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Stefano Bussolon
Stefano Bussolon
Psychologist
Ph.D. in Cognitive Sciences
Contract professor in Data Analysis
Information architect
Contacts
Mail: bussolon@gmail.com
Twitter: @sweetdreamerit
Web site: www.bussolon.it
Education
and academic
Portfolio
Publications
presentations
Programming
1995 - MSc in Experimental Psychology
Padua University - 110/110 cum laude
2007 - Ph.D. in Cognitive Sciences
University of Trento
2010 - 2011 Contract professor
Contract professor in Data Analysis - University of Trento.
November 2010 - August 2011 Post - doc grant
Post doc grant - Faculty of Economy - University of Trento.
Portfolio
projects I've been involved in
Client
Task
Data and statistical analysis of an experiment in the field of human-machine interaction, evaluating an Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
Agency
Information Engineering and Computer Science department, University of Trento
Other people involved
Antonella De Angeli, Patrizio Fava
Client
Fresenius Nephrocare
Task
Redesign of Euclid, a clinical database designed to monitor the key aspects of the haemodialysis treatment.
Agency
Other people involved
Stefano Dominici (Usertest Lab)
My role
usability expert, interaction designer
Methods
coached walkthrough; task analysis; euristic evaluation
Deliverables
Usability evaluation; task analysis; prototypes; guidelines.
Client
Trenitalia, the primary operator of trains within Italy
Task
Redesign of the user interface of the ticket system
Agency
Other people involved
Michele Giannasi, Judit Pinzón, Michele Visciola, Giovanni Buono
My role
interaction designer
Methods
ethnographic observation, interviews, task analysis
Deliverables
Wireframes and prototypes of the new interface
Client
Task
Usability test
Agency
Other people involved
My role
Usability testing facilitator
Methods
Usability test
Deliverables
Usability report
Client
The web portal of "Ministero della Giustizia", the Italian government Ministry of Justice
Task
Redesign of the web site
Agency
Other people involved
My role
Information architect
Methods
Online participatory design: free listing, importance evaluation, card sorting
Deliverables
Taxonomy of the macro information architecture
Polimi
Redesign of the website of the Politecnico di Milano
Information architecture: free listing, importance evaluation, card sorting.
Rendimax
Design of Rendimax the IFIS Bank Home banking solution
Interaction design, usability testing
Internos
The intranet of the administrative region of Emilia Romagna
Information archetecture: card sorting
Trentino Sociale
department of Social Policies, provincial administration of Trento.
Free listing, importance evaluation, card sorting
Cinformi.it
Free listing, importance evaluation, card sorting
Invalsi
Free listing
Esse3
Kion Esse3
Free listing, importance evaluation, card sorting
Trentino Trasporti
Usability evaluation
Publications and conferences
Stefano Bussolon. Designing interactions that help customers in decision making. In VII EuroIA Summit, sep 2011
Behavioural economics scholars, however, have shown that real users don't use rational strategies when choosing: the decision making is an effortful endeavour, and the bounded rationality of the agents limit they decision strategies. Humans are prone to cognitive bias, and do use heuristics to overcome their cognitive limits; that's the reason why often, less alternatives lead to better choices.
The decision making interface should help the user in accomplishing her task, and it should keep into account the different decisional attitudes of the consumers, their different preferences, and the cognitive aspects of the decision process.
Stefano Bussolon. Card sorting, category validity, and contextual navigation. Journal of Information Architecture, 1(2):5-29, December 2009
The second goal is to present a contextual navigation that could ameliorate the findability of those items whose classification has been proved to be problematic, and to increase the information scent of the whole domain.
Stefano Bussolon. From clouds to trees: Clustering delicious tags. In VI EuroIA Summit, sep 24 - 25 2010
Clustering the tags of a folksonomy can help the researcher to discover the implicit mental models of the users and provides a straightforward way to dramatically increase the information scent of the tag cloud.
Stefano Bussolon. Cultivating diversity in information architecture: the consensus analysis. In the UPA Europe 2008. December 4 - 6, Torino, Italy.
The participatory design approach implicitly assumes that customers, experts and final users have potentially different representations of the domain. In anthropological terms they belongs to different subcultures. Those divisions can go further: users can not be assumed to form an homogeneous cultural group.
Consensus analysis can be applied to the results of the card sorting to measure the homogeneity of the classifications, the presence of clusters of sub-cultures, and estimate the reliability of the answer of each participant.
Stefano Bussolon, Barbara Russi, and Fabio Del Missier. Online card sorting: as good as the paper version. In European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, Zürich, Switzerland, 20-22 September 2006.
In the study we are presenting here we compared two couples of card sorts with the same data: two performed with Netsorting, the other two with the traditional paper based card sorting.
We measured the performance of the two groups with two indices: the number of correct classification and the correlation among sampled subsets of participants. The participants who used Netsorting performed as good as the ones who used the paper sorting.
Stefano Bussolon, Michela Ferron, and Fabio Del Missier. Netsorting: On-line categorization and card sorting. Seminar at the University college London Interaction Center (UCLIC), London, (Uk) 23th August, 2005.
- Card sorting categorisation.
- Prototypicality evaluation: participants are asked to rate the prototypicality of a list of items in a category.
- Item generation: participants are required to produce items given a specific category.
Roberto Cobianchi, Francesca Fabbri, Stefano Bussolon, and Milco Forni. Redesign dell'architettura dell'informazione della intranet della regione Emilia Romagna (internos). In 4th Italian IA Summit, May 2010
Stefano Bussolon. Bisogni, scopi, motivazioni: fondamenti teorici dello user experience design. In Cultura senza Barriere, November 2009
Stefano Bussolon. Jenseits des lustprinzip - ux e motivazioni. In UXConference, December 2009
Stefano Bussolon. Model view controller: un pattern per l'interaction design. In 1st UXCamp, Firenze (IT), October, 17 2009
Stefano Bussolon and Davide Potente. Quando i passeggeri progettano l'aeroporto: architettura pervasiva e design partecipativo. In 3rd Italian IA Summit, February 20 – 21 2009.
Stefano Bussolon. Architettura dell'informazione centrata sull'utente. In Web senza Barriere 2008, Roma, 7 – 9 maggio 2008.
Dario Betti - Stefano Bussolon La classificazione fatta dai cittadini. Il caso Trentinosociale.it. In 2th Italian IA summit, Trento, 16 17 novembre 2007.
Stefano Bussolon. Architettura dell'informazione centrata sull'utente. In Chitaly 2007, Padova, 28 – 30 giugno 2007.
Stefano Bussolon and Gabriele Colaianni. Correlazione fra card sorting, tipicità e semantic decision task in un ambiente on line. In Congresso nazionale dell'Associazione Italiana di Psicologia, Sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale, Rovereto (I), 13-15 Settembre 2006.
Programming skills
I am a fairly good java programmer. I do program in Java since the 1.02 version.
Packages most oftenly used:
- Servlets and jsp
- jdbc and databases (mainly postgresql and hsqldb)
- struts and tiles
Good skills in statistics and data analysis. I do teach data analysis and R at the university (contract professor).
Main fields
- Descriptive univariate data analysis.
- Bivariate an multivariate inferential statistics: chi-square, correlation, t-test, anova.
- Multivariate exploratory analysis: analysis of variance, principal component analysis, cluster analysis.
- Nonparametric analysis, bootstrapping, computational simulations.
I recently began to learn and program in python.
Pakages I'm using:
- pymongo
- numpy, scipy
- feedparser
- simplejson
- mako template
I can setup and use some Sql and NoSql databases
Sql databases
- postgresql
- hsqldb
- sqlite
NoSql databases
- mongodb
- Neo4J
Free time and hobbies
What I like to do when I'm not working
I like to dance tango, and contact improvisation.
A video of an exibition we performed
I like to take pictures
My account on Flickr
I like to read
My bookshelf, on Anoby
Whenever I can, I like to travel