Research

From 2006 to 2010

Researcher and Consultant at Media Integration and Communication Center, a National Center of Excellence at the University of Florence, regarding fields of tangible and natural interaction, computer vision systems applied to large interactive surfaces. Further, at MICC he has been involved in management concerning natural interaction’s technology transfer projects in collaboration with local government and private companies.

Member of Visual Information and Media Lab headed by Prof. Alberto Del Bimbo and member of TANGerINE research project (TANGible Interactive Natural Environment) in collaboration with Micrel Lab DEIS, University of Bologna.

He graduated in Computer Science at University of Florence and since 2006 is an invited professor in Sound Design at Master in Multimedia Content Design, University of Florence. He has been also:

  • Invited professor for the module “Multimedia Design”, Faculty of Architecture, University of Florence
  • Lecturer  for the module “Multimedia project production”, Faculty of Engineering, University of Florence

He has been a reviewer for many international conference and journal like JVLC (Journal of Visual Languages and Computing) and also:

  • Member of Technical Program Committee for IEEE Human System Interaction 2010.
  • Art Exhibit Technology Chair of ACM Multimedia 2010.
  • Gianpaolo D’Amico, Alberto Del Bimbo, Fabrizio Dini, Lea Landucci, Nicola Torpei, Natural Human–Computer Interaction – book chapter of MULTIMEDIA INTERACTION AND INTELLIGENT USER INTERFACES, Springer, 2010
  • Thomas M. Alisi, Gianpaolo D’Amico, Andrea Ferracani, Lea Landucci, Nicola Torpei, Natural Interaction for Cultural Heritage: the Archaeological Site of Shawbak; Proc. of ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM), 2010.
  • Gianpaolo D’Amico, Andrea Ferracani, Lea Landucci, Matteo Mancini, Daniele Pezzatini, Nicola Torpei, MediaPick: Tangible Semantic Media Retrieval System; Proc. of ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM), 2010.
  • S. Baraldi, A. Del Bimbo, L. Landucci, N. Torpei, O. Cafini, E. Farella, A. Pieracci, L.Benini, Introducing TANGerINE:  A Tangible Interactive Natural Environment, Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 2007.
  • S. Baraldi, A. Del Bimbo, L. Landucci, N. Torpei, O. Cafini, E. Farella, A. Pieracci, L.Benini, Evolving TUIs with Smart Objects for multi-context interaction; Proceedings of CHI 2008.
  • S. Baraldi, A. Del Bimbo, L. Landucci, N. Torpei, F.Paternò, Natural Interaction Systems for Knowledge Access and Creation; Special Interest Group Proceedings of CHI 2008.
  • S. Baraldi, A. Del Bimbo, L. Landucci, N. Torpei, Encyclopedia of Database System: Natural Interaction; Springer, 2008.
  • S. Baraldi, L. Landucci, N. Torpei, Natural Interaction – A Remedy for the Technology Paradox; Ercim News n°72, 2008.
  • S. Baraldi, A. Del Bimbo, L. Landucci, N. Torpei, O. Cafini, E. Farella, P. Zappi, L.Benini, Tangerine SMCube: a smart device for human-computer interaction; IEEE European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context, EuroSSC 2008.
  • T. Alisi, G. D’Amico,  A. Del Bimbo, A. Ferracani, L. Landucci, N. Torpei, Natural Interaction at Work; Electronic Imaging and the Visual Arts, EVA 2009.
  • A. Del Bimbo, A. Ferracani, L. Landucci, N. Martorana, G. Serra, N. Torpei, TANGerINE Grape: a Collaborative Tangible User Interface for Ontology-Based Search of Multimedia Contents; 6th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries – IRCDL 2010, University of Padua, Italy, January 2010.