Professors from Villanova University - USA, visit the CTI laboratories

 

Teachers and managers from Villanova University – USA visited the laboratories of the Information Technology Center (CTI) this July 18, 2023, the MSc. Gladys Carrillo, leader of the Analytics and Learning Technologies research area, guided them on her journey.

During this time, the research technicians from each area presented the respective projects for their line of research.

 

 

Eng. Rhandall Valdez and Eng. Jennifer Pita from the INARI group “Industrial Artificial Intelligence” presented the object detection model to be applied in Automatic or self-payment billing and its conditions of use in real time.

 

 

The MSc. Adriano Pinargote from the ATA group "Learning Analytics and Technologies" presented the results of the project "Learning Analytics to support collaborative activities", which consisted of analyzing the behavior of students in virtual meetings using a Bot (Microsoft Teams) that detects the participation and speaking times of each participant in the session to provide feedback to teachers and students.

 

The guest professors were interested in the findings and the improvements that are being implemented by including AI for future analysis.

 

 

Engineer Galo Tates from the TAI group “Technologies for intelligent environments”, presented the NEST project “Non-Intrusive Devices for Telemedicine”. It consists of a prototype based on plethysmography for the measurement and processing of cardiac signals with an educational focus.

 

The project has two stages: in the first stage the laboratory socializes the functionality of the equipment donated by the Free University of Brussels with master's and undergraduate students.

 

In the second stage, a device is developed that will be used by doctors to measure heart rate, oxygen saturation in the blood and will include a pain diary for patient use. The guest lecturers were intrigued by the educational focus of the project and showed particular interest in the costs of a commercial product vs. commercial solution. the proposed prototype.

 

 

Eng. Leonardo Eras presented the details of the RAP project “Automatic Feedback for Presentations” in which he highlighted the movements during an oral presentation by evaluating various aspects of the presentation such as postures, gazes, sound pauses, fillers, volume and slides that allows obtaining feedback on a student's oral presentation.

 

The analysis of these characteristics is carried out using artificial intelligence technologies. Finally, each presentation generates an associated report, which presents guidelines to follow to improve the oral presentation. The guest professors were interested in posture and gaze detection technologies.

 

 

Engineer Nelson Vera from the TRI group “Smart Grid Technologies” presented the project “Indoor positioning system based on an Open Source infrastructure”. "The project consisted of developing a positioning system along with an application for administrators that allows maintaining precise control over the capacity in any place where the system is implemented."

 

 

Dr. Pritpal Singh, professor of Electrical Engineering, pointed out at the end of the presentations "It is interesting to observe quite a few young people in technological projects in the area of research to help developing countries."