Oihane Gómez-Carmona news

Morelab and Next Mobility Solutions participated in the 17th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing & Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI 2025)

Oihane Gómez-Carmona and Erik Eguskiza-Aranda participated in the 17th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient ‪Intelligence UCAmI 2024, held in Florence, Italy, in November 2025. The UCAmI Conference focuses on Ambient Intelligence (AmI), a field that promotes user-centred computing environments and systems aimed at seamlessly integrating information technologies into everyday devices and activities.

There, Oihane and Erik presented the achievements and ongoing work of the NextEdge project, developed in collaboration with Next Mobility Solutions and its CEO Dr. Javier Goikoetxea Gonzalez. This initiative aims to build an intelligent co-pilot for connected mobility by combining hybrid Edge-Cloud processing with advanced AI techniques. Their contributions showcased progress toward systems capable of anticipating mobility needs, supporting safer and more efficient mobility decisions, and generating adaptive, AI-driven user insights.

On the one hand, Oihane Gómez presented the work “Towards Adaptive and Personalized Co-Pilot Systems: Design Principles for Context-Aware Driver Assistance”, which introduces a set of foundational design principles for next-generation driver-assistance copilots. Her contribution focuses on how adaptive and personalized systems can leverage contextual information to enhance user experience, improve safety, and support real-time decision-making. The work emphasizes the importance of tailoring assistance to individual drivers and situational factors, paving the way for more intelligent, transparent, and human-centered in-vehicle support technologies.

On the other hand, Erik Eguskiza presented the work “From Rules to Representations: Improving Event Classification with Transformers to Infer Mobility Needs”, which investigates how machine learning and transformer-based language models can infer whether calendar events require physical transportation from their textual descriptions. His contribution examines a hybrid dataset generation strategy combining real and synthetic events, evaluates multiple classification approaches, including traditional ML models and DistilBERT, and demonstrates the advantages of contextual language models in identifying implicit mobility needs. The study provides a scalable methodology for mobility-aware intelligent assistants, enabling applications such as automated route planning and smart agenda management.

This work has been funded by the Ministry of Industry and Tourism through the PERTE VEC II as PROYECTO ITAM for NEXT MOBILITY SOLUTIONS under the “expediente VE2-010000-2023-75.

MORElab participated in the 16th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing & Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI 2024)

MORElab members Diego López-de-Ipiña and Oihane Gómez-Carmona participated in the 16th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient ‪Intelligence UCAmI 2024, held in Belfast, United Kingdom, from November 27th to December 29sd 2022.

The focus of the UCAmI Conference is Ambient Intelligence (AmI) which represents a new generation of user-centered computing environments and systems to find new ways to obtain a better integration of the information technology in everyday life devices and activities.

Diego López-de-Ipiña presented the work “Towards the Democratization of Citizen Science Campaigns for Air Quality Assessment”, that explores the SOCIO-BEE initiative, which aims to empower citizens through democratized air quality monitoring, employing a multi-role co-creation methodology involving diverse community roles and tools to encourage engagement, data collection, and behavioral change.

Oihane Gómez-Carmona presented “Tailoring Digital Middleware for Rural Needs: Insights from User Feedback Analysis” that emphasizes user feedback and user-centered design to overcome barriers and enhance usability in middleware technologies like the one proposed by the AURORAL project for digitalizing rural areas.

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 European Week of Regions and Cities in the context of the H2020 AURORAL project

Oihane Gómez-Carmona from the University of Deusto has participated in the European Week of Regions and Cities in the context of the H2020 AURORAL project. The AURORAL project made a significant impact at the event, held in Brussels from October 7th to 10th, 2024, through participatory sessions such as "Creating an Inclusive Digital Transformation: Unlocking the Potential of Smart Rural Ecosystems." This session emphasized the unique challenges rural areas face in accessing services, proposing digitalization as a critical solution. AURORAL, Alongside EU projects dRural and HealthChain, highlighted cutting-edge solutions for strengthening rural ecosystems and promoting sustainable development.

Another focal point of AURORAL’s involvement was the workshop "Fostering Rural Regeneration through Local Talent: A Skill Set for the Smart Communities' Workforce.". This session shared best practices for building European smart communities through innovative EU initiatives and partnerships designed to enhance rural skills and promote regional regeneration.

Beyond these sessions, Oihane was engaged in strategic meetings with the project team to make progress in the AURORAL’s objectives through discussions on the ongoing open call procedure and the project’s future sustainability. She attended meetings focused on the Smart Tomorrow platform, which aims to support the project's legacy and facilitate continued development beyond its official timeline.

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.

The University of Deusto has participated in the EU GREEN WEEK within the context of the H2020 AURORAL Project

Our researchers Oihane Gómez-Carmona and Morelva Saeteros from the University of Deusto have participated in the EU GREEN WEEK 2023 events organised by the H2020 AURORAL project. These events held in Brussels on June 6th and 7th, 2023, were focused on the importance of skills in the digital era and their role in promoting accessible, inclusive, and sustainable innovation. Hence, discussions dealt with empowering citizens and regions in order to participate and co-develop smart systems, tools, and services aligned with the concept of Smart Learning Communities.

In this direction, the event also featured the presentation and discussion of the AURORAL Academy, which promotes cooperation among capacity-building providers to foster enabling skills. As members of the AURORAL project, Oihane and Morelva took part in debates on ensuring accessible innovation and breaking down socio-cultural barriers to education, discussing cutting-edge approaches to digital skills development and new ways to enable citizens to become digital "prosumers", capable of participating in the green and digital transition.

MORElab participated in the 14th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing & Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI 2022)

MORElab members Diego López-de-Ipiña, Maite Puerta-Beldarrain and Oihane Gómez-Carmona participated in the 14th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient ‪Intelligence UCAmI 2022, held in Cordoba, Spain, from November 30th to December 2sd 2022.

Diego López-de-Ipiña presented the work “Fostering Multi-stakeholder Collaboration Through Co-production and Rewarding”, while Puerta-Beldarrain presented “Human-AI Collaboration to Promote Trust, Engagement and Adaptation in the Process of Pro-environmental and Health Behaviour Change”. Finally, Oihane Gómez-Carmona presented “Modulating Users’ Involvement in Interactive Machine Learning Solutions: A Model Cascade Strategy”

Additionally, Diego participated in the IoT Special session located within the Conference program, where he had the opportunity to talk about human-centric IoT and introduce MORElab's research interests in this direction to the rest of the attendance.

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.

The University of Deusto participated in the F2F Meeting between Pilot sites and Tech partners in the context of the H2020 AURORAL Project

The MORElab member Oihane Gómez-Carmona, as part of the H2020 AURORAL project Deusto team, participated in the “F2F Meeting between Pilot sites and Tech partners” organised on the 9th of June in Vienna (Austria) and online. This meeting was born as an initiative to communicate the significance and value of both Middleware and cross-cutting applications provided by the AURORAL solution.

This event gathered together technical partners and pilots to discuss the scope of the crosscutting services provided in the context of AURORAL and reached initial agreements regarding functionalities and additional needs to be managed by the services. Besides, each technical Work Package (WP) presented the state of the art of their activities in the context of the pilot involvement for the clarification of efforts as well as the intended outputs for the following phases of the project.

In this respect, being the University of Deusto leader of WP3 at the AURORAL project, Oihane has actively participated in the different sessions allocated during the meeting. She has shared the progress of WP3 enabling the pilot sites to talk about, prepare and agree on the primary inputs needed to finish the WP and deliverables for the balance of the project.

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)

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.

DeustoTech received the Basque Goverment Grant for the Acquisition of Scientific Equipment

DeustoTech has received the Basque Goverment Grant for the acquisition of scientific equipment. This grant will allow us to improve our computing center by adding a GPU server for the training of deep learning models. This new server will let us improve our scientific production, being able to train more complex models.

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.

MORElab participated in the 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing & Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI 2018)

MORElab members Oihane Gómez-Carmona, Koldo Zabaleta and Unai Zulaika Zurimendi participated in the 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient ‪Intelligence UCAmI 2018, (IWAAL & AmIHEALTH included) held in Punta Cana, República Dominicana from 4th to 7th December 2018.

The main focus of this edition of the UCAmI Conference was Ambient Intelligence (AmI) that represents a new generation of user-centered computing environments and systems to find new ways to obtain a better integration of the information technology in everyday life devices and activities. Oihane presented the paper entitled "Multifunctional Interactive Furniture for Smart Cities". Koldo presented the paper entitled "Human Computation to Enhance E-Service Consumption among Elderlies". Lastly Unai the paper entitled "Enhancing Profile and Context Aware Relevant Food Search through Knowledge Graphs".

Additionally, Koldo participated in the Networking Session located within the Conference program, where he had the opportunity to introduce MORElab's research interests the rest of the attendances.

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.

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.

Oihane Gómez-Carmona participated in the “12th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare”

Oihane Gómez Carmona participated in the “12th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare" (PervasiveHealth 2018) held in New York (USA) from May 21st to 24th, 2018.

The main focus of the PervasiveHealth conference was technologies and human factors related to the use of ubiquitous computing in healthcare and for wellbeing.

She presented her PhD work "Towards Healthy Office Environments: A worker-centric Internet of Things Approach" at the Doctoral Colloquium organized within the conference program and participated in the Poster Session of the same.

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.

New predoctoral grant for MORElab member

Oihane Gómez, one of our first year predoctoral researchers, has received a predoctoral grant from the Basque Government.

This allows Oihane to continue researching in her topic: electronics and the Internet Of Things (IoT). In particular, she is working under the supervision of Dr. Javier García Zubia in validating the suitability of an IoT architecture for workplace health promotion in terms of hardware, software and workers’ acceptance.

Congratulations to both Oihane and her director, and also good luck in her thesis.

Oihane Gómez-Carmona participated in the “2nd International Multidisciplinary Conference on Computer and Energy Science”

Oihane Gómez Carmona participated in the “2nd International Multidisciplinary Conference on Computer and Energy Science” (Splitech 2017) held in Split (Croatia) from July 12th to 14th, 2017.

The main focus of the Splitech 2017 conference was Smart Cities, E-Health and IoT, including a Symposium on RFID & EMBEDDED SYSTEMS FOR INTERNET OF THINGS.

She presented three MORElab member's articles:

1."SmiWork: An Interactive Smart Mirror Platform for Workplace Health Promotion" authored by herself and Diego Casado-Mansilla.

2."An AAL system based on IoT Technologies and Linked Open Data for elderly monitoring in Smart Cities” authored by Aitor Almeida, Ruben Mulero, Gorka Azkune et al.

3."Improving Trilateration for Indoors Localization Using BLE Beacons" authored by Aitor de Blas and Diego López-de-Ipiña.