• PReparing Industry to Privacy-by-design by supporting its Application in REsearch - PRIPARE is a two-year FP7 Support Action aimed at facilitating the application of a privacy and security-by-design methodology that will contribute to the advent of unhindered usage of Internet against disruptions, censorship and surveillance.
• Attention and Creativity project investigates the effects of interruptions and task-switching on creative activities. Some recent results are reported in this AAAI Spring Symposium 2013 paper. Also see the workshop on Creativity and Attention in the age of the Web at ACM Web Science 2013.
• Reading Paper, Reading Pixels project studies the use of e-readers and tablets in academic environments.
• Cognition by Experimentation (XPERO) project is an FP6 strep project aimed at developing an embodied cognitive system, which is able to conduct experiments in the real world with the purpose of gaining new insights about the world and to develop and improve its own cognitive skills and overall performance.
• Attentive Agents For Collaborative Learning (Atgentive) project is an FP6 strep project aimed at investigating the use of artificial agents for supporting the management of the attention of young or adult learners in the context of individual and collaborative learning environments.
• Cultural conditioning and multi-cultural experience as mediators in the perception of digital media project investigates which features of Web sites attract students and cause them to ‘trust’ the information available on the site. What are the correlations between trust, site features and students' cultural background.

Director: Claudia Roda

Projects coordinators: Claudia Roda, Georgi Stojanov

Other Collaborators and Alumni: Dana Kianfar, Mariëlle Gorissen-van Eenige, Alexandra Svoronou, Julie Thomas, Damien Clauzel, Massimo Cimichella, Joona Laukkanen, Caitlin Ware, Marco Raglianti, Benjamin Eggert, Max Nokhrin, Maxine Sun

We are always happy to establish new collaborations with research centers, universities, and industry. If you would like to collaborate on one of our on-going projects or you would like to propose a new project please contact one of us.

If you are an AUP student and would like to have a senior project, an internship, or simply an informal collaboration please let us know! Email one of us or come and see us in G28.