Mirko Gelsomini is a research fellow at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering (DEIB) and adjunt professor at the Department of Design (DESIGN) of Politecnico di Milano. He received the PhD with honors (a.y. 2017-18) in Information Technology and holds a Master Degree with honors (a.y. 2013-14) in Engineering of Computing Systems at Politecnico di Milano. His research focuses on the analysis, design, development and evaluation of innovative interactive technologies to support play, learning and inclusion of children (especially those with intellectual disability) such as virtual reality, social robots, multisensory environments and motion-based interaction. Winner of different international prizes and author of more than 50 publications on the topic, he worked at Georgia Institute of Technology in the Ubicomp Group and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Media Lab) in the Personal Robots Group. In 2016 obtained a Professional Graduate Certificate in Business e Strategic Management at Harvard University.

Co-founder of the Innovative Interactive Interfaces Laboratory (I3Lab) at DEIB, he currently teaches the courses of “Hypermedia Applications”, “Advanced User Interfaces” and “Online Informatics” in the DEIB department and the courses of “Interaction Design Studio”, “Metaproject Laboratory” e “Final Synthesis Studio - Smart Design” of the DESIGN Department.

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