Sapienza CS Dept • Transit UX CHItaly '25 Published

Context-Aware UX in Automated Mobility

Lead UX Researcher & BLE Telemetry Architect

Co-designed and evaluated passive smartphone BLE beaconing to detect passenger presence, boarding events, and compartment transitions inside autonomous transit vehicles without QR codes, physical ticket barriers, or invasive camera sensors.

  • Built an empirical evaluation testbed inside simulated transit compartments
  • Validated user acceptance and perceived privacy via quantitative surveys
  • Presented at the 16th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter (CHItaly '25)
BLE Beacons Python Interaction Design Field Studies Automated Transit
ACM DOI
Sapienza Gamification Lab Active Lab Initiative

Gamification Lab Interactive Ecosystem

UI/UX Designer & Interaction Prototyper

Designed interactive gamified user experiences aimed at encouraging sustainable student commuting, laboratory resource sharing, and positive habit formation across campus university environments.

  • Created complete Figma design system, typography tokens & interactive wireframes
  • Facilitated participatory design sessions with undergraduate student cohorts
  • Structured behavioral nudging mechanisms with real-time feedback loops
Figma User Research Behavioral UX Information Architecture Usability Testing
Built Environment Telemetry AVI '26 Demonstration

Campus Spatial Analytics & Floorplan Visualization

Co-Researcher & Telemetry Engineer

Participated in deploying and validating distributed non-intrusive BLE sensor meshes across university campus spaces to visualize occupant density, study room capacity, and mobility trends without capturing personal identifiable data.

  • Architected real-time floorplan occupancy heatmaps (AVI '26 Demonstration)
  • Mitigated randomized MAC address hashing using sliding-window RSSI filtering
  • Benchmarked thermal and ventilation impact for university facilities management
Spatial AI Ambient Sensing IoT Mesh Privacy by Design Data Visualization
AVI '26 Paper
Open Science Artifact Open Source

Passive BLE Presence & Benchmarking Toolkit

Creator & Maintainer

An open-source telemetry processing library for ingesting raw Bluetooth advertisement frames, filtering randomized peripheral MAC addresses, and benchmarking spatial presence heuristics against ground-truth logs.

  • Modular Python telemetry pipeline with zero proprietary cloud dependencies
  • Reproducible algorithmic benchmarks for indoor occupancy estimation
  • Provides exportable JSON/CSV logs for academic reproducibility
Python BLE Telemetry Open Science Signal Processing Heuristics Engine