Diletta is a PhD student at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in Lugano, Switzerland, with a background in Interaction Design. As part of the international project SOL – Scaffolding to foster independence when children search Online for Learning, she studies how children use online information access systems at school, drawing on methods from child-computer interaction and interactive information retrieval. She is particularly interested in the gap between how these systems are designed and how children actually use them. By examining children’s search behaviors and reasoning in the classroom, she aims to adapt existing systems into tools that scaffold young users as they develop information literacy skills over time.
