Noa & Max on Spanish National Television TVE
Noa & Max on Spanish National Television TVE
An interview to the creativeteam behind the animation.
WorthPlay @ Obra Social de la Caixa
The WorthPlay project has developed an online platform which enables both older people and members of their social circles to develop and play meaningful games. During the last months, a number of games have been created and played by older people in several settings, including Àgora, in Barcelona, and EspacioCaixa Madrid – one of the [...]
A talk focused on LdShake at TELGalicia network
On Monday, May 6th, Davinia Hernández-Leo gave an invited talk and a workshop at the IV conference of the TELGalicia network. The talk and workshop (link to the slides, in Spanish) were mainly focused on LdShake, a social network platform where teachers can co-edit and share learning designs. In her talk, Davinia also explained the [...]
A webÂbased tool for Digital Cinema
In the frame of the European IMPART project (http://impart.upf.edu/) the GTI is developing a webÂbased tool that will allow filmmakers to deal with the amount of shooting data generated every day in production. Digital cinema has broadened the creative possibilities but now production crews have to deal with huge amount of data related  to a [...]
GTI Visualization
Recently, we’ve been holding weekly seminars at the GTI to discuss research issues in the information visualization field.
QuesTInSitu: The Game
“EL JOC DE LES TORRES: Discovering L’Hospitalet using your Smartphone†In the frame of its Technology-Enhanced Learning research line, the GTI (Interactive Technologies Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Barcelona) has developed an educational game for smartphones to discover the historical heritage of L’Hospitalet in situ. The game has been designed by a team of 7 [...]
3D visualization of Bilbao Athletic Club Stadium
GTI, in collaboration with the Mobile Media Content company, has been developing a 3D visualization project for the Bilbao Athletic Club.
Ada & Max – Animating science for future scientists
GTI and Everis join forces to deliver Ada & Max – stuck in Electronia, a twelve minutes animated mini-series for teenagers that will approach science and technology in a funny, dynamic and appealing way.The project is funded by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) and has a 12 months duration. Everis studied how [...]
Best Paper in the Community Informatics Research Network Conference
V. Righi, S. Sayago, J. Blat, (2012) Older people’s use of Social Network Sites while participating in local online communities from an ethnographical perspective. CIRN 2012 Community Informatics Conference: ‘Ideals meet Reality’, 7 – 9 Nov, Prato (Italy),
GTI, SOS and QuesTInSitu participation at the European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning 2012
GTI, SOS and QuesTInSitu participation at the European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning 2012
GTI will be participating in NORDICHI 2012
Valeria Righi and Andrea Rosales will be participating in NordiCHI 2012 with two position papers in two different workshops. “Older people’s strategies for building trust in online communities through an ethnographical lens” will be presented in the workshop User-Centered Trust in Interactive Systems and “Ethnographic techniques with older people at intermediate stages of product development” will [...]
Older people’s social sharing practices in YouTube through an ethnographical lens
S. Sayago, P. Forbes, J. Blat (2012) Older people’s social sharing practices in YouTube through an ethnographical lens. Proceedings of the BCS HCI 2012 People & Computers XXVI, Birmingham, UK, 185-194.
ARS Electronica Lab
The GTI participated in the Ars Electronica festival 2012, with a open lab for kids.
GTI researcher wins the best paper award of the ICCHP Young Researcher Consortium
Susan Möller Ferreira, a PhD researcher in the GTI, wins the best paper and presentation award of the ICCHP Young Researcher Consortium 2012
GTI student is a Google Anita Borg Scholarship Finalist 2012
Susan Möller Ferreira is a Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship Finalist 2012: Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Older people becoming successful ICT learners over time: challenges and strategies through an ethnographical lens
Paper by Sergio Sayago, Paula Forbes and Josep Blat, accepted for publication in the International Journal of Educational Gerontology.
QuesTInSitu for senior users: a literature adventure
Catalan Literature Group at the “Escuela de adultos de la Verneda” participated in a QuesTInSitu activity
GTI in Lychnos Notebook
Issue 8 of Lychnos, Notebooks of the Fundación General CSIC, published in March 2012, presents the results of the survey on R+D & ageing conducted by Fundación General CSIC, and features a description of the 5 projects awarded with funding in Proyectos Cero 2011 en Envejecimiento, promoted by Fundación General CSIC, with the support of La [...]
QuesTInSitu in TV3 news
QuesTInSitu in the news: an activity done in Girona with 60 students of the Escola Pia de Mataró appears in the TV3 news
New Tools for Studying Visitor Behaviours in Museums: A Case Study at the Louvre
Paper accepted for the 19th International Conference on Information Technology and Travel & Tourism ENTER 2012
