CoAuletta Winner
We (qart progetti, bencini, torpei, masini, franchi, santini) have been selected for the final workshop related to Co/Auletta contest You can find our proposal here: http://issuu.com/coauletta/docs/2012_02_16_coqart_tavole/1 winner: “auletta paese che...
Read MoreInaugurazione del Parco Urbano dell’Innovazione del Comune di Firenze
Giovedì 15 marzo verrà inaugurato a Firenze il nuovo Parco Urbano dell’Innovazione ospitato all’interno del complesso delle Murate. Si tratta di un progetto del comune di Firenze volto a creare un Distretto Tecnologico per i beni culturali e la sostenibilità urbana, un passo considerato indispensabile per la promozione del patrimonio artistico e territoriale fiorentino. Nel Parco Urbano dell’Innovazione convergeranno al suo interno imprese nuove e già esistenti attive nell’ambito della valorizzazione della cultura e del territorio che coabiteranno gli spazi dell’ex-carcere delle...
Read MoreMulti-touch solutions for museum environment and cultural heritage
TABULA solutions (TouchTop and TouchMyBrand) have been used during the event “L’Impronta (del) Digitale 1.0″ in Bolzano, on the 17th of November 2011, in a talk regarding “New interactive solutions for the museum environment and cultural heritage” The event showcased solutions, highlighted practices and promoted general discussion on the evolution of Cultural Heritage related to current technologies. More on the...
Read MoreTeaching experiences
My teaching activities regard multimedia production and design, sound design and the field of new interactive technologies applied to Cultural Heritage Courses [2010] Faculty of Architecture, University of Florence: Invited Professor of Multimedia Design [2009] Faculty of Engineering, University of Florence: Lecturer for Multimedia Production [2006 - today] Master in Multimedia Content Design, University of Florence: Invited Professor of Sound Design http://www.mmm.unifi.it/interviste/intervista-con-nicola-torpei [2008] Pegaso Network / Regione Toscana: Invited Professor of Sound...
Read MoreMulti-user interactive table for neurocognitive and neuromotor rehabilitation
Multi-user interactive table for neurocognitive and neuromotor rehabilitation This project concerns the design and development of a multi-touch system that provides innovative tools for neurocognitive and neuromotor rehabilitation for senile diseases. This project comes to life thanks to the collaboration between MICC, the Faculty of Psychology (University of Florence) and Montedomini A.S.P., a public agency for self sufficient and disabled elders that offers welfare and health care services. The idea behind this project is to apply high-tech interactive devices to standard medical...
Read MoreShawbak multi-touch tabletop
A technology transfer project realized for the international exhibition From Petra to Shawbak: archeology of a frontier. A multi-touch tabletop was realized for this exhibition that presents the results of the latest international archeology investigations and of the research conducted by the archaeological mission of the University of Florence in these past twenty years in Jordan at the sites of Petra and Shawbak, one of the most important historical areas in the world. Developed by Nicola Torpei, Nicola Martorana, Riccardo Canalicchio (interaction design, hardware and software...
Read MoreTANGerINE cities
harmonize urban sounds of the future through collaborative manipulation of sound objects inspired by cities of the present Presented at Frontiers of Interaction V (Rome, June 2009). TANGerINE cities let users choose and elaborate sounds characterizing today’s cities. TANGerINE cube collects sound fragments of the present and reassemble them in order to create a harmonic sounds for the future. TANGerINE cities is a mean of collective sound creation: a glimpse into the sound world of the future cities. TANGerINE cities imagines a future where technological development will have...
Read MoreMulti-touch wall
Multi-touch wall developed at Media Integration and Communication Center, University of Florence, Italy A large vertical retro-projection with camera based sensing of multiple hands.
Read MoreTANGerINE project
TANGerINE acronyms stands for TANGible Interactive Natural Environment This project is an ongoing research on TUIs (tangible user interfaces) combining previous experiences with natural vision-based gestural interaction on augmented surfaces and tabletops with the introduction of smart wireless objects and sensor fusion techniques. Unlike passive recognized objects, common in mixed and augmented reality approaches, smart objects provide continuous data about their status through the embedded wireless sensors, while an external computer vision module tracks their position and orientation in...
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