Research

Research Program

My research program integrates theoretical frameworks, evaluation methodologies, and empirical studies to investigate how humans and AI interact, collaborate, learn, reason, and make decisions under uncertainty. It connects Interaction Quality, Meaningful Human Oversight, and Responsible AI Governance across education and healthcare, with conversational and socio-technical AI as cross-cutting contexts. The overarching aim is to inform the design and governance of AI systems that strengthen rather than substitute human capabilities.

Human–AI
Collaboration
Interaction
Quality
Meaningful
Oversight
Responsible
Governance
Education · Healthcare · Socio-technical AI

Research architecture

Three pillars, connected by one goal.

The program links Human–AI evaluation, meaningful oversight, and responsible governance across education, healthcare, and conversational or socio-technical settings.

Human-Centered AI for effective Human–AI collaboration

Preserving agency · expertise · critical thinking · responsibility

Evaluate

Interaction Quality & Human–AI Evaluation

Multidimensional evaluation · conversational agents and LLMs · AI-supported decision-making.

Preserve

Meaningful Human Oversight

Calibrated reliance · automation bias · cognitive offloading · deskilling · expertise preservation.

Govern

Responsible AI Governance & Deployment

Validation · methodological quality · transparency · standardization · accountability · deployment.

AI in EducationHealthcare & Medical AIConversational & Socio-Technical AI
Overarching goal: AI systems that strengthen rather than substitute human capabilities.

The three pillars

Concepts, methods, and applications.

Each pillar addresses a different layer of the same research problem, from the quality of interaction to the preservation of human capabilities and the conditions for trustworthy deployment.

Interaction Quality & Human–AI Evaluation

Developing theoretical, methodological, and psychometric frameworks for evaluating Human–AI interaction beyond system performance alone, integrating cognitive, behavioral, collaborative, and experiential dimensions.

Meaningful Human Oversight

Investigating when and how AI can augment human judgment while preserving agency, competence, expertise, and responsibility, with attention to calibrated reliance, overreliance, automation bias, cognitive offloading, and AI-induced deskilling.

Responsible AI Governance & Deployment

Translating Human-Centered AI principles into rigorous evaluation, validation, transparency, standardization, socio-technical accountability, and responsible real-world deployment.

Application domains

Education and healthcare are the primary application domains; conversational agents, Large Language Models, and AI-supported professional or organizational workflows provide cross-cutting contexts.

Research trajectory

From methodological foundations to an integrated agenda.

The trajectory connects earlier work in predictive modelling, complex systems, explainability, and AI in education to the current Human-Centered AI program and its emerging research directions.

2016–2018 · FOUNDATIONS

Predictive modelling & complex systems

  • Forecasting and data-driven modelling
  • Social dynamics and complex systems
  • Quantitative and computational methods
2019–2022 · HUMAN-CENTERED TURN

Explainable AI, education & collaboration

  • Explainable recommender systems
  • Personalized learning
  • Teacher–AI collaboration
  • Explainability reviews & educational AI
2023–2024 · EXPANSION

Evaluation & high-stakes contexts

  • Methodological quality in Medical AI
  • Broader AI & society perspective
  • Human–AI configurations
  • Collective cognition and adjunct AI
2025–PRESENT · CURRENT PROGRAM

Integrated Human-Centered AI

  • Interaction Quality
  • Meaningful Human Oversight
  • Responsible AI Governance
  • Education and healthcare applications
Emerging directions branching from the current program
Cognitive Sustainability
Human–AI Co-Agency
Longitudinal Human–AI Interaction
Advanced Human–AI Evaluation
Quantitative & experimental methods
Qualitative & mixed methods
Evidence synthesis & meta-research
Human–AI evaluation
Framework & instrument development

Emerging directions

Parallel extensions of the current program

Cognitive Sustainability

Long-term preservation and development of human cognitive capabilities in AI-mediated environments.

Human–AI Co-Agency

Meaningful distributions of initiative, expertise, autonomy, and responsibility.

Longitudinal Human–AI Interaction

Sustained effects on reliance, competence, learning, judgment, and behavior.

Advanced Human–AI Evaluation

Richer methodological and psychometric evaluation of interaction and human outcomes.

Selected outcomes & recognition

Evidence of trajectory

Publication profile, venues, authorship roles, and selected competitive recognition complement the conceptual architecture of the research program.

Recent research output · 2024–2026
80%
First or co-first authorship
Predominantly first-authored work, with one co-first-authored publication.
67%
Corresponding / co-corresponding authorship
Calculated where the venue formally designates a corresponding-author role.
83%
Q1 journal share
Recent journal articles and reviews, based on rankings at the time of publication.
Selected recent venues: Artificial Intelligence Review · International Journal of Medical Informatics · Journal of Biomedical Informatics · Journal of Medical Systems · Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction · AIED.
Cover Article · 2026Interaction Quality paper selected by the editors of Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction.
AIED 2025Paper accepted and presented at a CORE A international conference.
John McCarthy Research Award · 2022Top-5 national finalist for young Italian researchers in Artificial Intelligence.
ELISE Open Call · 2021Selected among 24 European finalists.