My personal mission is to design technology for triggering positive social changes.

Beyond pursuing adequate and pleasant user interactions, my research aims at exploring design methods and artefacts to design with a socio-technical approach, taking into account also the impact of technological innovations on people's lives and their communities.

With this perspective, I have worked mainly in designing technology for people unfamiliar with ICTs and engaging communities in the...

Keys: Community engagement, users engagement, social change, socially-aware design, motivation, social media, energy awareness, climate change

Myers, C., Piccolo, L. and Collins, T. (2023) Democratising Digital Educational Game Design for Social Change, Journal of Learning for Development, 10, pp. 55-74

Assuncao, W., Piccolo, L. and Zaina, L. (2022) Considering emotions and contextual factors in music recommendation: a systematic literature review, Multimedia Tools and Applications, pp. (Early Access)

Piccolo, L., Neris, V., Menezes, L. and Neris, L. (2022) Internet of Things in Education for Sustainable Development, INTERACT 2021 IFIP TC 13 Workshops, Bari, Italy

Rodrigues, K., Neris, V., Piccolo, L. and Masoodian, M. (2022) Human-Centred Technology for Sustainable Development Goals - Workshop Results, INTERACT 2021 IFIP TC 13 Workshops, Bari, Italy

Piccolo, L., Neris, V., Rodrigues, K. and Masoodian, M. (2021) Human-Centred Technology for Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges and Opportunities Human-Computer-Interaction - INTERACT 2021, eds. Carmelo Ardito,Rosa Lanzilotti,Alessio Malizia,Helen Petrie, 12936, pp. 553-557, Springer

Piccolo, L., Blackwood, A., Farrell, T. and Mensio, M. (2021) Agents for Fighting Misinformation Spread on Twitter: Design Challenges, Conversational User Interfaces CUI 2021, Online

Piccolo, L., Bertel, D., Farrell, T. and Troullinou, P. (2021) Opinions, Intentions, Freedom of Expression, ... , and Other Human Aspects of Misinformation Online, CHI EA '21: Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan

Piccolo, L., Troullinou, P. and Alani, H. (2021) Chatbots to Support Children in Coping with Online Threats: Socio-technical Requirements, Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021, Virtual Event

Puska, A., Baroni, L., Canal, M., Piccolo, L. and Pereira, R. (2020) WhatsApp and false information: a value-oriented evaluation, IHC ’20: 19th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Diamantina, Brazil

Piccolo, L., Puska, A., Pereira, R. and Farrell, T. (2020) Pathway to a Human-Values Based Approach to Tackle Misinformation Online, HCI International 2020, Copenhagen

Piccolo, L., Joshi, S., Karapanos, E. and Farrell, T. (2019) Challenging Misinformation: Exploring Limits and Approaches, 17th IFIP TC 13 International Conference (INTERACT 2019), Paphos, Cyprus

Goddard, D., Mulholland, P. and Piccolo, L. (2019) Deriving Personas Based on Attitudes to Interruption and Information Overload, Poster at 17th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Salzburg

Piccolo, L., Mensio, M. and Alani, H. (2019) Chasing the Chatbots: Directions for Interaction and Design Research, Conversations 2018: 2nd International Workshop on Chatbot Research, St Petersburg, Russia

Farrell, T., Piccolo, L., Perfumi, S. and Alani, H. (2019) Understanding the Role of Human Values in the Spread of Misinformation, Truth and Trust Online, London, UK

Piccolo, L., Meesters, K. and Roberts, S. (2018) , 18th International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations (ICISO) 2018, Reading, UK Building a Socio-technical Perspective of Community Resilience with a Semiotic Approach, in eds. Liu K., Nakata K., Li W., Baranauskas C., Digitalisation, Innovation, and Transformation. ICISO 2018. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 527, pp. 22-32, Springer

Piccolo, L., Roberts, S., Iosif, A. and Alani, H. (2018) Designing Chatbots for Crises: A Case Study Contrasting Potential and Reality, British HCI Conference, Belfast

Myers, C., Piccolo, L. and Collins, T. (2018) Co-designing Cards on Social Issues for Creating Educational Games, Demo at British HCI Conference, Belfast

Piccolo, L. and Pereira, R. (2017) Culture-based artefacts to inform ICT design: foundations and practice, AI & Society, Spring

Piccolo, L. and Alani, H. (2017) Prospecting Socially-Aware Concepts and Artefacts for Designing for Community Resilience, Workshop: Refugees & HCI Workshop: The Role of HCI in Responding to the Refugee Crisis at 8th conference on Community & Technologies, Troyes, France

Piccolo, L., Meesters, K. and Roberts, S. (2017) Co-designing for Community Resilience Beyond the Local, Workshop Participatory Design, beyond the local, 8th conference on Community & Technologies, Troyes

Bell, S., Benatti, F., Edwards, N., Laney, R., Mose, D., Piccolo, L. and Zanetti, O. (2017) Smart Cities and M3: Rapid Research, Meaningful Metrics and Co-Design, Systemic Practice and Action Research

Burel, G., Piccolo, L. and Alani, H. (2016) EnergyUse - A Collective Semantic Platform for Monitoring and Discussing Energy Consumption, 15th International Semantic Web Conference - ISWC, Kobe, Japan, pp. 257-272

Piccolo, L. and Alani, H. (2016) Strategies and Tools to Raise Energy Awareness Collectively, Behave 2016 - 4th European Conference on Behaviour and Energy Efficiency, Coimbra, Portugal, pp. 12

Scharl, A., Föls, M., Piccolo, L., Fernandez, M. and Alani, H. (2016) Application Design and Engagement Strategy of a Game with a Purpose for Climate Change Awareness, International Conference on Internet Science. INSCI 2016, Florence, Italy, 9934, pp. 97-104, Springer, Cham

Piccolo, L. and Elbanhawy, E. (2016) Engaging Community with Energy: Challenges and Design approaches, Sustainable HCI in the UK, Lincoln, England

Piccolo, L., Fernandez, M., Alani, H., Scharl, A., Föls, M. and Herring, D. (2016) Climate Change Engagement: Results of a Multi-Task Game with a Purpose, Workshop: International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media Tenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, Cologne, Germany, pp. 191-194, AAAI Publications

Piccolo, L., Baranauskas, C. and Azevedo, R. (2016) A socially inspired energy feedback technology: challenges in a developing scenario, AI & Society, pp. 1-17, Springer

Maciel, C., Hornung, H., Piccolo, L., Prates, R. and Pereira, V. (2015) Challenge 4. Human Values, in eds. Baranauskas, C., de Souza, C., Pereira, R., I GranDIHC-BR - Grand Research. Challenges in Human-Computer Interaction in Brazil, Brazilian Computer Society | SBC

Piccolo, L., Arpetti, A. and Hornung, H. (2015) Ethics and Design in the Brazilian Context I GranDIHC-BR - Grand Research. Challenges in Human-Computer Interaction in Brazil, eds. Cecilia Baranauskas,Clarisse de Souza,Roberto Pereira, pp. 50, Brazilian Computer Society | SBC

Huizenga, J., Piccolo, L., Wippo, M., Meili, C. and Bullen, A. (2015) Shedding Lights on Human Values: an Approach to Engage Families with Energy Conservation, 15th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2015, Springer

Piccolo, L. and Alani, H. (2015) Perception and behaviour towards climate change and energy saving, EnviroInfo &ICT4S 2015: Building the Knowledge Base for Environmental Action and Sustainability, Copenhagen, Denmark

Piccolo, L. and Smith, C. (2015) Designing to raise collective awareness and leverage energy savings, Poster at 2015 British Human Computer Interaction Conference (British HCI' 15), Lincoln, UK, pp. 289-290, ACM

Piccolo, L. and ElBanhawy, E. (2015) Community Energy Engagement: Towards Practical Design Approach, Workshop: UK SHCI: Sustainable HCI in the UK at British Human Computer Interaction Conference 2015

Piccolo, L. and Pereira, R. (2015) Clarifying culture in technology design: what, why, and how we think about it, Workshop: CULTECH2015: Cultural Diversity and Technology Design Workshop at 7th International Communities and Technologies Conference (C&T 2015)

Hornung, H., Piccolo, L. and Arpetti, A. (2014) Human Values: a Gap Between Academia and Industry, XIII Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computer Systems - IHC 2014, Brazil, pp. 449-452, Sociedade Brasileira de Computação

Piccolo, L., Alani, H., De Liddo, A. and Baranauskas, C. (2014) Motivating online engagement and debates on energy consumption, ACM Web Science 2014, Bloomington, US, pp. 109-118, ACM

Arniani, M., Badii, A., De Liddo, A., Georgi, S., Passani, A., Piccolo, L. and Teli, M. (2014) Collective Awareness Platform for Sustainability and Social Innovation: An Introduction Collective Awareness Platform for Sustainability and Social Innovation: An Introduction

Piccolo, L., Baranauskas, C., Fernandez, M., Alani, H. and De Liddo, A. (2014) Energy consumption awareness in the workplace: technical artefacts and practices, XIII Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computer Systems, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil

Piccolo, L. and Baranauskas, C. (2013) Motivational aspects in energy feedback systems design, IHC+CLIHC '11 Proceedings of the 10th Brazilian Symposium on on Human Factors in Computing Systems and the 5th Latin American Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, pp. 313-322

Hayashi, E., Piccolo, L. and Baranauskas, C. (2013) Perspectives on the evaluation of affective quality in social software, International Journal of Web Based Communities, 9, 4, pp. 519-534, Inderscience Publishers

Piccolo, L., Hornung, H., Baranauskas, C. and Pereira, R. (2013) , 12th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society, I3E, Athens, Greece Designing to Promote a New Social Affordance for Energy Consumption, in eds. Springer, Collaborative, Trusted and Privacy-Aware e/m-Services, 399, pp. 213-225

Piccolo, L. and Baranauskas, C. (2013) Climbing the Ladder with Energy: Informing the Design of Eco-Feedback Technology with a Social Approach, ICISO 2013 - 14th Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations, Stockholm, pp. 187-196

Piccolo, L. and Baranauskas, C. (2012) Basis and prospects of motivation informing design: requirements for situated eco-feedback technology, 1th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Piccolo, L. and Baranauskas, C. (2012) Energy, environment, and conscious consumption: making connections through design, 11th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Piccolo, L., Scharl, A. and Baranauskas, C. (2012) Design of Eco-Feedback Technology to Motivate Sustainable Behavior: Cultural Aspects in a Brazilian Context, Corf-IRM 2012 - International Conference on Information Resource Management Conference Proceeding, Vienna, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business

Piccolo, L. and Baranauskas, C. (2010) Making sense of the affordance concept in the 3rd HCI paradigm, ICWI 2010 - IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet, Timisoara, pp. 183-191, IADIS

Furtado, E., Kampf, T., Piccolo, L. and Baranauskas, C. (2009) Prospecting the Appropriation of Digital TV in a Brazilian Project, Computers in Entertainment (CIE) - SPECIAL ISSUE: TV and Video Entertainment Environments, 7, 3, ACM

Piccolo, L. and Baranauskas, C. (2008) Understanding iDTV in a developing country and designing a T-gov application prototype, 7th ACM conference on Designing interactive Systems (DIS), Cape Town

Piccolo, L., Melo, A. and Baranauskas, C. (2007) Accessibility and Interactive TV: Design Recommendations for the Brazilian Scenario, INTERACT 2007 Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4622, pp. 361-374, Springer

Menezes, S. and Piccolo, L. (2003) O ensino de computação para além dos muros da escola : análise crítica dos caminhos no Brasil e no Reino Unido [Teaching computing beyond the school walls : a critical analysis of paths in Brazil and the United Kingdom], Cadernos CEDES, 43, pp. 108-115