EventMask

Events emerged in the last years as a driving concept to efficiently index and retrieve media. Several approaches have been proposed to analyse the relationship between events and related media, to enable event discovery, event-based tagging, or event-based media retrieval. Notwithstanding the outstanding work done by several researchers in this area, a major still unsolved problem is how to understand the inherent link between visual concepts and events, and in particular, which are the key elements that allow a human being to perceive from a media collection what is the underlying event. In this demo, we address this problem in an original way by exploiting human knowledge using a game with a hidden purpose. Users are engaged in a competition, where they can alternatively try to mask a photo collection to prevent other users to recognize the related event or they can see a photo partially masked and try to guess the event connected. A set of rules and an adequate score system force players to focus on real important details, thus allowing the detection of most event-related salient parts of the media. The final result is a saliency map that, differently from the typical concept of saliency, highlights the visual concepts that are considered fundamental to perceive the nature of an event

Etica e professioni sanitarie in Europa. Un dialogo fra medicina e filosofia

This multilingual volume brings together some of the results of research conducted at the Department of Literature and Philosophy of the University of Trento (Italy), in collaboration with the Bruno Kessler Foundation (Trento, Italy). Topics related to ethics and professions in the healthcare and other fields were covered, analyzed both from a theoretical and an empirical perspective. After presenting some introductory thoughts on the distinction between different levels and forms of ethical reflection on healthcare and the significance of the individual moral conscience as far as these levels are concerned, the first part of the book discusses some European traditions in healthcare professional ethics: it includes a Spanish account of different moral traditions in healthcare ethics, a reconstruction of the British experience and evolution of this field, a report on the Belgian contemporary situation, a presentation of the role of the Medical Associations in the German area, a description of the evolution of medical ethics in Croatia and a focus on nursing ethics and medical ethics in Italy. Two empirical studies are then described: one qualitative based on 40 interviews with clinicians, and one quantitative based on a web survey of more than 1,000 physicians; the first was conducted in the Province of Trento, the second in that of Verona (Northern Italy). The book concludes with a number of interviews with clinicians and a philosophical reflection on the nature of the obligations related to the practice of caring. The book is intended to cover the main moral questions faced by clinicians today and to offer a novel self-representation of their work and its ethical meaning in contemporary healthcare practice. Medicine and philosophy have a long history of dialogue: this volume continues that discussion, searching for new ways to combine a strong scientific approach with reflections on the moral and anthropological structures of clinical practic

An Experiment in Managing Language Diversity Across Cultures

Developing ontologies from scratch appears to be very expensive in terms of cost and time required and often such efforts remain unfinished for decades. Ontology localization through translation seems to be a promising approach towards addressing this issue as it enables the greater reuse of the ontological (backbone) structure. However, during ontology localization, managing language diversity across cultures remains as a challenge that has to be taken into account and dealt with the right level of attention and expertise. Furthermore, reliability of the provided knowledge in the localized ontology is appearing as a non-trivial issue to be addressed. In this paper, we report the result of our experiment, performed on approximately 1000 concepts taken from the space ontology originally developed in English, consisted in providing their translation into Mongolian

SensEH: From Simulation to Deployment of Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks

Energy autonomy and system lifetime are critical concerns in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), for which energy harvesting (EH) is emerging as a promising solution. Nevertheless,the tools supporting the design of EH-WSN are limited to a few simulators that require developers to re-implement the application with programming languages different from WSN ones. Further, simulators notoriously provide only a rough approximation of the reality of low-power wireless communication. In this paper we present SENSEH, a software framework that allows developers to move back and forth between the power and speed of a simulated approach and the reality and accuracy of in-field experiments. SENSEH relies on COOJA for emulating the actual, deployment-ready code, and provides two modes of operation that allow the reuse of exactly the same code in realworld WSN deployments. We describe the toolchain and software architecture of SENSEH, and demonstrate its practical use and benefits in the context of a case study where we investigate how the lifetime of a WSN used for adaptive lighting in road tunnels can be extended using harvesters based on photovoltaic panels

Recognizing Hospital Care Activities with a Coat Pocket Worn Smartphone

In this work, we show how a smart-phone worn unobtrusively in a nurses coat pocket can be used to document the patient care activities performed during a regular morning routine. The main contribution is to show how, taking into account certain domain specific boundary conditions, a single sensor node worn in such an (from the sensing point of view) unfavorable location can still recognize complex, sometimes subtle activities. We evaluate our approach in a large real life dataset from day to day hospital operation. In total, 4 runs of patient care per day were collected for 14 days at a geriatric ward and annotated in high detail by following the performing nurses for the entire duration. This amounts to over 800 hours of sensor data including acceleration, gyroscope, compass, wifi and sound annotated with groundtruth at less than 1min resolution

La responsabilità dell’Internet Service Provider per violazione del diritto d’autore: un’analisi comparata

La rivoluzione tecnologica che, soprattutto a partire dal nuovo millennio, ha determinato il passaggio dall'era analogica all'era digitale ha fornito alla collettività nuovi strumenti di comunicazione e di diffusione delle opere d'ingegno. Da un lato tali mezzi, offrendo agli utenti la possibilità di creare e condividere facilmente contenuti testuali ed audiovisivi, hanno rivoluzionato il concetto di "creatività" e di "autore"; dall'altro essi, facilitando la riproduzione dell'opera protetta e la circolazione della stessa, hanno profondamente innovato il concetto di copia. Allo stesso tempo, la definitiva consacrazione di internet come strumento globale per il libero scambio di idee ha reso sempre più pressante l'esigenza di definire i profili di responsabilità degli Internet Service Provider (c.d. ISP) in relazione all'illecito commesso dagli utenti della rete. Nonostante gli illeciti attuabili via web siano molteplici, la presente trattazione ha ad oggetto il particolare ambito della responsabilità degli ISP per le violazioni del diritto d'autore. Sotto questo specifico profilo, la scelta del regime di liability dei provider pone questioni particolarmente delicate, in quanto rende necessario un bilanciamento tra la libera iniziativa economica degli intermediari del web, le libertà di informazione, manifestazione del pensiero e sviluppo culturale degli utenti e il diritto d'autore che, pur manifestandosi principalmente come un riconoscimento di diritti economici, nasce come incentivo allo produzione creativa di opere d'ingegno. La presente ricerca procede analizzando gli ordinamenti statunitense, comunitario e nazionale e, prendendo in considerazione tanto il formante legislativo, quanto quello giurisprudenziale, si interroga proprio sul raggiungimento in ognuno di un punto di equilibrio adeguato. Questo studio prende poi in considerazione il Regolamento Agcom in materia di diritto d'autore di recente entrata in vigore, valutandolo sia sotto il profilo della sua legittimità costituzionale, sia sotto quello del bilanciamento di interessi concretamente operato. L'obiettivo della presente ricerca è quello di evidenziare come il modello USA, riferito specificamente alla responsabilità per violazione di copyright, appaia maggiormente bilanciato ed efficiente rispetto ai corrispondenti modelli comunitario e nazionale. Questi ultimi, adottando un approccio orizzontale al sistema delle responsabilità per gli illeciti commessi da terzi mediante il web, propongono una normativa molto meno dettagliata, le cui lacune mettono a rischio il corretto bilanciamento degli interessi. Appare quindi necessario un nuovo intervento del legislatore comunitario il quale, operando un equo bilanciamento tra i diritti coinvolti, si lasci alle spalle l'approccio analogico alla materia del diritto d'autore ed adegui il suo intervento alla realtà dei fatti

Multi-device Activity Logging

In this paper we are presenting i-Log, a system which is able to collect user’s personal information, generate streams of data from smartphone’s integrated sensors and attached wearable devices. We decided to focus our attention on these general purpose devices as we believe they can generate truthful readings because of their easy integration with our day-life activities, while invasive dedicated logging devices can alter our normal routines. The system consists of a Mobile Application that collects sensor data from the smartphone and from additional external wearable devices through a Bluetooth connection. We designed it to be user friendly, transparent, unobtrusive and able to provide smart sensing strategies in order to preserve battery life. Moreover, i-Log has a back-end server that accepts streams of data from the application and stores them into a persistent storage system that can be queried for further real time analysis

I beni comuni digitali. Valorizzazione delle informazioni pubbliche in Trentino

Il presente volume raccoglie contributi prodotti nell'ambito di una ricerca volta a inquadrare la questione dell'apertura e della libera distribuzione del patrimonio digitale nel possesso dalle pubbliche amministrazioni all'interno del più vasto dibattito sui beni comuni. L'apertura di un tale patrimonio si scontra con difficoltà e diffidenze che operano all'interno delle strutture burocratiche che lo detengono. Queste sono dovute al tradizionale riferimento a istituti modellati sul diritto di proprietà per la gestione del bene pubblico; diritto percepito come la pietra angolare del nostro sistema economico e giuridico. Ciò si traduce in una sorta di pregiudizio contrario ai beni comuni, visti come soluzioni istituzionali inadeguate alla creazione del massimo benessere individuale e sociale. L'intento del presente lavoro è di mostrare come questa ricostruzione della natura dei beni comuni digitali sia offuscata da un'impostazione di carattere ideologico

Casa Rosmini e Rovereto: note dal passato pensando a un museo futuro

Casa Rosmini è, prima di tutto, testimone di esperienza. Se ciò vale in generale nel momento stesso in cui si ponga l’ipotesi di una casa-museo, sarà ancor più determinante se si tratta – come nel nostro caso – di una ‘casa-luogo di pensiero’: filosofico, storico, sociale, religioso. Senza alcuna pretesa esaustiva il saggio si propone di raccogliere una serie di dati, in parte noti e in parte non ancora, al fine di tracciare una mappa ricognitiva del patrimonio di Casa Rosmini, di riconoscerne caratteri e valenze, di proporne una sistematizzazione. Si vogliono così prendere in considerazione come unico insieme la casa, la sua storia, i suoi personaggi, le sue raccolte. Nuove considerazioni si volgono a fornire una chiave di lettura riferita a quanto lo stato attuale degli studi ci consegna. Tale chiave interpretativa non è fine a se stessa, ma sottende un principio: la conoscenza dell’edificio e del suo patrimonio permette di immaginare un futuro per l’uno e l’altro, fermi restando i limiti dati dalla realtà

Creation of Software within the Academic Context: Knowledge Transfer, Intellectual Property Rights, and Licences

Using the method of comparative analysis, this paper explores different legal issues related to software management within universities. It is organized in two sections. The first section will deal with the crucial issue of ownership of intellectual property rights in copyrights and patents, outlining the discussion with reference to the specific objective of this review. The regulatory framework in this field, which is often opaque due to the different regulations that characterize the diverse forms of intellectual property rights, is made even more incomprehensible by providing different legal regimes according to the status of the person who has carried out the research (professors, lecturers, fellows, graduate students, etc.). The second section provides an explanation of the role that contract law, and specifically licensing, has in the exploitation of software. Finally, considerations of a general nature will be developed and some operational solutions proposed, primarily aimed at emphasizing the importance of a systematic approach to the transfer of knowledge in a university environment