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Maurizio Caon

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Maurizio Caon, 2nd Year PhD student

Maurizio CaonMaurizio Caon received a BSc in Electronics and Computer Science Engineering from University of Perugia, Italy in 2007. He subsequently received M.Eng in Computer Science and Telecommunications from University of Perugia, Italy in 2010.

He was an intern as IMS smart services architect at the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland of Fribourg. He is currently working on his PhD at the University of Bedfordshire, UK in collaboration with the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland of Fribourg for his work in the area of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).

In particular, the topic of his PhD thesis is Context-Aware Gesture Interaction for Ambient Intelligence.

Research Interests

  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Gesture Recognition
  • Context Awareness
  • Ambient Intelligence
  • Activity Recognition
  • Interaction Design and Validation
  • Augmented Reality
  • Next Generation Networks (in particular IMS)

Publications

  • Maurizio Caon, Julien Tscherrig, Elena Mugellini, Omar Abou Khaled, Yong Yue, "Context -Aware 3D Gesture Interaction Based on Multiple Kinects", First International Conference on Ambient Computing, Applications, Services and Technologies (AMBIENT 2011)
  • Maurizio Caon, Leonardo Angelini, Stefano Carrino, Omar Abou Khaled, Elena Mugellini, "Multi-user pointing and gesture interaction for large screen using infrared emitters and accelerometers", HCI International 2011
  • P. Micanti, G. Baruffa, F. Frescura, L. Angelini, M. Caon, " Backward-Compatible Robust Error Protection of JPEG XR Compressed Video ," April 2010, 33rd IEEE Sarnoff Symposium

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Maurizio Caon
T: +41 (0)26 429 67 48
Bedfordshire University

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