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Biography

Research interests

My research focuses on intelligent media across Digital Health and Digital Humanities, combining conceptual modelling and philosophy of technology with practical applications. My current efforts in bridging reading and digital health are at the core of this approach, reinventing solutions that could exploit the computational power of smartphones while removing the need for costly medical devices and smart sensors. Similarly, my work on smart cities addresses questions about the future of large-scale deployment of robotics, intelligent vision technologies and mobile AI.

Teaching interests

My teaching focuses on research design digital scholarship for PhD students.

Impact and engagement

My research led to extensive collaboration with local communities, healthcare providers across Europe, and Innovation SMEs. I am part of the MK:Smart programme and, in this capacity, I curate relationships with companies and local authorities in Milton Keynes. 

 

Publications

Book

HT '23: Proceedings of the 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (2023)

Book Chapter

Sustainability Reporting and Interactive Storytelling: A Genre Approach for Humanising Business (2022)

Journal Article

On the aesthetics of hypertext: a case study on names and a general framework (2025)

Spontaneous transmedia co-location: Integration in memory (2024)

Digital Remote Monitoring Using an mHealth Solution for Survivors of Cancer: Protocol for a Pilot Observational Study (2024)

On the margins and at the centre (2024)

Drug's Journey of a Thousand Papers Begins With a Single Step (2024)

Digital remote monitoring using a mobile health solution in cancer survivors: an observational pilot trial protocol (2024)

Experiential Observations: an Ontology Pattern-based Study on Capturing the Potential Content within Evidences of Experiences (2023)

GATEKEEPER’s Strategy for the Multinational Large-Scale Piloting of an eHealth Platform: Tutorial on How to Identify Relevant Settings and Use Cases (2023)

Reading in Europe—Challenges and lessons learned from the case studies of the READ-IT project (2023)

Deep-Learning-Driven Techniques for Real-Time Multimodal Health and Physical Data Synthesis (2023)

Towards a Symbolic AI Approach to the WHO/ACSM Physical Activity & Sedentary Behaviour Guidelines (2022)

Robots for Elderly Care in the Home: A Landscape Analysis and Co-Design Toolkit (2022)

Understanding the phenomenology of reading through modelling (2021)

Actionable Open Data: Connecting City Data to Local Actions (2020)

Readapting Propp’s character archetypes to explore the relational dimension of city data: a design-oriented approach (2020)

Presentation / Conference

Conversational Media for Inclusive Access to Mental Health Interventions for Schoolchildren (2024)

Social Media and Cities: a case-study based analysis of how digital life influences the urban physical environment (2024)

@TellMeWhatUReadingbot: the Multi-modal Strategy of the READ-IT Project for Collecting Experiences of Reading (2024)

Positive Media (2024)

Positive by Design: The Next Big Challenge in Rethinking Media as Agents? (2023)

Hypertext as Method: Reflections on Hypertext as Design Logic (2023)

Design of Map-based Hypertext Systems (2023)

Name Links: an Aesthetic Discussion (2023)

Missed Connections: Hypertext and Book History (2022)

On Epistemic Comparability and Challenges on Data Reuse: The Experience of READ-IT (2022)

Cultural Challenges of DH Reflecting on DH Waves (2022)

Reading Transmedia: Re-contextualising the Written Word in Popular Web-native Genres (2022)

Reading Popular Culture Offline and Online: Outlining a Comparative Study of Reading Experiences Between Webcomics and Twenty-First Century Book Club Choices (2021)

Death and Transmediations: Manuscripts in the Age of Hypertext (2021)

Into the Macroscope: Systematic integration of micro- and macro-scale study of digital reading (2021)

The Reading Experience Ontology (REO): Reusing and Extending CIDOC CRM (2020)

Restoration and Repurposing of DH legacy projects: the UK-RED case (2020)

On Links To Be: Exercises in Style #2 (2020)

Circuits, Cycles, Configurations: an Interaction Model of Web Comics (2020)

Mediation as Calibration: A Framework for Evaluating the Author/Reader Relation (2020)

*ing the Written Word: Digital Humanities Methods for Book History (2020)

Social AI for Engaging UbiComp (2019)

All We Do is "Stalking": Studying New Forms of Reading in Social Networks (2019)

Reading in Europe - Challenge and Case Studies of READ-IT Project (2019)

City Planning and Urban Informatics: misalignments, convergences, and potential future direction for web-based technologies (2019)

Modelling Changes in Diaries, Correspondence and Authors’ Libraries to support research on reading: the READ-IT approach (2019)

Developing a meta-language in multidisciplinary research projects: the case study of READ-IT (2019)

Working Paper

READ-IT deliverable D2 - Model of the State of Mind V1.7 (2020)

The Model of Reading: Modelling principles, Definitions, Schema, Alignments (2019)

From Service to Data Infrastructure - The Transition from MK Intelligence Observatory to MK:Insight (2018)