Edited Volumes

  1. O. Gervasi, R. Ranon, eds. Special Issue on Virtual Reality in Scientific Applications, Virtual Reality 13(4), 2009
  2. Chittaro L., Ranon R., eds. Special Issue on Web3D Technologies in Learning, Education and Training. Computers & Education, volume 49, issue 1 (August 2007)
  3. Brutzman, D., Gervasi, O., Polys, N., Ranon, R., eds. Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on 3D web technology, 2007, Perugia, Italy, ACM Press
  4. Gracanin, D., Gomez, J., Ranon, R., eds. Proceedings of the eleventh international conference on 3D web technology, 2006, Columbia, Maryland, ACM Press

Papers

  1. Lino C., Christie M., Ranon R., Bares W., The director's lens: an intelligent assistant for virtual cinematography, Proceedings of MM 2011: 19th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, ACM Press, New York, December 2011, pp. 323-332. [download pdf]
  2. Chittaro L., Ieronutti L., Ranon R., Visintini D., Siotto E., A High-Level Tool for Curators of 3D Virtual Visits and its Application to a Virtual Exhibition of Renaissance Frescoes, Proceedings of VAST 2010: 11th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, Eurographics/Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK, September 2010, pp. 147-154.332. [download pdf]
  3. Ranon R., Christie M., Urli T. Accurately Measuring the Satisfaction of Visual Properties in Virtual Camera Control, Proceedings of SG 2010: 10th international symposium on Smart Graphics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6133, Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, June 2010, pp. 91-102 [download pdf]
  4. Chittaro L., Ieronutti L., Ranon R. VEX-CMS: A tool to design virtual exhibitions and walkthroughs that integrates automatic camera control capabilities, Proceedings of SG 2010: 10th international symposium on Smart Graphics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6133, Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, June 2010, pp. 103-114. [download pdf]
  5. Chittaro L., Ranon R., Ieronutti L. 3D Object Arrangement for Novice Users: the Effectiveness of Combining a First-Person and a Map View, Proceedings of VRST-2009: 16th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software & Technology, ACM Press, New York, November 2009, pp. 171-178. [download pdf]
  6. Chittaro L., Ranon R., Carchietti E., Zampa A., Biasutti E., De Marco L., Senerchia A., A knowledge-based system to support emergency medical services for disabled patients, Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME'09), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, July 2009, pp. 176-180. [download pdf]
  7. Chittaro L., Ranon R., De Marco L., Senerchia A., User modeling of disabled persons for generating instructions to medical first responders, Proceedings of the International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2009), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2009. [download pdf]
  8. Chittaro L., Ranon R., Serious games for training occupants of a building in personal fire safety skills, Proceedings of the First International IEEE Conference in Serious Games and Virtual Worlds, IEEE Press, pp.76-83. [download pdf]
  9. Burelli, P., Di Gaspero L., Ermetici E., Ranon R., Virtual Camera Composition with Particle Swarm Optimization, Proceedings of SG 2008: 8th international symposium on Smart Graphics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5166, Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, August 2008, pp. 130-141. [download pdf]
  10. Di Gaspero L., Ermetici E., Ranon R., Swarming in a virtual world: a PSO approach to virtual camera composition, Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence, 6th International Workshop, ANTS 2008 (Marco Dorigo, Mauro Birattari, Christian Blum, Maurice Clerc, Thomas Stützle, and Alan Winfield, eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5217, Springer Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, Germany, 2008.
  11. Chittaro L., Ranon R., An Adaptive 3D Virtual Environment for Learning the X3D Language, Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2008), ACM Press, New York, January 2008, pp. 419-420. [download pdf]
  12. Chittaro L., Ranon R., Adaptive Hypermedia Techniques for 3D Educational Virtual Environments, IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 31-37, Jul/Aug, 2007 [download pdf]
  13. Buttussi F., Chittaro L., Ranon R., Verona A. Adaptation of Graphics and Gameplay in Fitness Games by Exploiting Motion and Physiological Sensors, Butz A. et al. (eds.), Proceedings of SG 2007: 7th International Symposium on Smart Graphics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4569, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, June 2007, pp. 85-96. [download PDF]
  14. Chittaro L., Ranon R. Adaptive 3D Web Sites. In Brusilovsky, P., Kobsa, A., Nejdl, W. (eds.): The Adaptive Web: Methods and Strategies of Web Personalization, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4321. Springer-Verlag, 2007. [download PDF]
  15. Ranon R., De Marco L., Senerchia A., Gabrielli S., Chittaro L., Pugliese R., Del Cano L., Asnicar F., Prica M. A Web-based Tool for Collaborative Access to Scientific Instruments in Cyberinfrastructures. Proceedings of INGRID 2007 - Instrumenting the Grid: 2nd International Workshop on Distributed Cooperative Laboratories, Springer, Berlin, 2007, in press. [download PDF]
  16. Chittaro L., Ranon R. Web3D Technologies in Learning, Education and Training: Motivations, Issues, Opportunities, Computers & Education Journal, August 2007, No. 49, Issue 2, pp. 3 -18 doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2005.06.002. [download PDF]
  17. Chittaro L, Ranon R., Corvaglia, D. Destroying Cultural Heritage: Technical, Emotional and Exhibition Aspects in Simulating Earthquake Effects on a Gothic Cathedral. Proceedings of VAST 2006: 7th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Intelligent Cultural Heritage, Eurographics/Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK, October 2006, pp. 229-236. [download PDF]
  18. Chittaro L., Ieronutti L., Ranon R. Adaptable visual presentation of 2D and 3D learning materials in web-based cyberworlds. The Visual Computer, Vol. 22, No. 12, pp. 1002-1014 [download PDF]
  19. Chittaro L., Ranon R., Ieronutti L. VU-Flow: A Visualization Tool for Analyzing Navigation in Virtual Environments, Special Issue on Visual Analytics, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, November/December 2006, Vol. 12, No. 6, pp. 1475-1485 [download preprint]
  20. Ieronutti L., Ranon R., Chittaro L. High-Level Visualization of Users' Navigation in Virtual Environments, Proceedings of Interact 2005: 10th IFIP International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Springer Verlag, Berlin, September 2005, pp. 873-885 [download PDF]
  21. R. Pugliese, F. Asnicar, L. Del Cano, L. Chittaro, R. Ranon, L. De Marco, A. Senerchia, Collaborative Environments for the GRID: the GRIDCC Multipurpose Collaborative Environment, in Distributed Cooperative Laboratories: Networking, Instrumentation, and Measurements, Springer Verlag, ISBN: 0-387-29811-8
  22. Chittaro L., Ranon R., Using the X3D Language for Adaptive Manipulation of 3D Web Content, Proceedings of AH-2004: 3rd International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2004, pp. 287-290 [download PDF]
  23. Chittaro L., Ieronutti L., Ranon R., Navigating 3D Virtual Environments by Following Embodied Agents: a Proposal and its Informal Evaluation on a Virtual Museum Application, PsychNology Journal (Special issue on Human-Computer Interaction), Vol. 2, No 1., 2004, pp. 24-42. [download PDF]
  24. Chittaro L., Ranon R., Hierarchical Model-based Diagnosis based on Structural Abstraction, Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 155, Issues 1-2 , 2004, pp. 147-182. [download PDF]
  25. Ieronutti L., Ranon R., Chittaro L., Automatic Derivation of Electronic Maps from X3D/VRML Worlds, Proceedings of Web3D 2004: 9th International Conference on 3D Web Technology, ACM Press, New York, April 2004, pp. 61-70. [download PDF]
  26. Chittaro L., Ranon R., Ieronutti L., Guiding Visitors of Web3D Worlds through Automatically Generated Tours, Proceedings of Web3D 2003: 8th International Conference on 3D Web Technology, ACM Press, New York, March 2003, pp.27-38 [download PDF]
  27. Ranon R., Chittaro L., Pugliese P., The Elettra Virtual Collaboratory: a CSCW System for Scientific Experiments with Ultra-Bright Light Sources, Proceedings of HCITALY 2003 [download PDF]
  28. Chittaro L., Ranon R., New Directions for the Design of Virtual Reality Interfaces to E-Commerce Sites, Proceedings of AVI 2002: 5th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, ACM Press, New York, May 2002, pp. 308-315. [download PDF]
  29. Chittaro L., Ranon R., Dynamic Generation of Personalized VRML Content: a General Approach and its Application to 3D E-Commerce, Proceedings of Web3D 2002: 7th International Conference on 3D Web Technology, ACM Press, New York, February 2002, pp. 145-154. [download PDF]
  30. Chittaro L., Ranon R. , Hierarchical Diagnosis Guided by Observations, Proceedings of IJCAI-2001: 17th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2001.
  31. Chittaro L., Ranon R., Interfacce in Realtà Virtuale per siti di e-commerce: linee guida, ausili alla navigazione, personalizzazione, In Atti del Simposio su Interazione Uomo-Computer, VII Congresso della Società Italiana di Ergonomia (SIE), Firenze, 2001.
  32. Chittaro L., Ranon R., Adding Adaptive Features to Virtual Reality Interfaces for E-Commerce, Proceedings of AH-2000: International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1892, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, August 2000, pp. 86-97.
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  33. Chittaro L., Ranon R., Virtual Reality stores for 1-to-1 e-commerce, Proceedings of the CHI2000 Workshop on Designing Interactive Systems for 1-to-1 E-Commerce, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2000.
  34. Chittaro L., Ranon R., Diagnosis of multiple faults with flow-based function multiple faults with flow-based functional models: the functional diagnosis with efforts and flows approach, Reliability Engineering and System Safety , vol. 64, no. 2, 1999, pp. 137-150.
  35. Chittaro L., Ranon R., Automatic derivation of hierarchical representations for flow-based functional models, Proceedings of DX-99: 10th International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis, Loch Awe, Scotland, 1999.
  36. Chittaro L., Ranon R., Soldati A., Introducing Deviations and Multiple Abstraction Levels in the Functional Diagnosis of Fluid Transfer Systems, Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, vol. 12, no.4, 1998, pp. 355-373.
  37. R. Ranon., The closure properties of Functional Flow-Based Approaches and their relevance to diagnosis, In Proceedings of the Thirteenth European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-98), 23-28 agosto, Brighton, UK, John Wiley and sons, pp.289-290, 1998.
  38. Chittaro L., Ranon R., Soldati A., Introducing Deviations and Multiple Abstraction Levels in the Functional Diagnosis of Fluid Transfer Systems, Proceedings of DX-97: 8th International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis, Mont-Saint-Michel, France, 1997.
  39. Chittaro L., Ranon R., Augmenting the diagnostic power of flow-based approaches to functional reasoning, Proceedings of AAAI-96: 13th Conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Portland, OR, USA, AAAI Press/MIT Press, 1996.
  40. Chittaro L., Ranon R., Lopez Cortes J., Ship over troubled waters: Functional reasoning with influences applied to the diagnosis of a marine technical system, In Proceedings of DX-96: 7th International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis, Val Morin, Canada, 1996.