Mauro Cherubini
Biography
Mauro Cherubini After a year in the department of Physics, Mauro Cherubini obtained a degree in Educational Studies from the third University of Rome (RomaTre) in 2001, with a thesis on the Usability of the Children's Internet Sites. Then he worked as a research assistant at the newborn Media Lab Europe, in Ireland, spending several periods at the MIT Media Lab in Boston. He finally obtained a Master of Arts by Research from the St. Patrick's College, Dublin City University, in 2004, with a thesis on the Microworlds for Ecology Explorations. In 2004 he joined the CRAFT team for his PhD on collaborative annotations of Maps. He is interested in how to use location awareness to enhance and economise the inference process of people during a communication/problem solving/learning activity.Publications
Selected publications
| M. Cherubini [Cherubini2004a] Cherubini, M. (2004a). A collaborative ontology for �spatialised communication�. In Position papers for the workshop �Potential of Cognitive Semantics for Ontologies�, part of FOIS2004, Torino, Italy. |
A collaborative ontology for �spatialised communication� |
| H. Gash & M. Cherubini [Gash and Cherubini2002] Gash, H. and Cherubini, M. (2002). A digital seed: designing a toy plant to facilitate cognitive growth. The Irish Psychologist, 29(4):49. |
A digital seed: designing a toy plant to facilitate cognitive growth |
| M. Cherubini, J., Rasmussen, H., Gash, and T., McCloughlin [Cherubini et�al.2002] Cherubini, M., Rasmussen, J., Gash, H., and McCloughlin, T. (2002). DigitalSeed. Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. |
DigitalSeed |
| N. Winters and M. Cherubini [Winters et�al.2003] Winters, N., Cherubini, M., and Strohecker, C. (2003). Biosphera: A prototype design for learning about multivariate systems. In CHI2003 Learning Workshop proccedings, Fort Lauredale, Florida, USA. Association for Computing Machinery. |
Biosphera: A prototype design for learning about multivariate systems |
| M. Cherubini [Cherubini2004] Cherubini, M. (2004). Microworlds for ecology explorations: From digitalseed to biosphera in fostering children�s understanding of plant biology. Master�s thesis, St. Patrick�s College, Dublin City University, Ireland. |
Microworlds for ecology explorations: From digitalseed to biosphera in fostering children�s understanding of plant biology |
| M. Cherubini and N. Nova [Cherubini and Nova2004] Cherubini, M. and Nova, N. (2004). To live or to master the city: the citizen dilemma: Some reflections on urban spaces fruition and on the possibility of change one�s attitude. Imago Urbis, Universitas de Quilmes, Buenos Aires, A |
To live or to master the city: the citizen dilemma: Some reflections on urban spaces fruition and on the possibility of change one�s attitude |
Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Humanities and Social Sciences Program