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Xavier Alamán (Head)

Xavier Alamán is Full Professor in the Computer Engineering Department of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the Laboratory’s Principal Investigator. His research interests cover Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence, but also Virtual Worlds and Virtual/Mixed Reality.

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Germán Montoro

Germán Montoro is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). His research interests are assistive technologies and human computer interaction; focusing on how technology can help people with special needs in their everyday life. He is also Delegate of the President for education technologies and Program manager for edX MOOCs at UAM.

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Javier Gomez

Javier Gomez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) and former ERCIM postdoctoral Fellow at NTNU (Norway). His current research focuses on assessing how new and mobile technologies can provide assistance to people with cognitive disabilities in their daily lives. He is the project leader of Leo con Lula and Assist.

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Juan Carlos Torrado

Juan Carlos Torrado is a postdoctoral research at the Universit of Bergen (UiB), former ERCIM postdoctoral fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and honorary member of the Department of Computer Engineering of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). His research interests are related to Affective Computing and emotions detection for people with ASD. He is the technical leader of Taimun-Watch.

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Yussy M. Chinchay

Yussy is teaching assistant in the Department of Computer Engineering of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). She is currently developing her PhD. Thesis, related to educational and supporting technologies for people with intellectual disabilities.

Nicolás Araya

Nicolás is pursuing his MSc. studies. He is researching on the relation between emotions, arts, technologies and ASD. For his MSc. Thesis he is designing and developing a tool to assist people with ASD visiting museums and the emotions associated to the interaction with arts