Publications by authors named "Gastone Pietro Rosati Papini"
This paper focuses on the collaboration between human drivers and intelligent vehicles. We propose a collaboration mechanism grounded on the concept of distributed cognition. With distributed cognition, intelligence does not lie just in the single entity but also in the interaction with the other cognitive components in a system.
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- The paper presents a study on a wave energy converter (WEC) that uses a new electrostatic power take-off system called a dielectric elastomer generator (DEG).
- It introduces a modeling method combining nonlinear hydrodynamics and electro-hyperelastic theory to predict the WEC's performance under real ocean conditions.
- Experimental tests on a small-scale prototype show promising results, achieving power outputs that suggest the feasibility of DEG-based WECs for large-scale energy generation.
This paper presents a haptic system that is conceived to support the design process of a class of products or services in order to make them more accessible to people affected by hand tremor diseases. The main aim is to foster the designer empathy allowing her/him to directly feel the effect of the impairment in first person. Specifically, a desktop haptic device is employed to induce a programmable hand-tremor, that is typically observed in people affected by some kind of neurological diseases, on healthy subjects (i.
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