Gabriele Cimolino, PhD
Curriculum Vitae
Employment
Improved UI/UX of VTScada industrial SCADA software. Expanded keyboard interactions in JavaScript. Developed industrial automation protocol drivers.
Fall 2023 — Game Development (CISC 486)
Winter 2023 — Game Design (CISC 226)
Fall 2022 — Game Development (CISC 486)
Fall & Winter 2021 — Deep Learning (CISC 867)
Supervised by Dr. T.C. Nicholas Graham. Built AI systems for accessible game design, conducted human subjects studies with the spinal cord injury community, and produced findings published at CHI, ASSETS, and HAI.
Education
Thesis: Improving the Accessibility of Digital Games Using Partial Automation
Dean's Honour List, 2017–2019
Publications
Full list on the Publications page.
Wales, Wheeler, Cimolino, Levin, Mees, Graham · CHI 2024
Cimolino, Chen, Gutwin, Graham · CHI 2023
Villareale, Cimolino, Gomme · FDG 2023
Cimolino, Graham, Levin, Wales, Wheeler · CHI PLAY Extended Abstracts 2022
Cimolino, Gutwin, Graham · CHI '22 TRAIT Workshop
Cimolino, Askari, Graham · ASSETS 2021
Cimolino, Askari, Graham · PACMHCI (CHI PLAY) 2021
Phinnemore, Cimolino, Sarkar, Etemad, Graham · HAI 2021
Cimolino, Lee, Petraroia, Graham · CHI PLAY Extended Abstracts 2019
Cimolino, Rivest · TPNC 2019
Awards and Funding
Awarded three consecutive years. Ontario government doctoral scholarship.
Certifications
NSERC CREATE program. READi trains researchers in accessibility and inclusive design through coursework, action team projects with community partners, and annual symposia. Level 3 is the program's highest certification level. Action team project conducted in partnership with Kingston Circus Arts, investigating inclusive coaching practices for movement classes with participants of mixed abilities.
NSERC CREATE · ATP: Kingston Circus Arts, inclusive coaching design
Service
Supported peer connection programming for people with spinal cord injuries. This relationship provided the community access through which participants were recruited for the Personalizable Partial Automation and Beyond Fun studies.
TACCESS · CHI '21–'24 · CHI PLAY '20–'23 · ASSETS '21 · DIS '20–'21 · NordiCHI '20