Research Areas

• 3D Geovisualisation, Geovisual Analytics and LBS

  The process of planning and managing a entire territory requires a deep understanding of a very large area, of its problems, evolution and resources. Traditionally this process was carried on with the use of paper based maps and more recently through the use of GIS (Geographical Information Systems) technologies...

   

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• Cultural Heritage

  GraphiTech has investigated the application of IT technologies in the domain of cultural heritage. The vision was, and it still is, to connect different cultures through new technologies as well as to develop instruments for the re-qualification of archaeological, architectural and monumental heritage. In fact archaeological sites and ancient monuments are usually perceived by non specialists as fragmented, partial, difficult to interpret and comprehend, and often out of today’s context. This results in a frustrating and limiting experience for most of the visitors...

   

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• Digital Educational Games

  The success of Digital Educational Games (DEG) is mostly owed to the fact that they allow for learning while enjoying a fun experience. DEG in fact amuse the user, engage his/her motivation while deploying a number of learning strategies. The game in fact, in its most natural form, necessitates of both cognitive as well as physical involvement. To deliver this within a Digital Educational Game it is essential to identify specific interaction metaphors that can best and most naturally reproduce the psychomotor stimuli typical of daily experience. Technology can be an enabler of this psychomotor-driven approach rather than a limit, as the work illustrated in this paper has proved...

   

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• HCI and Advanced Multimodal Interfaces

  Several projects at Graphitech have made current use of multiple modalities thus maximising the support for the user, bringing a positive impact on how interaction is performed. In this context the idiom “modality” is used to refer to the syntactic and semantic properties of a signal; on the contrary the word “medium”, is adopted to focus on the production and transmission of signals...

   

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• Industrial Application

  Technical development has eased the work of humans and to reduce its intervention within the industrial process. However creative processes like conceptual styling do not follow predefined paths and no machine so far has succeeded in replacing human inventiveness...

   

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• Shape semantics and descriptors

  The amount of digital data on the internet has been growing exponentially over the last decade. Information freely available to users include text, graphical data etc. Search engines make it easier to search and retrieve relevant information. These engines take a textual query as input to find the relevant document on the web corresponding to the occurrence of the words within the query...

   

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