3 Research Fellows in Advanced Biomedical Signal Processing, or Haptics and Advanced Human-Machine Interaction

Advanced Biodata Processing: The research activity, which is part of the EU funded project EXPERIENCE, will be carried out at the Bioengineering and Robotics Research Centre Enrico Piaggio of the University of Pisa. It targets advanced signal processing for non-invasive physiological recordings, such as, but not limited to, EEG, EKG, HRV, EDA, respiration, EMG, MEG, fMRI. The research will focus on the development of novel methodologies in the field of signal processing and eventually machine learning, specifically addressing the patho-physiology of central and autonomous nervous systems, and their continuous interaction. The research will address scientific questions in the field of neuroscience and psychiatry, particularly related to the time and space perception, as well as emotional processing and regulation. The activity will also include experimental data acquisition in the lab with Virtual Reality environments.

Haptics: The research activity, which is part of the EU funded project EXPERIENCE, targets the design and control of a wearable system that should embed sensors for hand pose reconstruction and force/tactile sensors and, at the same time, deliver tactile stimulation (force, pressure, vibration, etc...) for virtual reality VR interactions. The development of the system will move from off-the shelf, commercial devices to engineer a customized product that will be integrated with audio/video cues in VR and bio-signal acquisition systems. The overall goal is to use this system to modify the perception of time through cutaneous-skin stimulation and associate the perceptual illusions to the emotional characterisation of the tactile cues, in terms of the arousal and valence elicited in users and physiological signal analysis.