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Casa Paganini - Infomus

International Research Centre

InfoMus Lab, founded in 1984, carries out scientific and technological research, development of multimedia systems, multimodal human-computer interfaces, and applications. A main research focus is on the understanding and development of computational models of non-verbal expressive and social behavior. Cross-fertilisation of scientific, humanistic, and artistic theories characterize the research methodology. From 1997 to 2004 InfoMus Lab had a contract with the Genoa Opera House - Teatro Carlo Felice which included a lab site at the theatre and joint activities.

Since 2005, InfoMus Lab has its new premises in the recently restored monumental building of S.Maria delle Grazie La Nuova - Casa Paganini. The International Research Centre Casa Paganini - InfoMus participates in many international projects on scientific research and education, develops multimedia systems, platforms, and applications for industry partners (e.g., INTEL), and participates in artistic productions and museum projects where systems and research results are applied and validated. Casa Paganini - InfoMus studies new directions in scientific and technological research to improve quality of life (e.g., independent living, therapy and rehabilitation, leisure, sport, edutainment), to develop novel industrial applications and services (e.g., innovative interfaces and multimedia applications), to music industry and education, dance and theatre, cultural heritage (e.g., museography, support cultural heritage by means of novel user-centric media technologies).

The multimedia software platform EyesWeb, conceived, designed, and developed by Casa Paganini - InfoMus, is adopted by thousands of users worldwide for scientific research, education, and industry applications. EyesWeb was selected by INTEL in 2008 for their hardware for "independent living".

Casa Paganini - InfoMus educational activities:

Download the description of Casa Paganini - InfoMus, in PDF format (1 MB).

Download the EyesWeb Software - the installer of the x64 version is the file named "EyesWeb_XMI_setup_5.7.0.0_x64.exe".

http://hydhc.org/


"Open Knowledge Forum"

Crossing boundaries: arts and technology of emotions


The 10th '[HY-DHC] Hanyang Digital HealthCare Center' Open Knowledge Forum
Deep X Learning, Thinking, Pocket.
Date & Time: Thursday, 20 February 2025, 9:00 AM CET (Genoa) / 5:00 PM KST (Seoul)
Online Zoom forum.
To read more: download the  Flier... (1 MB in JPG format)

Latest News

  • Palazzo Reale, Genoa — December 3, 2025


    Royal Inclusion: when the home becomes a museum and the museum becomes home, in a smart and inclusive city

    On the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, a selection of technologies for the inclusive enjoyment of cultural experiences was presented at Palazzo Reale in Genoa, during the event “Royal Inclusion: when the home becomes a museum and the museum becomes home”, organized by Spoke 1.

    The technological solutions were developed within the RAISE ecosystem by CNR, the research center Casa Paganini – InfoMus of the University of Genoa, ETT, and students of the Master’s Degree in Digital Humanities – Interactive Systems and Digital Media, curriculum Affective Computing, Arts and Cultural Welfare.

    The experiences presented represent a concrete example of how innovative technologies can support inclusive, creative, and personalized processes, enabling new forms of museum experience and cultural welfare. Read the RAISE article .



  • Toulouse, France — 2025


    METAbody Workshop

    In 2025, at the K·Danse company in Toulouse, an activity took place within the European METAbody project, dedicated to interdisciplinary research at the intersection of performing arts, technologies, and body studies.

    Casa Paganini presented advancements in its research on movement and conducted hands-on workshops on PyEyesWeb, a toolkit for scientific and artistic research on movement. The toolkit was tested within dancer and actor training activities, as well as creative experimentation with media artists.

    The activities included interactive demos focused on the analysis of movement qualities, with particular attention to smoothness as an expressive and technical parameter. See the blog article and the released Python package on PyPI.



  • Maker Faire Rome — October 17–19, 2025


    Maker Faire Rome – The European Edition Workshop

    Maker Faire Rome is an international event where makers, innovators, and creatives showcase projects in electronics, artificial intelligence, robotics, virtual and augmented reality, gaming, music, art, and education.

    The project TRATTO – Tangible Representation of Affect Through TOgetherness, by Casa Paganini, was among the University of Genoa (UniGe) projects selected for the 2025 edition. Read the Maker Faire blog article and the UniGe.life article.



  • Alzheimer Fest, Chiavari — September 21, 2025

    Alzheimer Fest

    Alzheimer Fest is a national traveling event, active since 2017 as a Social Promotion Association, aimed at fostering social inclusion and spreading knowledge about Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia through cultural, artistic, and scientific outreach activities open to the public.

    Within this framework, Casa Paganini presented Danz’ArTe, an interdisciplinary project that uses art and movement as tools for cognitive stimulation and relational activation, with particular attention to contexts of vulnerability. Visit the official website and read the blog article.



  • ACII 2024

    12th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction

    Glasgow, UK, September 15-18, 2024

    Keynote talk "Crossing boundaries: arts and technology of emotions" by A.Camurri



  • CHIRA 2023

    Keynote speech at CHIRA 2023: Aesthetically Resonant Multimodal Interactive Systems



  • EU Horizon Europe ICT STARTS ReSilence project

    The project addresses the development of art-driven technologies for designing the soundscape of future cities targeting AI and XR tools addressing primarily challenges from the Urbanism/Mobility sector while exploring the borders between music, noise, and user experience measurements assessing a soundspace: resilence.eu



  • DanzArTe

    The DanzArTe Emotional Wellbeing Project: new scientific paper available



  • Open Closed Open

    In collaboration with Liat Grayver, Yair Kira and Amir Shpilman

    Awarded the first DAGESH Art Prize, Jewish Museum Berlin 2019


    "Open, Closed, Open" is a multimedia installation that explores a multitude of perceptual positions realized as a result of the continual movement of organic materials. Sand, light and human voice are shaped by a layer of technological interventions that impose varying degrees of control and predetermined roles upon both themselves and the resulting response of the materials.

  • Two Pandoras

    A thin membrane between resiliency and fragility



    Experimental performance for the European WhoLoDancE project presentation,
    RomaEuropa Festival, Rome, Italy, October 7, 2018
    Collaboration K. Danse (Toulouse, France k-danse.net)- Instituto Stocos (Madrid, Spain stocos.com)

    • Choreographers: Muriel Romero and Jean-Marc Matos
    • Dancers: Muriel Romero and Marianne Masson
    • Music and sound synthesis: Pablo Palacio
    Technologies for real-time movement analysis: Casa Paganini - InfoMus and Instituto Stocos.
    Interactive Laser technology: Instituto Stocos.

  • Myselves

    from matos jean-marc, holst anne



    An interactive choreographic performance, stages a dialog between a dancer and her multiple selves, embodied in an autonomous and unpredictable visual and aural creature, which emanates from her psyche as interpreted by optical and body sensors.

    • Jean-Marc Matos: co concept, choreography
    • Marianne Masson: co concept, co choreography, dance
    • Antoine Schmitt: co concept, interactive visual and aural creation antoineschmitt.com
    • Sound design: Antoine Schmitt & Jean-Marc Matos
    • Music: Robert Crouch, Ipek Gorgun, Nils Frahm, Franck Vigroux, Daniel Brandt, Hauschka, Klara Lewis & Simon Fisher Turner, Biosphere
    • Lights: Fabien LeprieultCostumes: Benjamin Haegel
    Collaboration on the technology: Research Center Casa Paganini - InfoMus, Dir. Antonio Camurri. Automatic analysis of movement qualities made with the EyesWeb platform.

  • Festival della Scienza 2018

    Serie di incontri: laboratori e conferenza a cura di Casa Paganini.
    25 - 31 Ottobre 2018 - Casa Paganini
    Clicca qui... per informazioni.


  • MOCO'18 Performance

    Europa: Gesture of History - Dancing Science and Art not to forget EU identity
    Performance at MOCO'18 Conference: excerpt from the scientific performance commissioned by EU DG Connect in occasion of the celebration of the Treaty of Rome.
    A project of Casa Paganini-InfoMus
    In collaboration with Virgilio Sieni dance company and Andrea Cera
    Federica Loredan coordinating amateur dancer performers from Atlante del Gesto_Genova:
    Angelica Marioni, Lidia Treccani, Daniele Urzí, Daniele Ferrarazza, Ettore Chernetich, Rosanna Bethel, Elena Battistini.

  • EyesWeb Week 2018

    The 6th EyesWeb Week is an intensive tutorial aiming at sharing with Participants the experience of the Casa Paganini - InfoMus Research Centre in the EyesWeb XMI project.
    Download the EyesWeeb Week 2018 Programme here.

  • Europa: Gesture of History - Dancing Science and Art not to forget EU identity"


    Europa:Gesture of History, is a scientific performance in Rome (March 23th 2017).


    This performance took place in occasion of the dinner at the celebration of the Treaty of Rome, at “La Lanterna” in Rome, on invitation by the EU DG Connect.

    The objective was to tell metaphorically the narration of the birth and evolution of Europe by means of a short choreographic action, enhanced by an interactive sonification amplifying the qualities of dancer’s movement.

    DANCE EU Project Performance/Showcase

    Giulia Mureddu, dance
    Virgilio Sieni and Giulia Mureddu, choreography
    Andrea Cera, sonic design
    Stefano Piana, software for real-time analysis of movement qualities

    A project of Casa Paganini - InfoMus, coordinated by Antonio Camurri.
    This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 645553

  • Andrea Cera's works with analysis of movement.


    Excerpts from his works based on analysis of movement and the use of EyesWeb.




Recent Publications

2024

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    T. Magnusson, K. Braybrooke, S. Skach, G, Lepri, M. Donnarumma, A. Pultz Melbye, J. Armitage, V. Shepardson, N. Privato, M. A. Crozzoli, H. Ulfarsson, S. P. OBrien

    The Organium: A Library of Technical Elements for Improvisatory Design Thinking

    in Proceedings of the 19th International Audio Mostly Conference: Explorations in Sonic Cultures , ACM, pp. 198–208, ISBN/ISSN: 10.1145/3678299.3678319, New York, NY, USA, September, 2024
    [ link ] (doi: https://doi.org/10.1145/3678299.)

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    G. Lepri, N. Privato, T. Magnusson

    Embodied Sketching for Neural Synthesis

    in Proceedings of the 19th International Audio Mostly Conference: Explorations in Sonic Cultures, ACM, pp. 549–551, ISBN/ISSN: 9798400709685, New York, NY, USA, September, 2024
    [ link ] (doi: 10.1145/3678299.3678358)

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    G. Gnecco, M. Fausto, G. Romano, G. Volpe, A. Camurri

    Improving Output Visualization of an Algorithm for the Automated Detection of the Perceived Origin of Movement

    in Proceedings of the 14th EAI INTETAIN Conference - Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment - 2023, Lucca, Italy, M. Martin and M. Passacantando and M. Sanguineti Eds., Springer Nature, v. 560, pp. 96--106, ISBN/ISSN: 978-3-031-55722-4, Switzerland, Cham, November, 2024
    [ link ] (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-55722-4_8)

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    G. Gnecco, C. Battaglini, F. Biancalani, D. Bottari, A. Camurri, B. Leporini

    Increasing Accessibility of Online Board Games to Visually Impaired People via Machine Learning and Textual/Audio Feedback: The Case of *Quantik*

    in Proceedings of the 14th EAI INTETAIN Conference - Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment - 2023, Lucca, Italy, M. Clayton and M. Passacantando and M. Sanguineti Eds., Springer Nature, v. 560, pp. 167--177, ISBN/ISSN: 978-3-031-55722-4, Switzerland, Cham, November, 2024
    [ link ] (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-55722-4_12)

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    A. Camurri, C. Gasparotti, E. Ceccaldi, A. Cera, B. Bardy, M. Bienkiewicz, S. Janaqi, G. Volpe, G. Gnecco, N. Ferrari

    Iterative Design of Two Art-Inspired Experimental Scenarios for Collecting Expressive Movement Data of Individuals and Groups

    in Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, ACM New York Eds., Association for Computing Machinery, v. 2024, n. 92, pp. 3, ISBN/ISSN: 9798400717642, New York, NY, USA, September, 2024
    [ link ] (doi: 10.1145/3656650.3656750)