Dr. Antonio Giovani Schiavone graduated from the University of Pisa, with a Master’s Degree in Computer Science.
Since 2013 he has been a Graduate Fellow at the HIIS Laboratory of Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione “A. Faedo”, part of the Italian National Research Council, focusing his research on techniques and methodologies for automatic and semi-automatic evaluation of Web Accessibility and Web Usability.
In late 2013 he has been awarded with the ETIC Award, promoted by the Italian Association for computer science and distributed computing (AICA) and Rotary International, for his master’s thesis on a prototype of an automatic accessibility evaluator.
He is the author of MAUVE Accessibility Validator.
In 2016, he continued his research activities as Graduate Fellow at Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica “A. Ruberti” of the Italian National Research Council, focusing on Semantic Web e Linked Data.
Starting from 2017, he has been working for various Public Administrations at the national level, including:
– ICT Consultant at the Agency for Digital Italy (AgID), responsible for the technical implementation and development of technical documentation for the Public Digital Identity System (SPID).
– Administrative-Informatics Officer at the National Agency for Regional Health Services (Agenas), responsible for data visualization in the healthcare sector, including the COVID19 Portal for displaying data related to the percentage of ICU and regular ward bed occupancy by COVID19 patients.
– ICT Employee at the Pension Fund Oversight Commission (COVIP), responsible for integrating internal services with the PagoPA payment system.
Currently, he is a Technical Assistant in the Operational Resilience Division of the Bank of Italy.
He has been a speaker at various talks for the National Conference HANDImatica 2014, World Usability Day Milan 2016, WordCamp Rome (editions 2017 and 2018), SMAU Milan 2018, AccessibilityDays (editions 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023), and co-speaker of presentations at the WSIS Forum and the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces 2016.
He has been a peer reviewer for the following international conferences :
- International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM) 2013
- ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS) 2014
- International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT) 2015
- ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2015
- ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS) 2015
- International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM) 2015
- International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI) 2015
- International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI) 2016
- International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2017
- International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI) 2018
- ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(CHI) 2019
and for the following scientific journals: