 MICC @ University of Florence
Stefano Baraldi was born in Bologna, Italy in 1975.
He received a MSc degree in Computer Science in 2005 at the University of Bologna, after working several years as software architect for multimedia-intense and web-based CSCW applications. He started his PhD research at the University of Florence in order to understand how to facilitate face-to-face knowledge-building activities using natural interaction systems based on gesture recognition. He likes inventing things and interfaces, thinks that kids are the most advanced users and believes in visual metaphors as way to better understand the world. |
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 Luca Benini is an Full Professor at the University of Bologna. He also holds a visiting faculty position at the Ecole Polytecnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL). Dr. Benini's research interests are in the design of systems for ambient intelligence, from multi-processor systems-on-chip/networks on chip to energy-efficient smart sensors and sensor networks. He has published more than 300 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences, three books, several book chapters and two patents. He has been program chair and vice-chair of Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference. He has been a Member of the 2003 MEDEA+ EDA roadmap committee 2003. He is a member of the IST Embedded System Technology Platform Initiative (ARTEMIS): working group on Design Methodologies, a Member of the Strategic Management Board of the ARTIST2 Network of excellence on Embedded Syste and a Member of the Advisory group on Computing Systems of the IST Embedded Systems Unit. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. |
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 Micrel Lab (DEIS) @ University of Bologna
Omar Cafini was born in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, on June 3rd, 1979. I received the degree in Computer Engineering (specialization in Industrial Automation ) from the University of Bologna in 2005. Since november 2005 I'm a research fellow at the University of Bologna on the topics of Wireless Sensor Networks.
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 Alberto Del Bimbo is Full Professor of Computer Engineering at the Università di Firenze, Italy. Since 1998 he is the Director of the Master in Multimedia of the Università di Firenze. His scientific interests are Pattern Recognition, Image Databases, Multimedia and Human Computer Interaction. Prof. Del Bimbo is the author of over 170 publications in the most distinguished international journals and conference proceedings. |
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 Micrel Lab (DEIS) @ University of Bologna
Elisabetta Farella is a post-doc researcher at DEIS at University of Bologna. She is part of the Ami group at Micrel lab, where she is involved in research about wireless sensor networks (WSN) as enabling technology for Ambient Intelligence (AmI) applications. Her research interests include Body Area Network for human body tracking, biofeedback, novel natural interaction techniques, HCI, smart objects, VR systems for Cultural Heritage, various aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks. She is winner of the first prize for the Design-In Award 2005 organized by ASSIPE (Italian Association for Electronics Design) with the project: "Bio-feedback Wireless Weareable System".
She works in active collaboration with CINECA Vis.I.T Lab and High-Performance System Area for research and development of applications in Computer graphics and Immersive Virtual Reality for handheld devices connected in wireless networks.
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 School of Psychology @ University of Nottingham
Giulia 's primary research interests lie at the intersection of HCI and the learning sciences. Her work is focused on the pedagogical potentials of technology in a number of settings including formal and informal learning
environmentrs (museums, schools, lab). Besides working on a number fo EU funded projects on computer supported collaboration, she is also completing her PhD on children's computer supported collaborative storytelling (completion date, Dec. 2008). She lives and works in Nottingham (U.K.). |
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 MICC @ University of Florence
Lea Landucci was born in Florence, Italy, in 5th of November 1977. She received her master laurea in Computer Engineering at University of Florence in July 2004. Her thesis was on "Multiuser Natural Interaction environments". Now she's a PHD student working at MICC. Her main interests are on computer vision, interaction design and cognitive psycology and their influence on Natural HCI systems. |
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 Micrel Lab (DEIS) @ University of Bologna
Augusto Pieracci was born in Pavullo (MO) on January 3th, 1969. He received the Laurea degree in Electrical Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, in 1994 and 1998, respectively. In 1995 he joined the research group of Prof. Bruno Riccò at the Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems (DEIS) (University of Bologna). Since september 2004 he is Contract Professor at the university of Urbino, Italy. Actually, he works as Research Consultant at the MicrelLab (Deis - University of Bologna) and T3lab (Laboratory for ICT Technologic transfer, Bologna). |
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 MICC @ University of Florence
Consultant, researcher and software architect/developer. He was born in Florence, Italy, the 11th of October 1979 and he's working at MICC on topics of Natural Interaction, Computer Vision and Auditory Interfaces. He got a degree in Computer Science at University of Florence. |
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 Micrel Lab (DEIS) @ University of Bologna
Piero Zappi received the B.S. and M.S. degree in Electronic Engineering both from the university of Bologna in 2002 and 2005 respectively. He won a prize for his M.S. thesis given by C.N.A. (National Confederation for arts and crafts). Since April 2005 he is working with the university of Bologna first as full collaborator than (since January 2006) as a Ph.D. student. His research is mostly in the field of wireless sensor networks and embedded systems. During his Ph.D. his research focused on implementation of Zigbee based wireless sensor networks, use of Pyroelectric InfraRed (PIR) detector for ambient monitoring, network management in redundant wireless sensor networks. In 2007 he has been 6 month visiting research at ETH (Zurich) for a join research activity with the Wearable Lab at the institute of electronic.
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