfi, L., Fernstrom, M., Bannon, L., Deshpande, P., Gallagher, P., McGettrick, C., ... Shirley, S. (2007). The Shannon Portal Installation: An example of interaction design for public places. Computer, 40 (7), 64-71. http://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2007.255

Lennon, M., Bannon, L., & Ciolfi, L. (2007). Space to reflect: combinatory methods for developing student interaction design projects in public spaces. CoDesign, 2 (2), 53-69. http://doi.org/10.1080/15710880600648020

Bannon, L.J., & Ciolfi, L. (2005). Interaction Design @ IDC Limerick. IxD&A, 0, 22-29.

Ciolfi, L. (2004). Understanding spaces as places : extending interaction design paradigms. Cognition, Technology and Work, 6 (1), 37-40. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10111-003-0139-6

Conference papers

Claisse, C., Petrelli, D., Dulake, N., Marshall, M., & Ciolfi, L. (2019). Multisensory interactive storytelling to augment the visit of a historical house museum. In Proceedings of the 2018 Digital Heritage International Congress. IEEE: http://doi.org/10.1109/DigitalHeritage.2018.8810099

Giglitto, D., Ciolfi, L., Claisse, C., & Lockley, E. (2019). Bridging cultural heritage and communities through digital technologies: Understanding perspectives and challenges. The 9th International Conference on Communities & Technologies - Transforming Communities (C&T 2019), June 3--7, 2019, Vienna, Austria, 81-91. http://doi.org/10.1145/3328320.3328386

Cecchinato, M.E., Rooksby, J., Hiniker, A., Munson, S., Lukoff, K., Ciolfi, L., ... Harrison, D. (2019). Designing for digital wellbeing: A research & practice agenda. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings. http://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3298998

Ciolfi, L., & Lockley, E. (2019). Exploring flash fiction for the collaborative interpretation of qualitative data. Proceedings of the 17th European conference on computer-supported cooperative work: the international venue on practice-centred computing an the design of cooperation technologies - exploratory papers, reports of the European Society for Socially Embedded. http://doi.org/10.18420/ecscw2019_ep03

Claisse, C., Ciolfi, L., & Petrelli, D. (2017). Containers of stories: using co-design and digital augmentation to empower the museum community and create novel experiences of heritage at a house museum. The design journal, 20 (sup1), S2906-S2918. http://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2017.1352801

Maye, L., Bouchard, D., Avram, G., & Ciolfi, L. (2017). Supporting Cultural Heritage Professionals Adopting and Shaping Interactive Technologies in Museums. Proceedings of DIS 2017, ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, 221-232. http://doi.org/10.1145/3064663.3064753

Pinatti de Carvalho, A.F., Ciolfi, L., & Gray, B. (2017). Detailing a Spectrum of Motivational Forces Shaping Nomadic Practices. CSCW '17 Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 962-977. http://doi.org/10.1145/2998181.2998313

Fussell, S., & Ciolfi, L. (2016). Career Development Workshop for Recent PHDs. In 34th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, San Jose, (pp. 3363-3365). ACM: http://doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2856487

Ciolfi, L., Avram, G., Maye, L., Dulake, N., Marshall, M., van Dijk, D., & McDermott, F. (2016). Articulating co-design in museums: reflections on two participatory processes. In Gergle, D., Ringel Morris, M., Bjørn, P., & Konstan, J. (Eds.) CSCW '16 Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, (pp. 13-25). New York: ACM: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2818048.2819967

Bjørn, P.R., Ciolfi, L., Ackerman, M., Fitzpatrick, G., & Wulf, V. (2016). Practice-based CSCW Research : ECSCW bridging across the Atlantic. In 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, San Francisco, 26 February 2016 - 2 March 2016 (pp. 210-220). ACM: http://doi.org/10.1145/2818052.2893365

Fischer, J., Porcheron, M., Lucero, A., Quigley, A., Scott, S., Ciolfi, L., ... Memarovic, N. (2016). Collocated Interaction : New Challenges in 'Same Time, Same Place' Research. In 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, San Francisco, (pp. 465-472). ACM: http://doi.org/10.1145/2818052.2855522

Marshall, M., Dulake, N., Ciolfi, L., Duranti, D., Kockelkorn, H., & Petrelli, D. (2016). Using tangible smart replicas as controls for an interactive museum exhibition. In Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction, 14-17 February 2016, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, (pp. 159-167). New York, NY, USA: ACM: http://doi.org/10.1145/2839462.2839493

Petrelli, D., Soranzo, A., Ciolfi, L., & Reidy, J. (2016). Exploring the aesthetics of tangible interaction : experiments on the perception of hybrid objects. In ACM International conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI), Eindhoven University of Technology. ACM: http://doi.org/10.1145/2839462.2839478

Ciolfi, L., & Petrelli, D. (2015). Studying a community of volunteers at a historic cemetery to inspire interaction concepts. In Communities & Technologies 2015, Limerick, Ireland, 27 June 2015 - 30 June 2015. https://doi.org/10.1145/2768545.2768547

Ciolfi, L., Damala, A., Hornecker, E., Lechner, M., Maye, L., & Petrelli, D. (2015). Cultural heritage communities: Technologies and challenges. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 149-152. http://doi.org/10.1145/2768545.2768560

Ciolfi, L., & McDonald, D.W. (2015). From the papers & notes co-chairs. CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, v.

Ciolfi, L., & McDonald, D.W. (2015). From the Papers & Notes Co-Chairs. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW, 2015-January, v.

Maye, L., McDermott, F., Ciolfi, L., & Avram, G. (2014). Interactive exhibitions design – what can we learn from cultural heritage professionals? In Proceeding NordiCHI'14 Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interation : fun fast, foundational. October 26-30th 2014, Helsinki, Finland, (pp. 598-607). New York: ACM: http://doi.org/10.1145/2639189.2639259

Ciolfi, L., & Avram, G. (2014). Digital social interactions in the city: reflecting on location-based social media. In Code And The City, Maynooth, Ireland, 3 September 2014 - 4 September 2014. http://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/progcity/2014/05/workshop-code-and-the-city-3-4-september/

Ciolfi, L. (2013). The collaborative work of heritage : open challenges for CSCW. In Bertelson, O.W., Ciolfi, L., Grasso, M.A., & Papadopoulos, G.A. (Eds.) ECSCW 2013: Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, (pp. 83-101). London: Springer: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4471-5346-7_5

Ciolfi, L. (2013). The collaborative work of heritage : open challenges for CSCW. In Bertelson, O.W., Ciolfi, L., Grasso, M.A., & Papadopoulos, G.A. (Eds.) ECSCW 2013: Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, (pp. 83-101). London: Springer: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4471-5346-7_5

Ciolfi, L., Petrelli, D., Goldberg, R., Dulake, N., Willox, M., Marshall, M., & Caparrelli, F. (2013). Exploring historical, social and natural heritage: challenges for tangible interaction design at Sheffield General Cemetery. In NODEM 2013 : Beyond control - the collaborative museum and its challenges, Stockholm, Sweden, 2013 - 2013. http://repo.nodem.org/?objectId=106

Giaccardi, E., Ciolfi, L., Hornecker, E., Speed, C., Bardzell, S., Rozendaal, M., ... Hekkert, P. (2013). Explorations in Social Interaction Design. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, 2013-April, 3259-3262. http://doi.org/10.1145/2468356.2479661

Ciolfi, L., & McLoughlin, M. (2012). Designing for meaningful visitor engagement at a living history museum. In NordiCHI 2012, Copenhagen, 1 October 2012 (pp. 69-78). Association for Computing Machinery: http://doi.org/10.1145/2399016.2399028

Ciolfi, L., Gray, B., & D'Andrea, A. (2012). Social aspects of place experience in nomadic work/life practices. In COOP 2012, Marseille, France, 1 May 2012.

Keane, K., Nisi, V., & Ciolfi, L. (2012). Experience prototyping: Gathering rich understandings to guide design. Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2012, IHCI 2012, Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference Game and Entertainment Technologies 2012, 115-122.

Ciolfi, L., & McLoughlin, M. (2011). Design interventions for open-air museums: applying and extending the principles of “assembly”. In CHI 2011, Vancouver, (pp. 553-556). New York: ACM Digital Library: http://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979019

Ciolfi, L., & McLoughlin, M. (2011). Physical keys to digital memories: reflecting on the role of tangible artefacts in "Reminisce". In Museums and the Web 2011, Philadelphia, USA. http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2011/papers/physical_keys_to_digital_memories_reflecting_o

Wagner, I., Tellioǧlu, H., Balka, E., Simone, C., & Ciolfi, L. (2009). From the editors. ECSCW 2009 - Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work.

Ciolfi, L., Bannon, L., & Fernstrom, M. (2008). Including visitor contributions in cultural heritage installations: designing for participation. Museum Management and Curatorship, 23 (4), 353-365. http://doi.org/10.1080/09647770802517399

Bowers, J., Bannon, L., Fraser, M., Hindmarsh, J., Benford, S., Heath, C., ... Ciolfi, L. (2007). From the disappearing computer to living exhibitions: shaping interactivity in museum settings. In Streitz, N., Kameas, A., & Mavrommati, I. (Eds.) The Disappearing Computer, (pp. 30-49). Springer Verlag: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-540-72727-9_2?LI=true

Ciolfi, L., Bannon, L., & Fernström, M. (2007). Visitors contributions as cultural heritage: designing for participation. In ICHIM 2007, Toronto. http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/papers/ciolfi/ciolfi.html

Hall, T., Bannon, L., Ciolfi, L., Gallagher, P., Ferris, K., Mulhern, R., & Hickey, N. (2006). Enhancing children's learning in museums: A Design-Based Research Approach. ICLS 2006 - International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Proceedings, 2, 936-937.

Ciolfi, L., & Bannon, L. (2005). Space, place and the design of technologically enhanced physical environments. In Turner, P., & Davenport, E. (Eds.) Spaces, Spatiality and Technology, (pp. 217-232). London: Kluwer: http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/1-4020-3273-0/page/1

Ferris, K., Bannon, L., Ciolfi, L., Gallagher, P., Hall, T., & Lennon, M. (2004). Shaping experiences in the Hunt Museum: a design case study. roceeding DIS '04 Proceedings of the 5th conference on Designing interactive systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques, 205-214. http://doi.org/10.1145/1013115.1013144

Hall, T., Ciolfi, L., Bannon, L., Fraser, M., Benford, S., Bowers, J., ... Flintham, M. (2001). The Visitor as Virtual Archaeologist: Explorations in Mixed Reality Technology to Enhance Educational and Social Interaction in the Museum. Proceedings VAST 2001 Virtual Reality, Archeology, and Cultural Heritage, 91-96.

Benford, S., Bowers, J., Chandler, P., Ciolfi, L., Flintham, M., Fraser, M., ... Taylor, I. (2001). Unearthing virtual history: Using diverse interfaces to reveal hidden virtual worlds. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2201, 225-231.

Book chapters

Ciolfi, L. (2019). Magic as technological Utopia? Unpacking issues of interactivity and infrastructuring in the Potterverse. In Cultural Politics in Harry Potter: Life, Death and Politics of Fear. Routledge

Ciolfi, L., & Avram, G. (2016). Digital social interactions in the city: reflecting on location-based social networks. In Kitchin, R., & Perng, S.-.Y. (Eds.) Code and the city. (pp. 91-104). London & New York: Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138922112

Ciolfi, L. (2015). Embodiment and place experience in heritage technology design. In Macdonald, S., Rees Leahy, H., & Henning, M. (Eds.) The International Handbook of Museum Studies. (pp. 419-446). London: Wiley-Blackwell: http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405198508.html

Ciolfi, L., Petrelli, D., McDermott, F., Avram, G., & Van Dijk, D. (2015). Co-design to empower cultural heritage professionals as technology designers. In Bihanic, D. (Ed.) Empowering users through design : interdisciplinary studies and combined approaches for technological products and services. (pp. 213-224). Sham: Springer: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-39-13018-7

Ciolfi, L., Petrelli, D., McDermott, F., Avram, G., & Van Dijk, D. (2015). Co-design to empower cultural heritage professionals as technology designers: The meSch project. In Empowering Users through Design: Interdisciplinary Studies and Combined Approaches for Technological Products and Services. (pp. 213-224). http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13018-7_12

Hornecker, E., Honauer, M., & Ciolfi, L. (2014). Exploring historical cemeteries as a site for technological augmentation. In Albatal, R., Doyle, J., Yang, Y., Smeaton, A., & Caprani, N. (Eds.) iHCI 2014: Proceedings of the 8th Irish Human Computer Interaction Conference. (pp. 93-96). Dublin,Ireland: Dublin City University: http://ihci2014.dcu.ie/proceedings.html

Ciolfi, L. (2013). Space and place in digital technology research: a theoretical overview. In Price, S., Jewitt, C., & Brown, B. (Eds.) The SAGE handbook of digital technology research. (pp. 159-173). London: SAGE: http://www.uk.sagepub.com/booksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book236070

Ciolfi, L. (2012). Place-centred interaction design: situated participation and co-creation in places of heritage. In Ballarin, M., & Dalla Mura, M. (Eds.) Museum and design principles, Proceedings of the conference. (pp. 57-68). Venezia: Fondazione di Venezia: http://rice.iuav.it/386/2/Museum_DesignDisciplines_proceedings_2011_spreads_A4.pdf

Ciolfi, L. (2012). Social traces: visitor­ generated content and the creation of shared heritage. In Giaccardi, E. (Ed.) Heritage and Social Media. (pp. 69-86). London: Routledge: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415616676/

Ciolfi, L. (2012). Social traces: Participation and the creation of Shared Heritage. In Heritage and Social Media: Understanding Heritage in a Participatory Culture. (pp. 69-88). http://doi.org/10.4324/9780203112984

Ciolfi, L. (2011). Augmented places: exploring human experience of technology at the boundary between physical and digital worlds. In James-Chakraborty, K., & Strumper-Krobb, S. (Eds.) Crossing Borders. Space Beyond Disciplines. (pp. 205-222). New York: Peter Lang: http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=54549&concordeid=430192

de Carvalho, A.F.P., Ciolfi, L., & Gray, B. (2011). The making of nomadic work: Understanding the mediational role of ICTs. In Handbook of Research on Mobility and Computing: Evolving Technologies and Ubiquitous Impacts. (pp. 381-396). http://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-042-6.ch025

Ciolfi, L., Bartolucci, I., & Murphy, D. (2005). Meaningful interactions for meaningful places: investigating the relationships between nomadic work, tangible artefacts and the physical environment. In EACE '05 Proceedings of the 2005 annual conference on European association of cognitive ergonomics. (pp. 115-121). ACM Digital Library: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1124682

Books

Gray, B., Ciolfi, L., & Pinatti De Carvalho, A.F. (2020). Made To Work. Mobilising Contemporary Worklives. Routledge.

Hornecker, E., & Ciolfi, L. (2019). Human-computer interactions in museums. Morgan & Claypool. https://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00901ED1V01Y201902HCI042

Ciolfi, L., Damala, A., Hornecker, E., Lechner, M., & Maye, L. (Eds.). (2018). Cultural heritage communities : technologies and challenges. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Cultural-Heritage-Communities-Technologies-and-Challenges/Ciolfi-Damala-Hornecker-Lechner-Maye/p/book/9781138697195#

Cosley, D., Forte, A., Ciolfi, L., & McDonald, D. (Eds.). (2015). Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing. New York: ACM Press. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2675133&coll=DL&dl=ACM&CFID=679872805&CFTOKEN=63091207

Bertelsen, O.W., Ciolfi, L., Grasso, M.A., & Papadopoulos, G.A. (Eds.). (2013). ECSCW 2013: Proceedings of the Thirteenth European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. London: Springer. http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4471-5346-7/page/1

Bertelsen, O.W., Ciolfi, L., Grasso, M.A., & Papadopoulos, G.A. (Eds.). (2013). ECSCW 2013: Proceedings of the Thirteenth European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. London: Springer. http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4471-5346-7/page/1

Ciolfi, L., Scott, K., & Barbieri, S. (Eds.). (2011). Proceedings of the International Conference 1CRe-thinking technology in museums 2011: emerging Experiences". Limerick, Ireland: University of Limerick. http://www.idc.ul.ie/techmuseums11/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15&Itemid=7

Bødker, S., Bouvin, N.-.O., Lutters, W., Wulf, V., & Ciolfi, L. (Eds.). (2011). ECSCW’11 Proceedings of the Twelfth European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. London: Springer. http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/book/978-0-85729-912-3

Ciolfi, L., Cooke, M., Hall, T., Bannon, L., & Oliva, S. (Eds.). (2005). Proceedings of the International Workshop “Re-Thinking Technology in Museums: towards a new understanding of people’s experience in museums". Limerick, Ireland: University of Limerick. http://www.idc.ul.ie/museumworkshop/programme.html

Ciolfi, L., Cooke, M., Hall, T., Bannon, L., & Oliva, S. (Eds.). (2005). Proceedings of the International Workshop “Re-Thinking Technology in Museums: towards a new understanding of people’s experience in museums". Limerick, Ireland: University of Limerick. http://www.idc.ul.ie/museumworkshop/programme.html

Presentations

Ciolfi, L., & Lockley, E. (n.d.). Flash Fiction Exploring the Blurring of Work and Life. Presented at: Workshop Design Fiction for Mixed-Reality Performances at CHI 2017, Denver, 2017

Posters

Soranzo, A., Petrelli, D., Ciolfi, L., & Reidy, J. (2017). The importance of behaviour as an aesthetic feature. Presented at: ECVP 2017, Berlin, 2017

Associate Editor and Book Review Editor, The CSCW Journal (Springer)

External Examiner, University of Winchester

External Examiner, Newcastle University

I am currently supervising two PhD students at SHU, and I have previously supervised 6 doctoral projects to successful completion

Human-Computer Interaction researcher Professor Luigina Ciolfi is interested in how interacting with digital technologies shapes people’s lives. She also studies how communities use technology to interact and work together. She has conducted research into interactive exhibitions, how work changes through mobile and social media, and online interaction between fans of the fictional world created by Harry Potter author J K Rowling. Luigina is now working on projects to help museums engage online and offline with communities at risk of marginalisation, and to understand the challenges of "digital nomads" working independently in a variety of spaces.