Dr Di Nuovo leads a multi-disciplinary team, named Smart Interactive Technologies research group, which is interested in innovative research and developments investigating all the aspects of modelling and applying physical and intelligent systems, which coexist harmoniously with people and other artificial agents in complex real-world environments.

The research focuses on identifying and applying novel engineering principles and develop computational models of interactive systems capable to progress autonomously their capabilities in an open-ended process while (socially) interacting with human beings and empowering these individuals.

Key research domains and broad areas of interest to the group:

• Assistive technology and devices for the care of humans
• Robotics and Autonomous Systems: Cognitive systems and robotics; Socially Assistive Robotics; Human Robot Interaction, Design; Modelling and Simulation; Kinematics and Dynamics; Optimal Design Procedures; Unmanned Aerial System; Experimental testing.
• Computational Intelligence: Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems, Multi-agent Systems, Evolutionary Algorithms and Strategies, Games applications, Knowledge Representation, Big Data analysis.