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Vannini Sara (PhD student)


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Sara graduated in 2006 in Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Bologna, Italy, with a dissertation focused on the rescue of of the Mapuche aboriginal culture, in collaboration with the Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile.

She has therefore accrued almost three years of experience working in the Internet field and developed a great interest in online communication, participative web and e-learning.

Since January 2010 she is part of the NewMinE Lab. She is currently working on the project Picture.

Contact Sara at:

tel.: +41 58 666 45 47
e-mail: sara.vannini [at] usi.ch

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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