Assistive technologies for disability

• AudioTact Project: Our patent for a simple system to allow blind users to explore images imbued with audio-tactile and downloadable web-based stimuli
• Case Study Case Study at the Milan Blind Institute with AudioTact”
• Multiable Project: a fully accessible and navigable SCORM eLearning platform across the phone. It also includes a methodology for cognitive content simplification. (Link to www.multiabile.it )
• Presentation of the Multiable Project at UNESCO Conference on Education for People with Disabilities
• The Diary for Dislexia: a useful interactive tool to help dyslexic students in elementary / middle schools on their day of study

• The Contestories : A Distributed and Multiuser Environment for Assistive Technology, Antonio Bianchi, ( The Contestories, Slide Presentation )
• Minus two , Multimedia, Sound Spatialization and 3D Visualization for Education in Cognitive Disabilities, Moreno Prencipe
• Computer Technologies Supporting Disabled for Navigation and Learning , Minor PhD, Thimoty Barbieri
• Heterogeneous systems for networking , Ph.D. Thimoty Barbieri
• Pocket LEZI , Extension to multi-channel environment Lezi.NET, Alessandro Allini and Luigi Agosti, ( pocketLezi, presentation slides )
• Navigable , Application of Multimodal Communication Techniques and Tools and Evaluation of Legibility and Comprehension of Web Content, Davide Ceriani, ( navigable, presentation slides )
• Multimodal Access to e-Learning Services , Alessio Somaschini
• Interactive Storytelling with VRML , Silvia Preziuso
• Browsing gestures : multimodal interface of a virtual glove for information navigation, Jacopo Faverio, Daniele Sangalli
• Soothsayer : a multi-source system for predicting the text, Matthew Bishops
• OpenAAC : information system, based on client / server architecture, for alternative augmentative communication, William Giannelli
• Semantic Kitchen : Study of a semantic search engine for recipes, Davide Iannello, Antonio Isolda
• Semantic Voice Interface Web Browser , Matteo Bozzolan, Mattia Frigerio
• Multiable : New multimodal access to network information, Ferdinando Carella
• Virtual environments for temporal rehabilitation in the presence of cognitive disability, Lorenzo Palpella
• Development of a Rehabilitative Storytelling in the Virtual Environment for Cognitive Disabilities Users, Alessandro Vitali

• LEZInet , Teaching System, Stefano Bruna
• Bliss 2003 , a Assistive Technology Assistant for Verbal Disabilities, Giorgio Gatti, Davide Danzi
• Integration of a tactile peripheral into a multi-user and multimodal augmented reality system, Michele Welponer, University of Trento, Faculty of Engineering

Innovative learning

• Collaborative virtual worlds: our “WebTalk” project for the creation of virtual 3D worlds to support collaboration has generated the Learning at Europe project (link to Learning @ Europehttp://www.learningateurope.net )

• Thimoty Barbieri: WebTalk-II: an Infrastructure for Web Co-operation (1999)
  WebTalk-II: A Framework for Collaboration on the Web

This thesis assesses the usability of the WebTalk-I framework, addresses limitations, and lays the foundation structure for WebTalk-II. It also explains whatCooperation Metaphors are.
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• Paolo Loiudice with Thimoty Barbieri: Cooperazionenella visit to a virtual museum (1999)
  Collaborative visits to virtualmuseums

This thesis introduces the WebTalk-I framework and explains the modalities with which it can be used to support collaboration in visiting a virtual museum

• Roberto Ciatti, Filippo Naggi with ThimotyBarbieri: Design and Generation of Shared Virtual Environments: WebTalk-II (2000)
  Designing and Generating Shared Virtual Environments: WebTalk-II

This thesis introduces a methodology for design and deployment of collaborative3D virtual environments, using access structures modeled in XML. It alsoexplains how the metaphors of cooperation, as a set of atomic rules, could be implemented on the design stage and in implementation.

• Matteo Foccoli: WebTalk-II: The Scene Builder Module (2000)
  WebTalk-II: The Scene Builder Module

This thesis is mainly technical and describes the software module thatparses the XML descriptions of the scene and builds the graphical 3D representationusing Java 3D.

• Federica Mega: Multichannel Co-operation: WAP and WebTalk (2001)
  Multichannel Collaboration: WAP and WebTalk

This thesis advocates the opportunity to create a collaboration channel between mobile users using WAP technologies (cellphones) and users connection to a shared virtual environment with a regular desktop CVE system. A framework that supports this theory has been developed and evaluated.

• Alessandro Rossi, Fabio Soverati: Definition of a model for cooperation in virtual environments, integrable in WebTalk-II (2001)
  Model for collaboration in Collaborative Virtual Environments

This thesis evaluates collaboration mechanisms in various CVEs, and defines and proposes a schema to define and define collaborative patterns between users in 3D CVEs. This mode can be applied to the WebTalk-II framework.

• Piergiovanni Santini: Autonomous Agents in the Virtual Cooperative Worlds (2002)
  Autonomous Agents in Collaborative Virtual Worlds

This thesis demonstrates the use of automated and pre-programmed avatars to aid navigation and exploration within collaborative virtualworlds

• Affordable David: Developing the Behavior Model and the Virtual Bag for WebTalk-II (2002)
  Development of the Behavior Model and of the Virtual Bag for WebTalk-II

This thesis describes the concept of behavior in webtalk-II and describes its use for the implementation of the virtual bag, an inventory interface for avatars

• Fabio Lorenzo: Wireless Client: An Application for Multichannel in Cooperative Systems (2002)
  Wireless Client: an application for multichannel communication in collaborative systems

This thesis describes the design and development of a PDA client for the WebTalk-II collaborative Virtual Environment