Research Projects
During my professional career, in addition to working on final products and MVP prototypes, I have also worked on and provided technical leadership for technology research projects.
Some of these research projects resulted in commercial products such as Kuracy, while others were used to explore the capabilities of XR.
LOWER LIMB is a research-driven XR project focused on improving lower-limb rehabilitation through mixed reality and advanced body-tracking technologies. The project addresses current gaps in accessibility, personalization, and effectiveness of traditional rehabilitation methods by enabling precise monitoring of posture, gait, and balance in immersive, motivating environments. Through the controlled piloting of an innovative prototype, LOWER LIMB explores new ways to support personalized rehabilitation and fall prevention, laying the groundwork for future integrated products and services in physical and neurorehabilitation.
In this project, I led the technological vision and scope. The solution was built on Pico 4 Ultra, using foot sensors and inverse kinematics to estimate gait and balance.
Lower Limb
TREVOL is a mixed reality system for objective arm volumetric assessment in breast cancer patients. The project focuses on integrating MR technologies to enable precise, repeatable, and non-invasive volume measurements, supporting early detection and monitoring of breast cancer–related lymphedema. It emphasizes usability in clinical settings, intuitive interface design for clinicians and patients, secure data handling, and compatibility with existing hospital systems, with a scalable and portable architecture suitable for different healthcare contexts.
In this project, I led the technological vision and scope. The solution was built on Meta Quest 3, leveraging high-resolution passthrough to deliver a mixed reality experience for accurate, in-situ arm volumetric assessment within a clinical environment.
Trevol
VALORA provides the clinical and scientific community with open-access software tools to perform instrumented assessments of motor functions using low-cost devices. All the assessment tools have been developed and validated by an interdisciplinary group of experts in the field of rehabilitation engineering and clinical rehabilitation.
We developed a suite of software solutions that assess hand dexterity, gait, posture, balance and upper-limb mobility. I was responsible for the Unity development and for integrating external tools, including MATLAB and Azure Kinect, for body tracking.
