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NewMinE Lab - New Media in Education Laboratory

GRAPPLE (UE, FP7)


Project owner: Riccardo Mazza

Project staff: Luca Mazzola

Period: February 2008 – January 2011

Funding agency: European Commission, 7th FP

Website: http://www.grapple-project.org

GRAPPLE is an EU FP7 STREP Project. GRAPPLE stands for “Generic Responsive Adaptive Personalized Learning Environment”.The GRAPPLE project aims at delivering to learners a technology-enhanced learning (TEL) environment that guides them through a life-long learning experience, automatically adapting to personal preferences, prior knowledge, skills and competences, learning goals and the personal or social context in which the learning takes place.

The same TEL environment can be used/accessed at home, school, work or on the move (using mobile/handheld devices).


Mazzola Luca (PhD student)


Luca holds an Italian  Master’s degree in Engineering in Computer Science from Politechnic University of Milan. His research at the NewMinE Lab focuses on adaptive contents for eLearning, inside the GRAPPLE project. He aims to help people involved in Life Long Learning to reach their objectives: this could be achieved using visualization techniques to present them relevant information able to stress their self-reflection processes. Luca is a member of the Red-Ink Doctoral School and member of Institute for Technologies of Communication (ITC).

He is also teacher of ‘Fundamentals of Biomedical Informatics’ at the BioMedical Informatics & eHealth lab at Politechnic University of Milan.

In the past, he has worked as a freelancing software engineer, as a research associate at CILEA, and most recently as a teacher assistant at PoliMi.

Luca is working on Life Long Learning, adaptive hypermedia, Human Computer Interaction, Information Visualization

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Contact Luca at
Tel: +41 (0)58 666 46 74
Fax: +41 (0)58 666 46 47
Mobile (personal): +41 77 44 57 526
Mail: luca.mazzola@lu.unisi.ch
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Skype:  mazzolaluca


  • NewMedia in Education Lab, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano