ASP Cycle

ORIENTOMA: A wearable orientation system for blind and visually impaired people

10th Cycle, 2014, ASP Cycle, ASP projects, Year

Visual impairment is a global health issue which impacts the life of about 285 millions of people, interfering with their daily activities and routine. Among the major obstacles faced everyday by blind and visually impaired people, orientation and mobility are of utmost relevance, preventing a fully autonomous life. The design of a wearable user-centered device […]

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

2012, 8th Cycle, ASP Cycle, ASP projects, 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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SMART.MAP: Smart Sensitive City. New Mapping for XXI century citizens

2012, 8th Cycle, ASP Cycle, ASP projects, 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, ASP projects, 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, ASP projects, 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, ASP projects, 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, ASP projects, 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, ASP projects, 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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