Ongoing Projects
- MONARCA
- Funding: EU Commission, FP7 Call IV
- MONARCA will develop and validate solutions for multi-parametric, long term monitoring of behavioural and physiological information relevant to bipolar disorder. It will combine those solutions with an appropriate platform and a set of services into an innovative system for management, treatment, and self-treatment of the disease. The MONARCA system will be designed to comply with all relevant security, privacy and medical regulations, will pay close attention to interoperability with existing medical information systems, will be integrated into relevant medical workflows, and will be evaluated in a statistically significant manner in clinical trials. The MONARCA system will consists of 5 components: a sensor enabled mobile phone, a wrist worn activity monitor, a novel “sock integrated” physiological (GSR, pulse) sensor, a stationary EEG system for periodic measurements, and a home gateway. It will combine GPS location traces, physical motion information, and recognition of complex activities (nutrition habits, household activity, amount and quality of sleep) into a continuously updated behavioural profile. Physiological information from the “GSR sock”, the periodic EEG measurements, voice analysis from mobile phone conversations, and motion analysis will provide an assessment of emotional state and mood. Combining this information with patients’ medical records and established psychiatric knowledge quantitative assessment of patients’ condition (expressed in Psychiatric Rating Scales like BRAM or HAMD) and prediction of depressive and manic episodes will be implemented. Closing the loop between the system and the patient an interface for self assessment (on the basis of the above information), provision of warnings and risk profiles and a coaching concept for self treatment will be implemented. For the medical staff, interfaces for interpreting the data, therapy assessment and therapy planning tools (scheduling visits, planning medication) will be developed.
CN Contact person: Oscar Mayora
- INTERSTESS
- Funding: EU Commission, FP7 Call IV
- INTERSTRESS aims to design, develop and test an advanced ICT based solution for the assessment and treatment of psychological stress. Specifically, the system will aim at (i) objective and quantitative assessment of symptoms using biosensors and behavioural analysis; (ii) decision support for treatment planning through data fusion and detection algorithms and (iii) provision of warnings and motivating feedbacks to improve compliance and long-term outcome.
To reach this goal the project will use a totally new concept for e-health: “interreality” that integrates assessment and treatment within an hybrid, closed-loop empowering experience bridging physical and virtual worlds.
In this way, the general objective of the INTERSTRESS Project is to research and develop a completely new concept in the treatment of psychological stress combining cognitive behavioural therapy with state-of-the-art ICT technologies. From the technological view-point Interreality is based on:
• 3D Individual and/or Shared Virtual Worlds allowing objective assessment, and provision of Motivating Feedback;
• Personal Biomonitoring System linking real world experience to the virtual one:
• Close-loop feedback through mobile devices allowing link from the virtual world to the real one through provision of warnings and motivating feedbacks.
CN Contact person: Oscar Mayora
- iTheater
- Funding: PAT Legge 6
- The objective of iTheater is to develop an interactive integrated system for story-creation and storytelling based on tangible interfaces and animation editing dedicated to children in pre-scholar age. iTheatre uses a puppet theatre-like space for enabling storytelling as a game. The interaction of iTheather is performed in the physical world by manipulating real puppets and other physical objects typical of puppet theaters and mapped to a virtual representation that allows further analysis and post-production of the interactions. Since the puppet theatre is also a social game that often involves more than one puppeteer and an audience, the collaborative involvement occurs in a more spontaneous way.
From the research point of view, the focus is the design, development and evaluation of multimodal interaction technologies for creation of educational tools, and investigation of the use of tangible interfaces with children in an educational environment.
CN Contact person: Cristina Costa
- NextMedia
- Funding: EU Commission, FP7 Call IV
- NextMEDIA objective is to enhance the coordination of the efforts in Europe towards producing a clear situation of the Future Media Internet, create common pillars (e.g. the Future Media Internet reference architecture for Europe) and support the results of the developments of the European projects by means of the following actions:
• Coordinate and Support of research collaboration in networked media scientific fields, especially in Future Media Internet (with strong orientation to the combination of 3D Internet Media and Content-aware Networks/Network-aware applications)
• Support the cooperation and future research of the European projects in the field of Networked Media by means of driving Task Forces and propose and coordinate new ones (“Future Media Internet Architecture”).
• Identify the position and clear opportunities in the areas where the European research in Future Media Internet is more competitive world-wide and develop studies and roadmaps by means of analysing the situation, technology and patents in the most developed countries in relevant research areas.
• Create the necessary dissemination means to advertise and spread excellence of the European research in Future Media Internet world-wide and attract the prominent scientists and company managers to the events.
CN Contact person: Oscar Mayora
- Ambient Aware Assistant - A3
- Funding: Provincia Autonoma di Trento.
- In Collaboration with: University of Trento, FBK-IRST and Don Gnocchi Foundation
- ACube will act in the framework of Ambient Intelligence, by conceiving a highly-developed smart environment to be deployed in nursing homes as a support to medical and assistance staff. The sophisticated features of the envisaged system will have a major impact on quality of care, quality of life of the assisted, as well as working conditions of caregivers.
The project will develop an advanced integrated infrastructure for intelligent monitoring in nursing homes and will validate it in two real-world scenarios. The infrastructure will encompass sophisticated features targeted to support medical and assistance staff and will have a major impact on both the quality of life of the assisted and the working conditions of caregivers. To this end, the project will tackle a number of technological and research challenges: algorithms for intelligent sensing, based on the integration of visual, acoustic and environmental sensing; a middleware to support the seamless integration of data streams from sensors; an intelligent architecture, featuring configurability, learning abilities and robustness (in terms of self-diagnostics and repair); model-based reasoning techniques to provide representation of the domain status, monitor the execution of activities in the environment and deliberate the most appropriate reactions.
- Perceptive Ambients
- Funding: Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Call on USA-Italy Excange of Researchers.
- In Collaboration with: Georgia Institute of Technology
- The objective of Perceptive Ambient project is the development of the theoretical and practical framework for the understanding of activities and the development of advanced ambient environment capabilities. The scientific basis for the project is the need to develop new algorithms and analysis techniques for multi-modal sensing of activities and the development of ambient environments that are aware of activities. This project combines techniques from multiple disciplinary areas including pattern recognition and the analysis of sensor data (mainly rfid and cameras), modelling and reasoning about complex temporal patterns, and the HCI and human factors issues surrounding the development of useful ambient environments and their evaluation under realistic use conditions.
- Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation
- Funding: Internal Funding.
- In Collaboration with: FBK-IRST, CeMiT
- Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation project (OTR) envisions the development of techniques based on ICT-research to support caregivers to monitor patients with mild dementia during therapy sessions. The focus of the project is to develop automatic monitoring means for supervising the correct execution of specific Every-day Activities (EDAs) like dressing/undressing, washing hands, brushing teeth and preparation of meals.
- TRITON (PAT/Siemens)
- The objective of this project is to perform experimentation on novel technologies (mainly based on Wireless Sensor Networks) for the monitoring and remote control of road tunnels. In particular the novel solutions should optimize the energy consumption (lighting and airing systems), increase the road safety through improved communication systems and enhance maintenance systems to reduce operating costs. MISE Goroup will be involved in TRITON project for the multimedia delivery subsystem from the tunnels to the control room.
Finished Projects
- The Living Space Aware Environment
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- SAMBA - System for Advanced interactive digital television and Mobile services in BrAzil
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