Deep Blue is a research and consultancy Italian SME specialising in human factor, safety, security, validation and scientific dissemination. From its foundation, Deep Blue has significantly contributed to European research development, serving many European and international bodies. These include the European Commission, EUROCONTROL and the SESAR Joint Undertaking. The company operates in context with high security, dependability and resilience requirements, such as Air Traffic Management (ATM), Aviation, Railways Transportation and Healthcare. The main area of activity of the company is the analysis and evaluation of interactive complex systems, with particular focus on the interactions, integration and allocation of functions between humans, procedures and equipment. With a multidisciplinary team of specialists in dependability, human factors, cognitive psychology, interaction design and software engineering, DBL is dealing with activities such as: evaluation of dependability and resilience in sociotechnical systems; analysis, evaluation and validation of concepts and systems in transportation; generation of innovative design concepts for interactive systems; dissemination and transfer of research results.

Security, Engineering, Interaction & Graphic Design, service design and Informatics drive us in the delivery of innovative and highly professional results. Deep Blue has a broader experience in research design and user studies through different techniques such as ethnographic observations, focus groups, gaming techniques, interviews and questionnaires administration. With broad experience in carrying out facilitation processes and dissemination activities with different types of stakeholders in R&D projects.