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In this Issue:
Upcoming Events:
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ReHab2014, 20.05.2014-25.05.2014
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C-BRAIN #53, Addressing the Mobile Capacity Crunch, S. Panwar (NYU, CATT), 27.05.2014
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C-BRAIN #54, Portugal: Enterpreneurs and Innovators. A Crisis way out, Rui Ribeiro, COPELABS/ULHT, 03.06.2014
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C-BRAIN #55, Pervasive Communication Systems Related Work Review (NEMPS PhD Students), 17.06.2014
Opportunities:
Meet Our Team!
On each newsletter, we provide you with info about our unique interdisciplinary team!
Inês Oliveira
Inês Oliveira (PhD) is a Researcher in COPELABS, SITI, and an Invited Assistant Professor in University Lusofona. Ines holds a PhD in Computer Science (2012) by the University of Lisbon; BSc and MSc degrees from IST, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal in 1995 and 1998, respectively. From 1994-1997, she was a researcher working at the Multimedia and Interaction Team, Computer Systems Engineering Institute (INESC), Lisbon. In 1998 she was a Senior Programmer/Analyst employed at Ergoprocesso, Lisbon, a small company essentially focused in multimedia indexing. During 1999-2003 she was a senior consultant at Interactive Communication Design, Link Consulting, Lisbon. ..Her research interests relate with user experience, and usability.
Cristina Ca milo
Cristina Camilo (PhD) is a Researcher in COPELABS, CTIP, and an Assistant Professor at ULHT. She holds a degree in Psychology (FPCE UL, an MSc in Organizational and Social Psychology (ISCTE) and a PhD in Psychology (ISCTE IUL). During her PhD she was also a Grant holder (FCT) and a visitor student at Université Catholique de Louvain. From 2007 to 2012 she was an associate researcher at CIS-IUL, where she studied the relation between emotions and health risk perception, which are currently her research interests.
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PEOPLE: PEople-centric Pervasive Solutions for an Improved Life Experience
In the pursuit of COPELABS interdisciplinary vision, the COPELABS PEOPLE internal project explores user-centricity with the intention to integrate new paradigms into pervasive communication solutions, namely, aspects such as trust, influence, or reach, into the design of communication structures.
PEOPLE expects to contribute to a redifinition of networking theory via a better contextualization of human characteristics and context, e.g. well-being, or routine.
PEOPLE's motivation is to make the Internet a truly people-centric system, not just by developing new social tools to assist communication, but above all to address the full OSI stack. Our belief is that this methodology assists in working the current gap between human communication requirements and the solutions/services that are used to achieve such means and as a consequence, contributes to improve well-being of individuals as well as of society.
Protocol Between COPELABS and Benfica
Part of the COPELABS vision is to allow technology to become useful to the common citizen. As such, COPELABS is a research unit that believes in experimentation under realistic conditions.
In this context, COPELABS has recently signed a protocol with the Lisbon's city district of São Domingos de Benfica. This protocol aims at implementing a program of cognitive stimulation on the elderly population of Benfica.
Benfica holds circa 34 000 inhabitants (2001) in a 4.2 square kilometer area. The elderly population amounts to 29% of the overall Benfica inhabitants.
Book in User-centric Networking
 Within the context of the European project ULOOP (2010-2013), COPELABS has participated in the development of a new Springer book dedicated to User-centric networking.
The book covers the main findings of the European project ULOOP with particular emphasis on social trust management, cooperation incentives, community building, mobility estimation, and resource management.
The book provides a holistic view to UCN's and future development trends, including business and cooperation models that help to sustain the growth of wireless architectures and exploit the Internet value chain. The book covers also the impact of user-centricity on opportunities, legislation, standardisation.
COPELABS 2013 Results Are Out!
COPELABS results in 2013 derive from the two independent research groups SITILABS (2010-2013), and CEPCA (2008-2013). Between 2010 and 2012, the two groups have given rise to a total of 159 publications, thus resulting in an average publication ratio per capita of 2.5.
The results, which are currently publicly available, provide details concerning milestones and activities, as well as group and individual scientific productivity.
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