Adaptive manuals as assistive technology to support and train people with acquired brain injury in their daily life activities
Javier Gómez, Germán Montoro, Pablo A. Haya, Xavier Alamán, Susana Alves and Mónica Martínez
PERSONAL AND UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING (2012) [download]
Assistive technologies and ubiquitous computing can be related since both try to help people in their lives. This common objective motivated us to develop and evaluate a system that puts ubiquitous computing technologies into the rehabilitation process of people with acquired brain injury. Thus, in this paper, we present and evaluate a system that shows adaptive manuals for daily-life activities for people with acquired brain injury. This first evaluation allowed us to validate our approach and also to extract valuable information about these systems as well as environmental factors that may affect the patients.
WoRIE 2012: Deadline extended to 30th March
WoRIE 2012 is the 2nd Workshop on the Reliability of Intelligent Environments that will be held in within the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE’12) in Guanajuato (Mexico) on 26-27 of June 2012.
Se buscan profesores de ciencia de la ESO y/o bachillerato
Estamos buscando a profesores de ciencias (en concreto de Física) de la ESO y/o bachillerato de la Comunidad de Madrid que quieran probar un novedoso software de aprendizaje colaborativo. Nos hemos involucrado en un proyecto junto a dos profesores del Reino Unido (Trevor Collins y Richard Joiner) que están aplicando nuevas tecnologías para la enseñanza de la ciencia. En esta primera aplicación se trabaja el movimiento oscilatorio a través de un muelle elástico con el que pueden interaccionar virtualmente dos estudiantes simultáneamente. Ya ha sido probada en colegios en el Reino Unido con resultados satisfactorios. Si eres profesor y estás interesado ponte en contacto con Pablo Haya (pablohaya arroba gmail.com) o con Estefanía Martín (Estefania.Martin arroba urjc.es). En cualquier caso, por favor, te agradecíamos que le dieras a este mensaje la máxima difusión posible.
2012 Alan Turing centennial birth anniversary
During this year multiple events, organized in different venues around the world, commemorate the centennial birth anniversary of the great mathematician Alan Turing. He is considered one of the Computer Science fathers thanks to contributions as the seminal paper “On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem (1936)”. This paper presents a formal model (called Turing Machine) aiming to define what computation is. This formalisation, in conjunction with other approaches, establishes the ground of computability theory.
I took this Turing head sculpture at Bletchley Park, Britain’s codebreaking centre, where he worked for the Government Code and Cypher School during the Second World War.
Multitouch surfaces seminar at URJC
I was invited to give a seminar at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid about Multitouch Technologies. This seminar is included in the course Multimedia who is teached by Liliana Santacruz. The course belongs to the Master on Human Computer Interaction and Multimedia.
Location: Sala 1 de las Sala Audiovisuales – Laboratorios II, Campus Móstoles, URJC
Date: 17:30-19:30, November 15th 2011
Introducción a las superficies multitáctiles
Transparencias (1MB aprox.) elaboradas sobre diseño de la interacción por Pablo A. Haya, Manuel García-Herranz, Pablo Llinás y Fernando Olivera. Este obra está bajo una licencia de Creative Commons Reconocimiento-CompartirIgual 3.0 Unported. (Texto en castellano). La licencia de las imágenes que no son propiedad de los autores tiene que solicitarse directamente a ellos.
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