Massimiliano Di Luca

🎉 New paper alert! 🧠 The velocity-curvature power law is one of the 'kinematic laws of nature' (Flash 2021), a 'fundamental law of human control' (Zago et al. 2016), and one of the 'kinematic regularities' (Frith & Frith 2023) thought to underlie all biological motion. 1/9

@JBJSmeets Maybe compute the correlation between conditions

A figure with individual results. Participants behave on average (the planned analysis) the same in three conditions, but based on the individual data, I would conclude that they behave the same in B and C, but different in A. How would you call (and analyse) this phenomenon?

Eye movements with associated tactile feedback can induce the rubber hand illusion pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36895648/

Oculomotor self-touch induces illusory body ownership pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36895648/ This is a really interesting study, but I can't help but think that "oculomotor self-touch" is a great euphemism for watching porn

It’s publication day for When We Touch 🎉 I’m so thankful to everyone involved. The great team @orionbooks | @orionspring . All that took the time to read & share their thoughts. And everyone who checked in along the way. Publishing is a team effort. Thank you all so much!

Announcement! 📢🎼🧠 RPPW 19 will take place in Nottingham @PsychologyNTU 19-22nd June 2023 hosted by @Darren_Rhodes and Chris Sumner - please see rppw.org for more details! See you all soon rhythm, music, movement and brain types! #rppw19 @TimingForum

New paper by @davidedeflorio about measuring age-related skin changes and deterioration of tactile spatial acuity to capture performance with a neurophysiological model - doi.org/10.1113/JP2831… @JPhysiol

Congratulations to Davide Deflorio to successfully defend his PhD thesis “Peripheral mechanism for fine tactile perception” without any corrections!

Applications are open for a #MIBPT PhD studentship to investigate the synchronisation of small music groups with experiments, computational models, and simulations

"The digital divide won't be fixed merely by more fiber cables + connectivity. The real goal - digital dignity - requires widespread access, sovereign identity, distributed ownership, and the co-creation of a sustainable, tech-enabled future for humanity." - Vilas Dhar

Thanks to @RogerSGriffiths for the picture

Chairing a session with inspiring speakers talking about the digital divide #DubaiFutureForum @MOTF

Next week I’ll participate in the #DubaiFutureForum at the Museum of the Future @dubaifuture. Yes.. the picture in the flyer is the actual building 😲 !! g.co/kgs/zKQSFp

@TheCHBH strategy event

@ProfWiddows opened the 2022 Research Conference highlighting the game-changing achievements of researchers @unibirmingham

@twi_mar Good luck, Mar. Wish you all the best!

Today I did something very difficult. I handed my notice to leave possibly the most incredible playground for grown-ups who want to change the world through technology. It has been 6.5 years of fun and hard play at Microsoft Research. I have learned tremendously. #newadventures

Thanks @maxdiluca for organising a day of #BhamXR workshop for all VR/AR researchers yesterday! Was fun showing everyone our set up for visuotactile experiments - changing visual appearances of touch objects in VR & a #lazysusan turntable for presenting stimuli!

Delighted to see such enthusiasm for “BhamXR”, the interdisciplinary workshop I have run with the support of @IAS_UoB. It is inspiring to see the breadth of research in Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality that is taking place at @unibirmingham

I am once again reaching out to #AcademicTwitter to help me do my job… I’m running a workshop titled “is a PhD for me?” for 16-17 year olds. So academics - what is one thing you think they should know about pursuing a PhD? @PhDVoice @AcademicChatter

Excited to announce the Special Issue on “#Haptics in the #Metaverse: Haptic feedback for Virtual, Augmented, Mixed, and eXtended Realities" on the IEEE Transactions on Haptics, submission deadline in Nov 2022: ieee-ras.org/publications/t… #VR #AR #MR #XR