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Michele Di Donato

Michele Di Donato received a Master Degree in than 7 months of engineering developed on site. He has
Mechanical Engineering from the Politecnico di Bari, been research fellow, in Vis4Factory Project, at the
Italy, in 2013. He is currently Piping Stress Engineer at Department of Mechanics, Mathematics, and
Amec Foster Wheeler with 3 years of experience in Management, Politecnico di Bari, from 2013 to 2014,
Power Plants and Oil & Gas engineering, including more and at Politecnico di Milano in 2014.

Francesco Ferrise

Francesco Ferrise received a Ph.D. in Virtual Prototypes fields: Virtual and Augmented Reality, Haptics and
and Real Products from Politecnico di Milano in 2010 Human-Computer Interaction. He is Associate Editor for
and a master degree (laurea vecchio ordinamento) cum Frontiers in ICT, Frontiers in Psychology and Frontiers in
laude in Mechanical Engineering in 2005 from Universita’ Digital Humanities, section Human-Media Interaction
della Calabria. He is currently Associate Professor at and for ASME Journal of Computing and Information
Politecnico di Milano, Department of Mechanical Science in Engineering (JCISE).
Engineering. His research interests are in the following

Monica Bordegoni

Monica Bordegoni is full professor at the School of sectors, multisensory interaction, product experience,
Design, coordinator of the Virtual Prototyping Lab at the haptic technologies and interaction, emotional
Dpt. of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano. engineering. She is chair of the Executive Committee of
Main research interests include virtual prototyping of ASME-CIE Division and member of Advisory Board of
products, Virtual Reality technology and systems and the DesignSociety.
their application in the engineering and industrial design

Michele Gattullo

Michele Gattullo received the Ph.D. in Mechanical Mathematics, and Management, Politecnico di Bari. His
Engineering and Management in 2016 and a Ms degree research interests include virtual and augmented reality
cum laude in Mechanical Engineering in 2012, from for industrial application, natural user interfaces, CAD
Politecnico di Bari. He is currently carrying out his modeling, reverse engineering, and industrial
research as a postdoc in the Department of Mechanics, automation.

Antonio Emmanuele Uva

Antonio Emmanuele Uva received his BS and MS Associate Professor. Since 2003 he is a member of
degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Politecnico di Centre of Excellence for Computational Mechanics
Bari in 1995 and his PhD degree from the University of (CEMeC) of Politecnico di Bari. He published more than
Naples in 2000. He was visiting researcher at the 50 papers in international journals, book chapters and
University of California at Davis. He was with the international conferences. His main research interests
Department of Mechanics, Mathematics and are: CAD, human computer interaction, Virtual and
Management at sPolitecnico di Bari since 2002 as Augmented Reality, and bioengineering.
Assistant Professor and, starting from 2006, as

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