Curriculum
Computer Science and Innovation for Societal Challenges, XXXI series
Grant sponsor
UNIPD
Supervisor

Mauro Conti
Co-supervisor
Anna Spagnolli
Contact
muhammadhassanraza.khan[at]studenti.unipd.it

The Look of Life will assess the feasibility and the efficacy of immersive stimuli in virtual reality environment for the reduction of anxiety and depressive symptoms and for the promotion of emotional wellbeing. Subjects of the study are oncological patients in home care setting, who will be exposed to ad-hoc multimedial immersive videos through a mobile virtual reality headset.

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The project focuses on the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) with the objective of developing new paradigms concerning the symbiotic interaction and investigating the user’s experience of multimodal wearable systems.
Particular attention is turn to vibrotactile wearable devices and the possible scenarios for the application of these emerging technologies.

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One of the key problem for a speaker is to maintain user attention.

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Home appliances have changed a lot in the last decades: they have become increasingly smart, and the way in which we control them exploits new and often multiple interaction modalities, including touch and touch-less input, proximity interaction and speech interfaces.
This evolution calls for a renovation of the approach employed in the investigation of the interaction between the appliance and the user.

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Driving simulators have been extensively used in the last decade by the major automotive industries and racing teams, mostly for activities related to vehicle development and driver training.

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