Meet Met Net - Awareness and design in hyper-technology era

The complex relationship between man and technology is the starting point of an interesting design process aiming to highlight the lack of awareness in most of the behavioral choices of man. The man is distinguished by its nature of finding short-term solutions, with the almost complete inability of prefiguring repercussions resulting from his unconscious decisions. The technology, on the other hand is growing and developing fast, becoming day by day more autonomous and uncontrollable. Specific attention is deserved by those technological innovations that can cause unpredicted impacts on human, his principles, values and behaviors: knowing history by its sociological and behavioral implications allows us to recognize some recursive patterns that can then be transformed into opportunities. The goal is not an attempt to predict future trends in technological innovation but to find the right formula in order to raise the level of responsibility in individuals' behavior. Not by imposing rules but giving people the right awareness in order to make conscious choices and to guarantee a responsible behavior. The role of the designer and the fields where he can intervene are identified and an area of interest is delimited specifically to the ambit of the 3D printing, enhancing its potential property of changing both technological and human systems. A first answer to the problems triggered by 3D printing can be found, indeed, in the positive phenomena that are activated within collaborating groups by sharing space and knowledge in communities with a bottom-up approach. The designer is actively involved within the entire system, directing behaviors toward the correct ethical and moral responsibility. Therefore, 3D printing does not turn into another behavioral, social, economic and environmental failure

Lighting the Shroud of Turin for Exhibition in 2015

Lighting a cultural heritage artifact requires balancing visual perception with preventive conservation, by providing the best lighting (in terms of spectral distribution and quantity) to enable the viewer to appreciate details and color, while limiting photo-induced degradation. The paper outlines the methodology applied by a multi-disciplinary team while lighting the Shroud of Turin at its last public exhibition in 2015. The methodology considered the special requirements of the Shroud, including exposure to ultraviolet light, while providing appropriate display conditions that would meet audience expectations. The desired appearance (readability of the body image and color) was defined with the help of Shroud researchers and confirmed by subjective tests, while appropriate light levels for preservation were set in agreement with standard requirements and using knowledge of the degradation of linen in visible and UV light. The installation provided a controlled environment and a managed visitor route to the Shroud, assuring excellent perception of both details and color, with the lowest illuminance level about 15 lx

Interaction between catchment basin management and coastal evolution (southern Italy)

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Interaction Design and Data Visualization for Future Digital Cars

Driving a car is becoming more and more complex. This does not happen because the functions that are necessary to drive are more difficult to perform: on the contrary, for example, electric and hybrid vehicles do not have any manual transmission gear. However, complexity lies in the fact that cars shall provide information on their current status, projections on their future state, optional information related to infotainment, to points of interest for the driver or the passengers, to the mobility system, to the connection with other subjects and objects outside the car etc. In such a variegated scenario, it is necessary to design a new space and several types of visual and interactive languages able to show and guarantee both pieces of information that are necessary to drive a vehicle in a safe way, and the accessory ones. Space and information shall then be designed in order to be adaptable to the user. The paradigm of adaptability has often been confused with customization. In this case, it aims instead to provide an intelligent car-system able to understand both the attitudes and the needs of the driver and to provide real-time answers, as appropriate to the situation. Modern cars are characterized by the constant effort to prove their potential in terms of performance and new integrated accessories, such as the protection from external agents, impacts and noise; to this end, visual languages can conform to this trend or they can express new forms and representations of data through which they can describe an increased need for communication with the external environment, a new awareness in the use of the car or a desire to focus only on driving etc. Moreover data visualization is changing thanks to a new mode of interaction between man and commands, as signs and their directionality cannot be inconsistent with the new input mode based, for example, on the use of gestures. In addition, on one hand, the introduction of gestures and other interaction modes inside the car can be a way to find a solution to the growing presence of controls and buttons which can often distract, especially if they are operated through a touch screen; on the other hand, it could become part of the driving pleasure, something that today is more and more difficult to feel. In this way, data visualization and interaction design can cooperate to provide a new sensory experience to the user. The research lead by the HMI team of the Polytechnic of Turin in collaboration with CRF seeks precisely to give solutions to these challenges in a Human Centered Design approach

Atlante numerico geografico della tendenza evolutiva dei litorali delle province di Taranto, Lecce e Brindisi in relazione all'erosione marina

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Biblioteca Centrale - P.le Aldo Moro, 7 , Rome / CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle RichercheSIGLEITItal