Papers by Alessio Antonini
LEDA portal data
LEDA portal dump including data, theme and instructions.<br>LEDA is a three-year project re... more LEDA portal dump including data, theme and instructions.<br>LEDA is a three-year project researching representations of the Damned in Hell in wall paintings in churches on Crete. <br>The project is being led by Angeliki Lymberopoulou at The Open University, UK, and Vasiliki Tsamakda at the University of Mainz, Germany, and involves a team of academics from seven institutions in the UK, USA, Germany and Greece.<br>
Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, 2020
This contribution extends the discussion of the types and uses of links bootstrapped by Mason and... more This contribution extends the discussion of the types and uses of links bootstrapped by Mason and Bernstein's "On Links: Exercises in Style", focusing on how authors use marginalia and annotations as links to the future. We argue that the development of a common semantics of "links to be" is needed in order to systematise individual authorial practices, provide greater interpretive understanding for readers and enable the development of new tools. We present examples on different types of annotations from the Holographic Vernon Lee project (HoL) and provide our own exercises to formulate a preliminary framework of links to be.
International Journal of Social Robotics
Over the last two decades, several deployments of robots for in-house assistance of older adults ... more Over the last two decades, several deployments of robots for in-house assistance of older adults have been trialled. However, these solutions are mostly prototypes and remain unused in real-life scenarios. In this work, we review the historical and current landscape of the field, to try and understand why robots have yet to succeed as personal assistants in daily life. Our analysis focuses on two complementary aspects: the capabilities of the physical platform and the logic of the deployment. The former analysis shows regularities in hardware configurations and functionalities, leading to the definition of a set of six application-level capabilities (exploration, identification, remote control, communication, manipulation, and digital situatedness). The latter focuses on the impact of robots on the daily life of users and categorises the deployment of robots for healthcare interventions using three types of services: support, mitigation, and response. Our investigation reveals that ...
This work explores the revival of arguments in abstract argumentation theory. A revived argument ... more This work explores the revival of arguments in abstract argumentation theory. A revived argument is an argument that is put forward in a specific context, but is somehow put aside because it did not seem relevant to the discussion or it has been denied, and then becomes useful in another context when a similar argument emerges. We obtain necessary conditions for argument revival using real-world examples and show that a recently proposed temporal argumentation framework [1] cannot account for argument revival. Next, we give a fixed point definition to compute a set of revived arguments, which is based on arguments annotated by a context label. This revival set contains arguments that are revived using the context neighborhood, the attack relations and a revival policy.
Open Data are recognised as invaluable resources at the city level for improving local services, ... more Open Data are recognised as invaluable resources at the city level for improving local services, community engagement and businesses initiatives, but their use still struggle to have the desired impact. This work addresses the underuse of Open Data by exploring the connection between data and actions in everyday urban activities implemented by local governments, public agencies, businesses, non-profit organisations and research institutions operating in the city. The empirical results of this exploratory study outline a structural misalignment between a) roles of local actors in city activities and their data-related activities, b) provision of Open Data and information needs of local actors, c) expected uses of data in local actions and forms of support to the users provided by current city Open Data portals. The envisioned alternative approach to foster the use of Open Data at the city level relies on identifying the appropriate data to be produced for supporting local actions, in...
Mediation as Calibration
Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media
Emerging communication technologies remediate and redefine relations between reader and author, b... more Emerging communication technologies remediate and redefine relations between reader and author, but a comprehensive progressive framework for assessing this dynamic during the process of preparation, transmission, reception, and consumption of media remains elusive. Such a framework is of consequence for hypertext (and first generation electronic literature in particular). Speculative claims for its utility and equally reductive rejections of the reading experience it offers call for a model which assesses the calibration of the reader/author relationship from within the medium itself. This paper presents a first framework for assessing these dynamics both at the stage of authoring and reading. Within this analysis framework we identify eleven remediating factors conceived as scales between opposing tensions, and implement this model with reference to first generation electronic literature.
This paper presents the philosophical analysis carried out to analyse the stakeholders’ needs wit... more This paper presents the philosophical analysis carried out to analyse the stakeholders’ needs within the READ-IT project to inform the design of an information management system (IMS) for multidisciplinary research on the reading experience in Europe. The presented approach is aimed to build a metalanguage representing the reading under different perspectives for enabling researchers in collaboratively working on data sources tracking the reading phenomenon. The construction of the metalanguage is made through a reasoning-based process of analysis and synthesis of vocabulary, concepts and theories from multiple domains, recomposed in an interactional model of the researchers as intended users of the system, the data sources on reading and the role of technology in between.
WiP: Personalizing Focus Area in Map-Based Applications
2018 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP)
Scaling and visualization theories about traditional maps can be extended to digital maps in orde... more Scaling and visualization theories about traditional maps can be extended to digital maps in order to develop web applications using maps as information management systems, data viewer and recommender systems. Starting from current limitations of web application using maps, we outline an alternative approach based on building an indexing system connecting scales and contents, on fixing visualization and styling rules, and attributing an active role to the user in defining goals, area of interest and related contents. This contribution presents the first steps towards a theoretical framework to develop map-based applications where contents are connected to the map entities and the user interactions impact on the status of the map and of the application at the same time.
The integration of ICTs in the urban management is increasing at all levels of public administrat... more The integration of ICTs in the urban management is increasing at all levels of public administrations in order to improve efficiency and effectiveness of public services, but their role is still instrumental rather than drive a change toward a more collaborative local governance. On the other hand, there is a raising expectation of the civil society to participate in decision making processes and contribute in defining local policies about sensitive topics. These purposes are often addressed by using or creating community digital tools designed for a specific contextual scope, resulting in a deep fragmentation of information about civic initiatives and social innovation projects and a lack of continuous communication among urban stakeholders even working in the same area. The challenge is to design an ICT solution to refactor the current practices of cooperation between private and public sector and support a real change in the city management processes from the local to the territo...
The Reading Experiences Ontology (REO): Reusing and Extending CIDOC CRM
Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications
Traditional maps are one of the oldest way to express relevant information on a locality base, as... more Traditional maps are one of the oldest way to express relevant information on a locality base, as synthetic representations of reality. The traditional visualization theory of maps and the related principles used to structure spatial information can inspire the modelling of new solutions in the field of information management in web application. But, the fast and generalized spreading of digital maps, and the related production of geo-localized social media is not followed by a deep integration of map in web applications, preventing the effectiveness of digital maps in solving pressing issues like aggregation, retrieval, recommendation and presentation of spatial media. Through the analysis of key concepts of maps, this contribution addresses the foundations of map-based applications, discussing the limits of current approaches and introducing new opportunities based on deep integration between maps and applications.
2 Stalking and Social Media : a Reading Practice
The term “stalking” is emerging in social networks to indicate a wide range of reading practices ... more The term “stalking” is emerging in social networks to indicate a wide range of reading practices aimed to gain insight on a subject. As a new type of reading, stalking does not always have a negative connotation and it is not limited to the personal sphere but ranging from ludic to professional aims. Considering the preliminary results of a case study in the READ-IT project, this contribution wishes to engage the hypertext research community in considering stalking as a type of reading activity emerging from the unique features and context of social networks related to “stalkers” as hypertext readers, “stalked” as a type of contents and social networking platforms as a type of medium and environment of reading.
In multi-agent systems, norms are usually considered rules that can be violated by agents. The re... more In multi-agent systems, norms are usually considered rules that can be violated by agents. The reasons for norm violation are usually bounded to agents utility evaluation gain versus possible fee but with our proposal we depict a scenario in which norms are open or vague. Agent’s can interpret norms in different ways, according to their knowledge but also according with their own interpretation theory of general concepts, norm goal, etc. The rest of the paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we introduce our methodology, Section 3 shows the features of norms as social objects. In Section 4, we discuss the ontological status of norms and their interpretation process. Finally in Section 5 we present some final remarks.
Cette communication a pour objectif de presenter la strategie de developpement de l’ontologie pro... more Cette communication a pour objectif de presenter la strategie de developpement de l’ontologie proposee dans le cadre du projet READ-IT ainsi que ses apports a la description conceptuelle des experiences de lecture, et plus largement a celle du patrimoine immateriel et des autres phenomenes « experientiels ».
All We Do is "Stalking": Studying New Forms of Reading in Social Networks
Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, 2019
A particular use of the term "stalking" is emerging in social networks to indicate a wi... more A particular use of the term "stalking" is emerging in social networks to indicate a wide range of reading practices aimed to gain insight on a subject. As a new type of reading, "stalking" does not always have a negative connotation and it is not limited to the personal sphere but ranging from ludic to professional aims. Considering the preliminary results of a case study in the READ-IT project, this contribution wishes to engage the hypertext research community in considering "stalking" as a type of reading activity emerging from the unique features of social networks related both to "stalkers" (as hypertext readers), and to the "stalked" (as a type of contents) within the context of social networking platforms (as a type of medium and environment for reading).
MiraMap: an e-particpation tool for Smart Peripheries
Appendix to "Experiential Observations: capturing the potential content within evidences of experiences
Material annex to "Experiential Observations: capturing the potential content within evidenc... more Material annex to "Experiential Observations: capturing the potential content within evidences of experiences", contribution to the special issue on Cultural Heritage of the Semantic Web Journal. The materials include the description of the test scenario, the feedback survey, a report, questions and answers, and sample artefacts.
Executive Summary This technical report introduces the data model developed to address the system... more Executive Summary This technical report introduces the data model developed to address the systematic collection and use of reading experiences in READ-IT project. The model of reading presented in this document is meant to inform the development of the READ-IT database and tools. This document describes the methodological approach and design principles adopted in the development of the model of reading. Furthermore, this technical report describes the content of the first version of the data model of the reading experience, including a preliminary analysis of the alignments between READ-IT model of reading with CIDOC-CRM, FRBRoo, FoaF and Schema.org.
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