Eleonora Beccaluva is a PhD student in ‘Psychology, Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience’ under the supervision of Professor Fabrizio Arosio, University of Milano-Bicocca, and Professor Franca Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano.
Eleonora graduated in Psychology at the University of Turin and worked as a research fellow at the Innovative Interactive Interfaces Lab https://i3lab.polimi.it/ of Politecnico of Milan. Her research focuses on the design, development, and evaluation of innovative interactive technologies to support disabilities, including immersive virtual reality, social robots, multisensory rooms, and motion-based interaction.
During her PhD she will focus on the detection and enhancement of language and cognitive skills in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders and language developmental disorders through the use of immersive environments, mixed reality and Tangible User Interfaces.