- 08/07/2022
- I have been promoted to Professor at the Department of Computing Technology, University of Alicante.
- 07/07/2022
- My project vision@home gets the IMPULSO award as one of the most innovative and sustainable business initiatives arising from the university community.
- 30/06/2022
- My papers "Are Active and Assisted Living applications addressing the main acceptance concerns of their beneficiaries? Preliminary insights from a scoping review", "Underneath Your Clothes: A Social and Technological Perspective on Nudity in The Context of AAL Technology" and "On The Nature of Misidentification With Privacy Preserving Algorithms" are presented at the PETRA Conference.
- 22/03/2021
- Paper "EvoSplit: An Evolutionary Approach to Split a Multi-Label Data Set into Disjoint Subsets" published in the Applied Sciences journal.
- 24/02/2021
- Paper "Video Cameras for Lifelogging at Home: Preferred Visualization Modes, Acceptance, and Privacy Perceptions among German and Turkish Participants" published in International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction.
- 02/02/2021
- Paper "Improved Action Recognition with Separable Spatio-Temporal Attention Using Alternative Skeletal and Video Pre-Processing" published in Sensors journal.
I am a Professor at the Department of Computer Technology, University of Alicante (Spain), and a member of the University Institute for Computer Research (IUII). I am the leader of the Research Group on Ambient Intelligence for Active and Healthy Ageing (AmI4AHA).
My main research work is focused on ambient assisted living: person-environment interaction, computer vision, and support to the activities of daily living of elderly and/or disabled people. This is the area of application of my whole research background: computational intelligence (neural networks, evolutionary computation), computer vision, home automation, and assistive technologies.
Between 2011 and 2016, I had several positions (Marie Curie fellow, and Senior Researcher) at the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing, Kingston University, where I led the Theme on Technologies for Active and Assisted Living in the Interdisciplinary Hub for the Study of Health and Age-related conditions (IhSHA). I was also a member of the Digital Information Research Centre.
I am currently the coordinator of visuAAL - Privacy-Aware and Acceptable Video-Based Technologies and Services for Active and Assisted Living, a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network. I am also the Chair of the GoodBrother COST Action - International Network on Privacy-Aware Audio- and Video-Based Applications for Active and Assisted Living