Francisco Vicente Cipolla Ficarra
Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra is a professor, researcher and writer. PhD. Area: Multimedia (1999). B.A. in Social Communication (1988). B.A. in Computer Programming and Systems Analysis (1983). Manager and coordinator of the first Human-Computer Interaction Lab. in Barcelona, Spain (1997 – 1999). Professor in American and European universities, technical and professional colleges (1981 – present), subjects: computer science, computer graphics and animation, human-computer interaction, design and multimedia. Scientific journalist and writer (1989 – present). CEO: Blue Herons Editions. Coordinator of AInCI (International Association of Interactive Communication –www.ainci.com) and ALAIPO (Latin Association International of Human-Computer Interaction –www.alaipo.com). Main research interests: HCI, communicability, quality, auditory and evaluation of interactive systems, computer graphics and animation, social communication, semiotics, e-learning, video games, ecological and cultural heritage. ACM and IEEE member.
Publications
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Francisco Vicente Cipolla Ficarra.
© 2023. 411 pages.
In recent years, a diffuse way of promoting information and communication technologies is through the quantification of data, such as indices of references, access counters to...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Alejandra Quiroga, Miguel Cipolla Ficarra.
© 2021. 42 pages.
In this chapter, the main avant-garde components that favor quality on the web are disclosed, especially from the perspectives of software and design. At the same time, the...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra.
© 2018. 10 pages.
This Preface is included in the book Technology-Enhanced Human Interaction in Modern Society.
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra.
© 2018. 21 pages.
We present the importance of analogical and digital cartography in the reconstruction of the cultural heritage of the first nations. Besides, through the cartographic information...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Donald Nilson, Jacqueline Alma.
© 2018. 11 pages.
In the current appendix present a first heuristic study about the scientific publications related to computer science and the human factors that make that some contents travel...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Jacqueline Alma, Miguel Cipolla-Ficarra.
© 2018. 18 pages.
We present a study of the triad rendering computer made static and/or dynamic images, video games and adult users who interact with a personal computer. Besides, there is a...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Jim Carré, Valeria M. Ficarra.
© 2018. 33 pages.
We present a new category of interactive design called “eidomix”. Besides, the early results of a heuristic evaluation of communicability with the purpose of highlighting the...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Jim Carré.
© 2018. 22 pages.
In the chapter is analyzed the evolution of the ergonomic and interactive design of an instrument of generalized use among people suffering from diabetes, such as is Melitus II....
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra.
© 2018. 23 pages.
We present the main aspects of the importance of carrying out quality measurements in multimedia/interactive systems in the current era of expansion of communicability. Besides...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Alejandra Quiroga, Jim Carré, Jacqueline Alma.
© 2018. 24 pages.
In the current chapter is analyzed the latest interface of the video game that has been capable of adapting to the evolution of the software and the hardware for almost a quarter...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Jacqueline Alma, Jim Carré.
© 2018. 19 pages.
In the current chapter the lisibility or readability factor in mobile phones is analyzed, together with other components of usability engineering, communicability and ergonomics....
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Alejandra Quiroga, Valeria M. Ficarra.
© 2018. 21 pages.
In the chapter, the semantemes are amalyzed which serve as dychotomic links in the core of the online links with the negative goal of online interactive communication. We present...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Jacqueline Alma, Miguel Cipolla-Ficarra.
© 2018. 16 pages.
In this chapter the increase of the digital divide among the third age users and the digital television is studied. From an ergonomic point of view of the remote command keys the...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Miguel Cipolla-Ficarra.
© 2018. 23 pages.
In this research work, we make known the excellent advantages of the use of computer animations in 3D with the purpose of transferring scientific heritage into paper support to...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Jaqueline Alma, Miguel Cipolla-Ficarra, Jim Carré.
© 2018. 18 pages.
The first studies of the social sciences aimed at the videogames of the 80s and the methods to evaluate the usability engineering of the 90s have highlighted a set of positive...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Valeria M. Ficarra.
© 2018. 18 pages.
In the current appendix are presented the results of a heuristic study about the lack of educational control related to the new technologies and the future generations...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Jim Carré, Alejandra Quiroga, Valeria M. Ficarra.
© 2018. 16 pages.
We present the main motivations why the excellence of the university education related to architectural CAD, graphic art/expression, and UX may be inexistent in Spain, by...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Alejandra Quiroga, Valeria M. Ficarra.
© 2018. 29 pages.
The possibility that millions of users have a free access to a website to send and receive multimedia messages has contributed to the democratization of the Internet since 1995...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Valeria M. Ficarra, Miguel Cipolla-Ficarra.
© 2018. 21 pages.
In the current work is presented the strategy of the “inverted semanteme” to analyze the lack of veracity of the financial information in the Spanish websites, which have a ISO...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Alejandra Quiroga, Jim Carré, Valeria M. Ficarra.
© 2018. 30 pages.
In the chapter are indicated the main links of the isotopies between the static information and the different ways of graphic representation for the readers of online newspapers....
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Jaqueline Alma.
© 2015. 11 pages.
The authors present the first results of a communicability evaluation of a set of online banking systems aimed at the new credibility of those institutions. They evaluate the...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra.
© 2015. 449 pages.
In the era of technological ubiquity and online interaction, the importance of proper computer training cannot be understated. Following established standards and practices...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Alejandra Quiroga, Valeria M. Ficarra.
© 2015. 13 pages.
The authors present the different communication strategies used for the promotion of European tourism in the emerging countries, through Power Point and pyramidal marketing. They...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Miguel Cipolla-Ficarra, Jacqueline Alma, Alejandra Quiroga.
© 2015. 8 pages.
The authors present the first results of a study intending to unify the quality criteria of the local touristic information in digital support (Internet) and analog (paper). An...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Jacqueline Alma.
© 2015. 18 pages.
The authors present a first study for the classification of the video games from a synchronic and diachronic perspective, in relation to the notion of phaneroscopy. The chapter...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Jacqueline Alma, Alejandra Quiroga.
© 2015. 19 pages.
The authors present an analysis of the first set of elements belonging to the interactive design categories: layout (naturalness of metaphor) and content (storytelling), which...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra.
© 2015. 26 pages.
In the current chapter, the authors intend to present the strengths and the weaknesses from the standpoint of graphic computing, managing and productive computing, and the human...
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Francisco Vicente Cipolla Ficarra.
© 2014. 696 pages.
Emerging technologies, such as social networks and interactive web applications, have played a vital role in the way we communicate. These technologies are fundamental in...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra.
© 2014. 12 pages.
In the current work the bidirectional relationships exisitng between education, culture, entertainment, and trade are presented. A state-of-the-art of the main components is made...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Valeria M. Ficarra.
© 2014. 18 pages.
In this work of heuristic evaluation, the authors present the state-of-the-art and the results of an analysis of university educational systems to detect anti-models, which have...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Jaqueline Alma.
© 2014. 12 pages.
The authors present the first results of a communicability evaluation of a set of online banking systems aimed at the new credibility of those institutions. They evaluate the...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Miguel Cipolla-Ficarra.
© 2014. 12 pages.
The current chapter presents the results of the heuristic evaluation of the landscape and digital contexts in computer animations where there is a combination of 2D and 3D...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Alejandra Quiroga, Jim Carré.
© 2014. 17 pages.
The authors present the key elements of the storyboard and computer graphics that must be contained in the computer animations that are broadcast as miniseries and are based on...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Jacqueline Alma.
© 2014. 15 pages.
The authors present the first results of the heuristic analysis of the static graphics in the digital newspapers for senior users. They examine the main systems of static...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra.
© 2014. 14 pages.
The authors present the mathematic strategy of the negative potency in the constitution of the new symbolic and corporative image of online banking and financing institutions....
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Valeria M. Ficarra.
© 2014. 14 pages.
The authors present the first results of a heuristic evaluation of online content and the social networks that allows the detection of the manipulators of the mass media...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Alejandra Quiroga, Jim Carré, Jacqueline Alma, Miguel Cipolla-Ficarra.
© 2014. 22 pages.
The authors present the first results of a heuristic analysis of the evolution of the commercial off-line systems related to the main European museums. The analysis is...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Alejandra Quiroga, Valeria M. Ficarra.
© 2014. 14 pages.
The authors present the different communication strategies used for the promotion of European tourism in the emerging countries, through Power Point and pyramidal marketing. They...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Jacqueline Alma, Jim Carré, Miguel Cipolla-Ficarra.
© 2014. 12 pages.
A study of the three-dimensional design strategies through color, shape, and the audiovisual script for the child audience is presented in this chapter. The authors show the key...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Alejandra Quiroga, Jacqueline Alma.
© 2014. 10 pages.
This chapter shows the first results of a technique based on the information from Web 2.0 that can speedily and economically detect the networks or people who play, anonymously...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Miguel Cipolla-Ficarra, Jacqueline Alma.
© 2014. 14 pages.
The chapter compares three digital and analogical animation series from the referential and contextual space-temporal point of view, which are mainly aimed at the infantile...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Jacqueline Alma, Jim Carré.
© 2014. 11 pages.
The research work presents a set of rhetorical questions with regard to the new profile that an expert or an editor of scientific information must have regarding computer science...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra.
© 2014. 10 pages.
This chapter presents a diachronic vision of the evolution of the main classical games in the computer followed by a look at computer-assisted teaching until the mid-nineties....
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Miguel Cipolla-Ficarra, Jacqueline Alma, Alejandra Quiroga.
© 2014. 8 pages.
The authors present the first results of a study intending to unify the quality criteria of the local touristic information in digital support (Internet) and analog (paper). An...
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Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Alejandra Quiroga, Jim Carré.
© 2014. 11 pages.
The chapter analyzes the destructive human factors exercised from the environment of the university training directly or indirectly related to the ICTs (Information and...
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Francisco V. Cipolla Ficarra.
© 2011. 38 pages.
This chapter addresses the evolution of state of the art interactive systems aimed at the cultural heritage of the Mediterranean area in Europe, especially Spain and Italy. It...
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Francisco Vicente Cipolla Ficarra.
© 2010. 324 pages.
As interactive hypermedia systems take an increasingly prevalent role in the workplace, at home and on the web, their usability becomes vitally important to meeting the...
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Francisco Vicente Cipolla Ficarra, Maria Valeria Ficarra.
© 2010. 30 pages.
In the current chapter the authors present a heuristic and diacritical analysis of the communicability in Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 carried out in the contents of the websites of...
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Francisco Vicente Cipolla Ficarra, Emma Nicol, Miguel Cipolla Ficarra.
© 2010. 24 pages.
In the current chapter are analyzed the main reasons for which it is necessary to count with a new profile in design, realization and assessment of the interactive systems. The...
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