1. Politecnico di Torino Fulvio Corno, Laura Farinetti, Alessandro Garbo, Isabella Signorile http://elite.polito.it Kick-Off meeting 05-06/09/2004 Tampere, Finland

2. The University Politecnico di Torino Architecture (2 faculties) Engineering (4 faculties) Research Departments (18 departments) Service Centers (12 centers) Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica (Computer science) Centro per i Servizi Teledidattici e Multimediali (CeTeM) Facoltà di Ingegneria dell’Informazione (ICT) TeachingResearch Est. 1859 (Royal Military School), re-est. 1906 (Public University) 25.000 students, 115 degrees 860 teaching staff 800 technical/administrative staff 7 locations e-lite research group LISAD laboratory

3. The Department  Computer Science and Control Engineering  58 Faculty, 40 PhD, 15 technical staff  In computer science: VLSI design and test, electronic design automation, data bases, computer networks, computer security, software engineering, web and distributed applications  2 nd most active Department in European projects  Faculty involved in BS, MS, PhD degrees in Computer Engineering and post-grad Masters

4. The e-lite research group Established in 2000 2 Faculty, 4 PhD students, 2 graduate engineers Mission: e-learning, e-intelligence, e-interaction Open to collaborations with other research groups and external entities Previous experience E-learning Accessibility, assistive devices

5. LISAD  L aboratorio per l’ i nformatica, il s upporto e l’ a ccessibilità ai d isabili (Laboratory for computers, support and accessibility to disabled students)  Availability of a range of assistive devices  Accessible to disabled student, enrolled in regular or e-learning courses  Accessibility for e-learning portal (courseware and student administration) and for didactical multimedia material  Service to other Centers of the Politecnico LISAD

6. Current research projects eLearning System for Water and Environmental Studies PiemonteVirtuale INTEGRA Integrando las Nuevas Tecnologías en la Escuela

7. Current research projects  CABLE : Case-Based Learning for Educators (Socrates-Minerva, coord.), 2003-2005  PRAISE : Peer Review Network Applying Intelligence to Social Work Education (eLearning), 2004-2005  Olympia : e-Learning environment in sports training (Leonardo), 2003-2004  INTEGRA : Integrando las Nuevas Tecnologías en la Escuela (@LIS – Alliance for the Information Society), 2003-2006  COGAIN : Communication by Gaze Interaction (FP6/NoE), 2004-2009  eSWES : e-Learning System for Water and Environments Studies (Tempus), 2004-2005  Passepartout : Information service for disabled in City of Torino  PiemonteVirtuale : Virtual environment encompassing all the region Piemonte for information, services, entertainment  Telecom Italia Lab : Semantically enabled automatic composition of web services

8. Research topics

9. Research – Eye tracking

10. Research – Digital TV and Domotics

11. Research – Semantic Web User modeling Action prediction Context-aware applications Intelligent “transparent” search Easy-to-integrate platform Multilingual

12. User groups involvement e-lite Istituto Superiore Mario Boella Politecnico di Torino Fondazione Don Gnocchi Public-private foundation ICT development for existing and new SME Social impact of ICT Research laboratories Services applications Usability Center of information and exhibition of technologies for elderly and disabled Domotics Nation-wide charity foundation Rehabilitation and consultancy center Co-located - Existing research collaborations LISAD CETAD LISAD Disabled students Distance students

13. People involved in COGAIN Fulvio Corno (project responsible, e-lite) Laura Farinetti (assistant professor, e-lite) Isabella Signorile (graduate technical, LISAD) Alessandro Garbo (PhD, e-lite) Partial involvement of other PhD students Focused collaboration with other research groups

14. Main role in COGAIN  WP1: Participation in community building  WP3: User involvement  WP4: Gaze communication systems Versatile and adaptive platform Web usability  WP5: Eye tracker development Eye-tracking (multiple low-cost cameras) Head- and eye-tracking