The system allows a visitor to take a virtual tour of one of the floors of the Capodimonte museum, which has been virtually reconstructed by photogrammetry. The prototype is based on a mobile Virtual Reality technology, which today is attracting a lot of interest thanks to the release of display kits called “headsets” that allow […]
The system allows users to view interactively holograms recorded on a holographic plate. In this specific case, on a single 60x50cm plate, five pages of the book “Avanzi delle antichità esistenti a Pozzuoli Cuma e Baja di Paolo Antonio Paoli (1768)” were recorded. The system features a gesture-controlled robotic arm with three lamps mounted on
Architecture for Digital Storytelling The work studies the empathy elicited by a storytelling system in which the characters in the story are modelled as cognitive agents and embodied in social robots. The ACT-R architecture is exploited to shape the characters’ personalities and equip them with knowledge and behaviours typical of social practices. The narration is
The Robotic Storyteller NarRob, is a social robot that can actively support teachers in storytelling activities. It is able to analyse the content of a story and associate meaningful gestures and expressions to the textual content. NarRob exploits both a chatbot module that allows it to converse with users during the storytelling activity and a
Smart Cultural Glasses are a wearable system based on Augmented Reality (AR) technology for the (outdoor) virtual navigation of contextual information regarding places and monuments of interest. The application is based on a wearable AR helmet and a gestural interface based on a depth sensor, a colour camera and inertial sensors. The goal was to
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