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A front projected wall displays fashion videos. People can select videos just pointing at them and controlling a pointer on screen. The system is portable and can be used in any environment suitable for video projection. Collaboration with Marco Barsottini and Francesco Ferrau', 2004.

Tests with real people, 2005.

The Workshop on Natural Interaction was held in Florence, Italy, in April 2004. It was a real event. Here's the worskhop webpage.

Daniele Modesto showing an interesting prototype. As a bottle is placed on the table, the virtues of the wine are depicted on the table around the bottle, 2004.

Tests, 2004.

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An experiment about ambient displays and peripheral perception. An ordinary wall clock that gives non critical informations such as websites accesses, news and weather forecasts associated with sound icons. The system was on 24 hours a day for some months in the lab, and provided useful information when needed, while not disturbing and interrupting the researchers. Developed at MICC in 2002.

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Interaction with scenes and objects visualized on a large rear projection display or a multi-viewpoint auto stereoscopic plasma display. Interaction is based on user gestures and voice commands. This system has been hosted for several months in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, showing the changes that the city is going through. Developed at MICC with Thomas Alisi, Marco Barsottini and Francesco Ferrau', 2003.

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Technological platform for an artwork by Lorenzo Pizzanelli, hosted in Palazzo delle Papesse museum in Siena; multiple users could smash digital flies projected on the walls using real flyswatters, 2003.

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An automatically segmented and annotated movie or a collection of images can be browsed using a multiresolution interface that arranges thumbnails on screen in a number of ways depending on user needs. An active search paradigm in an ordered universe is used instead of the common query paradigm. Developed at MICC with Giuseppe Becchi, late 2003.

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Gesture recognition on an augmented table. Multiple persons can manipulate digital media (selection, dragging, rotation, scaling). Videos, photos, icons and other types of media can be arranged and activated on the desk through intuitive gestures. Developed at MICC with Filippo Giachi and Lea Landucci, 2004.

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Interfacing a vision module to the shared networked environment system ygdrasil to provide natural 3D navigation through deictic gestures and body motions. Installed in Palazzo Medici Riccardi and Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, 2001. Experiment developed at MICC.

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A 3D virtual character observes people actions and behaviors. This work focuses on the modeling of visual attention when multiple objects (persons) are in the field of view. Developed at MICC, 2005 experiment.