Luisa Dall’Acqua is a senior cognitive scientist. She is an author, reviewer, and editor for several international scientific journals and book editions, and was a committee member for international Workshops/Conferences. Since 1990 she performed teaching activities, training students, teachers in service, headmasters and professionals; and since 2003 she was a member of international projects and research teams (USA, Europe, Asia). After an MSc in Philosophy, Luisa received a Ph.D. in Sociology of Legal Institutions and Policies, and a second Ph.D. in Psychological and Social Sciences. The main field of research is an engineering and social-cognitive approach to the intelligence and problem solving, and in particular to the decision-making risk under stress, conflict, and unpredictability, ranging from individual, collective, institutional intelligence applications to computational intelligence. The new risk scenarios, which she is working on, are Cyber-criminal profiling and Cyber-Intelligence in safety and security sectors of analysis. Furthermore, she is an expert Instructional Technologist and a digital communication professional. Currently, she is a permanent teacher at the TCO Scientific Lyceum (Italy) and an adjunct professor at the University of Bologna.
Irene M. Gironacci is a Software Engineer and she is currently working as Project Manager at the Swinburne University of Technology - Centre for Transformative Media Technologies (Melbourne, Australia). She is also concluding a PhD at the same university. Her research interests include Extended Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Game Design and Management. Previously, she worked as a Mixed Reality Engineer at Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (Luxembourg, Europe). She received both MSc and BSc in Software Engineering at the University of Parma (Italy).