Paolo Ciuccarelli

Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano, he teaches at the Faculty of Design in the Communication Design master degree. He has been visiting lecturer at Universidad de Malaga and The Royal Institute of Art (KKH – Stockholm) and participated to several postgraduate courses in other universities.
Since 2000 he represents the Faculty of Design in the European program “MEDes” (Master in European Design).
Head of the Communication Design Research group and member of the Design PhD board, both at Politecnico di Milano – Design Department. His research and publishing activities focus on the development of data, information and knowledge visualization tools and methods to support decision making processes in complex systems.
He’s founder and scientific coordinator of POLIteca, the Design Knowledge Centre of Politecnico di Milano.

Research

Publications

Re(de)fining Sonification: Project Classification Strategies in the Data Sonification Archive

Permagnus Lindborg, Valentina Caiola, Manni Chen, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Sara Lenzi. 2024. AES, 72(9), 585–602.

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The design of Datascapes: toward a design framework for sonification for anomaly detection in AI-supported networked environments

Sara Lenzi, Ginevra Terenghi, Damiano Meacci, Aitor Moreno Fernandez-de-Leceta, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2024. Frontiers in Computer Science, 5, 1–21.

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AI for User-Centered New Product Development: From Large-Scale Need Elicitation to Generative Design

T. J. Marion, M. Moghaddam, Paolo Ciuccarelli, L. Wang. 2023. In The PDMA Handbook of Innovation and New Product Development (pp. 425–443). Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons.

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Design for Emergency: How Digital Technologies Enabled an Open Design Platform to Respond to COVID-19

Sara Colombo, Estefania Ciliotta, Lucia Marengo, Houjiang Liu, Piero Molino, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2023. Interacting With Computers, 35(5), 650–665.

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Menzione d’onore Compasso d’Oro – Atlante Italo Calvino

Michele Mauri, Tommaso Elli, Angeles Briones, Beatrice Gobbo, Francesca Serra, Valeria Cavalloro, Virginia Giustetto, Margherita Parigini, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2022. ADI - Associazione per il Disegno Industriale. pp. 96–96.

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Design for Emergency: An Open Platform to Design and Implement User-Centered Solutions in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Sara Colombo, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2020. Strategic Design Research Journal, 13(3), 711–724.

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Visual Monitoring of Complex Algorithms

Michele Invernizzi, Michele Mauri, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2020. 2CO: COmmunicating COmplexity Contributions from the 2017 Tenerife Conference, 115–120. Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain: Universidad de La Laguna.

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Beyond Visualization

Paolo Ciuccarelli, Tommaso Elli. 2019. In H. Hotson & T. Wallnig (Eds.), Reassembling the Republic of Letters in the Digital Age: Standards, Systems, Scholarship (Vol. 1–1, pp. 299–314). Universitätsverlag Göttingen.

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Teaching the Critical Role of Designers in the Data Society: The DensityDesign Approach

Michele Mauri, Gabriele Colombo, Angeles Briones, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2019. Proceedings of DRS Learn X Design 2019: Insider Knowledge, 183–195. Ankara: METU Department of Industrial Design.

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Topic tomographies (Toptom): A visual approach to distill information from media streams

Beatrice Gobbo, D. Balsamo, Michele Mauri, P. Bajardi, A. Panisson, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2019. Computer Graphics Forum, 38(3), 609–621.

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Venezia, la ‘Festa Mobile’: per un atlante in fieri. Luoghi, figure e forme della favola antica nel primo Rinascimento

Bortoletti Francesca, Beatrice Gobbo, Tommaso Elli, Gerbino Giuseppe, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2018. La Rivista di Engramma, 160(novembre 2018), 1–10.

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Designing diagrams for Wikipedia: opening a reflection on the role of information visualization in collaborative projects

Michele Mauri, Azzurra Pini, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2017. Information Design Journal, 23(1), 65–79.

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Urbanscope: A Lens to Observe Language Mix in Cities

Michela Arnaboldi, Marco Brambilla, Beatrice Cassottana, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Simone Vantini. 2017. American Behavioral Scientist, 61(7), 774–793.

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Visual Geolocations. Repurposing online data to design alternative views

Gabriele Colombo, Michele Mauri, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2017. Big Data & Society, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951717702409

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Designing diagrams for social issues

Michele Mauri, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2016. Proceedings of DRS2016: Design + Research + Society - Future-Focused Thinking, 3, 941–956. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2016.185

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How Twitter reveals Cities within Cities

Michela Arnaboldi, Marco Brambilla, Beatrice Cassottana, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Simone Vantini. 2016. Proceedings of the 7th 2016 International Conference on Social Media & Society, 1–11.

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Studying Multicultural Diversity of Cities and Neighborhoods through Social Media Language Detection

Michela Arnaboldi, Marco Brambilla, Beatrice Cassottana, Paolo Ciuccarelli, DAVIDE MARIA FILIPPO Ripamonti, Simone Vantini, Riccardo Volonterio. 2016. AAAI Publications, Tenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 1–6.

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Visualisation Strategies for Comparing Political Ideas with the ORATIO platform

Tommaso Elli, Giovanni Moretti, Rachele Sprugnoli, Michele Mauri, Giorgio Uboldi, Sara Tonelli, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2016. In M. Eder & J. Rybicki (Eds.), Digital Humanities 2016. Conference Abstracts. Krakow: Jagiellonian University & Pedagogical University.

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Ways of Seeing Data: Toward a Critical Literacy for Data Visualizations as Research Objects and Research Devices

Jonathan Gray, Liliana Bounegru, Stefania Milan, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2016. In Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research (pp. 227–251). Palgrave Macmillan.

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A platform for visually exploring the development of wikipedia articles

Erik Borra, David Laniado, Esther Weltevrede, Michele Mauri, Giovanni Magni, Tommaso Venturini, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Richard Rogers, Andreas Kaltenbrunner. 2015. Proceedings of the 9th International AAAI Conference of Web and Social Media.

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CitySensing: Fusing City Data for Visual Storytelling

Marco Balduini, Emanuele DELLA VALLE, Matteo Azzi, Roberto Larcher, Fabrizio Antonelli, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2015. IEEE Multimedia, 22(3), 44–53.

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From Dissemination to Engagement and Action: the Ethics of Communication Design

Elena Caratti, Paolo Ciuccarelli, M. W. D. Roxburgh. 2015. The Virtuous Circle. Design Culture and Experimentation, 143–151. Milano: Mc Graw-Hill Education.

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Societal Controversies in Wikipedia Articles

Erik Borra, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Michele Mauri, Esther Weltevrede, David Laniado, Richard Rogers, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Giovanni Magni. 2015.

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BORDERS. Visual analysis of Cinema’s inner dynamics and evolutions. A case study based on the Internet Movie Database.

Giovanni Magni, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Giorgio Uboldi, Giorgio Caviglia. 2014. in In C. Coletta, S. Colombo, P. Magaudda, A. Mattozzi, L.L. Parolin and L. Rampino (eds.), A Matter of Design. Proceedings of the V STS Italia Conference 2014, STS Italia, Milan, Italy.

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City sensing: visualising mobile and social data about a city scale event

Antonelli Fabrizio, Matteo Azzi, Marco Balduini, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Emanuele DELLA VALLE, Larcher Roberto. 2014. Proceedings of the 2014 International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces - AVI '14, 337–338.

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Contropedia – the analysis and visualization of controversies in Wikipedia articles

Erik Borra, Esther Weltevrede, Paolo Ciuccarelli, David Laniado, Giovanni Magni, Michele Mauri, Richard Rogers, Tommaso Venturini. 2014. OpenSym ’14: The International Symposium on Open Collaboration Proceedings, (May), 288021.

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Il ruolo dell’Information Visualization nella progettazione di interfacce per archivi digitali eterogenei

Michele Mauri, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2014. In F. Ciotti (Ed.), Digital Humanities: progetti italiani ed esperienze di convergenza multidisciplinare (p. 16). Firenze: Sapienza Università Editrice.

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Visualizing the Data City, Social media as a source of knowledge for urban planning and management

Paolo Ciuccarelli, Giorgia Lupi, Simeone Luca. 2014. Springer.

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Weaving data, slicing views: a design approach to creating visual access for digital archival collections

Michele Mauri, Azzurra Pini, Daniele Ciminieri, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2013. In Proceedings of the Biannual Conference of the Italian Chapter of SIGCHI (CHItaly '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA

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Knot: an Interface for the Study of Social Networks in the Humanities

Giorgio Uboldi, Giorgio Caviglia, Nicole Coleman, Sébastien Heyman, Glauco Mantegari, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2013. In Proceedings of the Biannual Conference of the Italian Chapter of SIGCHI (CHItaly '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 15, 9 pages.

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Minerva: an Information Visualization Tool to Support Philosophical Historiography

Valerio Pellegrini, Giorgio Caviglia, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2013. Communicating Complexity. Conference Proceedings, 127–138. Roma: Edizioni Nuova Cultura.

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Shaping Organizational Complexity

Azzurra Pini, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2013. 2CO Communicating complexity: 2013 Conference Proceedings, 171–183.

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Telltale: Visualizing the Use and Perception of Cities Through Digital Traces

Paolo Ciuccarelli, Giorgia Lupi, Eynard Davide, Fabio Manfredini, Matteo Matteucci, Giorgio Caviglia, Paolo Dilda, Fabio Marfia, Matteo Azzi. 2013. EAEA11 2013. Envisioning Architecture: Design, Evaluation, Communication, 383–392. Roma: Edizioni Nuova Cultura.

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Communication Design and the Digital Humanities – Visualizations and Interfaces for Humanities Research

Giorgio Caviglia, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Nicole Coleman. 2012. Proceedings of IV International Forum of Design, 9: 2012, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, 19 a 22nd September, 2012.

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Depicting perceived city-scapes: dynamic visualization tools as a support for urban decision making processes.

Giorgia Lupi, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2012. Proceedings of the EAAE/ARCC Conference on Architectural Research. EAAE-ARCC.

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Turning visualisations into stories and “big pictures”

Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2012. In Information Graphics (pp. 77–95). Cologne: Taschen GmbH.

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Visual Explorations. On-line investigations for understanding society.

Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2012. In Molofiej 19. International Infographics Awards (pp. 6–23). Pamplona: SND-E Society for News Design.

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BURN: Baring Unknown Rogue Networks

Francesco Roveta, Luca Di Mario, Federico Maggi, Giorgio Caviglia, Stefano Zanero, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2011. In Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 6 , 10 pages. [Best Paper Award]

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Dust: A Visualization Tool Supporting Parents’ School Choice Evaluation Process

Matteo Azzi, Giorgio Caviglia, Donato Ricci, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Loredana Bontempi, Emanuele Bonetti. 2011. Parsons Journal for Information Mapping, Vol. 3 n° 4

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Visualizing and understanding (Italian) society between ethics and aesthetics

Donato Ricci, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2011. Frontiers of Interaction 2011 Firenze, Italy. June 20-21, 2011.

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A Didactical Framework to Experiment the Potential of Visual Languages in Engaging Social Complexity

Francesca Valsecchi, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Donato Ricci, Giorgio Caviglia. 2010. In DRS2010 - Design & Complexity proceedings, eds.David Durling, Rabah Bousbaci, Lin-Lin Chen, Philippe Gauthier, Tiiu Poldma, Seymour Rowoth-Stokes and Erik Stolterman. Montreal: 7 - 9 July

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CoDe: a Graphic Language for Complex System Visualization

Paolo Ciuccarelli, M. I. Sessa, M. Tucci. 2010. Information Technology and Innovation Trends in Organization - Conference Proceedings, 1–8. Atti online.

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Design Knowledge Farming

Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2010. DIID. Disegno Industriale Industrial Design, VII(42-43), 120–129.

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From Data to Knowledge. Visualizations as transformation processes within the Data-Information-Knowledge continuum

Luca Masud, Francesca Valsecchi, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Donato Ricci, Giorgio Caviglia. 2010. Information Visualisation (IV), 2010 14th International Conference. 445 - 449. 26-29 July 2010, London, United Kingdom.

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The DensityDesign lab: communication design experiments among complexity and sustainability

Francesca Valsecchi, Donato Ricci, Giorgio Caviglia, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2010. in Proceedings Cumulus Conference 2010 "Young Creators for Better City and Better Life", Shanghai, Tongji University, China, September 2010

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The image of the divided city through maps: the territory without territory

Luigi Farrauto, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2010. In Proceedings of the Everyday Life in the Segmented City Conference. Florence, July 22-25, 2010

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Complexity Maps

Paolo Ciuccarelli, Donato Ricci. 2009. In International Summer School. Designing Connected Places. eds. Eleonora Lupo and Cristian Campagnaro. Milano: Editrice Compositori.

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Dust. La multidimensionalità del dato e la sua visualizzazione

Giorgio Caviglia, Donato Ricci, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2009. In Design Research Maps. eds. Paola Bertola and Stefano Maffei. Milano: Maggioli.

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Ethnographic approach to design knowledge. Dialogue and participation as discovery tools within complex knowledge contexts

Francesca Valsecchi, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2009. In IASDR Conference Proceedings, Rigor and Relevance in Design Research, 18-22 October 2009, Seoul, South Korea.

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Handling changes through diagrams: Scale and grain in the visual representation of Complex Systems

Paolo Ciuccarelli, Donato Ricci, Francesca Valsecchi. 2008. In Changing the change Proceedings, eds. Carla Cipolla and Pier Paolo Peruccio. Turin: Allemandi, July 10.

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Network shapes design activities. ICT supporting open and shared design processes

Francesca Valsecchi, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2007. in IASDR Conference Proceedings, Emerging Trends in Design Research, 12 – 15 November,2007. © 2007, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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Reshaping communication design tools. Complex systems structural features for design tools

Gaia Scagnetti, Donato Ricci, Giovanni Baule, Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2007. In IASDR07 Proceedings, ed. Sharon Poggenpohl. Hong Kong, November 12.

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