Ricerc@Sapienza

One of the most challenging aspects of the implementation of Virtual/Mixed reality training systems is the effective simulation of real-world manipulation of the physical devices included in control interfaces like buttons, sliders, levers, knobs, etc. In this paper we describe a mockup airplane cockpit (XR-Cockpit), featuring interactive components of this kind that demonstrate the feasibility of effective simulations of device manipulation using low cost hand tracking technology and gesture recognition.

Almost all the studies about place attachment in environmental risk contexts only consider the role of place attachment to home or local area. However, especially when it comes to risks requiring evacuation from home and local area, it is likely that place attachment to evacuation sites, if any, becomes relevant too. The present studies intend to understand how place attachment to evacuation sites affects coping behaviors in natural hazard contexts.

Dialoguing with the artistical, cultural and architectonical heritage involves coming face to face not only with the tangible reality but also with the intangible: the idealization they under go and the crystallisation of the collective imaginary about them.
It is about facing the limits of these visions to overcome them and produce new stratified values on the existing. The goal is to collectively take back the value of the heritage, no longer through idealization and contemplation but by searching for what could have been or could be, what has not been
or is not yet.

In my paper, I examine the role that models play, and the relation between models and data, in finance, in particular in stock markets. I discuss several dangerous liaisons between models and data both from a theoretical and a practical viewpoint and their effects on the behaviour of the financial systems and their actors. I argue that these relations and liaisons defy the way traditional philosophy of science accounts for models and the relation between models and data, as stock markets exhibit several dynamics and features that do not fit them.