Professor Vitaveska Lanfranchi
PhD
School of Computer Science
Professor of Digital Health and Pervasive Computing
Director of School - One University
Member of the Pervasive Computing research group
Full contact details
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (CS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Profile
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Prof Vitaveska Lanfranchi is Professor of Digital Health and Pervasive Computing and a member of the Pervasive Computing research group.
Her research field is highly interdisciplinary, focusing on the intersection between ubiquitous computing, data analysis and user-centred decision making in healthcare. She specialised in participatory design methods to develop novel methodologies and interfaces for ubiquitous and mobile computing, by employing sensing and tracking technologies to record users activities and analyse the data to reveal patterns and create intelligent systems that could influence users’ decision making and behaviour.
Vita has a long academic history and industry experience: from 2014 till 2017, whilst on secondment from her research position, she has held the post of CEO in K-Now, a University of Sheffield spin-out company focused on research and commercialization of knowledge management technologies. Currently she is PI for Sheffield for several research projects, UK or EU funded.
She has a first degree in Communication Science from the University of Turin, Italy and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Turin, Italy.
- Research interests
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- Activity/mobility recording via wearable technologies and contextual factors detection
- Human behavioural monitoring and understanding
- AI technologies for modelling and predicting disease progression
- Context awareness
- Digital twins and generation of realistic synthetic data from real datasets
- Interaction with pervasive technologies and related research into acceptability, trust and ethics
- Inclusivity and accessibility
- Publications
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- Research group
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Pervasive Computing
- Grants
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- Transforming Parkinson's disease clinical management with integrated digital health technologies, EPSRC, 01/2023 - 06/2025, £504,262, as Co-I
- A new resource for behavioural science - Developing tools for understanding the relationship between behaviours, ESRC, 01/2021 - 06/2023, £551,316, as Co-I
- TENACITy: Terrorism and other forms of serious crime countered using travel intelligence, Horizon Europe, 09/2022 - 08/2025, £570,645, as Co-I
- Understanding end-users’ views of digital technologies for diagnosis of heart disease, Research England, 01/2022 - 07/2022, £14,398, as PI
- F2DR: Fit2Drive, Piloting new technology and processes to optimise fitness to drive assessments and improve safety, British Council, 10/2021 - 12/2023, £215,536, as PI
- Understanding the views of older adults and people living with Mild Cognitive Impairment on driving and fitness to drive, ISCF, 11/2020 - 02/2022, £54,186, as Co-I
- Improving the assessment of driving behaviour for people with Mild Cognitive Impairment and healthy elderly, EPSRC, 11/2020 - 11/2021, £35,284, as Co-I
- ELECTRICA: Development and proof of concept of an ELEctronic tool for Clinicians, Teachers and Researchers In Child Abuse, EPSRC, 04/2020 - 03/2023, £45,886, as Co-I
- Clever-dREAMS: Using artificial intelligence to enhance the diagnosis of rare skeletal dysplasias in children, MRC, 12/2019 - 03/2021, £74,668, as Co-I
- Mobilise-D: Connecting digital mobility assessment to clinical outcomes for regulatory and clinical endorsement, EC H2020, 04/2019 - 06/2024, £1,227,496, as PI
- Early detection of Papilloedema and Diabetic Retinopathy, Innovate UK, 11/2018 - 09/2019, £58,611, as PI
- SETA: An open, sustainable, ubiquitous data and service ecosystem for efficient, effective, safe, resilient mobility in metropolitan areas, EC H2020, 02/2016 - 01/2019, £970,000, as Co-I
- TRIDS: Tracking Real-time Intelligence in Data Streams, Innovate UK, 07/2011 - 12/2011, £49,184, as Co-I