Politecnico di Torino Fulvio Corno, Laura Farinetti, Alessandro Garbo, Isabella Signorile http://elite.polito.it Kick-Off meeting 05-06/09/2004 Tampere, Finland
Dec 30, 2015
Politecnico di Torino
Fulvio Corno, Laura Farinetti,Alessandro Garbo, Isabella Signorile
http://elite.polito.it
Kick-Off meeting05-06/09/2004 Tampere, Finland
The University
Politecnico di Torino
Architecture(2 faculties)
Engineering(4 faculties)
Research Departments(18 departments)
Service Centers(12 centers)
Dipartimento di Automaticae Informatica (Computer science)
Centro per i Servizi Teledidatticie Multimediali (CeTeM)
Facoltà di Ingegneriadell’Informazione (ICT)
Teaching Research
• Est. 1859 (Royal Military School), re-est. 1906 (Public University)
• 25.000 students, 115 degrees• 860 teaching staff• 800 technical/administrative staff• 7 locations
e-lite research group
LISAD laboratory
The Department
Computer Science and Control Engineering 58 Faculty, 40 PhD, 15 technical staff In computer science: VLSI design and test, electronic design
automation, data bases, computer networks, computer security, software engineering, web and distributed applications
2nd most active Department in European projects Faculty involved in BS, MS, PhD degrees in Computer
Engineering and post-grad Masters
The e-lite research group
Established in 20002 Faculty, 4 PhD students, 2 graduate engineersMission: e-learning, e-intelligence, e-interactionOpen to collaborations with other research groups and external entitiesPrevious experience
E-learningAccessibility, assistive devices
LISAD
Laboratorio per l’informatica, il supporto e l’accessibilità ai disabili (Laboratory for computers, support and accessibility to disabled students)
Availability of a range of assistive devices Accessible to disabled student, enrolled in regular or e-learning
courses Accessibility for e-learning portal (courseware and student
administration) and for didactical multimedia material Service to other Centers of the Politecnico
LISAD
Current research projects
eLearning System for Water and Environmental Studies
PiemonteVirtuale
INTEGRAIntegrando las Nuevas
Tecnologías en la Escuela
Current research projects
CABLE: Case-Based Learning for Educators (Socrates-Minerva, coord.), 2003-2005 PRAISE: Peer Review Network Applying Intelligence to Social Work Education (eLearning),
2004-2005 Olympia: e-Learning environment in sports training (Leonardo), 2003-2004 INTEGRA: Integrando las Nuevas Tecnologías en la Escuela (@LIS – Alliance for the
Information Society), 2003-2006 COGAIN: Communication by Gaze Interaction (FP6/NoE), 2004-2009 eSWES: e-Learning System for Water and Environments Studies (Tempus), 2004-2005 Passepartout: Information service for disabled in City of Torino PiemonteVirtuale: Virtual environment encompassing all the region Piemonte for
information, services, entertainment Telecom Italia Lab: Semantically enabled automatic composition of web services
Research topics
Applications
T echnologies
Paradigms
He u ris ticsArtific ia l
In te llig e nceW e b
T e ch n o log ie sO n to lo g ie s
Use rIn te r fa ces
C o mp u ta tio n al In te llig en ce
Evo lu tio na ryC o mp u ta tio n W e b
In te llig e nceSe ma n tic
W e b
Semantically awareand Inte lligent web
serv ices
Ne u ro -F uzzy
Au to n o mo u sAg e n ts
Acce ssib ility
e - le a rn ing g ro u p waremo b ile
co mp u tinge -b u sin ess in fo ta in me n t
cu sto merre la tio n sh ip s
Hu ma nC o mp u te rIn te ra ction
Research – Eye tracking
Research – Digital TV and Domotics
Research – Semantic Web
OntologyExternalOntology
Sem
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Lex
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laye
rWeight
XpointerFather
WeightXpointer
Father
Annotations Fragments[Xpointers]
WebResources
[Uri]
MultilingualLexicalEntities
IndexerIndexerSearch EngineSearch Engine
AnnotationRepositoryAnnotationRepository
SemanticMapper
SemanticMapper
SubstructureExtractor
SubstructureExtractor
OntologyWrapper
Stemmer / synsetWrapper
FragmentRetrieverFragmentRetriever
XML-RPC messages
XML-RPC messages
Services
Kernel
Front-end
Back-end
DOSEXML-RPC messages
External ApplicationsExternal Applications
LanguageDetector
LanguageDetector
• User modeling• Action prediction• Context-aware
applications• Intelligent “transparent”
search• Easy-to-integrate
platform• Multilingual
User groups involvement
e-lite
Istituto SuperioreMario Boella
Politecnico di Torino
FondazioneDon Gnocchi
• Public-private foundation• ICT development for
existing and new SME• Social impact of ICT• Research laboratories
•Services applications•Usability
• Center of information and exhibition of technologies for elderly and disabled
• Domotics
• Nation-wide charity foundation
• Rehabilitation and consultancy center
Co-located-
Existing research collaborations
LISAD
CETAD
LISAD
• Disabled students• Distance students
People involved in COGAIN
Fulvio Corno (project responsible, e-lite)
Laura Farinetti (assistant professor, e-lite)
Isabella Signorile (graduate technical, LISAD)
Alessandro Garbo (PhD, e-lite)
• Partial involvement of other PhD students
• Focused collaboration with other research groups
Main role in COGAIN
WP1: Participation in community building WP3: User involvement WP4: Gaze communication systems
Versatile and adaptive platform Web usability
WP5: Eye tracker development Eye-tracking (multiple low-cost cameras) Head- and eye-tracking