Curriculum
Neuroscience, Technology, and Society, XXXII series
Grant sponsor
UNIPD
Supervisor

Alessandra Simonelli
Co-supervisor

Fabio Aiolli

Name and surname
Chiara Masiero

Contacts
Human Inspired Technology Research Centre
Via Venezia, 8 - 35121 Padova, Italy.
Mail: chiara.masiero[at]unipd.it

Research interests
The core topic of my research activity is Sentiment analysis, whose aim is determining the attitude of a writer in a document by means of Machine Learning techniques.
Sentiment analysis is widely applied to the monitoring of web and social media contents.

On-line payment methodologies are subjected to fraud and identity theft. Providers of payment systems have set up heuristic criteria based on experience to flag and stop suspected transactions; however, the current state-of-the-art has two main flaws:
- Fraudsters are generally able to find out new ways to bypass the newly adopted system restrictions and therefore new frauds typology may not be detected;

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People – Luciano Gamberini, Anna Spagnolli, Valeria Orso

Description
What's our goal?
Our aim is make the usage and the interaction with technological devices satisfactory and pleasant. To do so we tackle the entire project life cycle:
- collecting stakeholders' views on the design;
- investigating the strengths and flaws of the device;
- evaluating the affective feelings that the interaction with the device raises in the user.

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Observing users’ behavior is insightful to understand the ways in which they approach and manage technological devices. The video-recording of users’ behavior allows to analyze offline their actions and attitudes, thus providing an objective investigation. HIT Research Center is provided with two full systems for the computer-assisted video analysis, both running The Observer XT by Noldus.

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The centre has more than 16 HD cameras, 3-axis gimbal handheld and some accessories that make them wearable. The center has WI - FI definition cams, radio transmitters and professional photo cameras as well.
The center has, among the other things, also:

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In qualitative research, it is crucial for the researcher to ask whether, in light of his or her object and goals, it would be more appropriate to conduct systematic observations, to produce a handwritten or recorded field journal, to conduct interviews (structured or not), to photograph, to videotape and so on. The proper response to these questions will determine, to some extent, the quality, scope, adequacy and feasibility of the empirical data gathered.

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HIT centre is equipped with several motion sensing input devices (e.g. Kinect One, 360, and leap motion). These tools can be utilized in order to control and interact with consoles/computers without the need for a game controller that is by means of body and hands gestures. One of the principal methods by which body or hands movements can be electronically monitored, in a context of human-computer interaction, is the optical detection. The above-mentioned devices exploit the infrared light for recording users’ movements (i.e. motion capture process).

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The computer system functions under the direction of standard operating software and video editing software which provide the user with an interface for controlling both playback and clip editing of video information from the video source. Upon initialization of the editing system, the user is presented with at least a video window for displaying the video information, a control window for regulating playback of the video information, and a clip list window having a number of rows of edit windows organized under begin, end, and clip columns.

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