Marta Elizabeth Cecchinato

United Kingdom United Kingdom

PhD student at UCLIC

Technology / Software / Internet

I studied Psychology in my undergraduate because I've always been interested in understanding how people think and behave. During my masters I discovered the field of HCI and, being very curious about new technologies, I soon became passionate about it, so much that I decided to spend a year in Finland during an exchange program to gain more practical research skills. After my MSc project on user experience evaluation for multimodal interfaces (in particular with haptic feedback), I decided to pursue my research career and applied for a PhD in 2013. My interest for new technologies and people comes together especially now in my PhD, where I'm looking at how people use technologies to fo...