by Davide Bacciu (UNIPI), Patrizio Dazzi (CNR-ISTI) and Alberto Gotta (CNR-ISTI)

The H2020 TEACHING project puts forward a human-centered vision for adapting and optimising autonomous applications, leveraging users’ physiological, emotional and cognitive states. Such a goal can be achieved by building a distributed, embedded and federated learning system complemented by methods and tools to enforce its dependability, security, and privacy preservation.

by Barbara Leporini (ISTI-CNR) and Maria Teresa Paratore (ISTI-CNR)

People with special needs face specific challenges in everyday activities. People with visual impairments, for example, have problems with orientation and mobility; moreover, they face serious issues when it comes to accessing information and services or perceiving the surrounding environment. Technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial systems can offer interesting solutions to overcome these limitations and can support users with special needs in an inclusive way.

by Marta Domínguez-Delmás (UvA), Francien Bossema (CWI), Erma Hermens (Rijksmuseum, UvA)

CT scans of a Rijksmuseum panel painting in CWI’s  FleX-ray laboratory have revealed a surprising insight: it turns out it was not painted on oak, as was always assumed, but on tropical wood. The panel painting “Cadmus, Guided by Minerva, Observes the Spartoi Fighting” is a small oil sketch on panel attributed to an unknown follower of Peter Paul Rubens.