Research projects

As teacher, I am following some research project with students and other teachers of my school:

• School of Athens VR, an experience in VR that recreate the fresco by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael, using Blender, Unreal and Meta Quest 2
• Stazione di Monitoraggio Ambientale, a weather station using ESP32, LoraWAN, MicroPython, Node-RED, MongoDB Atlas, MQTT, a web page and an experience in VR visualizing the air condition written in Blender, Unity and using VRChat.
• Easy Talk, a technology to facilitate learning of social skills to help people with communication difficulties. Uses MS Azure Face API, Angular and Node.js.
• Domotics & VR, a prototype of a real home automation system, including electrical system, electronics, firmware, web server and a 3D environment that communicate in real time with the real environment. We used Node-RED, MQTT, Unity, Blender, Oculus Rift, Sonoff, ACME CM3.

Teacher Test Suite

To support the student assessments, I created a test suite with the following objectives:

• support multiple choice questions and open answers questions with evaluation grid
• propose tips to create good multiple answers
• easy to print, to match the needs of the Italian school
• create a different test for each student of the class, according to the student needs
• support specific learning disabilities, removing questions according to student disability or extending the maximum time
• create a profile of the student with strengths and weaknesses, to help the teacher developing effective strategies both for students and for the whole class
• provide statistics both for single questions and students, with tips for the teacher to improve the future classwork