Hi! I'm Vincenzo Savarino.

I'm a researcher of Engineering Ingegneria Informatica R&D in Public Administration Innovation Unit in Palermo. I'm a Computer Science Engineer and I took my degree in Computer Science at the University of Palermo . Since 2004 I have been involved in several research projects financed by both the Italian Ministry of University and Research and the European Community. My main research interests are in Business and Process Modeling, SOA governance, Open Data, Semantics and Web technologies and Human-computer interaction.

The final project is related to a wider idea we want to develop in our R&D laboratory. The idea was born remembering old games , especially the Pin Art , the desk -toy patented Ward Fleming . It is a box containing a matrix crowded of tacks that are free to slide in an independent manner such as to create a three-dimensional surface . From this idea sprang the aim of studying the possible uses of interfaces that can change appearance and shape dynamically as the pixels of a screen.

3D Table

Starting from a single pixel I‘ll make an architecture composed by an environment for the tracking of objects or gestures through a kinect , mounted on a pedestal , reproducible through simulation environment based on web3d and finally through a table consisting of a series of actuators ( servo motors and RGB LED ) and drive all by means of a control logic , for example based on Arduino boards .

Why a 3D Table?

Create new ways of Human-Machine Interaction,

in order to improve User Experience, Usability and Accessibility

As just wrote a wider idea by starting in small

And ….solid thinking…making (almost) anything and putting together

1. I can interact with my 3D Object in Holographic Pyramid, for example  a City 3D Model. I could rotate the object, highlight a part, explore its composition seeing details that in standard ways I would never have noticed
2. I can highlight a part of object and send it to my SMART Table.
3. SMART Table is composed by:
   • 3D Shape Display where the 3D City  Model is rendered  and related  3D thematic layers can be displayed
   • Two interactive displays built by  a  Interactive Display Builder (IDB): the first one shows the 3D object or its element and users could draw annotations or select details,while the second one shows a virtual keyboard for insert textual annotations by users.
4. A user could watch the 3D Model on the Dynamic Shape Display and see users annotations thanks to augmented reality (ex. by Google Glasses).

The experience could continue by sending the data of an element of 3D model  to a 3D printer…..

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