Silvio Cioni

SHORT BIO
Silvio Cioni, born in 1974, is an Interaction Designer and Senior Consultant at IKS Coreconsulting. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Digital Media Design at the University of Siena.

He enjoys to develop projects about mobile interaction, physical tagging and social networking.

In 2007 he was the Coordinator of Design Department of Domus Academy.
In 2006 he coordinated the Master in Ambient Interaction at ARSNOVA - the Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences of Siena in conjunction with the University of Siena, and he obtained his Ph.D. in Telematics and Information Society from the University of Florence.
He was also a Design Consultant for Infoblu (Autostrade SpA Group).In 2000 he joined the Domus Academy while working as an Interaction Designer at DA Research Center in the area of Interactive Media and Services.From January 2002 to July 2004 he was the Coordinator of the Master in Interaction Design of the Domus Academy. Before joining the Domus Academy, he was a Research Assistant at the University of Siena with a focus on HCI and New Media design.He graduated in Communication Science from the University of Siena in 1999.

EDUCATION
200604Ph.D. in “Telematics and Information Society” at the Electronics and Telecommunications Department, University of Florence with the dissertation “AWarE – Adaptive Work Environments (of Information Society)”199912Master’s Degree with Honours in “Communication Science” with a focus on HCI and New Media design, obtained from the University of Siena with the dissertation “MID – Multimedia Interaction Design, a methodology for Multimedia Design”

RECENT PROJECTS
200707 Project Leader with Claudio Moderini during Tangible Electronics, a workshop that aims at envisioning tangible mobile tools for Social Networking and Physical Tagging. Summer Session in Tangible Electronic Objects, Domus Academy, Milan http://projects.domusacademy.net/te

200706 Project Liaison with Claudio Moderini in the framework of SDP07 – Siena Design Project with the project Dongmuron.Participants in SDP are the University of Siena, the Domus Academy Milan, the Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, and the University of Limerick.University of Siena, Certosa di Pontignano

200705 Project Leader with Elena Pacenti in Service XP Objects, a workshop that aims at designing new promotional objects and gadgets to further the service experience.Industrial Design, Polytechnic University of Milan200703Project Leader with Francesca Tassistro in the framework of MobileApps, an investigation about graphical user interfaces that aims at developing innovative applications for mobile devices.Master in Interaction Design, Domus Academy, Milan
http://projects.domusacademy.net/mobileapps

200702 Project Coordinator and Chief Editor of the “Projects” website.On this site, all the design activities undertaken by the Design Department of the Domus Academy are listed and illustrated so as to give an overview of the educational and research initiatives carried out as part of the Master courses in Design and Interaction Design.
http://projects.domusacademy.net

http://projects.domusacademy.net/interactiondesign
http://projects.domusacademy.net/design

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linkedin: cioni
website: http://www.cioni.net