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Papers by Giovanni Torrisi

Over the past 25 years, a new economy has taken place. Castells describes it as "information... more Over the past 25 years, a new economy has taken place. Castells describes it as "informational, global and interconnected". It is global because it encompass all the globe, without leaving aside any, even remote, community. It is interconnected because all regional economies need each other in order to make sense of the global. But, why is it "informational"? And what does this mean? [Segue nel testo ...] * Presentato dal Dipartimento di Studi su Società, Politica e Istituzioni.

In preparing for the study, the project partners familiarized themselves with the fields of dysle... more In preparing for the study, the project partners familiarized themselves with the fields of dyslexia and foreign language learning. In this, we used materials developed in several other projects, namely: Include, Adytrain, CallDysc. The partners synchronised their ...

Bocconi & Springer Series, 2016

al fine di superare le difficolta con cui si confrontano i corsi online transnazionali, quali cal... more al fine di superare le difficolta con cui si confrontano i corsi online transnazionali, quali calo dell’attenzione, incremento della distanza sociale tra i partecipanti e i potenziali problemi legati alle differenze tra studenti provenienti da diversi contesti. Il modello e stato sviluppato durante il primo anno di E-Urbs, un master Europeo in Studi Urbani Comparati (www.e-urbs.net), finanziato per 24 mesi attraverso i fondi europei “Virtual Campus”. La peculiarita del modello e quella di fornire un sistema di apprendimento nel quale differenti aspetti del processo risultano ben integrati e in equilibrio tra loro.

It is a common notion that ICT would create new possibilities for everyone. This should be true e... more It is a common notion that ICT would create new possibilities for everyone. This should be true especially for disabled people who are expected to benefit a lot from the new technologies which are at their disposal. This is simply not true or, at best, is an oversimplification of the facts. New technologies, including the new social 2.0 versions, are constructed, tested and designed for people without disabilities. ICT empowers people with new capabilities, but heavily relies on the existing ones. Telephones depend on the capacity to speak and to listen, computer screens rely on the ability to see, navigation systems count on the ability to control its commands, to see and hear, and so on. Any new technology brings with it a new power for those who can use it, and a new disability for those who cannot. Once the use of telephones became a standard procedure, people who could not use it acquired a new disability. The same applies to any new technology. Dyslexics experience specific le...

This paper presents a chat tool, called LoL classroom, which recreates the environment of a physi... more This paper presents a chat tool, called LoL classroom, which recreates the environment of a physical university classroom. The tool draws inspiration from the basic principles of constructivism and overcomes the main limitations of traditional chat rooms. We discuss the underlying teaching and interaction models, we outline the main features and we present the user interface of the tool. LoL classroom has been integrated in the LoL e-learning platform (Land of Learning, by MEC informatica) adopted in several online degree programs of the University of Urbino. The effectiveness of the tool has been demonstrated by the satisfaction of students and instructors revealed by questionnaires administered at the end of each academic year.

Le strategie di apprendimento collaborativo di tipo blended costituiscono la nuova frontiera in t... more Le strategie di apprendimento collaborativo di tipo blended costituiscono la nuova frontiera in tema di educazione. Al tempo stesso presentano innegabili difficolta di implementazione, specialmente quando applicate in un contesto internazionale, dove convivono tradizioni educative diverse. Il modello di apprendimento collaborativo blended qui presentato e stato testato durante il primo anno di E-Urbs, un master Europeo in Studi Urbani Comparati , finanziato attraverso i fondi europei “Virtual Campus”. I diversi aspetti presenti in qualsiasi format educativo avanzato sono stati individuati e messi in equilibrio, considerando i possibili problemi derivanti da una distribuzione non bilanciata di pesi e priorita.

EDULEARN16 Proceedings, 2016

Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, 2016

We present The Social Picture, a framework to collect and explore huge amount of crowdsourced soc... more We present The Social Picture, a framework to collect and explore huge amount of crowdsourced social images about public events, cultural heritage sites and other customized private events.The Social Picture aims to create social communities of users that contribute to the creation of image collections about common interests. The collections can be explored through a number of advanced Computer Vision and Machine Learning algorithms, able to capture the visual content of images in order to organize them in a semantic way. The interfaces of The Social Picture allow the users to create customized collections by exploiting semantic filters based on visual features, social network tags, geolocation, and other information related to the images.

Journal of E Learning and Knowledge Society English Version, Sep 29, 2010

Collaborative learning strategies are the new frontiers in the blended education field. At the sa... more Collaborative learning strategies are the new frontiers in the blended education field. At the same time, they have undeniable implementation difficulties, particularly when they are applied in an international context, where different educational traditions must coexist. The collaborative blended learning model presented here has been tested during the first year of the E-Urbs Master, European Master in Comparative Urban Studies 1 , funded by the EU 2 .

MTISD 2008. Methods, Models and …, 2008

We study the ruin problem for a non-life insurance company, whose risk process has the following ... more We study the ruin problem for a non-life insurance company, whose risk process has the following features: claims are not immediately settled, heavy tailed claims distributions. We prove a large deviation principle for the total claim amount process, and then we provide an asymptotic estimates for the logarithm of the infinite horizon ruin probabilities.

Sociologia Del Diritto Rivista Quadrimestrale Fondata Da Renato Treves, 2010

Questo scorcio d’inizio secolo ha visto una moltiplicazione di sovranita. Declinata al plurale, l... more Questo scorcio d’inizio secolo ha visto una moltiplicazione di sovranita. Declinata al plurale, la sovranita ormai sfugge i classici operatori dell’agire deontico e inaugura una nuova era nel rapporto tra gli enti. Enti che reclamano autonomia politica e autarchia normativa. Tale scenario post-deontico di glocalizzazione normativa porta all’introduzione di strumenti operativi e concettuali diversi. La sussidiarieta ne e un esempio. Essa rimane pero neutra rispetto alle strategie politiche di ampio livello, trasparente rispetto alle esigenze solidaristiche, fuorviante rispetto alla funzione di integrazione sociale del diritto. Tra gli strumenti che sembrano rispondere alle richieste integrative sociali del diritto, si puo richiamare la specie della promozione normativa. Con promozione normativa intendiamo un intervento operato da un sistema giuridico che tenda a perturbarne comunicativamente un altro, agendo sull’ambiente di quest’ultimo. L’intervento promozionale non agisce in termini di validita gerarchica, cioe attraverso una relazione di tipo asimmetrico tra enti, piuttosto si attua attraverso un’azione comunicativa tendente all’intesa, offrendo al sistema da promuovere ulteriori possibilita di scelte (opportunita). La promozione normativa e sia un’opzione teorica di osservazione del fenomeno normativo che una pratica del diritto che rende possibile il necessario coordinamento tra enti.

Journal of E Learning and Knowledge Society Italian Version, Sep 16, 2010

Le strategie di apprendimento collaborativo di tipo blended costituiscono la nuova frontiera in t... more Le strategie di apprendimento collaborativo di tipo blended costituiscono la nuova frontiera in tema di educazione. Al tempo stesso presentano innegabili difficoltà di implementazione, specialmente quando applicate in un contesto internazionale, dove convivono tradizioni educative diverse. Il modello di apprendimento collaborativo blended qui presentato è stato testato durante il primo anno di E-Urbs, un master Europeo in Studi Urbani Comparati 1 , finanziato attraverso i fondi europei "Virtual Campus" 2 .

Feedback, 2011

This paper presents a chat tool, called LoL classroom, which recreates the environment of a physi... more This paper presents a chat tool, called LoL classroom, which recreates the environment of a physical university classroom. The tool draws inspiration from the basic principles of constructivism and overcomes the main limitations of traditional chat rooms. ...

A) Developing the research material B) Questionnaires C) Students' view D) Trainers' view E) Lear... more A) Developing the research material B) Questionnaires C) Students' view D) Trainers' view E) Learning needs of the dyslexic students F) Suggestions for an internet based language learning programme

It is a common notion that ICT would create new possibilities for everyone. This should be true e... more It is a common notion that ICT would create new possibilities for everyone. This should be true especially for disabled people who are expected to benefit a lot from the new technologies which are at their disposal. This is simply not true or, at best, is an oversimplification of the facts. New technologies, including the new social 2.0 versions, are constructed, tested and designed for people without disabilities. ICT empowers people with new capabilities, but heavily relies on the existing ones. Telephones depend on the capacity to speak and to listen, computer screens rely on the ability to see, navigation systems count on the ability to control its commands, to see and hear, and so on. Any new technology brings with it a new power for those who can use it, and a new disability for those who cannot. Once the use of telephones became a standard procedure, people who could not use it acquired a new disability. The same applies to any new technology.

Over the past 25 years, a new economy has taken place. Castells describes it as "information... more Over the past 25 years, a new economy has taken place. Castells describes it as "informational, global and interconnected". It is global because it encompass all the globe, without leaving aside any, even remote, community. It is interconnected because all regional economies need each other in order to make sense of the global. But, why is it "informational"? And what does this mean? [Segue nel testo ...] * Presentato dal Dipartimento di Studi su Società, Politica e Istituzioni.

In preparing for the study, the project partners familiarized themselves with the fields of dysle... more In preparing for the study, the project partners familiarized themselves with the fields of dyslexia and foreign language learning. In this, we used materials developed in several other projects, namely: Include, Adytrain, CallDysc. The partners synchronised their ...

Bocconi & Springer Series, 2016

al fine di superare le difficolta con cui si confrontano i corsi online transnazionali, quali cal... more al fine di superare le difficolta con cui si confrontano i corsi online transnazionali, quali calo dell’attenzione, incremento della distanza sociale tra i partecipanti e i potenziali problemi legati alle differenze tra studenti provenienti da diversi contesti. Il modello e stato sviluppato durante il primo anno di E-Urbs, un master Europeo in Studi Urbani Comparati (www.e-urbs.net), finanziato per 24 mesi attraverso i fondi europei “Virtual Campus”. La peculiarita del modello e quella di fornire un sistema di apprendimento nel quale differenti aspetti del processo risultano ben integrati e in equilibrio tra loro.

It is a common notion that ICT would create new possibilities for everyone. This should be true e... more It is a common notion that ICT would create new possibilities for everyone. This should be true especially for disabled people who are expected to benefit a lot from the new technologies which are at their disposal. This is simply not true or, at best, is an oversimplification of the facts. New technologies, including the new social 2.0 versions, are constructed, tested and designed for people without disabilities. ICT empowers people with new capabilities, but heavily relies on the existing ones. Telephones depend on the capacity to speak and to listen, computer screens rely on the ability to see, navigation systems count on the ability to control its commands, to see and hear, and so on. Any new technology brings with it a new power for those who can use it, and a new disability for those who cannot. Once the use of telephones became a standard procedure, people who could not use it acquired a new disability. The same applies to any new technology. Dyslexics experience specific le...

This paper presents a chat tool, called LoL classroom, which recreates the environment of a physi... more This paper presents a chat tool, called LoL classroom, which recreates the environment of a physical university classroom. The tool draws inspiration from the basic principles of constructivism and overcomes the main limitations of traditional chat rooms. We discuss the underlying teaching and interaction models, we outline the main features and we present the user interface of the tool. LoL classroom has been integrated in the LoL e-learning platform (Land of Learning, by MEC informatica) adopted in several online degree programs of the University of Urbino. The effectiveness of the tool has been demonstrated by the satisfaction of students and instructors revealed by questionnaires administered at the end of each academic year.

Le strategie di apprendimento collaborativo di tipo blended costituiscono la nuova frontiera in t... more Le strategie di apprendimento collaborativo di tipo blended costituiscono la nuova frontiera in tema di educazione. Al tempo stesso presentano innegabili difficolta di implementazione, specialmente quando applicate in un contesto internazionale, dove convivono tradizioni educative diverse. Il modello di apprendimento collaborativo blended qui presentato e stato testato durante il primo anno di E-Urbs, un master Europeo in Studi Urbani Comparati , finanziato attraverso i fondi europei “Virtual Campus”. I diversi aspetti presenti in qualsiasi format educativo avanzato sono stati individuati e messi in equilibrio, considerando i possibili problemi derivanti da una distribuzione non bilanciata di pesi e priorita.

EDULEARN16 Proceedings, 2016

Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, 2016

We present The Social Picture, a framework to collect and explore huge amount of crowdsourced soc... more We present The Social Picture, a framework to collect and explore huge amount of crowdsourced social images about public events, cultural heritage sites and other customized private events.The Social Picture aims to create social communities of users that contribute to the creation of image collections about common interests. The collections can be explored through a number of advanced Computer Vision and Machine Learning algorithms, able to capture the visual content of images in order to organize them in a semantic way. The interfaces of The Social Picture allow the users to create customized collections by exploiting semantic filters based on visual features, social network tags, geolocation, and other information related to the images.

Journal of E Learning and Knowledge Society English Version, Sep 29, 2010

Collaborative learning strategies are the new frontiers in the blended education field. At the sa... more Collaborative learning strategies are the new frontiers in the blended education field. At the same time, they have undeniable implementation difficulties, particularly when they are applied in an international context, where different educational traditions must coexist. The collaborative blended learning model presented here has been tested during the first year of the E-Urbs Master, European Master in Comparative Urban Studies 1 , funded by the EU 2 .

MTISD 2008. Methods, Models and …, 2008

We study the ruin problem for a non-life insurance company, whose risk process has the following ... more We study the ruin problem for a non-life insurance company, whose risk process has the following features: claims are not immediately settled, heavy tailed claims distributions. We prove a large deviation principle for the total claim amount process, and then we provide an asymptotic estimates for the logarithm of the infinite horizon ruin probabilities.

Sociologia Del Diritto Rivista Quadrimestrale Fondata Da Renato Treves, 2010

Questo scorcio d’inizio secolo ha visto una moltiplicazione di sovranita. Declinata al plurale, l... more Questo scorcio d’inizio secolo ha visto una moltiplicazione di sovranita. Declinata al plurale, la sovranita ormai sfugge i classici operatori dell’agire deontico e inaugura una nuova era nel rapporto tra gli enti. Enti che reclamano autonomia politica e autarchia normativa. Tale scenario post-deontico di glocalizzazione normativa porta all’introduzione di strumenti operativi e concettuali diversi. La sussidiarieta ne e un esempio. Essa rimane pero neutra rispetto alle strategie politiche di ampio livello, trasparente rispetto alle esigenze solidaristiche, fuorviante rispetto alla funzione di integrazione sociale del diritto. Tra gli strumenti che sembrano rispondere alle richieste integrative sociali del diritto, si puo richiamare la specie della promozione normativa. Con promozione normativa intendiamo un intervento operato da un sistema giuridico che tenda a perturbarne comunicativamente un altro, agendo sull’ambiente di quest’ultimo. L’intervento promozionale non agisce in termini di validita gerarchica, cioe attraverso una relazione di tipo asimmetrico tra enti, piuttosto si attua attraverso un’azione comunicativa tendente all’intesa, offrendo al sistema da promuovere ulteriori possibilita di scelte (opportunita). La promozione normativa e sia un’opzione teorica di osservazione del fenomeno normativo che una pratica del diritto che rende possibile il necessario coordinamento tra enti.

Journal of E Learning and Knowledge Society Italian Version, Sep 16, 2010

Le strategie di apprendimento collaborativo di tipo blended costituiscono la nuova frontiera in t... more Le strategie di apprendimento collaborativo di tipo blended costituiscono la nuova frontiera in tema di educazione. Al tempo stesso presentano innegabili difficoltà di implementazione, specialmente quando applicate in un contesto internazionale, dove convivono tradizioni educative diverse. Il modello di apprendimento collaborativo blended qui presentato è stato testato durante il primo anno di E-Urbs, un master Europeo in Studi Urbani Comparati 1 , finanziato attraverso i fondi europei "Virtual Campus" 2 .

Feedback, 2011

This paper presents a chat tool, called LoL classroom, which recreates the environment of a physi... more This paper presents a chat tool, called LoL classroom, which recreates the environment of a physical university classroom. The tool draws inspiration from the basic principles of constructivism and overcomes the main limitations of traditional chat rooms. ...

A) Developing the research material B) Questionnaires C) Students' view D) Trainers' view E) Lear... more A) Developing the research material B) Questionnaires C) Students' view D) Trainers' view E) Learning needs of the dyslexic students F) Suggestions for an internet based language learning programme

It is a common notion that ICT would create new possibilities for everyone. This should be true e... more It is a common notion that ICT would create new possibilities for everyone. This should be true especially for disabled people who are expected to benefit a lot from the new technologies which are at their disposal. This is simply not true or, at best, is an oversimplification of the facts. New technologies, including the new social 2.0 versions, are constructed, tested and designed for people without disabilities. ICT empowers people with new capabilities, but heavily relies on the existing ones. Telephones depend on the capacity to speak and to listen, computer screens rely on the ability to see, navigation systems count on the ability to control its commands, to see and hear, and so on. Any new technology brings with it a new power for those who can use it, and a new disability for those who cannot. Once the use of telephones became a standard procedure, people who could not use it acquired a new disability. The same applies to any new technology.

Maggioni, G. (a cura di) Urbino e le sfide della città-Campus: Una ricerca su studenti, città, università. FrancoAngeli, 2017