
Dr Alessio Antonini
Research Fellow
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
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)
On the margins and at the centre (2024)
Drug's Journey of a Thousand Papers Begins With a Single Step (2024)
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)
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)
Presentation / Conference
Conversational Media for Inclusive Access to Mental Health Interventions for Schoolchildren (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)
Death and Transmediations: Manuscripts in the Age of Hypertext (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)
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)