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ReHab2014, 20.05.2014-25.05.2014
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C-BRAIN #50, Active Incubation by Alvaro Carvalho, SQS Portugal, 11.03.2014
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C-BRAIN #51, The role of open-source, by Christian Esteve, Campinas University
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Meet Our Team!
On each newsletter, we provide you with info about our unique interdisciplinary team!
Tauseef Jamal (2010-)
Jamal is a Researcher in COPELABS, SITI, since 2010. He holds a PhD (2013) in Telecommunications by Universities of Aveiro, Minho, and Porto (MAP-TELE joint programme);a BEng (96) and an MSc (98) in Electronics from the Islamia College University, Peshawar; PGD (00) in Computer Science from the Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), M.Sc. (06) in Computer Engineering from Halmstad University, Sweden. His previous affiliations include the LMN lab, Polytechnic University Bucharest, Romania (researcher, 2008); INESCTEC, IAN area (2008-2010). His major research interests are cooperative relaying strategies and user-provided networks.
Ana Loureiro (2010-)
Ana Loureiro is a Researcher in COPELABS, CTIP, and an Assistant Professor at ULHT.
She holds a PhD in Social and Environmental Psychology by ISCTE-IUL (2011); an MSc (99) in Psychology and Environmental Education by ISPA (1999); a degree in Psycholgy – Social Psychology by the Faculty on Psychology at Lisbon University (1990). During her PhD she was a Grant holder (FCT) and a visitor student at Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Her research interests are the study of cognitive processes concerning how people perceive natural and urban environments; how social values motivate individuals, and how these processes and interactions can assist in well-being and behavior that may impact on environments.
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ULOOP User-centric Software
ULOOP is an European Project (2010-2013, grant number 257418) that explores the development of concepts and of open-source technology to assist the robust, cooperative, and self-organizing proliferation of Wi-Fi networks in a user-centric way. Throughout three years, the project has given rise to several results in the form of innovative concepts in wireless, namely, social trust management; resource management; mobility support (better handling of mobility anchor points); open-source software validated on Atheros-based access points running OpenWRT; Android devices; a pilot and a set of best practices; usage statistics based on deployments in operational networks (by FON in Madrid, Spain, and ZON in Lisboa, Portugal); over 70 publications; three European IPRs and one national IPR; one spin-off. Coordinated by Alcatel-Lucent bellLabs France with COPELABS, University Lusófona (Scientific coordinator), ULOOP involved also Huawei European Research Center, Germany; FON, United Kingdom; ZON, Portugal; Level7 s.p.A., Italy; Caixa Mágica Software, Portugal; University of Kent, United Kingdom; University of Genebra, Switzerland; University of Urbino, Italy; Technical University of Berlin, Germany.
Spinning-off Research in COPELABS
Part of the COPELABS vision is to allow technology to become useful to the common citizen. As such, COPELABS motivates its members to further develop the proof-of-concept technology that is a result of both advanced and applied research, by following different spin-off models, based on the technological readiness level of each solution.
WiRank is a spin-off pet project of COPELABS coordinated by Luis Amaral Lopes, one of SITI's junior researchers. WiRank is a tool derived from the COPELABS MTracker mobility estimation plugin. On its first version, soon to be available via Google Apps, it provides better wireless connectivity in Android devices, by anticipating a user's preferences towards visited networks.
Senception is a spin-off of COPELABS currently steered by Rute Sofia and Paulo Mendes (SITI). Its vision partially derives from work developed in projects ULOOP and CitySense. Senception has the vision is to improve the daily citizen's lives via the application of pervasive, user-friendly technology. To achieve this vision, Senception has the mission to design and to produce pervasive technology that assists in capturing and infering interactions among people and their surroundings.
Read More on COPELABS Spinning-off...
COPELABS 2014 Research Vision
COPELABS is focused on the interdisciplinary study of cognitive functioning, social interaction and behaviour inference, to assist the study of networking and information science technology, as well as to support a better use of technology towards society. The ultimate goal of this dual approach is to promote societal well-being.
Being associated to two of the most relevant schools of University Lusófona,ECATI and EPCV, COPELABS has an extremely forefront and enriching interdisciplinary environment, that mixes two research lines which are today fundamental for a better understanding of how technology and society can benefit each other. Two areas of study, that stem from the interconnection between Internet Science and Cyperpsychology, are key to the research in COPELABS, namely, social interaction and human behaviour inference and assessment. The COPELABS team therefore involves elements with background in informatics; computer science; as well as in psychology. Common to both interdisciplinary environments is the study in cognitive and self-awareness processes; social interaction and well-being evaluation/assessment.
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