Nowadays, the rapid spread of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the daily lives of individuals is raising multiple challenges and issues. The latter must be timely and effectively addressed since they have a substantial impact on numerous domains with implications concerning the technicalities, typically faced by computer science, and also to multiple areas of society, such as law, ethics, psychology, etc. The PhD project presented in this manuscript aims at finding new human-centered methodologies and techniques, belonging to the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) discipline, that can be applied to the design and development of AI to foster the symbiotic relationship between machines and humans. The project deals with Symbiotic Artificial Intelligence (SAI), which has the goal of supporting humans in executing their tasks without replacing them. The research aims at finding the intersection between Software Engineering (SE), HCI, and AI to create a framework supporting and providing guidance to all the parties involved in the process of creating effective SAI systems.

I am Antonio Curci, a PhD Student from the University of Bari, in co-affiliation with the University of Pisa in Artificial Intelligence for Society. I am part of the Information Visualization and Usability (IVU) Laboratory under the supervision of Rosa Lanzilotti, a Full Professor at the University of Bari. My main interests are Human-Computer Interaction, its relationships with Artificial Intelligence, and the ramifications in Project Management, Software Engineering, and Cybersecurity. I am a member of the Italian Research Staff Association (ItalianRSA) since November 2022, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) since December 2023, and the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI) since March 2024,