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Eva Figes’s Remediation of The Book of Margery Kempe for BBC Radio 2

2017

In 1985, BBC Radio 2 broadcast the radio play The True Tale of Margery Kempe by contemporary writer Eva Figes (born 1932). The text is a remediation of The Book of Margery Kempe which recovers and gives new life to the tale of Margery Kempe re-instituting the memory of a long-lost manuscript and at the same time giving it back the original characteristics of orality. The narrative strategies adopted by Eva Figes in this adaptation for the radio of the medieval text are influenced by questions linked to the issue of the authorial voice. The transformation of the medium from written text to oral text for the radio gives Figes the opportunity, through directions to the actors, the use of monol…

Radio plays orality adaptationSettore L-LIN/10 - Letteratura Inglese
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Metilazione del DNA in artrite reumatoide

2005

Lo stato di metilazione del DNA genomico e del gene PTHrP è stato valutato con tecniche molecolari e citogenetiche in artrite reumatoide (AR), patologia autoimmune caratterizzata anche da alta incidenza di linfomi e da ipercalcemia per overespressione del gene PTHrP. La metilazione del DNA, infatti, ha un ruolo critico nello sviluppo delle malattie neoplastiche; il gene PTHrP avendo tre promotori uno dei quali contiene un’isola CpG è un buon candidato per la deregolazione da alterato pattern di metilazione locale. Le indagini sulla metilazione genomica, condotte su DNA estratto da sangue periferico di pazienti e di donatori e amplificato in reazioni di Methylation-Sensitive Arbitrarily Prim…

Settore BIO/18 - Geneticainstead chromosomes of controls were almost uniformly decorated by brilliant grains. Studies on methylation of PTHrP gene promoter 2 performed on five CpG island internal sites using the Methylation-Sensitive Restriction Endonuclease Multiplex (MSREM)-PCR showed that one of the sites nearest the trascription starting point is heavy methylated in a significantly high number of RA patients. Thus RA seems to be characterized by genomewide hypomethylation associated with local hypermethylation like the most part of tumors. This result raises the possibility that susceptibility to lymphomas is related to abnormal DNA methylation levels and suggests the opportunity to evaluate the DNA methylation status in RA patientin fact the demethylating therapies together with diet and life style can act towards an increase of tumor risk. Future studies using a larger number of subjects could confirm these findings.Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic multisystem inflammatory disease characterized by high recurrence of lymphomas as well as hypercalcemia due to PTHrP overexpression. Because of DNA methylation plays a critical role in development of neoplasias we determined in RA patients the global DNA methylation status and local methylation pattern of the CpG island of one of the three promoters of PTHrP gene utilizing molecular and cytogenetic techniques. Investigations performed on DNA from peripheral blood of patients and donors amplified by Methylation-Sensitive Arbitrarily Primed (MeS-AP)-PCR indicated that RA is strongly associated with global DNA hypomethylation. Similarly chromosomal DNA methylation pattern analysis by indirect immunofluorescence technique with anti 5-methylcitosine antibody showed all peripheral lymphocyte metaphases from RA patients with chromosomes weakly fluorescent without discrete grain
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Pervasive Displays Research: What's Next?

2019

Reports on the 7th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays that took place from June 6-8 in Munich, Germany.

Settore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi Di Elaborazione Delle Informazioni020203 distributed computingMeetingUbiquitous computingSettore INF/01 - InformaticaComputer science02 engineering and technologyComputer Science ApplicationsWorld Wide WebDisplaysComputational Theory and Mathematics0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringPervasive computingSoftwareVisualizationIEEE Pervasive Computing
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Exploring usability and accessibility of avatar-based touchless gestural interfaces for autistic people

2018

Many prior works investigated the potential of pervasive technologies and interactive applications to increase access capabilities to digital content for people with disability, particularly Neuro-Developmental Disorders (NDDs). In this paper, we present an exploratory study aimed at understanding if an avatar-based touchless gestural interface is able to foster interest towards digital representations of artworks, e.g. paintings or sculptures usually exhibited in museums, and to make them more accessible for such people. In particular, the study involved three autistic people and a therapist, and allowed us to report the potential of an avatar to communicate the interactivity and stimulate…

Settore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi Di Elaborazione Delle InformazioniAutism; Public Displays; Touchless Gestural InteractionSettore INF/01 - Informaticabusiness.industryComputer scienceInterface (computing)Digital contentAutism05 social sciencesExploratory research020207 software engineeringUsability02 engineering and technologyPublic DisplaysPublic DisplayTouchless Gestural InteractionInteractivityHuman–computer interaction0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesbusiness050107 human factorsAvatar
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Child-display interaction: Exploring avatar-based touchless gestural interfaces

2019

During the last decade, touchless gestural interfaces have been widely studied as one of the most promising interaction paradigms in the context of pervasive displays. In particular, avatars and silhouettes have been proved to be effective in communicating the touchless gestural interactivity supported by displays. In the paper, we take a child-display interaction perspective by exploring avatar-based touchless gestural interfaces. We believe that large displays offer an opportunity to stimulate child experience and engagement, for instance when learning about art, as well as bringing a number of challenges. The purpose of this study is twofold: 1) identifying the relevant aspects of childr…

Settore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi Di Elaborazione Delle InformazioniAvatar; Children-computer interaction; Gesture-based interfaces; Pervasive displays; Ubiquitous computingUbiquitous computingSettore INF/01 - InformaticaUbiquitous computingEvent (computing)Computer scienceInterface (computing)05 social sciencesPerspective (graphical)Children-computer interaction020207 software engineeringContext (language use)02 engineering and technologyAvatarInteractivityPervasive displayschildren-computer interaction gesture-based interfaces avatar pervasive displays ubiquitous computingGesture-based interfacesHuman–computer interaction0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering0501 psychology and cognitive sciences050107 human factorsAvatar
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They are looking at me! Understanding how Audience Presence Impacts on Public Display Users

2017

It is well known from prior work, that people interacting as well as attending to a public display attract further people to interact. This behavior is commonly referred to as the honeypot effect. At the same time, there are often situations where an audience is present in the vicinity of a public display that does not actively engage or pay attention to the display or an approaching user. However, it is largely unknown how such a \textit{passive audience} impacts on users or people who intend to interact. In this paper, we investigate the influence of a passive audience on the engagement of people with a public display. In more detail, we report on the deployment of a display in a public s…

Settore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi Di Elaborazione Delle InformazioniHoneypotInteractive DisplaysSettore INF/01 - InformaticaComputer sciencebusiness.industry05 social sciencesInternet privacyPublic Displays; Audience Behavior; Interactive Displays020207 software engineering02 engineering and technologyPublic displaysSpace (commercial competition)Public DisplayPublic spaceSoftware deploymentHuman–computer interactionAudience Behavior0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesbusiness050107 human factors
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Ecological Invitation to Engage with Public Displays

2018

Interactive public displays pose several research issues, which include display blindness and interaction blindness. In this paper, we shortly introduce our idea of a sound-based system to overcome the display blindness, and some experiments that we are carrying out in order to test its effectiveness.

Settore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi Di Elaborazione Delle InformazioniSettore INF/01 - InformaticaBlindnessComputer scienceComputingMethodologies_MISCELLANEOUSsonic trajectorie02 engineering and technologyPublic displaysmedicine.disease01 natural sciencesTest (assessment)Public displayOrder (business)Human–computer interaction0103 physical sciences0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringmedicinedisplay blindness020201 artificial intelligence & image processing010306 general physicsperipheral interactionProceedings of the 7th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays
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Investigating Avatar Influence on Perceived Cognitive Load and Bimanual Interactions with Touchless Interfaces

2017

In recent years, touchless-enabling technologies have been more and more adopted for providing public displays with gestural interactivity. This has led to the need for novel visual interfaces aimed at solving issues such as communicating interactivity to users, as well as supporting immediate usability and "natural" interactions. In this paper, we focus our investigation on a visual interface based only on the use of in-air direct manipulations. Our study aims at evaluating whether and how the presence of an Avatar that replays user’s movements may decrease the perceived cognitive workload during interactions. Moreover, we conducted a brief evaluation of the relationship between the presen…

Settore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi Di Elaborazione Delle InformazioniSettore INF/01 - InformaticaTouchless Gestural Interfaces; Public Displays; Interface EvaluationTouchless Gestural InterfaceInterface EvaluationPublic Display
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Elicitation and evaluation of zoom gestures for touchless interaction with desktop displays

2019

Touchless gestural interaction has been widely studied and adopted in many contexts. Furthermore, the growing availability of low-cost enabling devices, such as Kinect or Leap Motion, boosted up the interest in such interaction both for commercial and scientific purposes, both for large public displays and for personal displays. The problem of choosing the right touchless gesture for the right action is thus still an open issue, depending on several aspects, such as context, purpose, users' culture, etc. In this work, we first present the results of a gesture elicitation study that allowed us to identify a set of touchless gestures for performing zoom actions while interacting with desktop …

Settore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi Di Elaborazione Delle InformazioniSettore INF/01 - Informaticabusiness.industryComputer sciencetouchless interaction gesture elicitation desktop displays020207 software engineeringContext (language use)WorkloadUsability02 engineering and technologyPreferenceAction (philosophy)Human–computer interaction020204 information systems0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringZoombusinessSet (psychology)GestureProceedings of the 8th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays
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A perceptual sound space for auditory displays based on sung-vowel synthesis.

2022

AbstractWhen designing displays for the human senses, perceptual spaces are of great importance to give intuitive access to physical attributes. Similar to how perceptual spaces based on hue, saturation, and lightness were constructed for visual color, research has explored perceptual spaces for sounds of a given timbral family based on timbre, brightness, and pitch. To promote an embodied approach to the design of auditory displays, we introduce the Vowel–Type–Pitch (VTP) space, a cylindrical sound space based on human sung vowels, whose timbres can be synthesized by the composition of acoustic formants and can be categorically labeled. Vowels are arranged along the circular dimension, whi…

Settore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi Di Elaborazione Delle InformazioniSound modelspacesMultidisciplinarySonificationSound SpectrographySoundSettore INF/01 - InformaticaSound information&nbspSpeech PerceptionHumansSingingAuditory displaysScientific reports
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