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In this Issue:
Upcoming Events:
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C-BRAIN #64, Improving the Interoperability between Information Systems and Humans, F. Ferreira, UNINOVA, @COPELABS, 18.11.2014, 13h-14h30, U.0.5
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PhD Programme NEMPS edition 2014/2015, 20.11.2014, @ULHT, Building U, U.0.5, 18h-20h
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C-BRAIN #65, Supervision of System of Systems by Vision Sensors, Pallavali R. K. Reddy (COPELABS/ULHT), @COPELABS/ULHT, Building U, 02.12.2014, 13-14h30, U.0.5
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COPELABS Open Day, 03.12.2014, @COPELABS, University Lusofona
Opportunities:
Meet Our Team!
On each newsletter, we provide you with info about our unique interdisciplinary team!
Jorge Oliveira
Jorge is the coordinator of CTIP and vice-director of COPELABS. Jorge is also an Assistant Professor at ULHT. He holds a PhD in neuropsychology from Salamanca University. He was (2008-2013) the Director of CEPCA, ULHT. His research interests currently relate to cognitive neuropsychology, psychophysiology and virtual reality applications in the context of mental health and neurocognitive rehabilitation
 Rute Sofia
Rute Sofia is the Director of COPELABS; Senior Researcher responsible for the thematic line of Internet Science. She is an Associate Professor of ULHT and a co-founder of Senception Lda, a spin-off of COPELABS. Rute holds a degree in Informatics Engineering by Universidade de Coimbra (95); M.Sc.(99) and Ph.D. (04) in Informatics by Universidade de Lisboa. Since 1995 she has been developing research in both an industrial context (Grupo Forum, Lisboa, 95-98; SIEMENS AG, Munich, Germany, 04-07; Nokia-Siemens Networks GmbH & KO, Munich as Senior Researcher 07) as well as in an academic context (Universidade de Lisboa, 95; FCCN, 98-03; Pennsilvania University, PA, USA as Invited Researcher 00-03; ICAIR, Evanston, IL, USA, 00; Bundeswehr Universitaet Munich, as Senior Researcher, 04; INESCTEC, as co-coordinator of the Internet Architectures and Networking area, UTM, 07-10; SITI, ULHT, 10-13).
Her current research interests are: social Internet design; pervasive sensing; mobility modeling and management. Rute holds 8 patents and over 40 peer-reviewed publications in her fields of expertise. Her current research interests are: social Internet design; pervasive sensing; mobility modeling and management.
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Loucamente: an Exhibition about Mental Well-being
COPELABS is a scientific partner of the unique exhibition "Loucamente: Uma Exposição sobre o Bem Estar da Mente" (an Exhibition concerning Mental Well-being), exhibition which is currently installed in Pavilhão do Conhecimento, until September 2015. The exhibition has been produced by a consortium which includes, among other partners, Heureka (Helsinki); Universcience (Paris); and Pavilhão do Conhecimento (Lisbon), and counts with several scientific partners.
Loucamente is the first interactive exhibition in a science center which is dedicated to mental well-being, and intends to replace the stigma associated to mental diseases, by a better understanding of the complexity inherent to mental health.
COPELABS has cooperated with the consortium via the team CTIP, which has assisted in setting up several augmented reality environments concerning different phobiae.
COPELABS Visits Alpen-Adria University
Paulo Mendes (SITI coordinator; COPELABS vice-director) has been invited to attend the 2014 Technical Retreat of the Networked and Embedded Systems Institute (NES), Alpen-Adria University, Klagenfurt, Austria.
Focused on wireless communications and networking and coordinated by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Bettstetter who established the group in 2007, NES counts with over 50 members in its staff, corresponding to the largest research and teaching unit of Alpen-Adria University.
The technical retreat in 2014 has been dedicated to improving international impact. The invited talk by Paulo Mendes, entitled "How to Achieve Impact?", has been focused on the need for researchers and students to understand how their research can achieve impact in science, society, as well as economy.
Publication in Frontiers of Psychology
Jorge Oliveira (CTIP coordinator; COPELABS vice-director) and Rodrigo Brito (CTIP, senior researcher) have recently seen their paper entitled "Insights into the neural mechanisms underlying neural praxis: implications for the neurocognitive rehabiliation of apraxia" published in Frontiers in Psychology. The researchers provide a debate concerning recent studies on neural mechanisms of hand praxis which provide potential strategies to treat apraxia. In addition to such debate, the authors argue that the findings of those studies, which show a link between conceptual linguistic functions on the one hand and gestural actions on the other hand, should lead researchers to develop treatments involving both gestural and conceptual/linguistic exercises.
COPELABS Welcomes Two New Researchers
Pallavali R. K. Reddy and Saeik Firdose are two new junior researchers which are working in the context of SITI, projects CitySense (pervasive sensing) and PEOPLE (interdisciplinary focus).
 Pallavali Reddy, who is also a PhD student in the New Media and Pervasive Systems programme of University Lusófona, holds a B.Sc. (07) and M.Sc. (09) in Computer Science from the Sri Venkateswara University – Tirupati; Master of Technology (2014) in Computer Science & Engineering from JNTUA – India. During 2009 to 2011 he worked as a lecturer in several institutes. His research interests relate with Cloud Computing, Sensor Networking and Security.
In SITI, Pallavali Reddy's research is focused on self-organized wireless systems.
 Saeik Firdose, who is also a PhD student in the New Media and Pervasive Systems programme of University Lusófona, has a Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering(2008) from JNTU Hyderbad, India, and a Master of Technology in IT Networking (2010) from VIT University, Vellore, India. During 2011 to 2014 heI worked as application developer at IBM India Pvt Ltd.
In SITI, Saeik Firdose's contribution is focused on connected mobility.
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