Research Topics

Haptichem: A Haptic-Enhanced Framework for Chemistry Teaching and Research

2012, 8th Cycle, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics, University, Year

Currently, the approach in life science teaching makes a wide use of visual representations, especially when molecules are involved. Indeed, due to their size they represent an abstract knowledge that sometimes can be difficult for students to grasp. Visual perception is usually superior if compared to touch: first of all it is rapid, while touch […]

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PARLOMA: A Communication System for Deafblind People

2012, 8th Cycle, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Torino, Research Topics, University, Year

As Aristotle said, “Man is by nature a social animal”. One of the main characteristics of human beings is the will to be together and form communities; doing this, we are able to help each other. A crucial condition to enable this cohesion is to share a language: that is the only way to communicate

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SMART.MAP: Smart Sensitive City. New Mapping for XXI century citizens

2012, 8th Cycle, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics, University, Year

Information technologies offer innovative ways to deal with urban space. EXPO 2015, as occasion to promote the local and regional area values, requires an original idea of mapping able to record, analyze and represent dynamically the complexity and heterogeneity of the hosting territory. The project aims to produce innovative senseable images of the city enhancing

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Data4cities : Smart big data for smart cities

2013, 9th Cycle, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Torino, Research Topics, University, Year

The Smart City is stuck in the middle between visionary concepts and implementation problems whose origin often lies in organizational and management problems. Since Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are often a commodity, what hinders the development of the Smart City is a lack of business and governance models defining how ICT-based initiatives can create

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MICRA: Micro Combined Generation for Residential Applications

10th Cycle, 2014, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Torino, Research Topics, University, Year

Operating in the energy sector and interested in the new market possibilities offered by the Micro Combined Heat and Power (µCHP) generation, the group AsjaGen S.r.l. has proposed a study of different technologies in order to understand which is the most promising for innovative production systems to be installed in single-family houses. In an effort

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ECOBikePrint: bicycling toward a sustainable design

10th Cycle, 2014, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics, University, Year

Cycling Tourism is a new and great challenge for enhancing our territories thanks to its powerful ability to generate green jobs, economies, cultural actions involving people. In this general topic, a project named VENTO, born by DAStU – Politecnico di Milano and based on the idea to realize a green infrastructure – a cycling tourism

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ESTIA: collaborative platform for emergencies in aree sparse

10th Cycle, 2014, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics, University, Year

The ESTIA project is an innovative product-service solution for earthquake-related housing emergency in ‘aree sparse’, meaning all those areas far from the main urban centres, where housing emergencies cannot be tackled through standard procedures (i.e. large makeshift camps). The groundwork of the project was the collaboration with two external partners: AcellTec Ltd and Protezione Civile

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MEP-WEAR: Data logging about cities

11th Cycle, 2015, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics, University, Year

The proposed solution is a wearable device ecosystem, called IOM (Internet of Mobility), consisting of: a wearable device, which exploits a set of different sensors to collect several environmental data; a multiplatform application delivered both on mobile and web platforms, for an intuitive and appealing visualization of the collected information. Around the wearable device, however,

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MUSEUM CLUSTERS ICT: New digital and interactive spaces for new museum clusters

11th Cycle, 2015, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics, University, Year

In the 21st century, changes in economy, politics, culture and social life caused changes in the role of museums. This project aims to respond to the contemporary and future needs of museums, considering digital technologies as important tools in communication between all users. Our interpretation of possible solution is reflected in MemoMapp project, that is

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MO.MO: MOving MOzambique – from freights to passengers


11th Cycle, 2015, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics, University, Year

What does it mean to build a national railway that can switch from freights to passengers in a developing country? Which relations and connections have to be taken into account? Is it possible to enhance the potentiality of a growing nation taking into account both needs of local population and stakeholders’ perspective? How to develop

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