Unai Zulaika Zurimendi news

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.

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.

We were invited to IBM's event "Think Madrid”

Unai Zulaika attended “Think Madrid” event from IBM which took place in Madrid the last 13^th of November.

We would like to thank IBM for the invitation to the event where open challenges in the technology sector, such as Quantum Computation, AI, Blockchain…, were addressed.

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.