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Massimo Bertoncini
Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, Piazzale dell’Agricoltura 24, Rome, Italy

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Journal article
Published: 26 November 2020 in Sustainability
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In this paper, we address the management of Data Centers (DCs) by considering their optimal integration with the electrical, thermal, and IT (Information Technology) networks helping them to meet sustainability objectives and gain primary energy savings. Innovative scenarios are defined for exploiting the DCs electrical, thermal, and workload flexibility as a commodity and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are proposed and used as enablers for the scenarios’ implementation. The technology and scenarios were evaluated in the context of two operational DCs: a micro DC in Poznan which has on-site renewable sources and a DC in Point Saint Martin. The test cases’ results validate the possibility of using renewable energy sources (RES) for exploiting DCs’ energy flexibility and the potential of combining IT load migration with the availability of RES to increase the amount of energy flexibility by finding a trade-off between the flexibility level, IT load Quality of Service (QoS), and the RES production level. Moreover, the experiments conducted show that the DCs can successfully adapt their thermal energy profile for heat re-use as well as the combined electrical and thermal energy profiles to match specific flexibility requests.

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Tudor Cioara; Marcel Antal; Claudia (Pop); Ionut Anghel; Massimo Bertoncini; Diego Arnone; Marilena Lazzaro; Marzia Mammina; Terpsichori-Helen Velivassaki; Artemis Voulkidis; Yoann Ricordel; Nicolas Sainthérant; Ariel Oleksiak; Wojciech Piatek. Data Centers Optimized Integration with Multi-Energy Grids: Test Cases and Results in Operational Environment. Sustainability 2020, 12, 9893 .

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Tudor Cioara, Marcel Antal, Claudia (Pop), Ionut Anghel, Massimo Bertoncini, Diego Arnone, Marilena Lazzaro, Marzia Mammina, Terpsichori-Helen Velivassaki, Artemis Voulkidis, Yoann Ricordel, Nicolas Sainthérant, Ariel Oleksiak, Wojciech Piatek. Data Centers Optimized Integration with Multi-Energy Grids: Test Cases and Results in Operational Environment. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (23):9893.

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Tudor Cioara; Marcel Antal; Claudia (Pop); Ionut Anghel; Massimo Bertoncini; Diego Arnone; Marilena Lazzaro; Marzia Mammina; Terpsichori-Helen Velivassaki; Artemis Voulkidis; Yoann Ricordel; Nicolas Sainthérant; Ariel Oleksiak; Wojciech Piatek. 2020. "Data Centers Optimized Integration with Multi-Energy Grids: Test Cases and Results in Operational Environment." Sustainability 12, no. 23: 9893.

Journal article
Published: 28 October 2019 in Sensors
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Nowadays, centralized energy grid systems are transitioning towards more decentralized systems driven by the need for efficient local integration of new deployed small scale renewable energy sources. The high limits for accessing the energy markets and also for the delivery of ancillary services act as a barrier for small scale prosumers participation forcing the implementation of new cooperative business models at the local level. This paper is proposing a fog computing infrastructure for the local management of energy systems and the creation of coalitions of prosumers able to provide ancillary services to the grid. It features an edge devices layer for energy monitoring of individual prosumers, a fog layer providing Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) techniques for managing local energy systems by implementing cooperative models, and a cloud layer where the service specific technical requirements are defined. On top, a model has been defined allowing the dynamical construction of coalitions of prosumers as Virtual Power Plants at the fog layer for the provisioning of frequency restoration reserve services while considering both the prosumers' local constraints and the service ones as well as the constituents’ profit maximization. Simulation results show our solution effectiveness in selecting the optimal coalition of prosumers to reliably deliver the service meeting the technical constraints while featuring a low time and computation overhead being feasible to be run closer to the edge.

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Claudia Pop; Marcel Antal; Tudor Cioara; Ionut Anghel; Ioan Salomie; Massimo Bertoncini; Pop. A Fog Computing enabled Virtual Power Plant Model for Delivery of Frequency Restoration Reserve Services. Sensors 2019, 19, 4688 .

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Claudia Pop, Marcel Antal, Tudor Cioara, Ionut Anghel, Ioan Salomie, Massimo Bertoncini, Pop. A Fog Computing enabled Virtual Power Plant Model for Delivery of Frequency Restoration Reserve Services. Sensors. 2019; 19 (21):4688.

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Claudia Pop; Marcel Antal; Tudor Cioara; Ionut Anghel; Ioan Salomie; Massimo Bertoncini; Pop. 2019. "A Fog Computing enabled Virtual Power Plant Model for Delivery of Frequency Restoration Reserve Services." Sensors 19, no. 21: 4688.

Journal article
Published: 10 July 2019 in Sensors
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Nowadays, it has been recognized that blockchain can provide the technological infrastructure for developing decentralized, secure, and reliable smart energy grid management systems. However, an open issue that slows the adoption of blockchain technology in the energy sector is the low scalability and high processing overhead when dealing with the real-time energy data collected by smart energy meters. Thus, in this paper, we propose a scalable second tier solution which combines the blockchain ledger with distributed queuing systems and NoSQL (Not Only SQL database) databases to allow the registration of energy transactions less frequently on the chain without losing the tamper-evident benefits brought by the blockchain technology. At the same time, we propose a technique for tamper-evident registration of smart meters’ energy data and associated energy transactions using digital fingerprinting which allows the energy transaction to be linked hashed-back on-chain, while the sensors data is stored off-chain. A prototype was implemented using Ethereum and smart contracts for the on-chain components while for the off-chain components we used Cassandra database and RabbitMQ messaging broker. The prototype proved to be effective in managing a settlement of energy imbalances use-case and during the evaluation conducted in simulated environment shows promising results in terms of scalability, throughput, and tampering of energy data sampled by smart energy meters.

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Claudia Pop; Claudia Antal; Tudor Cioara; Ionut Anghel; David Sera; Ioan Salomie; Giuseppe Raveduto; Denisa Ziu; Vincenzo Croce; Massimo Bertoncini. Blockchain-Based Scalable and Tamper-Evident Solution for Registering Energy Data. Sensors 2019, 19, 3033 .

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Claudia Pop, Claudia Antal, Tudor Cioara, Ionut Anghel, David Sera, Ioan Salomie, Giuseppe Raveduto, Denisa Ziu, Vincenzo Croce, Massimo Bertoncini. Blockchain-Based Scalable and Tamper-Evident Solution for Registering Energy Data. Sensors. 2019; 19 (14):3033.

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Claudia Pop; Claudia Antal; Tudor Cioara; Ionut Anghel; David Sera; Ioan Salomie; Giuseppe Raveduto; Denisa Ziu; Vincenzo Croce; Massimo Bertoncini. 2019. "Blockchain-Based Scalable and Tamper-Evident Solution for Registering Energy Data." Sensors 19, no. 14: 3033.

Journal article
Published: 11 July 2018 in Information Sciences
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In this paper, we have considered Data Centres (DCs) as computing facilities functioning at the crossroad of electrical, thermal and data networks and have defined optimisation techniques to exploit their energy flexibility. Our methods are leveraging on non-electrical cooling devices such as thermal storage and heat pumps for waste heat reuse and IT workload execution time shifting and spatial relocation in federated DCs. To trade energy flexibility we have defined an Energy Marketplace which allows DCs to act as active energy players integrated into the smart grid, contributing to smart city-level efficiency goals. Reinforcing this vision, we have proposed four innovative business scenarios that enable next generation smart Net-zero Energy DCs acting as energy prosumers at the interface with smart energy grids within smart city environments. Simulation experiments are conducted to determine the DCs potential electrical and thermal energy flexibility in meeting various network level goals and to assess the financial viability of the defined business scenarios. The results show that DCs have a significant amount of energy flexibility which may be shifted and traded to interested stakeholders thus allowing them to gain new revenue streams not foreseen before.

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Tudor Cioara; Ionut Anghel; Ioan Salomie; Marcel Antal; Claudia Pop; Massimo Bertoncini; Diego Arnone; Florin Pop. Exploiting data centres energy flexibility in smart cities: Business scenarios. Information Sciences 2018, 476, 392 -412.

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Tudor Cioara, Ionut Anghel, Ioan Salomie, Marcel Antal, Claudia Pop, Massimo Bertoncini, Diego Arnone, Florin Pop. Exploiting data centres energy flexibility in smart cities: Business scenarios. Information Sciences. 2018; 476 ():392-412.

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Tudor Cioara; Ionut Anghel; Ioan Salomie; Marcel Antal; Claudia Pop; Massimo Bertoncini; Diego Arnone; Florin Pop. 2018. "Exploiting data centres energy flexibility in smart cities: Business scenarios." Information Sciences 476, no. : 392-412.

Communication
Published: 09 January 2018 in Sensors
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In this paper, we investigate the use of decentralized blockchain mechanisms for delivering transparent, secure, reliable, and timely energy flexibility, under the form of adaptation of energy demand profiles of Distributed Energy Prosumers, to all the stakeholders involved in the flexibility markets (Distribution System Operators primarily, retailers, aggregators, etc.). In our approach, a blockchain based distributed ledger stores in a tamper proof manner the energy prosumption information collected from Internet of Things smart metering devices, while self-enforcing smart contracts programmatically define the expected energy flexibility at the level of each prosumer, the associated rewards or penalties, and the rules for balancing the energy demand with the energy production at grid level. Consensus based validation will be used for demand response programs validation and to activate the appropriate financial settlement for the flexibility providers. The approach was validated using a prototype implemented in an Ethereum platform using energy consumption and production traces of several buildings from literature data sets. The results show that our blockchain based distributed demand side management can be used for matching energy demand and production at smart grid level, the demand response signal being followed with high accuracy, while the amount of energy flexibility needed for convergence is reduced.

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Claudia Pop; Tudor Cioara; Claudia Antal; Ionut Anghel; Ioan Salomie; Massimo Bertoncini. Blockchain Based Decentralized Management of Demand Response Programs in Smart Energy Grids. Sensors 2018, 18, 162 .

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Claudia Pop, Tudor Cioara, Claudia Antal, Ionut Anghel, Ioan Salomie, Massimo Bertoncini. Blockchain Based Decentralized Management of Demand Response Programs in Smart Energy Grids. Sensors. 2018; 18 (2):162.

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Claudia Pop; Tudor Cioara; Claudia Antal; Ionut Anghel; Ioan Salomie; Massimo Bertoncini. 2018. "Blockchain Based Decentralized Management of Demand Response Programs in Smart Energy Grids." Sensors 18, no. 2: 162.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2018 in Future Generation Computer Systems
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Highlights•Scheduling and optimizing Data Centres operation.•Data Centre participation in Smart Demand Response programs.•Data Centre flexible energy resources.•Electronic marketplace for trading energy flexibility and ancillary services. AbstractIn this paper we address the problem of Data Centres (DCs) integration into the Smart Grid scenario by proposing a technique for scheduling and optimizing their operation allowing them to participate in Smart Demand Response programs. The technique is leveraging on DCs available flexible energy resources, on mechanisms for eliciting this latent flexibility and on an innovative electronic marketplace designed for trading energy flexibility and ancillary services. This will enact DCs to shape their energy demand to buy additional energy when prices are low and sell energy surplus when prices are high. At the same time DCs will be able to provide increased energy demand due to a large un-forecasted renewable energy production in their local grid, shed or shift energy demand over time to avoid a coincidental peak load, provide fast ramping power by turning on their backup fossil fuelled generators and injecting the energy surplus in the grid and finally provide reactive power regulation by changing their power factor. Numerical simulations results considering traces of an operational DC indicate the great potential of the proposed technique for supporting DCs participation in Smart Demand Response programs.

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Tudor Cioara; Ionut Anghel; Massimo Bertoncini; Ioan Salomie; Diego Arnone; Marzia Mammina; Terpsichori-Helen Velivassaki; Marcel Antal. Optimized flexibility management enacting Data Centres participation in Smart Demand Response programs. Future Generation Computer Systems 2018, 78, 330 -342.

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Tudor Cioara, Ionut Anghel, Massimo Bertoncini, Ioan Salomie, Diego Arnone, Marzia Mammina, Terpsichori-Helen Velivassaki, Marcel Antal. Optimized flexibility management enacting Data Centres participation in Smart Demand Response programs. Future Generation Computer Systems. 2018; 78 ():330-342.

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Tudor Cioara; Ionut Anghel; Massimo Bertoncini; Ioan Salomie; Diego Arnone; Marzia Mammina; Terpsichori-Helen Velivassaki; Marcel Antal. 2018. "Optimized flexibility management enacting Data Centres participation in Smart Demand Response programs." Future Generation Computer Systems 78, no. : 330-342.

Book chapter
Published: 14 February 2015 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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Information Technology is a dominant player of our modern societies; Data Centres, lying at the heart of the IT landscape, have attracted attention, with their increasing energy consumption being a constant topic of concern, especially when it comes to the negative impact on the quality of their surrounding environment. Nevertheless, recent technological and societal advances are paving the way for DCs to change their role from passive energy consumers into prosumers, thus, transforming themselves into leading players within their smart district surroundings. This paper describes the innovative GEYSER approach to enabling green networked DCs to monitor, control, reuse, and optimize both their energy consumption and production, and in particular from renewable resources, towards becoming active participants within Smart Grids and Smart Cities.

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Ionut Anghel; Massimo Bertoncini; Tudor Cioara; Marco Cupelli; Vasiliki Georgiadou; Pooyan Jahangiri; Antonello Monti; Seán Murphy; Anthony Schoofs; Terpsi Velivassaki. GEYSER: Enabling Green Data Centres in Smart Cities. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2015, 8945, 71 -86.

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Ionut Anghel, Massimo Bertoncini, Tudor Cioara, Marco Cupelli, Vasiliki Georgiadou, Pooyan Jahangiri, Antonello Monti, Seán Murphy, Anthony Schoofs, Terpsi Velivassaki. GEYSER: Enabling Green Data Centres in Smart Cities. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2015; 8945 ():71-86.

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Ionut Anghel; Massimo Bertoncini; Tudor Cioara; Marco Cupelli; Vasiliki Georgiadou; Pooyan Jahangiri; Antonello Monti; Seán Murphy; Anthony Schoofs; Terpsi Velivassaki. 2015. "GEYSER: Enabling Green Data Centres in Smart Cities." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 8945, no. : 71-86.

Conference paper
Published: 01 January 2013 in Proceedings of the the fourth international conference on Future energy systems - e-Energy '13
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Among the different renewable sources the "green" energy coming from wind or solar farms is often injected into the grid when it is not expected or there is no demand. The integration of photovoltaic and wind energy into the grid entails the need to provide proper solutions to a wide range of problems not entirely new to the network but still more critical. At the very heart of the INGRID European project, an ICT-based Energy Management System is being designed as the core of a self-adaptive & autonomic system in charge of dispatching the green energy among the smart grid, a hydrogen-based green-energy storage and an innovative urban mobility system

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Diego Arnone; Massimo Bertoncini; Alessandro Rossi; Fabrizio D'Errico; Carlos García-Santiago; Diana Moneta; Cristiano D'orinzi. An ICT-based energy management system to integrate renewable energy and storage for grid balancing. Proceedings of the the fourth international conference on Future energy systems - e-Energy '13 2013, 259 -260.

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Diego Arnone, Massimo Bertoncini, Alessandro Rossi, Fabrizio D'Errico, Carlos García-Santiago, Diana Moneta, Cristiano D'orinzi. An ICT-based energy management system to integrate renewable energy and storage for grid balancing. Proceedings of the the fourth international conference on Future energy systems - e-Energy '13. 2013; ():259-260.

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Diego Arnone; Massimo Bertoncini; Alessandro Rossi; Fabrizio D'Errico; Carlos García-Santiago; Diana Moneta; Cristiano D'orinzi. 2013. "An ICT-based energy management system to integrate renewable energy and storage for grid balancing." Proceedings of the the fourth international conference on Future energy systems - e-Energy '13 , no. : 259-260.

Conference paper
Published: 01 January 2012 in Computer Vision
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Energy-aware service centers take into account energy consumption of infrastructures, machines, applications, storage systems, and their distributed computing architecture. The approach to energy efficiency in data centers in the GAMES (Green Active Management of Energy in IT Service centers) project is presented: Green Performance Indicators (GPIs), i.e., properties that, continuously monitored, evidence the level of consumed energy by the center’s IT resources, can be the basis of a systematic approach to increase energy efficiency. The GPIs are the basis for improving energy efficiency with adaptive actions and to achieve a higher level of green maturity, as prescribed, for instance, in the GreenGrid Data Center Maturity Model (DCMM), based on a usage-centric perspective in GPIs. The paper briefly describes monitoring of GPIs and the adaptation actions adopted to reach the green goals. Preliminary experimental results are discussed.

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Barbara Pernici; Cinzia Cappiello; Maria Grazia Fugini; Pierluigi Plebani; Monica Vitali; Ioan Salomie; Tudor Cioara; Ionut Anghel; Ealan Henis; Ronen Kat; Doron Chen; George Goldberg; Micha Vor Dem Berge; Wolfgang Christmann; Alexander Kipp; Tao Jiang; Jia Liu; Massimo Bertoncini; Diego Arnone; Alessandro Rossi. Setting Energy Efficiency Goals in Data Centers: The GAMES Approach. Computer Vision 2012, 7396, 1 -12.

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Barbara Pernici, Cinzia Cappiello, Maria Grazia Fugini, Pierluigi Plebani, Monica Vitali, Ioan Salomie, Tudor Cioara, Ionut Anghel, Ealan Henis, Ronen Kat, Doron Chen, George Goldberg, Micha Vor Dem Berge, Wolfgang Christmann, Alexander Kipp, Tao Jiang, Jia Liu, Massimo Bertoncini, Diego Arnone, Alessandro Rossi. Setting Energy Efficiency Goals in Data Centers: The GAMES Approach. Computer Vision. 2012; 7396 ():1-12.

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Barbara Pernici; Cinzia Cappiello; Maria Grazia Fugini; Pierluigi Plebani; Monica Vitali; Ioan Salomie; Tudor Cioara; Ionut Anghel; Ealan Henis; Ronen Kat; Doron Chen; George Goldberg; Micha Vor Dem Berge; Wolfgang Christmann; Alexander Kipp; Tao Jiang; Jia Liu; Massimo Bertoncini; Diego Arnone; Alessandro Rossi. 2012. "Setting Energy Efficiency Goals in Data Centers: The GAMES Approach." Computer Vision 7396, no. : 1-12.

Journal article
Published: 21 January 2010 in Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces
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Multimodal interfaces are becoming more and more an emerging leading-edge area of interest in the Digital Art and Entertainment Domain. This paper aims at proposing a new approach to develop applications relying on integration of multimodal modules which can capture and collect the emotional states of the audience, process them and provide a final emotional output. A concrete framework has been designed and is being developed to provide application designers with a powerful and easy-to-use set of tools for building up multimodal affective interfaces. The proposed approach has been conceived inside the FP6 EU co-funded CALLAS (Conveying Affectiveness in Leading-edge Living Adaptive Systems) Project.

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Diego Arnone; Alessandro Rossi; Massimo Bertoncini. An open source integrated framework for rapid prototyping of multimodal affective applications in digital entertainment. Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces 2010, 3, 227 -236.

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Diego Arnone, Alessandro Rossi, Massimo Bertoncini. An open source integrated framework for rapid prototyping of multimodal affective applications in digital entertainment. Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces. 2010; 3 (3):227-236.

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Diego Arnone; Alessandro Rossi; Massimo Bertoncini. 2010. "An open source integrated framework for rapid prototyping of multimodal affective applications in digital entertainment." Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces 3, no. 3: 227-236.

Conference paper
Published: 01 January 2010 in Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference adjunct papers on Ubiquitous computing - Ubicomp '10
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Christoffer A. Björkskog; Giulio Jacucci; Luciano Gamberini; Tatu Nieminen; Topi Mikkola; Carin Torstensson; Massimo Bertoncini. EnergyLife. Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference adjunct papers on Ubiquitous computing - Ubicomp '10 2010, 1 .

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Christoffer A. Björkskog, Giulio Jacucci, Luciano Gamberini, Tatu Nieminen, Topi Mikkola, Carin Torstensson, Massimo Bertoncini. EnergyLife. Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference adjunct papers on Ubiquitous computing - Ubicomp '10. 2010; ():1.

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Christoffer A. Björkskog; Giulio Jacucci; Luciano Gamberini; Tatu Nieminen; Topi Mikkola; Carin Torstensson; Massimo Bertoncini. 2010. "EnergyLife." Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference adjunct papers on Ubiquitous computing - Ubicomp '10 , no. : 1.

Conference paper
Published: 01 January 2009 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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We contribute with an extensive field study of a public interactive art installation that applies multimodal interface technologies. The installation is part of a Theater production on Galileo Galilei and includes: projected galaxies that are generated and move according to motion of visitors changing colour depending on their voices; projected stars that configure themselves around shadows of visitors. In the study we employ emotion scales (PANAS), qualitative analysis of questionnaire answers and video-recordings. PANAS rates indicate dominantly positive feelings, further described in the subjective verbalizations as gravitating around interest, ludic pleasure and transport. Through the video analysis, we identified three phases in the interaction with the artwork (circumspection, testing, play) and two pervasive features of these phases (experience sharing and imitation), which were also found in the verbalizations. Both video and verbalisations suggest that visitor’s experience and ludic pleasure are rooted in the embodied, performative interaction with the installation, and is negotiated with the other visitors.

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Giulio Jacucci; Anna Spagnolli; Alessandro Chalambalakis; Ann Morrison; Lassi Liikkanen; Stefano Roveda; Massimo Bertoncini. Bodily Explorations in Space: Social Experience of a Multimodal Art Installation. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2009, 62 -75.

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Giulio Jacucci, Anna Spagnolli, Alessandro Chalambalakis, Ann Morrison, Lassi Liikkanen, Stefano Roveda, Massimo Bertoncini. Bodily Explorations in Space: Social Experience of a Multimodal Art Installation. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2009; ():62-75.

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Giulio Jacucci; Anna Spagnolli; Alessandro Chalambalakis; Ann Morrison; Lassi Liikkanen; Stefano Roveda; Massimo Bertoncini. 2009. "Bodily Explorations in Space: Social Experience of a Multimodal Art Installation." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 62-75.