Alessio Antonini's profile document
Description for Alessio Antonini
Alessio Antonini
Alessio Antonini
Alessio
Antonini
Research Fellow
Dr Alessio Antonini is a research fellow at the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University. He is the lead of the Knowledge Design team, part of the Intelligent Systems and Data Science group. His research focuses on the design of intelligent and interactive media, research infrastructures for the Humanities and AI-enabled innovation for community and personal wellbeing.
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Alessio Antonini's membership at KMi
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Alessio Antonini's participation in READ-IT
READ-IT
READ-IT
2018-06-01
2021-01-31
Reading Europe Advanced Data Investigation Tool
READ-IT (Reading Europe Advanced Data Investigation Tool) is a 3-years (2018-2020) transnational, interdisciplinary R&D project funded by the Joint Programming Initiative for Cultural Heritage that will build a unique large-scale, user-friendly, open access, semantically-enriched investigation tool to identify and share groundbreaking evidence about 18th-21st century Cultural Heritage of reading in Europe. READ-IT consists in a robust consortium of 5 academic partners from 4 European countries (Institute of Czech Literature, Academy of Sciences, Prague; Open U. London, UK including the SME IN2; Utrecht University, Netherlands; CNRS-IRISA, Rennes and Le Mans U.-3LAM, France). The consortium is led by U. of Le Mans and the participants have international level of expertise in the different strands of research. Established stakeholders in education, cultural industries, cultural institutions, and disability advocacy groups will participate in evaluation and contribute to dissemination through joint events. 4 Associate partners from U. Mainz, U. Milano, Queen Mary U. London, U.Tours will contribute specific expertise and data.
Alessio Antonini's participation in GATEKEEPER
GATEKEEPER
GATEKEEPER
2019-10-01
2023-04-30
Technologies for healthier independent lives for the ageing populations
KMi are part of a 43 partner EU project that has just be given the go ahead as part of the EU Horizon2020 research funding programme. The main objective of the Project is to create a GATEKEEPER that connects healthcare providers, businesses, entrepreneurs, elderly citizens and the communities they live in, in order to originate an open, trust-based arena for matching ideas, technologies, user needs and processes, aimed at ensuring healthier independent lives for the ageing populations. The KMi Team, led by Professor Enrico Motta, will investigate the role of robots in the developing landscape of healthcare support. Specifically, the team will test the feasibility and appropriateness of in-home robots and community robots that can provide citizens with healthcare support and information and well as a direct link to healthcare professionals. The team will build test scenarios in Milton Keynes that provide valuable insight into the role of robots. This project is part of the broader KMi research programme in Robots and Smart Cities, which is described at https://isds.kmi.open.ac.uk/smart-cities-and-robotics/.
Alessio Antonini's participation in Virtual Reality Robotic Embodiment and Control (VRREC)
Virtual Reality Robotic Embodiment and Control (VRREC)
Virtual Reality Robotic Embodiment and Control (VRREC)
Virtual Reality Robotic Embodiment and Control (VRREC) is an app for Oculus Quest enabling the full-body remote control of a robotic platform
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the dependence and reliance of fragile population on the support of their family members on their activities of daily living. Through the collaboration with the SME Extended Robotics (ER), we designed the Virtual Reality Robotic Embodiment and Control VRREC.
VRREC is an APP for Meta Oculus Quest enabling remote, real-time full control of a robotic platform. VRREC reconstruct the 3D model of the location in virtual reality via the RGBD camera live stream, enabling an embodied presence through the robot platform, navigation and manipulation of objects through a robotic arm. The ER low-latency video streaming technology enables the operation of the robot in an environment with other people and precise manipulation of objects.
VRREC will be piloted as one of the technologies involved in the UK pilot part of the EU H2020 GATEKEEPER project.
Alessio Antonini's participation in Robot Embodied Presence in House Environment (REPHE)
Robot Embodied Presence in House Environment (REPHE)
Robot Embodied Presence in House Environment (REPHE)
Robot Embodied Presence in House Environment is an Innovation project aimed to develop
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the dependence and reliance of older adults on the support of their family members on their activities of daily living. This project aims to readapt a Virtual Reality technology from the SME Extended Robotics (ER) for remote control of robotic arms to the context of remote care.
Robot Embodied Presence in House Environment (REPHE) will provide the opportunity to build a strategic collaboration with ER and to investigate the hybridisation of robot autonomy and human control. REPHE will exploit the ongoing EU H2020 GATEKEEPER project to pilot the use of this new technology in a real-life setting and to bring to the market this new solution as part of the European platform GATEKEEPER under development.
REPHE has been supported by the OU through HEIF.
Alessio Antonini's participation in READ-IT chatbot
READ-IT chatbot
READ-IT chatbot
The READ-IT chatbot is a response to the halt of engagement activities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Telegram chatbot developed using Flow.ai platform for supporting crowdsourcing reading experiences. The chatbot is available in six languages and used in events in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Croatia. This solution is an unplanned output of the EU JPI READ-IT project, designed and developed in the last months of the project to support the replanning of engagement activities as remote.
Alessio Antonini's participation in MK:Communities
MK:Communities
MK:Communities
App for managing and scaling-up community based care
The App MK:Communities is the result of a collaboration with the Woughton Community Council, the SME Spirocco and the Knowledge Media Institute. The project was funded by the first Open Call of the H2020 GATEKEEPER project with a budget of £45k.
MK:Communities enables all users to request and provide support to their neighbours. Users are organized in communities, managed and regulated by a local council.
The App has being piloted in Milton Keynes, in the area of the pertinence of the Woughton Community Council https://www.woughtoncommunitycouncil.gov.uk/news/mk-communities-launch/
Alessio Antonini's participation in Mark
Mark
Mark
2023-11-01
2025-03-31
MarK aims at developing the next generation neutral 5G infrastructure for high-density areas.
MarK (Advanced Radio in Milton Keynes) project aims at developing the next generation 5G infrastructure that is neutral, shared by mobile network providers, and fit for high-density areas. MarK will develop and demonstrate real-time network profiling capabilities to support better management of events, and resilience for critical use cases (e.g., emergency services) in high-demand scenarios or network overload. The technology will be demonstrated at the MK:DONS Stadium and Marshal Arena complex during concerts and football matches. The OU is leading Work Package 1 about the scenarios, user and service requirements and design of the infrastructure and will contribute during the project on the definition of the intelligent profiling, testing and definition of policies around the large-scale deployment of 5G.
The project is funded by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology of the government of the United Kingdom.
MarK is being lead by the Satellite Application Catapults and includes six other external partners. Within the Open University, the KMi team is also joined by Dr Miguel Valdez and Prof Mathew Cook.