Rossana Damiano
Professore/Professoressa associato/a
- Dipartimento di Informatica
- GSD: 01/INFO-01 - INFORMATICA
- SSD: INF/01 - informatica
- ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-9866-2843

Contatti
- 011.6706816
- +39 011 751603
- rossana.damiano@unito.it
- https://unito.webex.com/meet/rossana.damiano
- Dipartimento di Informatica, c.so Svizzera 185, Torino
- https://informatica.unito.it/persone/rossana.damiano
Curriculum vitae
Curriculum Vitae
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Journal articles
- Jiménez-Díaz, G., Diaz-Agudo, B., Bruni, L.E., Kadastik, N., Follo, A., Damiano, E., Striani, M., Sanchez-Martin, A., Lieto, A. (2025). Interpretable Clusters for Representing Citizens’ Sense of Belonging through Interaction with Cultural Heritage. ACM JOURNAL ON COMPUTING AND CULTURAL HERITAGE (JOCCH), Volume 17, Issue 412 February 2025.
- Lieto, A., Striani, Gena, C., Dolza, E., Marras, A.M., Pozzato, G.L., Damiano, R. (2024) A sensemaking system for grouping and suggesting stories from multiple affective viewpoints in museums. Int. Journal of HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION, Volume 39, Issue 1-2, Pages 109 - 143, 10.1080/07370024.2023.2242355
- Asprino, L., Damiano, R., Daquino, M., De Giorgis, S., Gangemi, A., Lieto, A., Sartini, B., Striani, M. (2024). An Ontology Network for Citizen Curation. ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 17(4), 1-30.
- Lieto, A., Pozzato, G.L., Striani, M., Zoia, S., Damiano, R. (2023) DEGARI 2.0: A Diversity-Seeking, Knowledge-based, Explainable, Art Recommender for Social Inclusion. COGNITIVE SYSTEMS RESEARCH, Volume 77, Pages 1-17.
- Damiano, R. (2023). Design and Development of Knowledge Graphs for Hittite and Kassite Prosopographic Data. MESOPOTAMIA: rivista di archeologia, epigrafia e storia orientale antica: LVIII, 2023, 87-92.
- Daga, E., Asprino, L., Damiano, R., Diaz Agudo, B., Gangemi, A., Kuflik, T., Lieto, A., Marras, A.M., Martinez Pandiani, D., Mulholland, P., Peroni,S., Pescarin,S. & Wecker, A. (2021). Integrating citizen experiences in cultural heritage archives: requirements, state of the art, and challenges. ACM JOURNAL ON COMPUTING AND CULTURAL HERITAGE (JOCCH), 15(1), 1-35
- Damiano, R., Lombardo, V., Pizzo, A. Studying and Designing Emotions in Live Interactions with the Audience. MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS. To appear. 10.1007/s11042-020-10007-3
- Damiano, R., Lombardo, V., Pizzo, A. (2019). The ontology of drama. APPLIED ONTOLOGY, vol. 14, n. 1, p. 1-40, ISSN: 1875-8533, doi: 10.3233/AO-190204
- Damiano, R., Lombardo, V., Lieto, A., & Borra, D. (2016). Exploring cultural heritage repositories with creative intelligence. The Labyrinth 3D system. ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING, 16, 41-52.
- Lombardo, V., Pizzo, A., Damiano, R. (2016). Safeguarding and Accessing Drama As Intangible Cultural Heritage, ACM JOURNAL ON COMPUTING and CULTURAL HERITAGE, vol. 9, n. 1, p. 1-26, ISSN: 1556-4673, doi, 10.1145/2812814
- Lombardo V., Battaglino C., Pizzo A., Damiano R., Lieto A. (2015). Coupling conceptual modeling and rules for the annotation of dramatic media. SEMANTIC WEb, vol. 6, p. 503-534, ISSN: 1570-0844, doi: 10.3233/SW-140156
- Damiano R., Gena C., Lombardo V. (2015). Leveraging social semantic components in executable environments for learning, EXPERT SYSTEMS, vol. 32, n. 2, p. 277-292, ISSN: 1468-0394, doi: 10.1111/exsy.12044
- Damiano R., Lombardo V., Nunnari F. (2013). Virtual agents for the production of linear animations. ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING, vol. 4, n. 3, p. 187-194, ISSN: 1875-9521, doi: 10.1016/j.entcom.2013.06.001
- Lombardo V., Damiano R. (2012). Semantic annotation of narrative media objects. MULTIMEDIA TOOLS and APPLICATIONS, vol. 59, p. 407-439, ISSN: 1380-7501, doi: 10.1007/s11042-011-0813-2
- Lombardo V., Damiano R. (2012). Storytelling on mobile devices for cultural heritage. THE NEW REVIEW OF HYPERMEDIA and MULTIMEDIA, vol. 18, p. 11-35, ISSN: 1361-4568, doi: 10.1080/13614568.2012.617846
- Damiano R., Gena C., Lombardo V., Nunnari F., Pizzo A. (2008). A stroll with Carletto: adaptation in drama-based tours with virtual characters. USER MODELING and USER-ADAPTED INTERACTION, vol. 18, p. 417-453, ISSN: 0924-1868, doi: 10.1007/s11257-008-9053-1
Conference and workshop articles
- Mensa, E., Fulfaro, C., Fubini, F., Bottino, A., Antonino, R., Ferraris, E., Damiano, R. (2025). “There was a scribe, a priest and a thief”. Testing the potential of language models for the creation of curatorial narratives in an archaeological museum. In Proceedings of Digital Heritage 2025. ACM.
- Mensa, E., Damiano, R. (2024). From plot to prompts: a case study on interactive narratives in museums. From plot to prompts: a case study on interactive narratives in museums (2024) In Proc. of the 3rd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage, IAI4CH 2024, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 3865, pp. 102-108.
- Damiano, R., Mattutino, C., Finocchiaro, C. and Devecchi, E. (2024) Querying Prosopographic Datasets: A Case Study on Cuneiform Persons and Sources. In: Proceedings of AVICH 2024, June 4th, 2024, Genoa, Italy.
- Stranisci, M.A., Bernasconi, E., Patti, V., Ferilli, S., Ceriani, M., Damiano. R. (2023). The World Literature Knowledge Graph, Proc. of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2023.
- Marco Antonio Stranisci, Rossana Damiano, Enrico Mensa, Viviana Patti, Daniele Paolo Radicioni, Tommaso Caselli: WikiBio: a Semantic Resource for the Intersectional Analysis of Biographical Events. Proc. of the International Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2023: 12370-12384
- Stranisci, M. A., Frenda, S., Ceccaldi, E., Basile, V., Damiano, R., & Patti, V. (2022). APPReddit: a Corpus of Reddit Posts Annotated for Appraisal. Proc. of the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022.
- Urbinati, A., Burdisso, E., Capozzi Lupi, A. T. E., Mattutino, C., Vilella, S., Semeraro, A., Ruffo, G., Corti, C., De Martino, S., Devecchi, E., Scarpa, E., Torri, G., Damiano, R. Bridging Representation and Visualization in Prosopographic Research: A Case Study. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage, CEUR workshop proceedings, vol. 3286, ISSN 1613-0073, 2022 (p. 80-92)
- Stranisci, M.A., Patti, V., Damiano, R. Representing the Under-Represented: a Dataset of Post-Colonial, and Migrant Writers. In Proc. of the 3rd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge, LDK 2021, September 1-3, 2021, Zaragoza, Spain. 2021: 7:1-7:14.
- Lombardo, V., Damiano, R., Karatas, T., Mattutino, C. (2020). Linking ontological classes and archaeological forms. In Proc. of the 19th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Springer.
- Lombardo, V., Damiano, R., & Pizzo, A. (2018). Drammar: A comprehensive ontological resource on drama. Of 17th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2018, LNCS 11137, p. 103-118, Springer, ISSN: 03029743, ISBN: 978-303000667-9, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-00668-6_7
- Damiano, R., Lieto, A., Lombardo, V.: Testing the effectiveness of narrative archetypes for archive exploration (2017). Proc. of the 10th Int. Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies (INT10), in Workshops of the Thirteenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment: Technical Reports WS-17-18 - WS-16-20, pp. 176-183, AAAI Press, ISBN: 978-1-57735-792-6
- Lombardo V., Damiano R. (2016). Assessing 3D geovisualization for the communication of public art. Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, VISIGRAPP 2016, p. 314-322, Setubal (Portugal), SciTePress, ISBN: 9789897581755
- Damiano R., Lombardo V., Lieto A. (2015). Visual metaphors for semantic cultural heritage, Proceedings of the 2015 7th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, INTETAIN 2015. EAI Endorsed Transactions on Future Intelligent Educational Environments, p. 100-109, ISSN: 2409-0034, doi: 10.4108/icst.intetain.2015.259506
- Damiano R., Lombardo V., Lieto A., Borra D. (2015). Mind the red thread! 3D metaphors for cultural heritage visualization. Proc. of 2015 Digital Heritage International Congress, p. 355-358, IEEE, ISBN: 9781509000487, doi: 10.1109/DigitalHeritage.2015.7419522
Books and Book Chapters
- Pizzo, A., Lombardo, V., Damiano, R. Interactive Storytelling: a Cross-media Approach to Writing, Producing and Editing with AI, Routledge 2023.
Insegnamenti
- Documentazione digitale (SCF0605)
Corso di laurea in DAMS
Discipline delle Arti, della Musica, dello Spettacolo e dei Media digitali - Emotion-oriented systems (INF0088)
PhD in Computer Science - Modellazione Concettuale per il web Semantico (INF0071)
Corso di laurea magistrale in Informatica - Progettazione e programmazione web (SCF0606)
Corso di laurea in DAMS
Discipline delle Arti, della Musica, dello Spettacolo e dei Media digitali
Modellazione Concettuale per il Web Semantico (INF0071)
Corso di laurea magistrale in Informatica
Temi di ricerca
My research interests mainly concern Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage, with a focus on Semantic Web and Linked Data, Interactive Storytelling and Affective Computing.
I am co-founder and Scientific Board member of the Content Centered Computing research group (at the Department of Computer Science), of the Research Centre on Digital Scholarship for the Humanities - DISH and of the Interdepartmental Research Center on Multimedia and Audiovisual - CIRMA
Selected Workshops and Conferences
- Co-Organizer of the Workshop on "Enriching Digital Heritage with LLMs and Linked Open Data" at Lorentz Center, Leiden (NL), 8 - 12 September 2025.
- Co-Founder of the Italian Workshop Series on Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage of the Italian Association for Artifcial Intelligence since 2023
Selected Projects and Grants (as Coordinator / Local Coordinator / Principal Investigator)
- Principal Investigator of the Project "CON.NE.C.T W.O.N.D.E.R.S (CONnecting NEw Cultural Tourism WAys Open to Networking Digital Experience in Representing Sites)", 2024-2025, funded by UNITA Consortium.
- Principal Investigator of the Project "World Literature KG project", funded by Next Generation Internet (NGI) Search Programme - "Change the way we use and experience, search and discover data and resources on the internet and web", 2022-2023.
- Case Study Coordinator "Museo Egizio Interattivo (Interactive Egyptian Museum)", National Project "Cultural Heritage Active Innovation for Next-Gen Sustainable Society (CHANGES). Virtual technologies for museums and art collections (Spoke 4)", Next Generation EU, 2022-2025.
- Local Coordinator of the Horizon Europe Project “SKILLS4EOSC - Skills for the European Open Science Commons: Creating a Training Ecosystem for Open and FAIR Science" CSA, GA. No. 101058527, 2022-2025.
- Local Coordinator and Project Management Board member of H2020 Project SPICE "Social Participation and Inclusion through Cultural Engagement" https://spice-h2020.eu), 2020-2023, (Grant Agreement N. 870811), 2020-2023.
- Principal Investigator of Project "Labyrinth. Cultural archetypes in multimedia publishing" funded by Regione Piemonte, Polo di Innovazione per la Creatività Digitale e la Multimedialità, POR-FESR 2007-2013 (), (2012-2014). Design and implementation of an interactive 3D environment for the exploration of semantic relations between artifacts in cultural archives.
Gruppi di ricerca
- Computazione Centrata sui Contenuti
- Ricerca sull'Intelligenza Artificiale @ Dipartimento di Informatica
Progetti di ricerca
Attività in agenda
Organi
Ricevimento studenti
Su appuntamento presso il Dipartimento di Informatica - C,so Svizzera 185 (scrivete un'email a rossana.damiano@unito.it).By appointment at the Department of Computer Science - Corso Svizzera 185 (write an email to rossana.damiano@unito.it).
