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Un attuale anacronismo. "Progettare biblioteche nel mondo di Google"
2018
Il titolo del libro di Michele Sbacchi – Progettare biblioteche nel mondo di Google – ha un sapore piuttosto ossimorico, paradossale. Perché progettare uno spazio architetto- nico – fisico – per la raccolta e la catalogazione delle informa- zioni quando queste circolano già liberamente – quanto digital- mente – su Internet tra un motore di ricerca e l’altro?
A New Humanoid Architecture for Social Interaction between Human and a Robot Expressing Human-Like Emotions Using an Android Mobile Device as Interfa…
2013
In this paper we illustrate a humanoid robot able to interact socially and naturally with a human by expressing human-like body emotions. The emotional architecture of this robot is based on an emotional conceptual space generated using the paradigm of Latent Semantic Analysis. The robot generates its overall affective behavior (Latent Semantic Behavior) taking into account the visual and phrasal stimuli of human user, the environment and its personality, all encoded in his emotional conceptual space. The robot determines its emotion according by all these parameters that influence and orient the generation of his behavior not predictable from the user. The goal of this approach is to obtai…
Extracting Touristic Information from Online Image Collections
2012
In this paper, we present a Geographical Information Retrieval system, which aims to automatically extract and analyze touristic information from photos of online image collections (in our case of study Flickr). Our system collect all the photos, and the related information, that are associated to a specific city. We then use Google Maps service to geolocate the retrieved photos, and finally we analyze geo-referenced data to obtain our goals: 1) determining and locating the most interesting places of the city, i.e. the most visited locations, and 2) reconstructing touristic routes of the users visiting the city. Information is filtered by using a set of constraints, which we apply to select…
Automatic Illustration of Short Texts via Web Images
2015
In this paper we propose a totally unsupervised and automatic illustration method, which aims to find onto the Web a set of images to illustrate the content of an input short text. The text is modelled as a semantic space and a set of relevant keywords is extracted. We compare and discuss different methods to create semantic representations by keyword extraction. Keywords are used to query Google Image Search engine for a list of relevant images. We also extract information from the Web pages that include the retrieved images, to create an Image Semantic Space, which is compared to the Text Semantic Space in order to rank the list of retrieved images. Tests showed that our method achieves v…
A web-based survey about protein supplementation amongst net-surfers. An innovative approach using Protein Project Google App©
2012
Web surveys present methodological challenges including lower response rates as compared to other survey methods like face to face interview, self reports using questionnaire and phone interview. The efficacy and appropriateness of design elements of invitations to participate in a web survey is not yet well understood for many reasons. To understand the feasibility of this innovative approach, an experiment (Protein Project) with key questions regarding protein supplementation was set up according to previous findings (Goston et al. 2004; Bianco et al. 2011). A Google App© was used to generate a questionnaire with seven-items and subsequently the created form was redirected to various soci…
Els formularis en línia com a eina telemàtica per a interactuar amb els estudiants
2009
El proceso de adaptación al Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior afecta tanto a la metodología de enseñanza-aprendizaje como a su evaluación, razón por la que puede ser la oportunidad perfecta para que profesores y alumnos saquen el máximo partido a las TICs. Este artículo presenta una herramienta basada en la aplicación Google Docs que permite interactuar con los estudiantes e incluso realizar exámenes online de forma rápida y sencilla y que ya ha sido usada con éxito en la asignatura de Introducción a la Microeconomía de la Diplomatura de Ciencias Empresariales de la Universidad de Valencia. La herramienta presentada presenta como principales ventajas frente al uso del Aula Virtual la fa…
Quantifying Fundamental Vegetation Traits over Europe Using the Sentinel-3 OLCI Catalogue in Google Earth Engine
2022
Thanks to the emergence of cloud-computing platforms and the ability of machine learning methods to solve prediction problems efficiently, this work presents a workflow to automate spatiotemporal mapping of essential vegetation traits from Sentinel-3 (S3) imagery. The traits included leaf chlorophyll content (LCC), leaf area index (LAI), fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (FAPAR), and fractional vegetation cover (FVC), being fundamental for assessing photosynthetic activity on Earth. The workflow involved Gaussian process regression (GPR) algorithms trained on top-of-atmosphere (TOA) radiance simulations generated by the coupled canopy radiative transfer model (RTM) SC…
INTEGRATED SFM TECHNIQUES USING DATA SET FROM GOOGLE EARTH 3D MODEL AND FROM STREET LEVEL
2017
Abstract. Structure from motion (SfM) represents a widespread photogrammetric method that uses the photogrammetric rules to carry out a 3D model from a photo data set collection. Some complex ancient buildings, such as Cathedrals, or Theatres, or Castles, etc. need to implement the data set (realized from street level) with the UAV one in order to have the 3D roof reconstruction. Nevertheless, the use of UAV is strong limited from the government rules. In these last years, Google Earth (GE) has been enriched with the 3D models of the earth sites. For this reason, it seemed convenient to start to test the potentiality offered by GE in order to extract from it a data set that replace the UAV …
Progettare biblioteche nel mondo di Google
2015
"The world has been Googled. We don't search for information, we Google it" Così Ken Auletta, columnist del New York Times, definisce l’accesso all’informazione contemporaneo. Però nel "mondo di Google" paradossalmente la costruzione di nuove biblioteche si è incrementata in modo esponenziale. Ma anche sul piano qualitativo la biblioteca ha subito una radicale trasformazione: da mero deposito a luogo di lettura e di studio oggi la biblioteca è imperativamente luogo di socializzazione e quindi anche anche “luogo di transito” ed elemento urbano. Il testo, scritto da un architetto, analizza il fenomeno nello specifico della progettazione architettonica analizzando l’evoluzione che questa tipol…
Factor selection procedures in a Google Earthtm aided landslide susceptibility model: application to the Beiro river basin (Spain)
2011
A procedure to select the controlling factors connected to the slope instability has been defined. It allowed to assess the landslide susceptibility in the Rio Beiro basin (about 10 km2) over the north-eastern area of the city of Granada (Spain). Field and remote (Google EarthTM) recognition techniques allowed to generate a landslide inventory consisting in 127 phenomena. Univariate tests, using both association coefficients and validation results of single parameter susceptibility models, allowed to select among 15 controlling factors the ones that resulted as good predictor variables; these have been combined for unique conditions analysis and susceptibility maps were finally prepared. In…