[Save the Date] UI Engineering Live Talks – Francesco Greco – June 22, 15:00 CET

Dear colleagues,
The IFIP WG 2.7/13.4 on User Interface Engineering is happy to announce the next episode of the UI Engineering Live Talks series.

This month, Francesco Greco will present PERSEUS, a human-centered AI framework that combines explainable phishing detection, user-focused interfaces, and adaptive training to transform users from the weakest link into active defenders against phishing attacks. The talk will be given on June 22, 15:00 CET.

Title: Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence for Phishing Defense: The PERSEUS Framework
Speaker: Francesco Greco
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-7fAg5WOcE

Abstract:
Phishing is one of the most widespread and persistent cybersecurity threats, continuing to exploit human vulnerabilities despite significant technological advances in detection systems. To address the socio-technical nature of phishing and defend users holistically, this talk presents PERSEUS, an integrated framework that combines human factors modeling, user-centered design of explanation interfaces, XAI- and LLM-based detection methods, and adaptive training grounded in digital twins.
These aspects are often studied in isolation and within different research communities. Through a Human-Centered AI perspective, PERSEUS provides a methodological and technological framework for comprehensively protecting users from phishing attacks. In this approach, users are no longer treated as the weakest link to be passively protected, but as active, aware, and empowered participants in the security ecosystem.

Short bio:
Francesco Greco is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy. He is a member of the Interaction, Visualization, Usability & UX (IVU) Lab, where his research focuses on Human-Computer Interaction and Usable Security. He obtained his Ph.D. in February 2026 with research on human-centered eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (HCXAI) solutions for cybersecurity under the supervision of Prof. Giuseppe Desolda.
From October 2023 to March 2024, he was a visiting postgraduate researcher in the Cybersecurity (CYS) research group at King’s College London, working under the supervision of Prof. Luca Viganò. He is a member of ACM, ACM SIGCHI, and ACM SIGCHI Italy.













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