***The deadline has been extended to July 16!*** We are organizing a workshop on the design, implementation and evaluation of mid-air gestures and speech-based interaction, on September 18 at CHItaly 2017 in Cagliari (Italy). Cagliari is the capital of our beautiful Sardinia, a very nice city with fascinating architecture, surrounded by stunning landscapes, a charming place for…
Month: June 2017
AAL & Healthcare @Foritaal
The second day at Foritaal 2017 continued with another round table on Ambient Assisted Living and Healthcare, with experts with different backgrounds: M. Malavasi – Ausilioteca Bologna A. Pilotto – Geriatrician, Galliera Hospital, Genoa Giovanni Abbruzzese – Neurologist, Genoa University Lorenzo Bertorello – Liguria Region Barbara Bavastro – IPASVI Claudio Puppo – Consulta Regionale Handicap…
My presentation @Foritaal 2017
Today, at the 8th edition of Foritaal in Genoa, I presented a talk on the problem of accessibility to mobile technology for older adults, and how we addressed it in ECOMODE, a European project funded under Horizon 2020, using multimodal interaction with mid-hair one-hand gestures and voice commands. Increasing older adults’ accessibility to mobile technology: The…
Foritaal 2017, 14-15 June
Today I am very happy to participate in the 8th edition of Foritaal, the Italian Forum on Ambient Assisted Living. This year the Forum is in Genoa, one of the most fascinating cities in Italy, yet still quite off the main tourist radar. The city is famous as the birth place of Christopher Columbus, and is…
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