Francesco Musolino

Ph.D Student in Smart And Sustainable Industry | XXXIX Cycle

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Francesco Musolino graduated at the Polytechnic University of Bari both for the Bachelor Degree and for the Master Degree in Industrial Design. Started the PhD course in Smart and Sustainable Industry from autumn 2023 after the graduation and the thesis “Exploring the Uncanny Valley effects in VR environments for Retailing”,  outlining a path of research in the field of visualization and interaction within the XR reality. Alongisde the passion for the new technologies and videogames and the attention to the philosophy, the psycology and the ethics of this new media, in his background there’s a long path also in the creative fields of graphics, product design, visualization and digital arts. 

Keywords

INTERACTION DESIGN
VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY
VISUALIZATION
UNCANNY VALLEY
HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
STORYTELLING

Publications

  • F. Musolino, D. Gentile, F. Vangi and M. Fiorentino, “Design of Experiment for Evaluation of Anomalous Environments for Product Visualization in Virtual Reality,” 2024 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), Orlando, FL, USA, 2024, pp. 851-852, doi: 10.1109/VRW62533.2024.00222. ​
  • D. Gentile, F. Musolino, F. Vangi and M. Fiorentino, “VR Interface vs Desktop to Convey Quality of Outerwear: A Comparative Study,” 2024 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), Orlando, FL, USA, 2024, pp. 853-854, doi: 10.1109/VRW62533.2024.00223.​
  • Musolino F., Gentile D., Fiorentino M. , “Mixed reality for addressing boredom at work: grounds and perspectives for PhD”, 2024 ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN 4th International Conference on Environmental Design, Ginosa, TA, Italy, 2024 pp.105-112 https://hdl.handle.net/11311/1268015​
  • Gentile D., Musolino F., Fiorentino M. , “Defining garment quality for user experience design in metaverse: the outerwear case study”, 2024 ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN 4th International Conference on Environmental Design, Ginosa, TA, Italy, 2024 pp.561-570 https://hdl.handle.net/11311/1268015

Didactics

  • Virtual Design and Simulation (VIDAS) course, master degree in Industrial design at Arcod department of Polytechnic university of Bari (2023-2024)

Membership

Since november 2023

Awards