Ab.Acus boasts twenty years expertise in the biomedical field. Main competencies are in biological data collection, processing and rendering.

Wide expertise was gained in acquisition and processing of electro-myographic, kinematic and dynamic data recorded by means of devoted or commercial devices pre-processed on line and stored on PC or portable devices for further elaborations and results rendering.

Developed applications are used both in research and clinic environments. The tailoring of an application for different use environments requires paying attention also to the profiles of involved users both in terms of needs and in terms of technological competencies. The aim is to supply the customer with tools allowing reaching the envisaged results avoiding heavy changes in the organization of daily laboratory or care activities.

Ab.Acus develops devoted software packages for biological data off line and on line processing both in time and frequency domains. Signal processing competencies include linear and non linear analysis of acquired data (e.g. filtering, smoothing, rectification, integration, derivation, frequency analysis, statistical investigation,...).

Ab.Acus is also involved in the development of data acquisition and processing methods to supply on line feedback to both the operator and the investigation subject by means of devoted user interfaces.

Main application areas are in the biomechanical field, ranging from 3D modelling of human motion to extraction of devoted motor parameters to measure task performance, therapy follow up and so on.

Dissemination material and references:

The SMILING project: an overview (poster presentation)
Marcellini F, Bar-Haim S, Bulgheroni M, SMILING project presentation, ASK-IT conference, 2008

Telehealth and Assistive Technology, November 2-4 2009, Cambridge, Massachussets, USA
M. Bulgheroni, E. D'Amico, S. Bar-Haim, D. Carus, C. Harrison, F. Marcellini, The SMILING project: Prevention of falls by a mechatronic training device (full paper)
M. Bulgheroni and E. d'Amico TAT 2009 slides presentation

Castiello U, Becchio C, Zoia S, Nelini C, Sartori L, Blason L, D'Ottavio G, Bulgheroni M, Gallese V Wired to Be Social: The Ontogeny of Human Interaction. PLoS ONE 5(10): e13199. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013199, 2010
Sartori L, Becchio C, Bulgheroni M, Castiello U Modulation of the action control system by social intention: unexpected social requests override preplanned action J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform. 2009 Oct;35(5):1490-500
Castiello U, Ansuini C, Bulgheroni M, Scaravilli T, Nicoletti R Visuomotor priming effects in Parkinson's disease patients depend on the match between the observed and the executed action Neuropsychologia. 2009 Feb;47(3):835-42
Becchio C, Sartori L, Bulgheroni M, Castiello U Both your intention and mine are reflected in the kinematics of my reach-to-grasp movement Cognition. 2008 Feb;106(2):894-912
Becchio C, Sartori L, Bulgheroni M, Castiello U The case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: a kinematic study on social intention Conscious Cogn. 2008 Sep;17(3):557-64

Zoia S, Pezzetta E, Blason L, Scabar A, Carrozzi M, Bulgheroni M, Castiello U A Comparison of the Reach-To-Grasp Movement Between Children and Adults: A Kinematic Study Dev Neuropsychol. 2006;30(2):719-38

Zoia S, Blason L, D'Ottavio G, Bulgheroni M, Pezzetta E, Scabar A, Castiello U Evidence of early development of action planning in the human foetus: a kinematic study Exp Brain Res. 2007 Jan;176(2):217-26

Bulgheroni P, Bulgheroni MV, Ronga M, Manelli A Gait analysis of pre- and post-meniscectomy knee: a prospective study Knee. 2007 Dec;14(6):472-7