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Pre-doctoral Position: Study of Sensory and Body Perception in Depressive Disorders using Wearable Technology and Machine Learning within the project “SENSEBEAT-DS: Sensory and Body Perception Evaluation in Depressive Symptomatology.”
European Researcher’s Night at i_mBody Lab – Noche de las Investigadoras e Investigadores
On Friday September 27th 2024, i_mBody Lab will host European Researcher’s Night at UC3M as part of the “Noche Europea de las Investigadoras e Investigadores de Madrid” event happening in Spain. During this event, our lab will welcome participants and enthusiasts to engage with our researchers and explore a range of interactive experiments and tools developed over the years. Attendees will have the opportunity to dive into our research on embodied perception, interaction, and AI, experiencing firsthand the cutting-edge innovations that shape our understanding of human-computer interaction. Join us for an evening of discovery and immersive exploration! European Researchers’ Night is a scientific outreach project promoted by the European Commission as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions under the Horizon Europe program, taking place simultaneously in nearly 400 European cities since 2005. In Spain, seven projects are funded by the Commission for the years 2024 and 2025, with two additional associated projects. On September 27th, 2024, “La Noche 2024” offers hundreds of free activities where researchers will bring their work closer to the public in a fun and engaging way, showcasing the benefits their research brings to society and its impact on daily life. This will include experiments, workshops, demonstrations, experiences, tours, theatrical performances, monologues, and more.
Participation in DIS2024
Laia Turmo Vidal and José Vega-Cebrián participated in DIS2024, the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems 2024 conference, which took place in ITU Copenhagen, Denmark, between the 1 and 5 of July 2024. They presented the following papers, which you can find in open access:
Thesis Talks 2024
Amar D’Adamo and José Vega-Cebrián participated in the UC3M Thesis Talk 2024 contest, presenting the contexts and results of their theses in less than 4 minutes. José had the opportunity to present their thesis talk in the live final event on June 12th, 2024. In the following links you can find the video recordings of their talks:
Participation in ESCAN 2024
Amar D’Adamo, Marte Roel and Karunya Srinivasan participated in ESCAN 2024, the 7th bi-annual ESCAN (European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience) meeting which took place in Ghent, Belgium, between the 22nd and 25th of May 2024. They presented the following posters: Social Support Influences the Malleability of Body Perceptions (D’Adamo, A, Sánchez, A., Tajadura-Jiménez, A.) Multisensory signals are a necessary anchor for the auditory Pinocchio illusion (Roel Lesur, M., Longo, M., Tajadura-Jiménez, A.) Researching body perception: towards an integration of quantitative and qualitative approaches to address the multiplicity of bodily experiences (Roel Lesur, M., Turmo Vidal, L., Slatman, J., Väljamäe, A., Tajadura-Jiménez, A.) Drawing a Straight Line From Body to Mind – The cognitive consequences of training the body in the process of drawing a perfectly straight line free-hand (Srinivasan, K., Soto-Faraco, S.)
Participation in CHI 2024
Amar D’Adamo participated in the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), in Honolulu, Hawaii (May 11-16). He presented the following paper: Amar D’Adamo, Marte Roel Lesur, Laia Turmo Vidal, Mohammad Mahdi Dehshibi, Daniel De La Prida, Joaquín R. Diaz-Durán, Luis Antonio Azpicueta-Ruiz, Aleksander Väljamäe, and Ana Tajadura-Jiménez. 2024. SoniWeight Shoes: Investigating Effects and Personalization of a Wearable Sound Device for Altering Body Perception and Behavior. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 93, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642651
Participation in Canal Connect 2024
Joaku (Joaquín R. Díaz) had a double participation in Canal Connect 2024, a festival for the intersections of the Arts, Science and Technology in Teatros del Canal. First, Joaku participated in a special program of the Efecto Doppler radio program, devoted to Canal Connect 2024. You can listen to the program here: Efecto Doppler: Especial desde Canal Connect 2024 (in Spanish). Then, Joaku participated in a roundtable discussion, LA QUIMERA EN LA INTERSECCIÓN ACTS (The Chimera at the intersection of Arts, Science and Technology), along with Esther Moñivas, Mónica Gutiérrez (Basurama), and moderated by Tere Badía. The following was the topic of the roundtable discussion: This roundtable will address the concept of chimera from different projects and perspectives. On the one hand, the integration of performance, the body and the language of technology in a device for critical thinking will be discussed. On the other hand, the research project In Serere (Basurama), which uses the technique of grafting citrus trees as a performative practice based on care. In addition, we will reflect on the relationships between contemporary artistic practices, bioethics and genetic engineering, which lead us to update the concepts of monster and chimera as principles of movements of attraction and repulsion. Translated from: Mesas redondas Canal Connect 2024
Mohammad Mahdi Dehshibi is now an IEEE Senior Member
Mohammad Mahdi Dehshibi was promoted to the grade of IEEE Senior Member! This recognition reflects the exceptional collaboration with Mohammad’s dedicated students and esteemed senior colleagues. Over the last 15+ years, Mohammad has worked tirelessly to explore the boundaries of Machine Learning, Machine Vision, and Unconventional Computing. Congratulations!
Participation in TEI’24
José Vega-Cebrián participated in the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’24), in Cork, Ireland, (February 11-14) with a demo and two paper presentations: José Manuel Vega-Cebrián, Elena Márquez Segura, and Ana Tajadura-Jiménez. 2024. Towards a Minimalist Embodied Sketching Toolkit for Wearable Design for Motor Learning. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 73, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3623509.3635253 Elena Márquez Segura, José Manuel Vega-Cebrián, Andrés A. Maldonado Morillo, Lara Cristóbal Velasco, and Andrea Bellucci. 2024. Embodied Hybrid Bodystorming to Design an XR Suture Training Experience. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 14, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1145/3623509.3633362 Laia Turmo Vidal, Ana Tajadura-Jiménez, José Manuel Vega-Cebrián, Judith Ley-Flores, Joaquin R. Díaz-Durán, and Elena Márquez Segura. 2024. Body Transformation: An Experiential Quality of Sensory Feedback Wearables for Altering Body Perception. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 25, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3623509.3633373
Body x Materials @ CHI: Exploring the intersections of body and materiality in a full-day workshop
We published a blog post on ACM Interactions about our Body x Materials workshop at CHI 2023: Body x Materials @ CHI: Exploring the intersections of body and materiality in a full-day workshop!