Patrizia Grifoni

Patrizia Grifoni has been a researcher of the National Research Council of Italy since 1990, where she works within the staff researchers of MultiModal Laboratory of the Institute of Research on Population and Social Policies. She received her degrees in Electronics Engineering at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. From 1994 to 2000 she was a professor of "Elaborazione digitale delle immagini" at the University of Macerata.

She is the author of more than 70 papers in international journals, books and conferences. She served as referee of several international conferences, books and journals and is co-organiser of international research workshops and events. Her scientific interests have evolved from query languages for statistical and geographic databases to human-computer interaction, multimodal interaction and languages, visual languages, visual interfaces, sketch-based interfaces, web technologies, social networks. She was responsible of several projects funded by Italian and International Institutions.

Publications

RFID Technologies in Healthcare Setting: Applications and Future Perspectives

The paper discusses the use of RFID technologies in healthcare setting examining the status of applications and prospective views. The authors have identified two classes of...

Multiculturality and Multimodal Languages

The way by which people communicate each other changes in the different cultures due to the different communicative expectations and depending on their cultural backgrounds. The...

Risk Communication Methods and Participatory Approaches

The chapter provides an overview of the main methods, tools, and actions of risk communication used in the different phases of risk governance, analyzing their advantages and...

The E-Commerce Business Model Implementation

Virtual Communities in Marketing Processes: A Marketing Framework

The chapter provides a marketing framework to analyse the uses of virtual communities on marketing processes. The framework involves: actors (companies and companies), goals...

A Semantic-Based Approach for Context-Aware Service Discovery

The increasingly growing number of services available on the web, along with advances in information and communication technologies, has given rise to the development of new...

Geographic Visual Query Languages and Ambiguities Treatment

The main issues of spatial databases and Geographic Information System (GIS), concern the representation, the management and the manipulation of a large and complex number of...

Virtual Communities in Marketing Processes: A Marketing Framework

The chapter provides a marketing framework to analyse the uses of virtual communities on marketing processes. The framework involves: actors (companies and companies), goals...

Assessing E-Health in Africa: Web 2.0 Applications

The aim of this chapter is to discuss the e-health readiness assessment in Africa by analysing the ICT usage and the different barriers for the implementation of e-health...

RFID Technologies in the Health Sector

RFID technologies are increasingly acquiring a considerable relevance in the field of patients’ assistance. This contributes to independent living and quality of life for many...

Multiculturality and Multimodal Languages

The way by which people communicate each other changes in the different cultures due to the different communicative expectations and depending on their cultural backgrounds. The...

Wireless Solutions for Elderly People Assistance

Wireless technologies are increasingly acquiring a considerable relevance in the field of Ambient Assisted Living. This contributes to independent living and quality of life for...

Knowledge Access and Interaction Evolution in Virtual Learning Communities

Interaction among members in Virtual Learning Communities influences the communities’ evolution. Starting from this consideration, this chapter provides a discussion on the more...

Social Aspects and Web 2.0 Challenges in Blended Learning

The term e-learning is revolutionizing learning way and it is having a large impact on knowledge society is rapidly evolving into a Blended Learning method, which blends online...

Flood Risk Awareness: An Experiment Using School Students to Inform Families and Friends

Communication plays an essential role in risk awareness when the gap between the risk perception and the actual risk depends on correct knowledge. This study investigates public...

A Business Model Framework for Second Life

This chapter provides a framework to analyse the marketing and promotion advantages of Virtual Communities. Virtual Communities offer companies the possibility to carry out a new...

IBF: An Integrated Business Framework for Virtual Communities

The paper provides an integrated business framework for Business-to-Business, Business-to-Consumer and Consumer-to-Consumer Virtual Communities. The framework involves internal...

An Innovative Architecture of a System for Storing and Managing Intangible Cultural Heritage

In this chapter an innovative architecture of a system for the collection, preservation, management and access of intangible cultural heritage is proposed. It allows local or...

Wireless Solutions for Elderly People Assistance

Wireless technologies are increasingly acquiring a considerable relevance in the field of Ambient Assisted Living. This contributes to independent living and quality of life for...

CAMCE: A Framework for Climate Adaptation and Mitigation

There is a growing need to collaborate at national and European level for solutions connected with risks and problems due to climate changes. This need is leading to creation of...

Sketching in Knowledge Creation and Management

A sketch is a schematic representation of an image containing a set of objects or concepts. When people need to express and communicate a new idea, they often sketch a rough...

A Business Model Framework for Second Life

This chapter provides a framework to analyse the marketing and promotion advantages of Virtual Communities. Virtual Communities offer companies the possibility to carry out a new...

Social Aspects of Mobile Technologies on Web Tourism Trend

This chapter analyzes how the development and use of mobile and Web technologies are changing the way to search information, to plan, to buy, and to travel. The new technologies...

Social Aspects of Mobile Technologies on Web Tourism Trend

This chapter analyzes how the development and use of mobile and Web technologies are changing the way to search information, to plan, to buy, and to travel. The new technologies...

Smart Homes to Support Elderly People: Innovative Technologies and Social Impacts

Today the biggest challenge of our aging society is to enable people with impairments to have a better quality of life maintaining their independence. The chapter explores how...

Knowledge Access and Interaction Evolution in Virtual Learning Communities

Interaction among members in Virtual Learning Communities influences the communities’ evolution. Starting from this consideration, this chapter provides a discussion on the more...

Social Impacts of Mobile Virtual Communities on Healthcare

Mobile technologies, such as PDAs, pocket PCs and cell phones, are transforming interpersonal communications, making them independent from a fixed location and then “situated...

Multimodal Human Computer Interaction and Pervasive Services

The use of multimodality combined with mobile devices allows a simple, intuitive communication approach and generates new and pervasive services for users. Multimodal Human...

International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector (IJISSS)

John Wang. Est. 2009.

The International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector (IJISSS) examines current, state-of-the-art research in the area of service sectors and their interactions...

Genetic Algorithms and Other Approaches in Image Feature Extraction and Representation

The novel technologies used in different application domains allow obtaining digital images with a high complex informative content, which can be exploited to interpret the...

Social Aspects of Mobile Technologies on Web Tourism Trend

This chapter analyzes how the development and use of mobile and Web technologies are changing the way to search information, to plan, to buy, and to travel. The new technologies...

Social Impacts of Mobile Virtual Communities on Healthcare

Mobile technologies, such as PDAs, pocket PCs and cell phones, are transforming interpersonal communications, making them independent from a fixed location and then “situated...

Improving Multimedia Digital Libraries Usability Applying NLP Sentence Similarity to Multimodal Sentences

This chapter describes multimodality as a means of augmenting information retrieval activities in multimedia digital libraries. Multimodal interaction systems combine visual...

Geographic Visual Query Languages and Ambiguities Treatment

The main issues of spatial databases and Geographic Information System (GIS), concern the representation, the management and the manipulation of a large and complex number of...

Knowledge Management and Interaction in Virtual Communities

This chapter provides a classification of virtual communities of practice according to methods and tools offered to virtual community members for the knowledge management and the...

Multimodal Fission

An important issue for communication processes in general, and for multimodal interaction in particular, is the information output arrangement and organization (multimodal...

Sketching in Knowledge Creation and Management

A sketch is a schematic representation of an image containing a set of objects or concepts. When people need to express and communicate a new idea, they often sketch a rough...

International Journal of E-Business Research (IJEBR)

Mohammad Nabil Almunawar, Jeffrey Hsu. Est. 2005.

The emergence of electronic business is one of the most profound changes that revolutionized the process of buying, selling, and exchanging products and services over the...