Alessandro Valli

Building the future of computing.

I like computers when they don't look like computers.

I spent the last 12 years inventing and refining interactive spaces and artifacts in research centers and startups. I am very effective in rapid prototyping, simplification, making things work smoothly and reliably. I possess a strong aesthetic sense for clean interaction concepts. Currently I am focusing on the API design of the Greenhouse SDK (http://greenhouse.oblong.com).

av@naturalinteraction.org


Specialties:

- human-computer interaction design
- software engineering, C++, iOS programming
- OpenGL, advanced data visualization
- real-time computer vision (color, near infrared, depth sensors)

• Hand pointing apparatus

  • Europe Patent Application 0279672
  • Filed December 23, 2002
  Inventors: Alessandro Valli, Carlo Colombo, Alberto Del Bimbo

• System and method of direct interaction between one or more subjects and...

  • United States Patent Application 11/391,724
  • Filed March 28, 2006
  Inventors: Alessandro Valli

• Visual capture and understanding of hand pointing actions in a 3-D environment

  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics
  • August 1, 2003
  Authors: Alessandro Valli, Carlo Colombo, Alberto Del Bimbo

  My MSc Thesis.

• The design of natural interaction

  • Multimedia Tools and Applications
  • January 6, 2008
  Authors: Alessandro Valli

  This paper addresses the problem of the relationship between humans and technology-enhanced spaces and physical objects.

• One man and his life in pictures

  • Wired UK
  • January 19, 2011
  Authors: Alessandro Valli

  Got a million snaps? Try an automatic life-logger.

• State of the art

  • The Guardian
  • November 3, 2004
  Authors: Alessandro Valli

  A slick use of interactive technology at a Florence gallery leaves Ben Hammersley educated and very impressed.

• Italian

• English

• Spanish

1. Software Engineering
2. Computer Vision
3. C++
4. Human Computer Interaction
5. Computer Science
6. Programming
7. User Experience
8. Interaction Design
9. Data Visualization
10. OpenGL
11. OpenCV
12. iOS development
13. Gesture Recognition
14. NUI
15. Ubiquitous Computing
16. Stereo Vision
17. OpenNI
18. Game Development
19. Multi-touch
20. Touch Interfaces
21. Problem Solving
22. Invention
23. Natural Interaction
24. Pattern Recognition
25. Interactive Spaces
26. Game Programming
27. Interactive Media
28. Interactive Storytelling
29. Simplifying the Complex
30. Hacking
31. Image Processing
32. Motion Sensing
33. Research
34. User Interface Design
35. User Experience Design
36. Interactive Advertising
37. Java
38. Physical Computing
39. TUI
40. Sensor Fusion
41. Big Data Visualization
42. Interactive Displays
43. Demos
44. Depth Imaging
45. Interactive Entertainment
46. Perceptual Computing
47. Calm Technology
48. RFID
49. Kinect
50. Objective-C

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Websites:

• Personal Website
• Company Website
• Portfolio

Interests:

anthropology, free climbing

Groups and Associations:

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  3D Gesture Recognition
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  ACM SIG CHI - Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
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  Augmented Reality
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  C++ professionals group
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  Computer Vision
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  Computer Vision Technologies
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  Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
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  Gesture Recognition
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  Interaction Design Association
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  Kinect Developers
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  Leap Motion
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  Multi-touch Screen
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  NUI (Natural User Interface)
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  OpenCV
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  OpenGL Developers
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  Università degli Studi di Firenze Network (view Alumni and University professional profiles)
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  User Experience
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  iPhone, Android, iPad, Tablet & Mobile Application Development