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Fabio Casati  Affiliations: Fabio Casati is professor of Computer Science at the University of Trento. Fabio has also contributed (as software and data architect) to the development of several HP commercial products and solutions in the area of web services and business process management. In Trento, he is leading or participating to several FP7 projects, is active in many industry-funded projects, both local and international, and has over 20 patents. His latest efforts are on IT for better living, on collaborative programming, and on models for scientific disseminations that can help scientists work in a more efficient way. Research interests: Engineering and Computer Information, social informatics (or informatics at the service of the community), web services and business process management. Description: The mini-course will be composed of two parts: in the first part, students will learn about the basics of happiness science: what we know about what makes us happy (and what doesn’t) and what are the implications of being happy from a personal, social, and economical perspective. In the second part we will learn how to design solutions: we will get to work and, using design thinking method, we will invent, create and prototype our first ideas to help people be a little bit happier.
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Daniele Didino  Affiliations: Post-doc, Tomsk Polytechnic University. Research interests: subjective well-being, numerical cognition, numerosity processing, experimental psychology.
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Marcello M. Mariani  Affiliations: Marcello M. Mariani is Professor of Management and Marketing, Director of the "Master in Business Tourism & Destination Management" and the "Master in Digital Marketing for Tourism & Events Management" at the University of Bologna, Italy; Faculty Member of European Institute of Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM), Brussels, Belgium. He teaches at the Rimini Campus (Degree Course in Economics of Tourism, Graduate Degree Course in Economics and Management of Tourism, Degree Course in Business Economics, European Master in Consumer Affairs) and at the Bologna Campus (Graduate Degree Course in Innovation and Organization of Culture and the Arts and Master in Italy-Russia Business Relations). He has been a Visiting Professor at the New York University (New York, USA), the Brunel University (London, UK), the University of Lapland (Rovaniemi, Finland), the University Higher School of Economics (Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation), the Institute of Hospitality Management (Prague, Czech Republic). Research interests: Destination marketing & management, digital marketing, public-private partnerships, co-opetitive dynamics/strategies, cultural heritage, business models in creative industries.
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Claudio Bartolini  Claudio Bartolini is a principal technogist with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services in Palo Alto, CA, USA. Claudio's research interest are at the intersection of cloud, analytics and mobility, with particular applications to business solutions and vertical sectors such as healthcare and assisted living. He received his M.Sc in EE from the University of Bologna, Italy and his Ph.D in Information Engineering from the University of Ferrara, Italy. He has published extensively and holds patents in IT service management and related disciplines. Affiliation: Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services (www.hp.com) Research interests: Claudio's team's research objective is to deliver a set of Cloud-based services for IT strategy planning that takes full advantage of a range of predictive IT analytics.
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