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Eleonora Bilotta is an Italian researcher into
complex system A complex system is a system composed of many components that may interact with one another. Examples of complex systems are Earth's global climate, organisms, the human brain, infrastructure such as power grid, transportation or communication sy ...
s and
human–computer interaction Human–computer interaction (HCI) is the process through which people operate and engage with computer systems. Research in HCI covers the design and the use of computer technology, which focuses on the interfaces between people (users) and comp ...
, including
educational entertainment Educational entertainment, also referred to by the portmanteau edutainment, is media designed to educate through entertainment. The term has been used as early as 1933. Most often it includes content intended to teach but has incidental entert ...
,
personal robot A personal robot is one whose human interface and design make it useful for individuals. This is by contrast to industrial robots which are generally configured and operated by robotics specialists. A personal robot is one that enables an indivi ...
s, and the use of
chaos theory Chaos theory is an interdisciplinary area of Scientific method, scientific study and branch of mathematics. It focuses on underlying patterns and Deterministic system, deterministic Scientific law, laws of dynamical systems that are highly sens ...
,
cellular automata A cellular automaton (pl. cellular automata, abbrev. CA) is a discrete model of computation studied in automata theory. Cellular automata are also called cellular spaces, tessellation automata, homogeneous structures, cellular structures, tessel ...
, and
dynamical system In mathematics, a dynamical system is a system in which a Function (mathematics), function describes the time dependence of a Point (geometry), point in an ambient space, such as in a parametric curve. Examples include the mathematical models ...
s in the synthetic design of music and jewelry, especially focusing on the chaotic behavior of Chua's circuit. Bilotta was born in 1958 in
Catanzaro Catanzaro (; or ; ), also known as the "City of the two Seas" (), is an Italian city of 86,183 inhabitants (2020), the capital of the Calabria region and of its province and the second most populated comune of the region, behind Reggio Calabr ...
, in the Calabria region of Italy. She is employed as a professor of general psychology at the
University of Calabria The University of Calabria () is a state-run university in Italy. Located in Arcavacata, a hamlet of Rende and a suburb of Cosenza, the university was founded in 1972. Among its founders there were Beniamino Andreatta, Giorgio Gagliani, Pietr ...
, where she also coordinates a course on complex systems, and co-directs a research group on evolutionary systems. Before joining the University of Calabria as a researcher and then professor, she was an instructor at the Magna Græcia University of Catanzaro. With Pietro Pantano, she is the author of the books ''A Gallery of Chua Attractors'' (World Scientific, 2008) and ''Cellular Automata and Complex Systems: Methods for Modeling Biological Phenomena'' (IGI Global, 2010).


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* 1958 births Living people People from Catanzaro Italian psychologists Italian women psychologists Complex systems scientists Women systems scientists Cellular automatists Academic staff of the University of Calabria {{Italy-scientist-stub