Marco Camilli

• PhD
• Designer at Wind Tre SPA

This paper describes insights from an ethnographic study aimed at understanding the uses and meanings of objects and domestic spaces in the daily practices of older adults. This work was inspired from the awareness that designing suitable domestic technologies which “fit” into seniors’ home environments requires a deep understanding of how elders a...

The aim of the paper is to contribute to the definition and analysis of the "access to the field" (Feldman et al. 2003) through an inter-organizational perspective. The paper discusses a case study on the access of a researcher to a hospital department where both organizations and actors are shown as actively constructing the research site. Both re...

The classic approach to the concept of "Level Of Automation" (LOA) is qualitative in nature: it simply describes the trading of system control between humans and computers. Since Sheridan's seminal work many taxonomies have been proposed, but they are all domain- and task-dependent. This makes it difficult to compare results from different studies....

Improvements in bandwidth and computing led towards a growth of technological solutions in services. Also, users developed expectations and skills in their interaction with technology. Despite web and mobile technology makes available a great deal of advanced and engaging apps (e.g., social and geo-localized), less-sophisticated and appealing syste...

Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) changes analogical radio in a new media where images, video and hypertext contents are added to the "traditional" audio services. The shift to the digital broadcasting technology has shown several advantages such as an enhancement in the audio quality, an increased number of available stations and availability of br...

The concept of Situation Awareness (SA) has captured the interest of many Human Factors professionals and researchers who were interested in the dynamic interaction between human operators and technological systems. However, others have responded to this construct with a great deal of scepticism. Indeed, SA definitions often neglected a careful sta...

Recent studies have shown that statistical indices of spatial dispersion computed over the distribution of fixations could be effectively used to derive a stable measure of the cognitive resources allocated to a task. This approach is particularly appealing, given that it allows computing a workload value with a 1-minute resolution, thus making it...

In human factors and ergonomics research, the analysis of eye movements has gained popularity as a method for obtaining information concerning the operator's cognitive strategies and for drawing inferences about the cognitive state of an individual. For example, recent studies have shown that the distribution of eye fixations is sensitive to variat...

Based on previous research showing the usefulness of spatial statistics in de-tecting randomness in the distribution of eye fixations, this study investigated the ocular behavior of professional pilots engaged in a simulated flight. The distribution of eye fixations was used as an indirect index of mental workload: Eye movements were record-ed duri...

The main aim of this study was to investigate the effects on performance and workload of the shifting between levels of automation: from manual to automatic (forward shift) and from automatic to manual (backward shift). Three levels of difficulty of the Tetris game were implemented as task load conditions. Two versions of the game were also impleme...

This report results from a contract tasking University of Rome 'La Sapienza' as follows: The Grantee investigated the relation between scan path (ocular activity) and mental workload on the basis of the consideration that high workload should produce fixations grouping (because the operator needs to focus on some specific feature of the interface/t...

Based on previous research showing the usefulness of spatial statistics in detecting randomness in the distribution of eye fixations, this study investigated the ocular behavior of professional pilots engaged in a simulated flight. The distribution of eye fixations is here used an index of mental workload. Eye movements were recorded during the dif...

Visual scanning strategies have been often related to mental workload. In this study it has been investigated the relation between fixations distribution and workload on the basis of the consideration that low workload may be associated with regular patterns, indicating a regular check of the interface layout. According to this hypothesis, statisti...

In previous studies, eye fixations were recorded from participants playing a videogame and from professional pilots during a simulated flight. Ocular data were then analyzed using spatial statistics algorithms, and results showed sensitivity of fixations' dispersion to variations in mental workload. Particularly, a tendency towards spatial randomne...