Education
2004 - 2007 – PhD on Product development methods, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano.
1998 - 2003 – Industrial Design, Politecnico di Milano.
Professional experience
2007 - present - Programme Leader, Product Design course at the British Higher School of Art and Design (Moscow)
2007 – Assistant professor at MA level of Design Engineering (4th year) of Virtual Prototyping (chair Prof. M. Bordegoni), (5th year) of Project and Process course, real time rendering with RTT Delta Gen.
2006 - 2007 – Assistant professor at MA level of Mechanical engineering (5th year) of Methods and Techniques of Virtual Prototyping (Chair Prof. M. Bordegoni). Student’s project supported by SAME- Deutz-Fahr Group.
2006 – Seminars about TRIZ, Mind Mapping and Problem Solving methodologies in support of Design Methods Course, Prof. E. Rovida; Mechanical Engineering, 5th year. Assistant professor at MA level of Design Engineering (4th year) of Virtual Prototyping (chair Prof. M. Bordegoni). Student’s project supported by Carrozzeria Castagna, Milano.
2005 - 2006 – Assistant professor at MA level of Mechanical engineering (5th year) of Virtual Prototyping (Chair Prof. M. Bordegoni). Student’s project supported by Elasis FIAT group. Assistant professor at MA level of Mechanical Engineering (5th year) of Interaction wit the virtual mannequin (chair Prof. U. Cugini).
2005 – Seminars about TRIZ methodology applied to Engineering design cases, Prof. Rovida; Mechanical Engineering, 5th year. Assistant professor at MA level of Design Engineering (4th year) of Virtual prototyping (chair Prof. M. Bordegoni).
2004 - 2005 – Assistant professor at MA level of Mechanical engineering (5th year) of Virtual Prototyping (Chair Prof. M. Bordegoni). Student’s project supported by Covini Cars, Modena. Assistant professor at MA level of Mechanical Engineering (5th year) of Interaction with the virtual mannequin (chair Prof. U. Cugini).
Design activities
2007 – Concept development and surface modeling for a new airport fireman truck for BAI, Brescia, Italy;
2005 – Free-lance computer modeling and physical prototyping for Abysses submarines;
2003 - 2004 – Internship at Carrozzeria Castagna, Milano, car design, design management, organization of Geneva Motorshow;
2002 – Participation at the MEDes international design workshop, Stuttgart, Germany;
part time job for industrial design studio Industrial, Stuttgart, Germany. Sun glasses design;
collaboration for research with Prof. Toshiroh Ikegami for the NGO Japanese “Eco Design Network”;
2001 – Exhibiting at Kyoto Art Center with the project “Functional Origami Network”;
finalist for the International Light Design Competition of Koizumi company, Japan;
“Garoo project” chosen for the annual works exhibition of Industrial Design Degree Course;
advertising spot of 30” chosen for the annual works; exhibition of Industrial Design Degree Course.
Attended Conferences as speaker
2007 – ADM – INGEGRAPH international joined congress, Perugia, Italy.
2005 – Seventh International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, ACM, ICMI 05, Trento, Italy.
2005 – 10th International Conference on Huma Aspects of Advanced Manufacturing: Agility and Hybrid automation – HAAMAHA 2005, San Diego, CA, USA.
2005 – Italian Disciplinary Scientific Committee conference, University of Pisa, Italy.
2004 – Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments/ 10th Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments, Grenoble, France.
Publications
- An empirical study on a user interface for a haptic based clay modeling tool from best practice user’s observation; U. Giraudo, M. Bordegoni; Proceedings of HAAMAHA 2005.
- Using observations of real designers at work to inform the development of a novel haptic modeling system; U. Giraudo, M. Bordegoni; Published on ACM proceedings of ICMI05, ACM conference, Trento.
- Conceptual design of a virtual clay modeling interface based on designers' hand movements analysis; U.Cugini, M. Bordegoni, U. Giraudo; Workshop: Understanding and Designing for Aesthetic Experience; at International Conference HCI2005 - The Bigger Picture Napier University, Edinburgh.
- Ergonomic tests in virtual environments: integration of VR and physical control devices; Umberto Giraudo, Giandomenico Caruso, Francesco Ferrise, Monica Bordegoni. Virtual Concept Conference, Playa del Carmen, Mexico, November 26th – December 1st 2006. Published on Interaction Design Vol. II, Springer Verlag, Berlin.
- A mixed environment for ergonomic tests: tuning of the stereo viewing parameters; Giandomenico Caruso, Umberto Giraudo, Francesco Ferrise, Monica Bordegoni; EuroGraphics conference-Italian chapter EG_IT_07, Trento, Italy, February 14th-16th 2007.
- Ergonomic interactive testing in a mixed-reality environment; Francesco Ferrise, Giandomenico Caruso, Umberto Giraudo. Joined conference of XVI ADM and XIX INGEGRAPH, Perugia, Italy June 6th-9th.
- Virtual validation of an on-board infotainment system based on tactons; Umberto Giraudo, Giandomenico Caruso, Monica Bordegoni. HCII 07 international conference, July 22-27, Beijing, China.
- Ergonomic interactive testing in a mixed-reality environment; Giandomenico Caruso, Umberto Giraudo, Francesco Ferrise, Monica Bordegoni, HCII 07 international conference, July 22-27, Beijing, China.
- Haptic control system of a tractor cabin; Umberto Giraudo, Giandomenico Caruso, Francesco Ferrise, Monica Bordegoni; poster session at HCII 07 international conference, July 22-27, Beijing, China.
- A critical approach to TRIZ methodology applied to a case study; Umberto Giraudo, Edoardo Rovida, Marco Bertoni, Marina Carulli, abstract accepted at TMCE 2008, Kusadasi, Turkey, Apr. 21-25.
Languages
Italian: mother tongue;
English: excellent;
German: excellent;
French: good.
