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Fabrizio Taffoni

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Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma
Via Álvaro del Portillo, 21 - 00128 Roma

tel: +39 06 22541 9610

Scientific interests:

  • Technologies for human behavior analysis;
  • Neurodevelopmental engineering;
  • Neuro-Robotics;
  • Neuroscience;
Experience:
Mar 2009 – present
Main Activities: Design and development of a mechatronic platform for human and animal (capuchin monkeys) behavioural analysis; In-field experiment on human motor coordination development; In-class teaching activity (Course of Anatomy and Physiology for bioengineering, Course of Rehabilitation Bioengineering, Seminars); Mentoring of master and undergraduate students during thesis; 1 paper submitted in an international journal, 1 in international conference.
Gen 2006 – Mar 2009
PhD in Bioengineering
Main Activities: Design, prototyping and testing of 2 prototypes of systems for human behavioural analysis; development of software interface for post-processing and data analysis; involved in one international project Thought in ACTion (TACT 6 FP); mentoring of undergraduate students during thesis; In-class teaching activity (Course of Anatomy and Physiology for bioengineering, Seminars);
Gen 2008
Visiting student in Perception in Action Laboratory at Edinburgh University, Edinburgh
Main Activities: Development of an optimized system for timing analysis of human movement during neurodevelopment.
Nov 2003 -Dec 2005
Master Degree in Biomedical Engineering
Final grade 110/110 cum laude
Sep 2000-Oct 2003
Bachelor Degree in Biomedical Engineering
Final grade 110/110 cum laude
Teaching activity:
Pubblications:
Journals:
  1. D.Campolo, F. Taffoni, D. Formica, G. Schiavone, F. Keller, E. Guglielmelli,"Technology for Ecological Assessment of Spatial Cognition in Infants", submitted to Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (in preparation)

Peer-Reviewed Conferences

  1. F. Taffoni, D. Formica, D. Campolo, F. Keller, E. Guglielmelli, "Block-box instrumented toy: a new platform for assessing spatial cognition in infants", International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'09), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 2-6 September, 2009.
  2. D. Campolo, F. Taffoni, G. Schiavone, C. Laschi, F. Keller, E. Guglielmelli, A Novel Technological Approach Towards the Early Diagnosis of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Vancouver, Canada, pp. 4875-4878,  August 20-24, 2008
  3. F. Taffoni, D. Campolo, J. Delafield-Butt, F. Keller, E. Guglielmelli, Design and Assembling of a Magneto-Inertial Wearable Device for Ecological Behavioral Analysis of Infants, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 3832-3837, 2008
  4. D. Campolo, D. Accoto, F. Taffoni and E. Guglielmelli On the Kinematics of Human Wrist during Pointing Tasks with Application to Motor Rehabilitation, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Pasadena, California, USA, pp. 1318 - 1323, May 19-23, 2008

Book Chapter

  1. Domenico Campolo, Fabrizio Taffoni, Giuseppina Schiavone, Domenico Formica, Eugenio Guglielmelli and Flavio Keller (2010). Neuro-Developmental Engineering: towards early diagnosis of neuro-developmental disorders, New Developments in Biomedical Engineering, Domenico Campolo (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-7619-57-2, INTECH,  Available from: http://sciyo.com/articles/show/title/neuro-developmental-engineering-towards-early-diagnosis-of-neuro-developmental-disorders?PHPSESSID=bomu934ciagh8hmq804peck3n2

Other:

  1. L. Ruta, F. Taffoni, L.Mazzone, N. Russo, D. Campolo, E. Guglielmelli, F.Keller,"Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment of Diadochokinesia in Autism Spectrum Disorders", International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR'09),USA, 7-9, May,2009.
  2. F. Taffoni, L. Ruta, L. Mazzone, V. Mannino, D. Campolo, E. Guglielmelli, F. Keller, Quantitative Assessment of Diadochokinesia in Neurotypical Subjects and in Neurodevelopmental Disorders, the 38th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, USA 2008
  3. F. Taffoni, D. Campolo, D. Formica,E. Guglielmelli, F. Cecchi, S.M. Serio, C. Laschi, P. Dario (2008) "Sensorized Toys for early diagnosis of neurodevelopmetal disorders" PAED 08
  4. F. Taffoni, G. Schiavone, D. Campolo, F. Keller , E. Guglielmelli (2008) "Wearable Devices for infants behavioural analysis", 1st National Congress of Bioengineering, Pisa, Italy, 3-5 july 2008
  5. F. Taffoni,  D. Campolo, E. Guglielmelli, F. Cecchi, S.M. Serio, C. Laschi, P. Dario, Sensorized Ball for Early Diagnosis of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 1st National Congress of Bioengineering, Pisa, Italy, 3-5 july 2008
 

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