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Gregorio Convertino

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	courses
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people

gconvertino@gmail.com

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Academia & Research Sites:

· PARC, Augmented Social Cognition group, CA

· Penn State, College of IST, Center for HCI, PA

· IBM Research Almaden, UAM group, CA

· Virginia Tech, Computer Science Dept, VA

· La Sapienza, Computer Science Dept. (Rome)

· IRST Research Center, (Trento, Italy)

· La Sapienza, Psychology Dept., (Rome)

News!

- I started working at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), ASC group, in California!

- Book chapter by Carroll, Convertino, Ganoe, Rosson. (2008) Common Ground in Teamwork: toward a Conceptual Model, In Macrocognition in teams, Letsky, M.P., Warner, N., Fiore, S., Smith, C.A.P. (Eds.)

- CHI 2008. Articulating Common Ground in Cooperative Work: Content and Process. April 5-10, 2008, Florence, Italy. [paper]

- ISCRAM 2008. Comparing Media in Emergency Planning, Washington, DC, USA, May 4-7, 2008 [paper].

- SBP08. Designing Group Annotations and Process Visualizations for Role-Based Collaboration. April 5-10, 2008, Phoeinx, Ariziona, 2008 [paper].

[more on research]

• Researcher at PARC, Fulbright fellow, PhD in HCI earned at Penn State with John M. Carroll 
• Primary research area: Human-Computer Interaction, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work.
• PhD: Experimental Methods for studying collaborative technology for groups: awareness and knowledge sharing
• Other areas: collaboration on maps, information visualization, user modeling, computer-supported collaboration in heterogeneous teams (i.e., cross-cultural, intergenerational).

· Research Methods in CSCW & HCI · Measuring Activity Awareness in CSCW · Common Ground in Geo-Collaboration · Integrating Older Workers in CSCW · Supporting Cross-Cultural Teams	Research	Research & University
Conferences & Teaching	Conferences CHI 2008, Group 2007, HCII 2007, CSCW 2006, IWIC 2007, CHI 2007 Teaching IST 413: User Interface Design & Development, Spring 2008. College of IST, Penn State
In USA · IST Teaching Fellow, IST-Penn State (2008) · PhD Candidate, Fulbright fellow, IST-Penn State (2004-2007) · PhD Student, Fulbright fellow, CS-Virginia Tech (2003) In Italy · Research Assistant in HCI, IRST Research, Trento · Bachelor's degree coursework in CS, "La Sapienza" University of Rome · Psychologist counselor at S. Godenzo Hospital, Rome · MS and BS degree in Psychology, "La Sapienza" University of Rome	Background
Activities Playing soccer, cooking, good wine, independent movies, traveling, meeting people & reading short stories		Personal & Social
	Places Last trips (for fun!): Arizona, USA, on the road; Christmas 2007 in Alberobello, Italy. My places: Alberobello (Bari, southern Italy), Rome, Trento (Italy), London, New York, Blacksburg, State College (USA)
People

Last modified on September 11 2008 <gconvertino@ist.psu.edu>