Stefano Piana

TL;DR: A new technique that allows automated coding of non-verbal mode of communication (gestures) and offers the possibility of objective, evaluation of gestures, independent of human judgment is described.

TL;DR: A new sonification framework, Go-with-the-Flow, informed by physiotherapists and people with CP, is proposed that proposes articulation of user-defined sonified exercise spaces (SESs) tailored to psychological needs and physical capabilities that enhance body and movement awareness to rebuild confidence in physical activity.

TL;DR: A computational model and system for the automated recognition of emotions starting from full-body movement that has been successfully applied in the development of serious games for helping autistic children learn to recognize and express emotions by means of their full- body movement.

TL;DR: An approach to realtime automatic emotion recognition from body movements extracted from sequences 3D skeletons and fed to a multi-class SVM classifier that reached an overall recognition rate of 61.3% which is very close to the recognition rate obtained by human observers.

TL;DR: The framework aims to provide a conceptual background the development of computational systems can build upon, with a particular reference to systems analyzing a vocabulary of expressive movement qualities, and translating them to other sensory channels, such as the auditory modality.