Mariacarla Memeo

Biomedical Engineer with a specialization in Electronics. I received the PhD in Bioengineering and Robotics at University of Genoa with a thesis titled “Interactive and effective representation of digital content through touch using local tactile feedback”. The main aim was to produce and analyze the amount and quality of information to be delivered through touch, in a non-visual scenario, for guidance and education purposes. Currently, I work in the Electronic Design Laboratory (EDL) at Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa. The focus of my work is on the extraction of significant biomechanical features involved in human interactions and on the realization of experimental naturalistic scenarios, i.e. environments with a limited number of restrictions that could be considered ecological and realistic. To achieve those aims, the current approach is to integrate real-time analysis (kinematic and behavioral variables) with event-relate synchronization of different measurement systems (motion capture, EMG and TMS).