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Upcoming Events
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C-BRAIN #70, Cognitive stimulation and assessment of recovering, J. Oliveira and P. Lopes (COPELABS/ULHT) 17.03.2015, 13h-14h30, U.0.5
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C-BRAIN #71, Cognition-Aware Computing Supervision of System of Systems by Vision Sensors, Pallavali R. K. Reddy (COPELABS/ULHT), 14.04.2015, 13-14h30, U.0.5
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Meet Our Team!
On each newsletter, we provide you with info about our unique interdisciplinary team!
 Pedro Gamito
Pedro Gamito is vice-Director of COPELABS, where he is the Senior Researcher responsible for the thematic line of Cyberpsychology. Pedro is also a Full Professor at ULHT, where he the Computational Psychology Laboratory of the School of Psychology and Life Sciences. Pedro holds a PhD on IT by the University of Salford, UK (02); aggregation in Rehabilitation (Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal) in 2012.
Since 2004 he has developed, applied and clinically validate over than 20 virtual reality applications designed to treat anxiety disorders and to rehabilitate cognitive deficits.
 Paulo Mendes
Paulo is vice-Director of COPELABS , the SITI coordinator, and an Associate Professor of University Lusófona, where he heads the PhD programme in Informatics, NEMPS.
He has a BEng in Informatics Engineering by Univ. Coimbra (93); MSc in Computers and Electrotecnical Engineering (1998) by IST, UTL, Lisboa, and a PhD in Informatics Engineering by Univ. Coimbra (2004). His prior affiliations include Fernave S.A. (94-98); Visiting Scholar (00-03) at Columbia University, NY, EUA; CISUC, Univ. of Coimbra (96-02); NTT DoCoMo Euro-Labs (03-07), Munich, Germany: INESCTEC, IAN, UTM (07-10).
His research interests relate to cooperative wireless systems, self-organizing networks, and complex networks.
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UMOBILE: a Universal mobile-centric and opportunistic communications architecture
 The UMOBILE project explores new communication paradigms to exchange data in a user-centric way in scenarios where Internet access is Intermittent.
UMOBILE is a project funded by the European Commission (2015-2018) under Horizon 2020, having received a total of 3 million Euros. The UMOBILE consortium, lead by Democritus University of Thrace,holds 9 partners, 3 of which are portuguese: COPELABS, Senception Lda, and Tekever Lda. In UMOBILE COPELABS shall contribute to aspects such as opportunistic routing paradigms.
COPELABS 2014 Results are Out!
 Having officially been started in 2013 COPELABS has first further developed its interdisciplinary vision in 2014 and hence, 2014 corresponds to the first COPELABS operational year.
Being associated with two of the most relevant schools of ULHT, namely, the School of Communication, Arts, Architecture and Information Technologies (ECATI) and the School of Psychology and Life Sciences (EPCV), COPELABS has an extremely forefront and enriching interdisciplinary environment, where 30 ULHT staff, researchers and teachers, 19 holding a PhD, develop their research in two thematic research lines - Internet science and cyberpsychology. Two common areas of study have been addressed in 2014, in the context of the interconnection between Internet Science and Cyberpsychology, namely: social interaction and human behavior inference and assessment.
Based upon a cooperation agreement established between COPELABS and COFAC, any teacher that is a member in COPELABS provides a minimum of 4 hours to research]. Due to this agreement, in 2014 COPELABS counted with total of 16 Full-time-equivalent persons having achieved a peer-reviewed publication ratio (journals and conference proceedings) per capita of 3.81. Considering all of the indicators produced (publications; technical reports, as well as IPRs and software), the team has achieved a publication ration of 4.25.
The 2014 results are now publicly available, providing further insight into the full set of results achieved by COPELABS members in 2014.
COPELABS New Publication in Cognitive Training
A new study involving members from the CTIP group from COPELABS and the MRA centre – Centro de Medicina de Reabilitacao de Alcoitão - has been accepted in the journal Disability and Rehabilitation (Q1; IF = 1.837). The study considers the use of virtual reality environments in cognitive rehabilitation and the experience has considered twenty stroke patients. The results showed significant improvements in attention and memory functions in the intervention group, but not in the controls.
Contributions to Social Awareness in Pervasive Networking
The COPELABS SITI team has recently had 2 new publications accepted in IEEE Percom 2015 with the common of theme of integrating
A first publication, Dynamics of Social-aware Pervasive Networks, follows the trend of aggregation techniques to assist modeling of clusters based on social interaction, having as second diferentiator the integration of variability due to social routines. A second publication, Crowd Assisted Approach for Pervasive Opportunistic Sensing, describes Maestroo, sensing middleware developed in SITI, and a way for Maestroo to exchange data pervasively based on SCORP.
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