Special Feature HCI in Italy An Overview of the CurrentState of Research Editor, Berardina Hadja De Carolis The idea of setting up this special issue came during C H I '95 when somebody asked me what the situation was of research in Human-Computer Interaction in Italy. HCI is a multi-disciplinary research effort involving, inter alia, psychology, sociology, linguistics, computer and information science, which addresses the design, evaluation and use of information technology from a user-centred perspective. The papers collected in this number do not cover all the topics on which people are currently working in Italy and not all the research groups working on HCI are represented here. However this collection gives an idea of the research trends and of the dimension of the growth of this research field in Italy. In the first section of this introduction, the research topics addressed in the presented paper are outlined, in the second section some relevant activities in the field are mentioned. The formalization of a model of interaction is the center topic of the first paper in this group. Bottoni et al. (Pictorial Computing Laboratory) present a model for visual interactive computing called Corn2 . It is based on
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