Professor Giacinto Barresi

Giacinto Barresi (PhD in robotics, MSc in psychology and neuroscience) is a Professor at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, UWE Bristol (United Kingdom). He works, through the approaches of cognitive ergonomics and neuroergonomics, on robotic-digital systems research for health and safety, especially for biomedical (assistive, prosthetic, rehabilitative, surgical) applications.

He is a member of the Executive Committee of UK-RAS network for robotics and autonomous systems, the co-chair of the Technical Committee on Human Factors in Robotics at the International Ergonomics Association, the chair for Telehealth and Telemedicine in the IEEE Telepresence initiative, the Industry Liaison of the Technical Committee on Human-Machine Interaction and User Experience of the IEEE Consumer Technology Society.

He previously was a Researcher at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genoa (Italy), where he coordinated activities like the ENACT project, funded by the Italian Multiple Sclerosis Foundation to develop training solutions like biofeedback exergames in virtual and augmented environments. He also was a Scholar-In-Residence at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (India), and a Guest Lecturer at the Kyushu University in Fukuoka (Japan).