Mood Glove Enhancing mood in film music through haptic sensations for an enriched film experience

PhDThis research explores a new way of enhancing audience experience in film entertainment, presenting the design and implementation of a wearable prototype system that uses haptic sensations to intensify moods in lm music. The aim of this work is to enrich the musical experience of lm audiences and might also have implication on the hearing-impaired, providing them with a new enhanced emotional experience while watching a movie. Although there has been previous work into music displays of a visual and haptic nature, and on the importance of music in film, there is no documented research on musical enhancement experience in film entertainment. This work focuses on the mood conveyed by lm music in order to understand what role it plays in creating the film experience, and also explores the possibility of enhancing those feelings through haptic sensations. Drawing on HCI and interaction design principles, the design of a piece of haptic wearable technology is proposed and used as the tool for user studies. This research contributes to the fields of: HCI, interaction design, user experience design, multimodal interaction, creative technology, wearable technology, haptics, entertainment technology and lm music. This work also provides a set of design suggestions to aid future research and designers of haptic sensations for media enhancement. Proposed guidelines are based on a number of empirical findings that describe and explain aspects of audience emotional response to haptics, providing some first evidence that there is a correlation between vibrotactile stimuli (such as frequency and intensity) and perceived feelings.EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre in Digital Music and Media for the Creative Economy [EP/G03723X/1]

L'esercizio illegale dell'astronomia: Max Ernst, Iliazd, Wilhelm Tempel

Catalogo della mostra tenutasi alla Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze dal 14 novembre al 23 dicembre 2009. Nell’Anno Internazionale dell’Astronomia, la Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze e l’Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri rendono omaggio con questa Mostra alla figura dell’astronomo tedesco Wilhelm Tempel che ha vissuto ed operato a Firenze, presso l’Osservatorio di Arcetri dal 1875 fino alla morte avvenuta nel 1889. Per la prima volta vengono quindi esposti al pubblico i disegni, gli autografi e le litografie eseguite da Tempel per le sue osservazioni astronomiche, conservati nell’Archivio dell’Osservatorio fiorentino, insieme alle affascinanti elaborazioni grafiche e tipografiche realizzate da Max Ernst e dal grande editore d’arte Iliazd sulle pagine di Maximiliana, ou l’exercise illégale de l’astronomie, ispirate alla particolare vicenda biografica dell’astronomo tedesco, di cui sono riprodotti brani di memorie e di lettere, con l’intento di offrire un contributo originale all’approfondimento del rapporto fra arte e scienza, tema appassionante che animò anche Tempel nel tentativo di rappresentare poeticamente lo spazio celeste

Operationalizing mild cognitive impairment criteria in small vessel disease: The VMCI-Tuscany Study

Introduction Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) prodromic of vascular dementia is expected to have a multidomain profile. Methods In a sample of cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) patients, we assessed MCI subtypes distributions according to different operationalization of Winblad criteria and compared the neuroimaging features of single versus multidomain MCI. We applied three MCI diagnostic scenarios in which the cutoffs for objective impairment and the number of considered neuropsychological tests varied. Results Passing from a liberal to more conservative diagnostic scenarios, of 153 patients, 5% were no longer classified as MCI, amnestic multidomain frequency decreased, and nonamnestic single domain increased. Considering neuroimaging features, severe medial temporal lobe atrophy was more frequent in multidomain compared with single domain. Discussion Operationalizing MCI criteria changes the relative frequency of MCI subtypes. Nonamnestic single domain MCI may be a previously nonrecognized type of MCI associated with SVD

How Does It Feel Like? An Exploratory Study of a Prototype System to Convey Emotion through Haptic Wearable Devices

This paper reports on the design and implementation of a portable, hands-free, wearable haptic device that maps the emotions evoked by the music in a movie into vibrations, with the aim that hearing-impaired audience can get a sense of the emotional content carried by the music in specific movie scenes, and therefore feel (hear) the music through the sense of touch. A study of the use of the technology is reported which found that high arousal and high valence were reliably conveyed through haptic patterns with high intensity and high frequency, whereas haptic patterns with low intensity and low frequency conveyed low arousal and low valence

Tolerance toward migrants among Italian adolescents and young adults: The role of civic and political participation

This paper aims at clarifying the relationship between being involved in different forms of participation and tolerance toward migrants in young people. Almost 3000 participants from two European-funded research projects – FP7 PIDOP and H2020 CATCH-EyoU – answered a questionnaire that measured socio-demographics variables, the dimension of fairness in school climate, different forms of civic and political participation, and tolerance toward migrants and refugees. The results are consistent between the two studies, showing that civic participation demonstrated a major positive effect on tolerance. Being older, female, born in a foreign country, having more educated parents, and perceiving fairness at school, were also conditions, which sustained the development of tolerance

L’analisi SWOT delle Linee Guida del Piano Strategico di sviluppo e conservazione edilizia

Il capitolo restituisce l'analisi SWOT del Piano Strategico di Sviluppo e Conservazione Edilizia dell’Università di Genova sviluppato dal gruppo di ricerca nel 2022. Vengono ripercorse le principali linee strategiche previste nel Piano e vengono messe in relazione con il contesto territoriale, sociale e socioeconomico in cui si inserisce il patrimonio dell'Ateneo genovese

La Titolazione del Patrimonio

Il contributo ripercorre la titolazione del Patrimonio dell'Ateneo genovese individuandone i diversi regimi proprietari e le tipologie d'uso e godimento

Promuovere la cittadinanza europea a scuola: un\u2019esperienza di ricerca partecipata con i giovani

Il capitolo presenta nei dettagli il progetto di promozione della cittadinanza promosso dal progetto catch-EyoU, della durata di due anni, realizzato a Parma presso il Liceo \u201cA. Bertolucci\u201d nella cornice dell\u2019alternanza scuola-lavoro. Verranno illustrati il modello di intervento, le fasi procedurali, le attivit\ue0 proposte, i risultati e le riflessioni maturate dagli attori coinvolti (ricercatori, insegnanti, studenti) nel percorso di valutazione sistematico che ha accompagnato il progetto