I have a PhD in Social Sciences - Interaction, Communication, Cultural Construction from the University of Padova (Italy), and I have always been interested in citizen engagement in relation to science, technology and innovation. I had five years of practical experience working within a regional public administration to support digitalisation. My current research reflection and academic production focus on the debate about the design of technology, platforms and services to support empowerment, inclusion and sustainability, with attention to gender and other inequalities.
Biography
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Applied Psychology (UCC). I am involved in BEHAV-I-AIR (SFI), a project dealing with communication strategies to empower citizens to contribute to cleaner air. The goal is to combine technological advances in air quality forecasting with community-engaged design thinking to co-create air quality alerts and behavioural prompts with the public to positively impact air quality-related awareness and behaviour.I have a PhD in Social Sciences - Interaction, Communication, Cultural Construction from the University of Padova (Italy), and I have always been interested in citizen engagement in relation to science, technology and innovation. I had five years of practical experience working within a regional public administration to support digitalisation. My current research reflection and academic production focus on the debate about the design of technology, platforms and services to support empowerment, inclusion and sustainability, with attention to gender and other inequalities.
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Research Interests
The common thread of my research path has been the attention to the dynamics of interaction between different human and non-human actors in the construction of technoscientific knowledge and artifacts, with particular attention to the power dynamics involved. Initially, this translated into the observation of the co-construction of decisions and knowledge within processes involving the relationship between technoscience, society and environment. My theoretical and methodological frameworks were mainly related to Science and Technology Studies, with particular attention for political science and political sociology. In recent years this path has led me to take advantage of this background in the discussion about Participatory Design, with particular attention to the study of technologies aimed at issues such as social innovation, inclusion, power inequalities, economic and environmental sustainability. My current research reflection and academic production focus on the debate about the design of technology, platforms and services to support a more just society, through the analysis of processes of infrastructuring, institutioning, commoning and the role of intermediaries in social innovation projects.
Publications
Book Chapters
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| (2022) | 'Co-designing Collaborative Care Work through Ethnography' Sciannamblo Mariacristina; Roberto Cibin; Maurizio Teli (2022) 'Co-designing Collaborative Care Work through Ethnography' In: Travlou P. & Ciolfi L (eds). Ethnographies of Collaborative Economies across Europe. London: Ubiquity Press. [DOI] [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Year | Publication | |
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| (2023) | 'Participatory Design and Critical Media Studies: A Convivial Conversation' Cibin, Roberto and Bonini, Tiziano and Teli, Maurizio (2023) 'Participatory Design and Critical Media Studies: A Convivial Conversation'. ID\&A Interaction design \& architecture (s), (56):156-173 [Details] | |
| (2023) | 'When Sociotechnical Imaginaries Become True: Digital Transition of Public Services and Inequalities during the Pandemic' Cibin, Roberto (2023) 'When Sociotechnical Imaginaries Become True: Digital Transition of Public Services and Inequalities during the Pandemic'. Societies, 13 (10) [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2022) | 'Intermediation in design as a practice of institutioning and commoning' Teli M.;McQueenie J.;Cibin R.;Foth M. (2022) 'Intermediation in design as a practice of institutioning and commoning'. Design Studies, 82 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2022) | 'Better stories for a gender equal and fairer social recovery from outbreaks: learnings from the RESISTIRÉ project' Strid S.;Schrodi C.;Cibin R. (2022) 'Better stories for a gender equal and fairer social recovery from outbreaks: learnings from the RESISTIRÉ project'. Gender and development, 30 (1-2):265-281 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2021) | 'Being Regulated: Licence to Imagine New Technology for Community Radio' Bidwell N.J.;Cibin R.;Linehan C.;Maye L.;Robinson S. (2021) 'Being Regulated: Licence to Imagine New Technology for Community Radio'. Proceedings Of The Acm On Human-Computer Interaction, 5 (CSCW1) [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2021) | 'Rural Islandness as a Lens for (Rural) HCI' Robinson, S;Bidwell, NJ;Cibin, R;Linehan, C;Maye, L;Mccarthy, J;Pantidi, N;Teli, M (2021) 'Rural Islandness as a Lens for (Rural) HCI'. Acm Transactions On Computer-Human Interaction, 28 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2020) | 'Co-designing convivial tools to support participation in community radio' Cibin R.;Robinson S.;Scott K.M.;Sousa D.;Žišt P.;Maye L.;Sciannamblo M.;Ashby S.;Csíkszentmihályi C.;Pantidi N.;Teli M. (2020) 'Co-designing convivial tools to support participation in community radio'. Radio Journal, 18 (1):43-61 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2014) | 'L’apertura dei dati pubblici nella PA: il progetto Open Data in Trentino' Cibin, Roberto and Ruzzene, Lorenzo and Gleria, Francesca (2014) 'L’apertura dei dati pubblici nella PA: il progetto Open Data in Trentino'. STUDI ORGANIZZATIVI, [Details] | |
| (2012) | 'The Chiampo River 30 Years Later: Long-Term Effects of Environmental Regulations on Social Representations' Brondi S.;Sarrica M.;Cibin R.;Neresini F.;Contarello A. (2012) 'The Chiampo River 30 Years Later: Long-Term Effects of Environmental Regulations on Social Representations'. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 22 (4):283-299 [DOI] [Details] |
Other Journals
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| (2022) | 'From undistracted to instant reading and back: Prototyping a new digital library service' Suchá, Ladislava Zbiejczuk and Cibin, Roberto and Kocurek, Josef and Martinek, Jan and Málek, Matej and Vojtech, Vojtíšek and Bartošová, Jitka (2022) 'From undistracted to instant reading and back: Prototyping a new digital library service' Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries, 11 (3) :553-572. [Details] |
Conference Publications
| Year | Publication | |
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| (2021) | PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2021 ACM DESIGNING INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS CONFERENCE (DIS 2021) Cibin, R;Robinson, S;Bidwell, NJ;Linehan, C;Maye, L;Pantidi, N;Teli, M (2021) Land, Water and Sun Tuning into Socio-Ecological Relations in Radio Design PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2021 ACM DESIGNING INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS CONFERENCE (DIS 2021) , pp.1954-1969 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2021) | ACM International Conference Proceeding Series Mencarini E.;Rapp A.;Tonolli L.;Teli M.;Cibin R.;D'andrea V.;Zancanaro M. (2021) Designing for/with/around nature: Exploring new frontiers of outdoor-related HCI ACM International Conference Proceeding Series [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2021) | Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact Caselli, Tommaso and Cibin, Roberto and Conforti, Costanza and Encinas, Enrique and Teli, Maurizio (2021) Guiding Principles for Participatory Design-inspired Natural Language Processing Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact Online, , pp.27-35 [Details] | |
| (2020) | ACM International Conference Proceeding Series Cibin R.;Robinson S.;Teli M.;Linehan C.;Maye L.;Csíkszentmihályi C. (2020) Shaping Social Innovation in Local Communities: The Contribution of Intermediaries ACM International Conference Proceeding Series [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2020) | UbiComp/ISWC 2020 Adjunct - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers Scott K.M.;Ashby S.;Cibin R. (2020) Implementing text-to-speech tools for community radio in remote regions of Romania UbiComp/ISWC 2020 Adjunct - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers , pp.123-126 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2019) | Ethnographies of Collaborative Economi (es) Conference Sciannamblo, Mariacristina and Cibin, Roberto and Zišt, Petra and Csíkszentmihályi, Christopher and Teli, Maurizio (2019) Co-designing collaborative care work through ethnography Ethnographies of Collaborative Economi (es) Conference [Details] | |
| (2019) | ACM International Conference Proceeding Series Cibin R.;Teli M.;Robinson S. (2019) Institutioning and community radio. A comparative perspective ACM International Conference Proceeding Series , pp.143-154 [DOI] [Details] |