Professor Daniela Petrelli invited to give keynote at Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval Conference

Sheffield Hallam’s Professor of Interaction Design Professor Daniela Petrelli has been invited to give a keynote speech at the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval Conference (CHIIR), being hosted at Glasgow’s Strathclyde Technology and Innovation Centre this month. The conference runs from Sunday 10 March to Thursday 14 March 2019.

Online information influences every aspect of our lives: work, leisure and learning. As information systems become more embedded in our day-to-day experiences, it becomes increasingly important to understand how people interact with information and the consequences of those interactions. Access to information is critical to preserving democracy. Beyond designing effective and engaging information retrieval systems and interfaces, understanding how users access and use information is crucial to designing fair and ethical systems.

Daniela will be giving a keynote under the title From delivering facts to generating emotions: the complex relationship between museums and information. 

Professor Daniela Petrelli is Professor of Interaction Design at Sheffield Hallam University. Daniela’s current research focuses on novel forms of interaction design that combine digital technology with product design, also known as Tangible and Embedded Interaction. Her investigations into these hybrid digital-physical scenarios are within two different domains: personal memories and cultural heritage.