HTLab

About us

Welcome to the official web site of the Human Technology Lab (HTLab), founded by Luciano Gamberini & Anna Spagnolli in 2001.

We are based at the Università degli Studi di Padova (Padua, Italy) one of the oldest Universities (1222) in the world; HTLab is located inside the Department of General Psychology where we have facilities and research devices suitable to carry out state-of-the-art scientific work and to train our pre/post graduate students.

HTLab is a member of the CISC (Centre for Cognitive Science), of the ACM SIGCHI Italy (Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction) and of the IACR (International Association for Cybertherapy and Rehabilitation).
We cooperate with many partners around the world and with them we take care of several basic or applied research projects. We are particulary involved in EU founded project inside the VII Framework Program for Scientific Research in the ICT area.

In 2010, HTLab will support some  international scientific events; between these we would like to mention and link: Cybertherapy & Cyberpsychology 15(Seul, Korea),  ACM Advanced Visual Interface AVI 2010 (Rome, Italy), Multi-conference on Computer Science and Information Systems IADIS 2010 (Freiburg, Germany), IEEE Human Sistem Interaction Conference HSI 2010 (Rzeszow, Poland), Interaction Design & Children IDC 2010 (Barcelona, Spain), Presence 2010.

HTLab will also continue to support and organize the editorial and scientific work on: Psychnology Journal, Cyberpsychology and Behaviour, Cybertherapy & Rehabilitation and the IOS Press Series "Emerging Communication".

 

Please contact us for any question.

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