University of Genoa - Department of Communications, Computer and Systems Science

• Country - Italy
• Town - Genoa
• Web site - http://www.infomus.dist.unige.it/

The Department of Communications, Computer and Systems Science (DIST) of Universita degli Studi di Genova was founded in 1984. The main research activities concern the fields of Telecommunications, Signal Processing, Computer Science, Automation, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Bioengineering.
The InfoMus Lab, established in 1984 as a part of DIST, carries on scientific research, and design, development and experimentation of multimedia systems for music, dance, theatre, edutainment, museums and cultural institutions (e.g., science centers).

The main research issues include multimodal interactive systems for music and performing arts (e.g., dance, CVEs, MR and multimedia) integrating computational models of non-verbal expressive communication with special focus on movement (e.g., dance, full-body movements) and audio (e.g., music) and expressive multimodal interfaces. KANSEI Information Processing and musical informatics are further core research areas, also related to artificial intelligence and software engineering. In the framework of the EU IST MEGA project and of the EU IST TAI-CHI project, the InfoMus Lab designed, developed, and extended the EyesWeb open software platform (http://www.eyesweb.org) and a series of innovative hardware and software tools and interfaces used in several public events. EyesWeb has been satisfactorily used both for research purposes and for several kinds of applications, including Mixed Reality environments, multimodal interfaces, management of stories and narrative structures, public installations and museum exhibits. It has also been adopted as standard in several EU funded research projects (e.g., in the IST Program: projects MEGA, CARE-HERE, MEDIATE, TAI-CHI) and thousands of users currently employ it in universities, public and private research centers, and companies. The IntoMyWorld project will benefit of the experience acquired in many years by the DIST-InfoMus Lab in design and development of multimedia platforms, multimodal interactive systems, multimodal interfaces.