The new research unit TESI – Technology, Society, Interactions – has been created to support the research at the intersection of human-computer interaction, social computing, network and computer applications, ethics, and their interactions with interdisciplinary areas of social relevance, such as education. TESI builds on the research groups TIDE (Interactive and distributed technologies for...

The Equality Commission at DTIC resumed activity in 2023 on March 23rd, with a first meeting of its members, where the priorities for 2023 and beyond were discussed. The Equality Commission at DTIC is currently composed by: Teaching and Research Staff: Núria Sebastian (president) Coloma Ballester Laura Becerra Davinia Hernández-Leo Administrative Staff: Sonia Espí...

The tournament will take place between the end of April and the end of June. Matches will be played 4x4 on weekdays at 18h and 19h.    Check your e-mail for details!

This course will provide an in-depth introduction to recent Reinforcement Learning (RL) techniques and algorithms. The program can be found here. The practical sessions will also help the students improve their practical RL skills. Details at https://rlsummerschool.com/

Catalonia will host one of the four new units of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), the pan-European network of excellence in artificial intelligence that connects the best researchers in the field of AI in Europe. The new ELLIS Barcelona Unit will become the third largest unit in the quarantine that make up the network and represents a guarantee of the high...

The FINDHR project deals with algorithmic hiring, meaning the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the recruitment of job candidates. AI may be the hiring tool of the future, but it could come with the old relics of discrimination. In order to awaken awareness of discrimination risks in AI, the FINDHR consortium will prepare a specialized training course and a masterclass. The course is free...

Music has always been used for its calming qualities, but there is still little scientific understanding of how it affects the brain before and during sleep and which musical qualities are particularly effective from both a subjective and an objective perspective in inducing it. Through interdisciplinary research, how music can facilitate  the transition between wakefulness and...

  Horacio Saggion has received an "Oracle for Research Project Award" to work on "Deep Learning Sign Language Recognition (SLR) and Sign Language Translation (SLT): Towards better models for under resourced Sign Languages".

The objective of DTIC-UPF’s second MdM programme is to launch and implement a strategic program which takes the unit’s interdisciplinary research to a new level and makes strides into transdisciplinary research. This reflects a concern for the complex nature of the challenges facing society: some of these challenges can only be tackled through transdisciplinary efforts.   To this end,...

Rubén Moreno Bote, professor at the DTIC, is coordinator of the Theoretical and Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group at the Centre for Cognition and the Brain (CBC). His research focuses on the link between neural activity, perception, and behavior and decision-making. In recent years they have analysed the 'neural code' (that is, the format in which information is encoded in neuronal...

We often express our thoughts in words to communicate ideas, present arguments or make decisions. But what format and structure do these thoughts take in the brain? In the fields of philosophy, psychology and neuroscience, there are still many unknowns surrounding this issue, and it is unclear whether thoughts are represented in the mind by mental models (e.g. images) or by structures and rules...

Music provokes multiple emotions about us, not only when listening to it, but also when we give wings to our creativity and we ourselves generate a melody when playing an instrument. Music pedagogy professionals are already taking advantage of this ability to improve teaching methodologies in the classroom because, if students feel positive emotions when playing, they retain more of what they...

In the Music Technology Group, we develop computational tools that assist in the study of a wide range of musical repertoires. Phonos Worldwide intends to showcase some of these repertoires, exhibiting four traditional musics from a sample of cultures that the MTG has been fortunate enough to work with. Six musicians will present four musical traditions (Chinese Guqin, Carnatic Music, Galician...

+RAIN Film Fest is a transdisciplinary project organized by the Department of Communication, the Department of Information and Communication Technologies, and the Arsenal ecosystem, all at Pompeu Fabra University. The Social Council of the UPF also provides financial support and collaborates with the festival. On the other hand, Pompeu Fabra University has partnered with the organization...

The BCN MedTech Research Unit of Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) has defined a new computational model to identify the causes of osteoarthritis in each patient and to be able to personalize treatments for the future. UPF researcher Jérôme Noailly explained that the factors that cause osteoarthritis, the most common joint disease, can be different in each person and defining this model allows us...

Another year on, and UPF will be present at 4YFN, the fair of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) for emerging technology companies being held at Fira Gran Via in Barcelona from 27 February to 2 March. The UPF stand, managed by the transfer office, the Innovation Unit - UPF Business Shuttle, on 27 and 28 February will be a space to present ten innovative projects that are being developed in...

In the framework of the Planeray Wellbeing initiative of UPF     TUESDAY,   FEBRUARY 28, 2023, at 13:00 CET, UPF Campus Ciutadella, room 40.113     we will have the talk entitled     BYMBOS - Body Mind Interaction in Students    by Simone Tassani   Abstract:   There is an increasing incidence of musculoskeletal...

Just a few decades ago, the possibility of connecting the brain with a computer to convert neural signals into concrete actions would have seemed like something from science fiction. But in recent years, some scientific advances have been made in this regard, through so-called BCIs (Bran-Computer Interfaces) that establish communication bridges between the human brain and computers. A recent...

With the project "Linguistic statistical learning abilities in bilingual and at-risk population (LINGSTATS)" Mireia Marimon, under the guidelines of Núria Sebastián Gallés, will investigate linguistic statistical learning skills during the first two years of life and how they relate to the subsequent development of language in different child populations.   The speech signal is a...

The Poblenou campus of UPF has hosted this Saturday, February 18, a new edition of the FIRST LEGO League Qualifying Tournament in Barcelona. More than 300 children have participated in this tournament, which is part of an international program to promote scientific and technological vocations between children and young people based on different learning experiences. The Asociación Ingeniera Soy...