Francesco Chiossi Email & Phone Number

Barcelona, Ct, Es

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

In my role as Senior UX Researcher, I lead impactful research initiatives focused on improving user experiences in AI-driven systems, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver customer-centric solutions. I oversee a multidisciplinary team of five researchers, ensuring alignment with strategic goals while driving innovation through user-centered research methodologies.I design and execute comprehensive research studies, employing a mix of qualitative, quantitative, and participatory approaches to generate actionable insights. This includes developing research plans, conducting user interviews, surveys

Munich, Germany

PhD Research ProjectObjective: Designed and executed research to leverage physiological inputs for user-centered computing, focusing on immersive Mixed Reality (MR) environments and behavioral fidelity.Innovative Solutions: Developed and validated novel methods to evaluate hidden user states (e.g., anxiety, attentional capacity, working memory, proficiency) from physiological measurements, ensuring seamless integration without disrupting user immersion or human-computer interactions.Adaptive Systems: Created prototypes of MR systems capable of adapting to user states in real-time, based on physiological inputs, enhancing usability and user experience.Real-World Applications: Extended research to in-the-wild experiments, demonstrating the feasibility of adaptive MR systems for practical applications such as training simulations, cognitive load management, and stress detection.Deliverables:Consolidated research insights into a modular software platform for physiological input-based adaptive systems, with potential for deployment across industries such as healthcare, gaming, and workplace productivity.Presented actionable findings to interdisciplinary teams, translating academic research into scalable, industry-relevant solutions.

Padova, Italia

During my time as research assistant at the Padua Neuroscience Center, my assignments require the study of an experiment concerning psychophysiology and the analysis of cognitive abilities and balance management in endurance athletes and in athletes practicing team sports. The objective of the experimental study is to evaluate whether endurance sports lead to a greater propensity, with respect to team sports, to prefer short-term choice options and to take greater risks. Heart Rate Variability (HRV) will be recorded both to replicate results in the literature that show how people with high levels of HRV (resting state) have better performance in executive tasks than people with low HRV and evaluate how this psychophysiological index can predict speed and accuracy in executive tasks. Furthermore, we want to evaluate the different inhibition and task-switching skills in relation to the sport activity performed. Finally, the effects of a cognitive commitment on the dynamic equilibrium of these two categories of athletes will be studied: those of endurance, where in the practice of the discipline it is not required to elaborate more tasks simultaneously and those practicing team sports where this ability to process more tasks simultaneously it is a fundamental part of the discipline itself.Furthermore, during this research period, I am involved in the data analysis of an experiment aimed at exploring whether romantic love modulates both cognitive control (Stroop Task) and decision making processes (Iowa Gambling Task), taking into consideration also the EEG data, focusing in particular on the Event Related Potentials of interest such as Feedback Related Negativity (FRN) and Medial Frontal Negativity (MFN).

Venezia, Italia

During my research period at the IRCCS San Camillo, I am involved in the drafting of a research project concerning the perspective memory under the supervision of Prof. Patrizia Silvia Bisiacchi and Post-doc research fellow Giorgio Arcara in the MEG Lab .The research will require the use of Magnetoencephalography (MEG) and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) in order to investigate the neural correlates of both time-based and event-based perspective memory.My tasks will concern the definition and implementation of the task (created ad-hoc on the Psychopy software), the collection and analysis of the data through the Matlab Brainstorm toolbox that provide a spectral decomposition and time-frequency, evaluation of functional connectivity measures between brain regions and cross-coupling mechanisms.

Berlin Area, Germany

At the TU Berlin, during my experience as a visiting researcher I am supervised by Professor Benjamin Blankertz and members of BBCI (Berlin Brain Computer Interface) group.My research project is concerned with the design, implementation, accomplishment and analysis of an EEG study on neural correlates of the cognition of unexpected events during a human-computer interaction (HCI) task. The background is that future HCI systems may exploit implicit information of the user that is extracted from the EEG (and/or signals of peripheral physiology, eye tracking, etc). In this context, it is desirable to estimate from the EEG signals which presented information is *not at all* matching the expectation/interest of the user (unexpected events). This goal is the detectability of irrelevant and unexpected stimuli in single-trial Event-Related Potentials (ERPs). Differently from studies in the literature, e.g., on error-related potentials, we will investigate a much richer variety of stimuli (semantic complexity) and the task will be performed within a free viewing condition. Thereby, we bridge from restrictively controlled fundamental studies towards the rich scenarios of HCI applica­tions. The increased complexity establishes a challenge on artifact removal (e.g., induced by increased amount of eye movements) and on EEG signal detection due to the variability in latency and morphology.

Hit Research Centre, Università Degli Studi Di Padova

My duties as a research assistant at HIT Research Center include all stages of scientificresearch process. Supervised by Patrik Pluchino (Postdoctoral Research Fellow).In more detail, my tasks are:- Planning and ideation of several experiment projects;- Development of research studies with ad-hoc software, like E-Prime 2.0, Matlab;- Data analysis with statistical software such as SPSS and R;- Participation in drafting European projects deliverables;- Writing report and scientific papers regarding each research activity.

Padova, Italia

Supervised by Ettore Ambrosini (postdoc research fellow) and Antonino Vallesi (Associate Professor) within the european research program Life EXperience Modulations of Executive function Asymmetries (LEX-MEA)- Training and help for experimental design- Collection for behavioural and electroencephalographic data- Data analysis for study on executive functions (Matlab and EEGlab)

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Active member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) and the International Ergonomics Association.

Models Of Higher Brain Functions, Master Of Science In Computational Neuroscience, 1

Participants should learn the basic concepts and most important topics in the Cognitive Neurosciences. In addition, they should know.

Acquisition And Analysis Of Neural Data, Msc In Computational Neuroscience, 1

Statistical analysis of electroencephalogram (EEG) data, e.g. investigation of event-related potentials (ERPs) and event-related.

Cognitive Algorithms, Computer Science, 1

Activities and Societies: Machine Learning TechniquesThe course covers main concepts of machine learning, its development and application.

Master Of Science (Msc), Applied Cognitive Psychology, 110/110

The degree course in applied cognitive psychology provides in-depth knowledge of the conceptual and methodological framework of cognitive.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Cognitive And Psychobiological Sciences, 105/110

Students learn the basic knowledge that characterize the different areas of psychology; acquire skills on the methods of scientific.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Neuroscience

Activities and Societies: Member of King's College Neuroscience SocietyErasmus Exchange Program 6/01/2014 - 6/06/2014 The Neuroscience BSc.

Diploma Di Maturità, Information Technology And Sciences