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L'eroicomico
No full textLa poesia eroicomica è un genere letterario tutto italiano, che fonde caratteristiche della poesia eroica, ossia epica, e di quella comica. Inventato ufficialmente dal modenese Alessandro Tassoni nella prima metà del Seicento come risposta all’esperienza del severo poema epico di Torquato Tasso, l’eroicomico ha conosciuto una straordinaria e inaspettata fortuna nella penisola e in Europa, con sorprendenti ricadute fino ai nostri giorni. Questo volume ricostruisce, per la prima volta e in maniera sistematica, la storia e lo sviluppo del genere eroicomico, guardando anche alle esperienze burlesche, epiche e cavalleresche del Quattrocento e del Cinquecento che ne hanno costituito le premesse indispensabili
Premessa
No full textLa poesia eroicomica è un genere letterario tutto italiano, che fonde caratteristiche della poesia eroica, ossia epica, e di quella comica. Inventato ufficialmente dal modenese Alessandro Tassoni nella prima metà del Seicento come risposta all’esperienza del severo poema epico di Torquato Tasso, l’eroicomico ha conosciuto una straordinaria e inaspettata fortuna nella penisola e in Europa, con sorprendenti ricadute fino ai nostri giorni. Questo volume ricostruisce, per la prima volta e in maniera sistematica, la storia e lo sviluppo del genere eroicomico, guardando anche alle esperienze burlesche, epiche e cavalleresche del Quattrocento e del Cinquecento che ne hanno costituito le premesse indispensabili
L'inversione degli stilemi
No full textLa poesia eroicomica è un genere letterario tutto italiano, che fonde caratteristiche della poesia eroica, ossia epica, e di quella comica. Inventato ufficialmente dal modenese Alessandro Tassoni nella prima metà del Seicento come risposta all’esperienza del severo poema epico di Torquato Tasso, l’eroicomico ha conosciuto una straordinaria e inaspettata fortuna nella penisola e in Europa, con sorprendenti ricadute fino ai nostri giorni. Questo volume ricostruisce, per la prima volta e in maniera sistematica, la storia e lo sviluppo del genere eroicomico, guardando anche alle esperienze burlesche, epiche e cavalleresche del Quattrocento e del Cinquecento che ne hanno costituito le premesse indispensabili
NADIA - NAvigation for DIsability Applications
No full textIl Progetto Nadia (NAvigation for Disability Applications), finanziato dall'Agenzia Spaziale Italiana ed affidato a un team composto da industrie, università e associazioni d'utenza, ha l'obiettivo di sviluppare un sistema prototipale che consenta agli utenti del progetto (disabili motori, ipo/non vedenti) una maggiore autonomia e una più sicura mobilità in ambito urbano, tramite l'utilizzo di tecniche di radionavigazione satellitare.
La presentazione descriverà le attività ingegneristiche finora effettuate e in particolare a partire dalla definizione dei requisiti utente, la progettazione del sistema e lo sviluppo dei suoi elementi critici (fra cui specifiche interfacce utente, algoritmi di comunicazione per migliorare la sicurezza, detezione di ostacoli e navigazione indoor
Emotional processes in human-robot interaction during brief cognitive testing
No full textWith the rapid rise in robot presence in a variety of life domains, understanding how robots influence people's emotions during human-robot interactions is important for ensuring their acceptance in society. Mental health care, in particular, is considered the field in which robotics technology will bring the most dramatic changes in the near future. In this context, the present study sought to determine whether a brief cognitive assessment conducted by a robot elicited different interaction-related emotional processes than a traditional assessment conducted by an expert clinician. A non-clinical sample of 29 young adults (17 females; M = 24.5, SD = 2.3 years) were asked to complete two cognitive tasks twice, in counterbalanced order, once administered by an expert clinician and once by an autonomous humanoid robot. Self-reported measures of affective states and assessment of physiological arousal did not reveal any difference in emotional processes between human-human and human-robot interactions. Similarly, cognitive performances and workload did not differ across conditions. Analysis of non-verbal behaviour, however, showed that participants spent more time looking at the robot (d = 1.3) and made fewer gaze aversions (d = 1.3) in interacting with the robot than with the human examiner. We argue that, far from being a trivial ‘cosmetic change’, using a social robot in place of traditional testing could be a potential way to open up the development of a new generation of tests for brief cognitive assessment
The NADIA Terminal User Interface for People with Motor Disabilities
No full textIn this paper, a user terminal interface is described realizing an application allowing autonomous and safe mobility of people on a wheelchair. The application has been developed in the framework of the NADIA research project, funded and promoted by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and implemented by Thales Alenia Space Italia with the collaboration of a mixed team of companies, university and user associations. The project has brought to the realization of a system exploiting the combined use of satellite navigation technologies based on GPS, EGNOS and augmentation signals, of hybridized technologies and of specific and user-oriented services implemented by terrestrial infrastructures. The user terminal selected is a consumer laptop, due to its flexibility, processing power, possibility of connection to other devices needed for the application. The user terminal has been made suitable to provide NADIA services also to wheelchair users presenting different kinds and degrees of upper limb disabilities, by means of a proper hardware solution overcoming limitations of existing technical aids for PC accessibility, not intended to be used in an autonomous mobility scenario. Also thanks to a proper control scheme of the application implemented by the terminal software, users may be provided with NADIA services by means of commercially available switch sensors specifically devoted to exploit user-specific residual abilities. The development of the solution has been constantly guided by hints and feedbacks from user associations, partners in the project. The NADIA prototype system has been successfully tested in several occasions by wheelchair users with upper limb disabilities
An eye-controlled version of the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test 2 (KBIT-2) to assess cognitive functioning
No full textEye-tracking technology may represent a possible solution to overcoming issues related to motor disability in cognitive assessment. In this study we assessed the equivalence between the standard version of the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test-second edition (KBIT-2) and its eye-controlled version. Forty-three undergraduate volunteers were administered the KBIT-2 twice in a counterbalanced within-subjects design. Overall, scores obtained in the eye-controlled version correlate with those obtained in the standard version. Significant differences were found between raw scores, number of errors and time needed to complete the test in the Vocabulary subtest but not in the Matrices subtest. Further analyses revealed no significant differences in cognitive workload across test modalities. Explanations and implications for further research are discussed
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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