Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

Regional Initiatives

VREAD: Making reading enjoyable again

• Participants: Marco Benzi, Pierre Kornprobst, Stéphanie Baillif [Centre hospitalier Pasteur 2 (service d’ophtalmologie, Nice, France) ], Annick Martin [”27Delvalle” (Centre d’Innovation Santé de la ville de Nice, France) ], Eric Castet [Aix-Marseille Université (CNRS, Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, Marseille, France) ], Fabio Solari [University of Genoa (DIBRIS, Genoa, Italy) ], Manuela Chessa [University of Genoa (DIBRIS, Genoa, Italy) ]

• Coordinator: Pierre Kornprobst

• Duration: August 2017 to January 2019

• Our goal is to develop a new platform to bring reading experience to a higher level of immersivity, making reading enjoyable again for low-vision people. This project received funding from Université Côte d'Azur (France), in the "Pré-maturation" call which finances actions that transform existing proof of concept into an operational laboratory prototype allowing either the realization of "robust" demonstrators or the complete experimental validation of concept. The perspective is industrialisation, through transfer or start-up creation.

Modélisation Théorique et Computationnelle en Neurosciences et Sciences Cognitives

The Biovision team is a member of this "Axe Interdisciplinaire de Recherche de l’Université de Nice – Sophia Antipolis". It has participated to the Rencontre C@UCA 2017 in Fréjus (April 2017). This axe is partly funding our work on retinal waves.