Pier Augusto Bertacchini is full professor of General Psychology at the University of Calabria (Italy). He has been the Director of the Educational Science Department of the University of Calabria and Pro-Rector of the University of Calabria. He has also been the Director of the Interdepartmental Communication Centre of the University of Calabria and the DAMS (Art and Humanities Degree Course) President. He has been the coordinator of national and international research projects, as for example “Virtual Museum Net of Magna Graecia” (financed by the ROP 2000 – 2003) (www.virtualmg.net), and ““Connecting European Culture through New Technology - NETConnect” (http://www.netconnect-project.eu/ and http://netconnect-project.eu/index.aspx), promoted by Culture 2000 European Programme.
Publications:
Bertacchini P. A., Feraco A. (2008), Cultural Heritage 2.0 - A Web Based Community on Cultural Heritage and Virtual Reconstruction, Proceedings of IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2008, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 22-27 July, 2008, pp. 85-92
Bertacchini P.A., Bilotta E., Pantano P., Battiato S., Cronin M., Di Blasi G., Talarico A., Tavernise A. (2007), Modelling and Animation of Theatrical Greek Masks in an Authoring System. Proceedings of Eurographics Italian Chapter 07, 14 – 16 February, 2007, Trento (Italy), pp. 191-198.
Bertacchini P. A., Bilotta E., Di Bianco E., Di Blasi G., Pantano P. (2006), Virtual Museum Net, Edutainment 2006 International Conference on E-learning and Games April 16-18, 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, pp. 1321-1330.