Marco Gilardi

My research interest is in Immersive Technologies (Virtual Realit, Augmented Rreality, Mixed Reality) and the developmet of software tools for them.

My background is in Mathematics and Computer Science and I have experience in 3D reconstructions from photographs and physically based simulations for Computer Games.

My secondary research interest is in Higher Education, and I am interested in developing and apply new technologies to improve students experience and learning in the classroom.

My area of research expertise is in Immersive Technologies, in particular I am interested in two topics (1) the development of authoring tools that will make content creation easier and more accessible to non technical audiences, (2) the design and protoryping of Immersive Spaces and Experineces.

I am currently leading two projects. The first one looks at the generation of authoring tools for disaster response training, the second looks at how design and prototype Immersive Spaces that bridge te gap between reality and virtuality.

During my PhD I developed a system for dynamic terrain simulations in games that allows players to efficiently deform and change at run time the game terrain morphology on a local scale. As a post-doctoral researcher I developed a prototype for a mobile app that allows users to reconstruct a human body from a set of two orthogonal images of a person.

Currently my research focuses on designing a system that will allow non-technical users to build immersive learning experiences in Virtual Reality (VR).

The development of such system will allow users with different levels of computing literacy to build immersive experiences that have high visual and interaction quality. Moreover, it will favour cross disciplinary research collaborations, making the generation of VR based experiments accessible to a larger number of researchers.

I am also collaborating with a museum to study how to create an immersive experience that bridges the gap between reality and virtuality and complements the activities that the museum is currently undertaking.

The goal of my research is to facilitate the creation of Immersive Experiences incorporating human, sensorial and technological aspects of the experience.

Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, Immersive Experiences, 3D Reconstructions, Computer Graphics, Mathematics