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

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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