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The H2020 AURORAL project represented in the 16th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI)

The H2020 AURORAL project was represented at the 16th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI) held in Belfast, UK, from November 27th to November 29th, 2024. The UCAmI Conference focuses on advancing Ambient Intelligence (AmI) technologies and applications, emphasizing environmental sensing, processing, and integration to improve quality of life, particularly in domains such as healthcare, Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), and smart environments.

Oihane Gómez Carmona presented there the paper “Tailoring Digital Middleware for Rural Needs: Insights from User Feedback Analysis” authored by herself, David Buján-Carballal, Diego Casado-Mansilla, and Diego López-de-Ipiña. This work, part of the Internet of Everything track, examines the challenges with middleware technologies like AURORAL for digitalizing rural areas, emphasizing user feedback and user-centered design to overcome barriers and enhance usability, ultimately fostering inclusive and sustainable rural digital transformation.

Oihane Gómez-Carmona participated in the “The 48th IEEE International Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications (COMPSAC 2024)”

Oihane Gómez Carmona participated in the “The 48th IEEE International Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications” (COMPSAC 2024) held in Osaka (Japan) from July 2nd to 4th, 2024. The main focus of the flagship IEEE conference this year was “Digital Development for a Better Future.”

COMPSAC 2024 brought together global researchers, developers, practitioners, and policymakers to explore the latest advances in computing technologies and their potential integration across society. Attendees discussed challenges and opportunities in various fields, including computer architectures, learning technologies, data sciences, human and social computing, IoT, smart health, and security in computing, aligning with the conference’s dedication to fostering digital development that benefits society.

She presented the paper "Employee Perceptions of Privacy and Data Control in Workplace Wellness e- Health Programs " authored by herself, Diego Casado-Mansilla, Diego López-de-Ipiña and Javier García-Zubia.

DEUSTO organises the AURORAL General Meeting

On October 25th and 26th, the University of Deusto hosted the second in-presence General Meeting for the H2020 AURORAL project. The assembly brought together over 25 European consortium partners, showcasing the University’s ongoing commitment to societal betterment—particularly in reducing the digital divide in rural regions and fostering their advancement.

This AURORAL General Meeting served as a pivotal juncture in the project’s progress, fostering a collaborative environment for more than 50 participants. During two full days, this encounter facilitated productive dialogues, knowledge exchange, and strategic planning, all aimed at addressing the project towards its ambitious objectives for the future.

The AURORAL project is dedicated to enhancing connectivity and establishing a digital ecosystem of smart objects and interoperable service platforms, aiming to stimulate dynamic rural ecosystems and promote innovation, applications, and services. With the goal of driving economic growth, addressing societal challenges, and narrowing the digital divide between urban and rural areas, AURORAL focuses on maximising the potential of rural regions through increased connectivity and digitization. The project showcases its digital environment via cost-effective, flexible cross-domain applications in large-scale pilots across seven European regions.

Oihane Gómez-Carmona participated in the “ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022)”

Oihane Gómez Carmona participated in the “ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good" (GoodIT2022:) held in Limassol (Cyprus) from September 7th to 9th, 2022.

The main focus of the GoodIT conference is the application of IT technologies to social good, in which social good is about global citizens uniting to unlock the potential of individuals, technology, and collaboration to create positive societal impact.

She presented the paper "The Street as a Reflective Space to Increase Citizen Awareness of
Social Justice in the Fashion Industry" authored by Eduardo Rodríguez-Barbará, herself, Airí Ferrer, Braulio Gómez-Fortes, Szilard A. Kados, Diego López-de-Ipiña and Diego Casado-Mansilla.

MORElab member Diego Casado-Mansilla has given a talk about IoT trends to Berian Forum members in Azpeitia

On May 31st, 2022, MORElab member Diego Casado-Mansilla has given a talk about IoT trends to Berian Forum members in Azpeitia. The working session was organized by EJIE which is the premier society on Computer Science belonging to the Basque Government. The slides of the talk can be found in Slideshare (link).

MORElab participated in the European Regions for Smart Communities Summit, first face-to face meeting of the H2020 AURORAL Project

MORElab members Diego Casado-Mansilla and Oihane Gómez-Carmona, together with Edurne Iñigo Alday (Deusto DBS) and María Ortiz-Coronado (Deusto IRPO) as part of the H2020 AURORAL’s project Deusto team, participated in the “European Regions for Smart Communities” summit, organised between 9th and 13th of May, in Évora (Alentejo, Portugal) and online.

This event gathered together AURORAL partners, local and regional leaders, members of the European Parliament and the European Commission to discuss and share challenges and innovative solutions to promote smarter communities through digital transformation.

As part of the AURORAL project, they actively participated both as speakers and as members of the Scientific Committee in several sessions, workshops and dialogues where their experiences and perspectives from the AURORAL project on how to promote a sustainable rural development supported by an ecosystem of developers, service providers, and user communities were shared.

MORElab participated in the Fashion Revolution initiative

In April 2022, MORElab members Diego Casado-Mansilla, Oihane Gómez Carmona, and Diego López de Ipiña contributed to Fashion Revolution week, an initiative to make visible the consequences of Fast Fashion and raise awareness of the problem in the textile industry.

Particularly, within the context of a TFG carried out by the student Eduardo Rodriguez, MORElab has participated in designing and developing a T-shirt vending machine augmented with technology, which attracted citizens with its slogan T-shirt 1 €. For those interested in buying the t-shirt, the machine reproduced a video showing informing the working conditions, work environment and low wages some workers have in the textile industry.

On Saturday, April 30, this machine was placed on the main street of Bilbao, allowing pedestrians promenading the streets to approach and interact with it.

During this experiment, statistics on acceptance and decision-making on whether or not to buy a T-shirt for 1€ were collected to study the adequacy of interactive solutions to show us social realities invisible in our day-to-day lives.

This initiative has attracted social and awareness-raising impact, drawing remarkable attention and appearing in numerous local media:

www.deia.eus/bizkaia/bilbao/2022/05/01/barato-alguien-le-sale-caro/1214782.html

www.elcorreo.com/bizkaia/fashion-revolution-bilbao-20220430153807-nt_amp.html

The University of Deusto represented AURORAL in the Inter-OSS workshop within the IoT Conference 2021

In November, the researcher Diego Casado Mansilla from the University of Deusto and the MORELab Research group took part in the 2021 Interoperability and Open Source Solutions Workshop (Inter-OSS 2021) introducing the AURORAL project.

This workshop, event co-located with the 11th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2021), focuses on providing a forum for exchanging experiences, best practices, and ideas to build the know-how around the ongoing unsolved issues and gaps around the topics on interoperability, architectural principles, and standardisation efforts. Professor Casado presented the talk entitled “AURORAL: Boosting the interoperability of isolated data and services in rural areas across Europe'' disseminating the AURORAL proposal to bring the interoperability gap of smart object platforms and to improve the digitalisation within rural areas.

Besides having the opportunity to spread the commitment of AURORAL to overcoming the digital division between rural and urban areas, this workshop also provoked an open discussion for scientific progress, industrial standards evaluation and showcase practical experiences.

Oihane Gómez Carmona, new Doctor in MORElab

On September 23th, 2021, MORElab's member Oihane Gómez-Carmona has been honored with the PhD recognition. Her dissertation, entitled "Promoting the Perception of Emerging Technologies in Work Environments through Edge Computing and Hybrid Intelligence” was advised by Dr. Javier García Zubia and Dr. Diego Casado Mansilla.

The VIVA panel was formed by:

Liming Luke Chen (President, Ulster University in UK)
Antonio Jara (Univesidad Católica de Murcia de San Antonio UCAM)
Juan Ignacio Vázquez (Universidad de Deusto)

MORElab members are awarded by Atlas-Elsevier for their research

Aiming at promoting the social impact of science, the recognised publishing house Elsevier grants monthly the Atlas Awards, a distinction that highlights academic works with high social impact among all the articles of the more than 2,500 magazines of the publishing house. These awards are selected by a prestigious advisory committee, which includes members of Berkeley (Centre for Effective Global Action), United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) and United Nations University among others. In February 2020, the article entitled "User perspectives in the design of interactive everyday objects for sustainable behaviour", whose authors are Ane Irizar-Arrieta, Diego Casado-Mansilla, Aiur Retegi, Pablo Garaizar and Diego López de Ipiña, researchers and teachers at the University of Deusto, has been selected with this distinction within the category of Sustainable Development Objective 12, evidencing the scientific excellence of the team and its line of research in the social and economic field.

In the mentioned article, persuasive technologies are analysed and explored as mediators to improve energy efficiency and pro-environmental attitudes of workers in tertiary buildings (it refers to buildings in the service or administrative sector). As a starting point, the paper describes a one-year study among subjects in which participants interact with a smart coffee machine under three different experimental conditions. With the results of this study, a new theory is generated to guide the design and development of people-centred interactive systems to improve sustainable behaviours. This new theory is applied in the conceptualisation and implementation of a new physical interactive device, incorporating specific ideas and solutions from different and complementary perspectives.

Markel Iglesias-Urkia defends his PhD

On June 26th, 2020, Markel Iglesias Urkia has been honored with the PhD recognition, with Cum Laude, International and Industrial mentions. His dissertation, entitled "Boosting the adoption of Industry 4.0 through Internet of Things, industrial standards and software engineering" was advised by Dr. Aitor Urbieta from Ikerlan and Dr. Diego Casado-Mansilla from MORElab.

The VIVA panel was formed by:

Dr. Romina Spalazzese (President, Malmö universitet)
Dr. Konrad Diwold (Pro²Future)
Dr. Iñaki Vazquez (Universidad de Deusto)

Congratulations!

DEUSTO organises the 9th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2019)

DEUSTEK organized the 9th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2019)

From 22 From 22 to 25 October the University of Deusto held the 9th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2019). This Conference, which builds on the success of its predecessors since 2008, is the premier forum to share, discuss and witness cutting edge research in all areas of development for the Internet of Things.

The Conference included original, high impact research papers which have been reviewed and selected based on technical novelty, the integrity of the analysis and social-environmental impacts and practical relevance, on topics related to the development and adoption of the Internet of Things. Moreover the program included three keynote speakers: Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, one of the most influential people in IoT, who talked about "The Illusion of the Smart House", Andy Stanford-Clark, chief technology officer of IBM in the United Kingdom and Ireland, on "Innovation starts at home." and Benoît Piranda, from the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté University, Institut FEMTO-ST, CNRS ( France).

MORElab members Diego Casado-Mansilla and Oihane Gómez-Carmona presented their work at the conference. Diego presented the paper entitled User Involvement Matters: The Side-Effects of Automated Smart Objects in Pro-environmental Behaviour authored by himself, Pablo Garainzar and Diego López-de-Ipiña.

Oihane presented the work "Simplicity is Best: Addressing the Computational Cost of Machine Learning Classifiers in Constrained Edge Devices" authored by herself, Diego Casado-Mansilla, Javier García-Zubia and Diego López-de-Ipiña. Moreover, this paper was awarded an honourable mention.

Special Issue: "Social Networks and Social Ubiquitous Computing", PUC, Springer (JCR: 1.924, Q2)

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing journal, Springer, Special Issue

Editors

Javier Jaen, Polytechnic University of Valencia fjaen [@] upv.es
Diego Lopez-de-Ipiña, Deusto University
Zaheer Khan, University of the West England
Diego Casado, Deusto University

The rise of wearable/embodied technologies and personal area networks has successfully bridged the physical and digital worlds.

The Internet of People (IoP) represents the mapping of individuals and their interactions with smart devices to the Internet. It focuses on data collection, modelling, and ubiquitous intelligence for a wide range of applications. IoP has quickly emerged as an important interdisciplinary field encompassing social networks, IoT, HCI, bio-inspired algorithms and behavioral and social sciences.

There are many research challenges, including: discovering what ubiquitously-sensed information users are willing to share in social networks and to make social networks more engaging and interactive for users; deciding which interactions may benefit from context information gathered on social networks; determining the potential risks of sharing data in pervasive social contexts; and developing new technologies to support interactions with ever-changing conﬁgurations of distributed devices, applications, users and interfaces.

Themes

In this theme issue, we seek to advance our knowledge about the interplay between social networks and ubiquitous computing.

We welcome original contributions including application, methodological, technological, and review papers.

Special attention will be given to papers that address application contexts and scenarios for smart cities including the management of crisis scenarios, participatory sensing, government and city planning.

Alongside papers submitted as a result of this CFP, the issue will also contain extended papers from the 5th IEEE International Conference on Internet of People (IoP 2019) and the 9th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2019).

Submissions

Please submit a full-length paper through the journal online submission system

(http://www.editorialmanager.com/pauc/default.aspx)

indicating it is to this theme issue.

Papers must be original and must not be under consideration for publication in any other journal.

For submissions that are based on a published conference paper, the paper submitted to this issue must contain at least 30% new material and reference the publication on which it is based.

All papers will be peer reviewed.

Important Dates

Manuscript Due: October 31st 2019
First Round of Reviews: November 15th 2019
Final manuscripts due: December 31st 2019
Publication Date: early 2020

Special Issue on “Internet of People: Human-driven Artificial Intelligence and Internet for Smarter Hyper-Connected Societies”, FGCS, Elsevier (JCR: 4.639, Q1)

Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) - The International Journal of eScience

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-internet-of-people-human-driven-artificial

The rise of wearable/embodied technologies and personal/body area networks has successfully bridged our personal physical and cyber worlds in recent years. Interactions between human users and their personal mobile devices push toward an Internet where the human user becomes more central than ever (evolving from consumers of information to prosumers), and where their personal devices become their proxies in the cyber world, in addition to acting as a fundamental tool to sense the physical world (what is also called as citizen science or participatory sensing). Internet of People (IoP) is a new Internet paradigm where humans and their personal devices are not seen merely as end users of applications, but become active elements of the Internet. It represents the mapping of social individuals and their interactions with smart devices to the Internet. It focuses on data collection, modelling, analysis and ubiquitous intelligence for a wide range of applications of crowd sourced, Internet-based personal information.

Likewise, the emerging social and sentiment analysis computing, behaviour modelling and novel human/environment interaction mechanisms, e.g. brain, audible or augmented or mixed reality computing, will allow further incorporation of the social and mental worlds into the so-called Hyper World. Due to the pervasiveness of IoP and its impacts on human activity, it has quickly emerged as an important interdisciplinary field which encompasses IoT, HCI, bio-inspired algorithms with behavioural and social sciences.

In essence, IoP promotes the idea that a Smart World is only possible if there is a better and smarter collaboration bridging machine intelligence and human intelligence, between devices and people, where technology (AI in particular) is applied from a human-centric and driven standpoint, i.e. following the Internet of People paradigm.

This special issue is then focused on cutting edge research from academia, industry and practitioners, with emphasis on original, novel, innovative and impact-oriented research providing insights into Smarter Hyper-Connected Societies' needs, processes, services and frameworks using the Internet of People paradigm. An area of particular interest in this Special Issue is to consider how Collective Intelligence can meet Machine Intelligence in order to give place to more user-centric and driven intelligence to enable Intelligent Environments where Humans and Internet-connected devices cooperate and influence their behaviour in order to promote autonomous life, better energy sustainability, healthier environments or inclusive environments.

Specifically, this issue welcomes three categories of papers: (1) high quality and significantly extended papers from the 13^th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (UCAml 2-5 December, 2019) whose motto is "user-centered computing environments and systems" and from the ACM 9th IoT Conference (IoT 22-25 October, 2019); (2) invited articles from qualified experts; and (3) contributed papers from this open call with address any of the following list of topics.

Topics of interest include use of Internet of People applied towards contributing towards a Smarter World and Society where Collaborative Human and Machine Intelligence are put into play, but are not limited to:

Social Computing and Social Internet of Things
Social Networks and Behavior Analysis
Behaviour Change Analysis
Internet of Sensing, Thinking and Creation
Gamification and user-engagement approaches
Human-Centric Computing and Cyber-Physical-Social Systems
Crowd Sensing and Human Intelligence
Hybrid machine and human intelligence
Biometric Sensors and Activity Recognition
Brain Information Sensing and Processing
Brain-Computer Interface/Brain-Machine Interface
Novel ubiquitous interaction mechanisms
Wearable Computing and Implant Technology
Personal Big Data Analytics
Edge/Fog based Models for Personal Computing
Sentiment Analysis and Affective Computing
AI-powered Smart Devices
Personal and Social Robotics
Personal Internet-based Healthcare, Wellbeing and Wellness
IoP Big Data Processing and Urban Computing
IoP Systems Modeling, Simulation and Optimization
IoP Security, Privacy, Trust, Psychology, Ethics, Politics and Laws

Every submitted paper will be reviewed by at least three independent experts. We will also recommend submission of supplementary material including test data and multimedia with each paper as it significantly increases the visibility, downloads, and citations of articles.

To solicit papers, we will advertise the call on UCAmI 2019 website and IoT 2019 website, mailing lists and our colleagues, and send to particular colleagues working in the areas related to this special issue to invite good quality submissions.

Selection and Evaluation Criteria

Relevance to the topics of this special issue
Research novelty (e.g., new techniques) and potential impact
Content quality and readability

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: 20 January 2020
Revisions due: 31 March 2020
2^nd round revisions: 15 May 2020
Final decision: 30 June 2020
Camera ready version due: 15 July 2020
Tentative publication date: End 2020

Guest Editors:

Diego López-de-Ipiña, University of Deusto, Bilbao, SPAIN, dipina [at] deusto.es
Zaheer Khan, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom, Zaheer2.Khan [at] uwe.ac.uk
Diego Casado-Mansilla, University of Deusto, Bilbao, dcasado [at] deusto.es
Muhammad Atif Tahir, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Karachi Campus, Pakistan, atif.tahir [at] nu.edu.pk

MSCA-IF-2019 Call for Expressions of Interest Deusto Foundation/DeustoTech - Causal modeling for the understanding of the energy demand on the residential and service sectors

In line with DEUSTO strategy to promote excellence, DeustoTech is inviting Expressions of Interest from excellent international postdoctoral researchers who are interested in applying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) Individual Fellowships (IFs) around the topic Causal modeling for the understanding of the energy demand on the residential and service sectors.

SCIENTIST IN CHARGE

Diego Casado Mansilla [1] Cruz E. Borges Hernández [2]

[1] https://morelab.deusto.es/people/members/diego-casado-mansilla/

[2] https://energia.deusto.es/people/members/cruz-enrique-borges-hernandez/

HOST RESEARCH UNIT

DeustoTech [1] is a private non-profit institution of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Deusto for applied research in new technologies. Since 2005 DeustoTech mission is to support the ICT activity in business and society through research, the development of technologies, innovation and knowledge transfer. We focus our activity around four applied fields: Industry, Mobility, Energy and Environment and Societal Challenges, and a transversal area, the Chair of Applied Mathematics. We are characterized for working with data of heterogeneous nature, throughout its life cycle and in compliance with ethical principles and humanists who define the University of Deusto. In this project, the Energy & Environment [2] and the Societal Challenges [3] groups will be involved. The first one host a multidisciplinary team that contribute to develop more sustainable processes, novel technologies and methods for sustainable urban planning, advanced monitoring systems, agent-based modelling, decision support tools, etc. On the other hand, the Societal Challenges has a strong background in humanizing the application of IoT technologies. That includes, sustainable awareness rising through IoT, empowering the citizen towards participating in the city daily decisions, or engaging employees towards promoting healthy or sustainable habits in the workplace avoiding attrition of campaigns.

[1] http://deustotech.deusto.es/

[2] https://energia.deusto.es/

[3] https://morelab.deusto.es/

CANDIDATES PROFILE

DESCRIPTION OF THE HOSTING OFFER

Energy efficiency and demand response are among the most important topics that the EU Commision are pushing forwards to accomplish the new regulations established in climate agreements of Paris. Nevertheless, in both cases the role that human beings play a great role that it has not been sufficiently studied. The aim of this open position is to find a post-doctoral researcher with a strong background in behaviour change theories and causal modeling to formally define which are the drivers and barriers that people have in relation to the use of energy. Specifically, the objectives are: * Create user models according to socioeconomics and cultural profiles. * Define and establish which are the most prominent behaviour change models in the context of energy expenditure (e.g. TPB, VBM, Transtheoretical model, etc.). * Take into account the most important determinants as well as external variables (such us weather, costs, source of energy, etc.) to create an holistic model of behaviour. * Interventions design and simulation according to standards such as Theoretical domains or Behaviour Change Wheel in order to understand how these interventions may impact over drivers and barriers defined previously (including policy, gamification, nudging and/or persuasion). * Specify which are valid models related to confidence in technology, perceived usefulness and adoption of artificial intelligence that ally with human beings to improve the energy efficiency or perform demand response actions.

MSCA-IF-2019 Call for Expressions of Interest Deusto Foundation/DeustoTech - Towards Smarter Environments bringing together Human and Machine Intelligence

In line with DEUSTO strategy to promote excellence, DeustoTech is inviting Expressions of Interest from excellent international postdoctoral researchers who are interested in applying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) Individual Fellowships (IFs) around the topic Towards Smarter Environments bringing together Human and Machine Intelligence.

SCIENTIST IN CHARGE

Diego López-de-Ipiña

Diego Casado Mansilla

HOST RESEARCH UNIT

DeustoTech [1] is a private non-profit institution of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Deusto for applied research in new technologies. Since 2005 DeustoTech mission is to support the ICT activity in business and society through research, the development of technologies, innovation and knowledge transfer. We focus our activity around TRLs 2-7 and articulate it into four applied fields: Industry, Mobility, Energy and Environment and Societal Challenges, having a fifth, the Chair of Applied Mathematics, as a transversal activity and support for the previous four. We are characterized for working with data of heterogeneous nature, throughout its life cycle and in compliance with ethical principles and humanists who define the University of Deusto. In this project the Societal Challenges [2] groups is involved through the DEUSTEK Basque University System. Societal Challenges research unit has a strong background in humanizing, i.e. giving place to human-centric and human-driven, application of Data Science, IoT and Human Interaction technologies. That includes, sustainable awareness rising through IoT, empowering the citizen towards participating in the city daily decisions and governance, or engaging employees towards promoting healthy or sustainable habits in the workplace avoiding attrition of campaigns. [1] http://deustotech.deusto.es/ [2] https://morelab.deusto.es/

CANDIDATES PROFILE

The candidate would be integrated in a highly multidisciplinary research group. As such it is of utter importance the communication skills and their ability to understand the different perspectives that the research topic has. Moreover, experience in one or more of the following fields in needed: • Crowdsourcing techniques - user-generated data verification and processing • Cognitive technologies to transform unstructured data into structured information • Recommender systems and conversational agents • Gamification and persuasion for designing behaviour change interventions • Knowledge modelling and exploitation • Transparent and Interpretable AI

DESCRIPTION OF THE HOSTING OFFER

This position will explore the potential of smart solutions and environments grounded on the extensive usage of data and analytics through the collaboration of machines and humans. It faces the challenge of how to make sense out of data, progressing from data into knowledge, through the collaboration of people & machines. A Data Scientist is sought with expertise on Hybrid Intelligence (HI), which is an approach for combining human and machine intelligence for decision making and data interpretation. HI benefits from the human ability to express and deal with complexities and the automation, availability and accuracy that machines provide. The interception of the following areas to give place to Smart Environments will be explored: • Machine Learning: ML methods can be used for activity recognition performed to detect what a user is doing, e.g. walking or resting. ML can also be used to correlate user actions into activities that configure behaviours. • Human Computation: is about involving citizens to annotate the world or correct/validate inferences performed by machines, gamification can be used to improve and validate the results driven by machines. • Knowledge modelling & exploitation: human and machine-driven knowledge can be effectively merged and represented in a Knowledge Graph (KG), combining data gathered from machine learning and human contributions. KGs are exploited to infer new knowledge or build recommenders through transparent and interpretable algorithms

Approval of PARITY H2020 project

On Wednesday, 8^th May, DeustoTech-Societal Challenges was notified about the approval of a new H2020 project in the call “H2020-LC-SC3-2019” (Topic: ES-1 Flexibility and retail market options for the distribution grid). The project title is “PARITY: Pro-sumer AwaRe, Transactive Markets for Valorization of Distributed flexibilITY enabled by Smart Energy Contracts”.

It is a 42-month project that will increase the durability and efficiency of the electrical grid and facilitate the penetration of Renewable Energy sources (RES) beyond 50% of the generation mix in the distribution network.

PARITY will go beyond the traditional “top-down” grid management practices by delivering a unique local flexibility market platform through the seamless integration of IoT and blockchain technologies. By delivering a market for automated flexibility exchange based on smart contracts & blockchain, PARITY will facilitate efficient and transparent local flexibility transactions and reward flexibility in a cost reflective and symmetric manner, through price signals of higher spatio-temporal granularity based on real-time grid operational constraints and available Distributed Energy Resources (DER) flexibility. The PARITY solution will be demonstrated in 4 pilot sites around the EU (ES, CH, SE & ES) to validate its effectiveness across climatic, cultural and techno-regulatory conditions.

In this new project, Dr. Diego Casado Mansilla and Dr. Diego López-de-Ipiña from DeustoTech-Societal Challenges and Dr. Cruz Borges from DeustoTech-ENERGY&ENVIRONMENT took part in the proposal preparation. Our groups will cooperate for providing a thorough Analysis of obstacles to Innovation under current & future regulatory & socio-economic context for Local Flexibility Market (LFM) proliferation.

Approval of PARITY H2020 project

MORElab participated in Zientzia azoka and Ecodesign panel

During the month of May 2019, MORElab members of GreenSoul H2020 project participated in two relevant outreach events in Bilbao. On the one side, we showcased in "Zientzia azoka" some of the interactive gadgets we have created to promote energy awareness at workplace. For this purpose, we brought conversational agents and we discussed with visitors the impact that these smart objects as assistive technology.

On the other side, we were invited to give a talk in a panel related to circular economy and eco-design in the context of Forotech (Univ. of Deusto). In this talk, we explained the ideation, design and development of the Interactive Coaster, an smart object devised to increase motivation of employees to engage with energy consumption at workplace.

ESTIA met MORElab in DeustoTech premises

On 27th of February 2019, three members of ESTIA Institute of Technology came to DeustoTech to meet Societal Challenges and Energy & Environment members who are working in H2020 GreenSoul and Retos I+D+ì SentientThings projects. The contact was made because of the shared research interest on sustainability, HCI and persuasive technology.

The meeting was fruitful and we expect future collaborations between ESTIA and DeustoTech in the future.

TP-Link partners with us to deploy Smart Plugs

Deusto and TP-Link have collaboratively joined forces to deploy and install smart plugs (HS110) in the different pilot buildings of GeeenSoul project (Austria, Spain, UK and Greece) to measure the power consumption of the employee's workstations.

More information about the news (in Spanish): https://www.tp-link.com/es/news-details-18097.html

Instalation of Birloki in Gipuzkoa's vocational training centers

In recent weeks the technical people working on SmartToki Project have been traveling around Gipuzkoa department to deploy and configure some Birlokis within the premises of vocational training centers (in Spanish, "Centros de formación profesional").

The first center successful installation was TKNIKA (Errenteria), following by Bidasoa in Irún and those which are coming are: IMH, Usurbil and MAltuna.

Ane Irizar Arrieta participated in the "3rd International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies"

Ane Irizar Arrieta participated in the “3rd International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies" (Splitech'18) held in Split (Croatia) from June 25th to 29th, 2018.

She presented the paper "Accounting for User Diversity in the Design for Sustainable Behaviour in Smart Offices " authored by herself, Diego Casado-Mansilla and Aiur Retegi.

Oihane Gómez-Carmona participated in the “14th International Conference on Intelligent Environments”

Oihane Gómez Carmona participated in the “ 14th International Conference on Intelligent Environments" (IE'18) held in Rome (Italy) from June 26th to 29th, 2018.

The main focus of the IE'18 conference was the development of advanced intelligent environments, physical spaces into which IT and other pervasive computing technology are woven and used to achieve specific goals for the user, the environment or both.

She presented the paper "Health Promotion in Office Environments: A Worker-Centric Approach Driven by the Internet of Things" authored by herself, Diego Casado-Mansilla and Javier García-Zubia at the 1st Workshop on Personalized Health & Intelligent Workplaces Transforming Ergonomics ( pHIWtE'18) organized within the conference program.

Assistance and participation in the IoT Week & Global IoT Summit 2018

From the 4th to the 8th of June Bilbao had the pleasure of being the host for the 2018 edition fo the IoT Week & Global IoT Summit. This congress gathers together the community of stakeholders engaged in developing new Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and presents cutting-edge scientific articles on IoT innovations and latest research results.

Three researchers of the group attended this event: Diego López-de-Ipiña, Diego Casado-Mansilla and Oihane Gómez-Carmona. Moreover, Diego Casado-Mansilla participated on the main track of the conference and presented the work “Design-insights for devising persuasive IoT devices for sustainability in the workplace” authored by himself, Ane Irizar-Arrieta, Pablo Garaizar and Diego López-de-Ipiña.

8th GreenSoul plenary meeting in Seville

From 24th to 26th of April of 2018 the GreenSoul partners went to Seville to celebrate the 8th project plenary meeting. This event was organized by the project leader, Wellness Smart Cities. The main objective of the plenary was to advance on the deployment of sensing technology on the different pilots across Europe: UK, Spain, Greece, and Austria. Furthermore, collaborations among dissemination leaders CleanTech and CERES with each of the pilot managers were established to foster participation and engagement of end-users. The first piloting phase will start soon in July, so everything has to be put in place to successfully initiate the individual treatments. We hope that these two months will provide fruitful collaborations for making the project a success. As the DEUSTO team is very concerned with the environmental issues such as pollution, they decide to offset some CO2 emissions by riding everyday to the meeting place from their hotel. Next meeting will be organized by CERTH in Thessaloniki (Greece) in September.

SmiWork project in the Bilbao’s Science Fair and ForoTech

On Saturday April 21st and from April 25th to 27th, the annual Science Fair and ForoTech were held in Bilbao. Both Science Fair and ForoTech are events that pursue the dissemination and promotion of science and seek to foster interest in it among youth. In these scenarios, numerous scientific and technological projects from universities and schools were presented.

Deustotech Societal Challenge participated in both expositions with the SmiWork project, a Smart Mirror that illustrates how everyday objects can be driven by the technology and can help us in our daily endeavor. The main aim of this mirror is to promote healthier lifestyles through new interactive supports.

The mirror was placed in a visible space, capturing the attention of those people who came to visit the fair and letting visitors to interact with it.

HOPU's Smart POI solution installed in MORElab premises

Smart POI solution is composed by an IoT device called Smart Spot that offers a disruptive approach to transform relevant Points of Interest in a city such as historical places, open air museums, etc. into Points of Interaction (POIs); making them more liveable and intelligent. For this purpose, Smart POI offers a context-driven solutions that engage with visitors offering accessible and agile experiences via a proximity-based interaction with technologies such as Physical web / iBeacon which are being adopted and widely available in our smart phone; thereby Smart POI enables a direct interaction between the Points of Interest (i.e. infrastructure) with smart phones (i.e. people) without requiring any native Application or complex interaction. At the same time, Smart Spot device collects quantitative and qualitative data to build the metrics that allow to monitor the impact from tourism in terms of noise pollution, air quality (NO2, SO2, O3, CO, H2S), ambient impact (temperature, humidity and lighting) and safety via crowd-monitoring (counting people in an area via WiFi). These metrics provide the knowledge baseline and awareness to develop strategic plans towards more sustainable, respectful and integrated tourism; including transversal actions in mobility, urbanism, entertainment, public health / wellness and safety.

One instance of this solution has been installed and deployed in a building close to the research laboratory. The group will use all the sensor data gathered by the POI to internal projects such as GreenSoul. We hope that this collaboration between HOPU and MORElab will provide fruitful results in research and innovation.

The 7th meeting of H2020 GreenSoul project in Bilbao

Last 15th and 16th of January the University of Deusto held the 7th plenary meeting of the H2020 GreenSoul project. The meeting was conceived to anchor the final pilot plan from a research perspective. Thus, we decided to create a randomized block design within each pilot where different blocks (sub-set of employees) will be subjected to different experimental treatment related to GreenSoul-ed Things, persuasion principles and automation through the DSS.

The meeting was a success and all the partners agreed on the new pilot plan. The next challenge for the project will be to put in practice the research plan and to have the best of the results expected from the project. The next plenary meeting will be in Seville where we will evaluate the current status of the deployment to be carried out.

Assistance to the 7th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2017)

Last October, 22-25th Diego Casado-Mansilla attended to the 7th International Conference on the Internet of Things celebrated in Linz (Austria). On Sunday 22th, he presented a paper in a HCI Workshop co-located within the conference and then co-authored a paper in the main track which was presented by Markel Iglesias-Urkia. It has been a very fruitful an inspiring conference to get from first hand the main advances in basic and applied research on IoT. We are willing to attend next year edition to meet again the researchers on the area and continuing the cooperation with peers.

Diego Casado-Mansilla news

The H2020 AURORAL project represented in the 16th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI)

Oihane Gómez-Carmona participated in the “The 48th IEEE International Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications (COMPSAC 2024)”

DEUSTO organises the AURORAL General Meeting

Oihane Gómez-Carmona participated in the “ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022)”

MORElab member Diego Casado-Mansilla has given a talk about IoT trends to Berian Forum members in Azpeitia

MORElab participated in the European Regions for Smart Communities Summit, first face-to face meeting of the H2020 AURORAL Project

MORElab participated in the Fashion Revolution initiative

The University of Deusto represented AURORAL in the Inter-OSS workshop within the IoT Conference 2021

Oihane Gómez Carmona, new Doctor in MORElab

MORElab members are awarded by Atlas-Elsevier for their research

Markel Iglesias-Urkia defends his PhD

DEUSTO organises the 9th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2019)

Special Issue: "Social Networks and Social Ubiquitous Computing", PUC, Springer (JCR: 1.924, Q2)

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing journal, Springer, Special Issue

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Special Issue on “Internet of People: Human-driven Artificial Intelligence and Internet for Smarter Hyper-Connected Societies”, FGCS, Elsevier (JCR: 4.639, Q1)

Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) - The International Journal of eScience

MSCA-IF-2019 Call for Expressions of Interest Deusto Foundation/DeustoTech - Causal modeling for the understanding of the energy demand on the residential and service sectors

MSCA-IF-2019 Call for Expressions of Interest Deusto Foundation/DeustoTech - Towards Smarter Environments bringing together Human and Machine Intelligence

Approval of PARITY H2020 project

Approval of PARITY H2020 project

MORElab participated in Zientzia azoka and Ecodesign panel

ESTIA met MORElab in DeustoTech premises

TP-Link partners with us to deploy Smart Plugs

Instalation of Birloki in Gipuzkoa's vocational training centers

​Ane Irizar Arrieta participated in the "3rd International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies"

Oihane Gómez-Carmona participated in the “14th International Conference on Intelligent Environments”

Assistance and participation in the IoT Week & Global IoT Summit 2018

8th GreenSoul plenary meeting in Seville

SmiWork project in the Bilbao’s Science Fair and ForoTech

HOPU's Smart POI solution installed in MORElab premises

The 7th meeting of H2020 GreenSoul project in Bilbao

Assistance to the 7th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2017)

Ane Irizar Arrieta participated in the "3rd International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies"