great driving experience at Protoscar

LAMPO3 is a battery powered electric demonstration sports car developed on the base of 30.000 km lessons learned with its predecessors LAMPO and LAMPO2.
It features a purpose designed light weight chassis, a 2+2 coupé design and a fast charge option. The BRUSA powertrain (3 motors with a total output of 420 kW) guarantee extreme performances without compromises in terms of efficiency.
More on Protoscar website

Encyclopedia of Media and Communication

Encyclopedia of Media and Communication
Edited by Marcel Danesi
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division © 2013
now available
I've contributed with two articles: eGovernment, and www (with Stefano Tardini)

 

12th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries

12th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries
Conference Theme: Into the Future: Themes, insights and agendas for ICT4D research and practice
Ocho Rios Jamaica,  19-22 May, 2013
Proceedings are now available

• S. Vannini, Lucía Aguirre-Sanchéz, I. Rega & L. Cantoni, Images of Community Multimedia Centres in Mozambique: A Participatory Photo-Elicitation Study, in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries (Ocho Rios, Jamaica, May 2013), pp. 348-362

• L. Aguirre Sánchez, S. Vannini, I. Rega & L. Cantoni, Fictional Characters, Real Data: Personas Depicting Staff and Users of Community Multimedia Centres in Mozambique, in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries (Ocho Rios, Jamaica, May 2013), pp. 917-933 

• Salomão David, I. Rega, S. Vannini & L. Cantoni, Co-designed Improvement Actions in Mozambican Community Multimedia Centres, in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries (Ocho Rios, Jamaica, May 2013), pp. 1004-1017

Christopher Dawson, La crisi dell’istruzione occidentale

appena uscito, con una mia presentazione >>>

alla SUPSI con i partecipanti al corso promosso da NetComm Suisse

 

più info sul sito di NetComm Suisse

Centros Multimédia Comunitários em Moçambique: um mapa

The White Paper in Portuguese “Centros Multimédia Comunitários em Moçambique: um mapa”, edited by Isabella Rega and Lorenzo Cantoni and researched by Sara Vannini, Salomão David, Alexandre Baia and Gertrudes Macueve, has now been published!
The paper presents the history, typologies and number of Community Multimedia Centres in Mozambique, as well as the description of a sample of 10 of them, one per each province of the country. The information provided has been collected within the field work of the project RE-ACT (Social REpresentations of community multimedia centres and ACTions for improvement), a research and development project run by the NewMinE Lab in collaboration with the Centre for African Studies and the Department of Mathemathics and Informatics of the University Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique.
The paper can be downloaded for free from this page.

HCI International 2013

15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

21 - 26 July 2013, Mirage Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

The program is now online >>>

I'm going to chair the following section:

Design, User Experience and Usability in Tourism-related Applications
Chair(s): Lorenzo Cantoni

• Examining User Experience of Cruise Online Search Funnel
  Asta Adukaite, Alessandro Inversini, Lorenzo Cantoni
• Meta-design Approach for Mobile Platforms Supporting Creative Tourism Experiences
  Iis P Tussyadiah
• The Effect of Feedback within Social Media in Tourism Experiences
  Jeongmi (Jamie) Kim, Dan Fesenmaier, Steven Johnson
• The Travel Machine: Mobile UX Design that Combines Information Design with Persuasion Design
  Aaron Marcus, Theresa Karolina Schieder, Lorenzo Cantoni
• Fulfilled and Missed Requirements for Online Reservation Systems: An Empirical Investigation of Austrian and Swiss Hotels
  Gerhard F. Knolmayer, Viola Sini, Polina Chelnokova
• Sharing Life Experiences with Friends Based on Individual’s Locality
  Mohsin Ali Memon, Jiro Tanaka

Luxury in Hospitality: an Analysis of Online Reviews of Chinese and Indian Hotels

Luxury tourism has a multiple identity and can be interpreted from different perspectives. However, understanding the elements and emotions involved in a luxury tourism experience are essential to identify guests’ expectations.
The new webatelier.net report by Laura Malinverno, Asta Adukaite and Lorenzo Cantoni, is looking at how travelers comment online about luxury Chinese and Indian hotels: “Luxury in Hospitality: an Analysis of Online Reviews of Chinese and Indian Hotels. April 2013.”
This research is based on the analysis of user-generated contents (UGC) from the Hotel Reviews Website TripAdvisor.com. Reviews written about Chinese and Indian luxury hotels, namely 5*+, were selected to explore elements and perceptions emerging from guests’ comments. 390 reviews were analyzed, 8 dimensions divided into 78 categories were identified as elements of the luxury hotels experience. Moreover, five luxury characteristics, extracted from previous research, were tested to verify this existing structure for the case of luxury tourism. Results showed that luxury concept is a dynamic and changing element in the context of luxury Chinese and Indian hotels, and that UGCs can be a useful tool to understand expectations of prospective guests, and priorities of luxury experiences.
To download the report, follow the next link: http://www.webatelier.net/luxury-hotels