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Semana de la Ciencia y la Innovación 2022

We led a workshop titled Design interactive technology that changes how you feel about your body and activates you physically in XXII Semana de la Ciencia y la Innovación de Madrid, organized by the Community of Madrid through the Fundación para el Conocimiento madri+d.

This participatory workshop focuses on exploring and designing in groups sensory technology to promote physical activity. In the workshop, participants are invited to explore how certain sensations of some materials and technologies affect the perception of our body and invite us to move (to be physically active, for example). Designs made in our lab will be tested and we will reflect as a group on what works and what doesn’t for each of us when it comes to getting active and engaging in physical activity. In addition, we will co-design adaptations or even new designs using the materials and sensory technology.

Info and registration link: Diseña tecnología interactiva que cambie cómo te sientes con tu cuerpo y te active físicamente

Órbita Laika: Abracadabra

We were featured in Órbita Laika, the TV program! Abracadabra was Episode 2 of Season 8 and focused on revealing how science creates illusions that defy our perception. We shared an overview of our experiments and prototypes for sensory-driven Body Transformation Experiences.

As defined by themselves, Órbita Laika is a TV program that disseminates fun science for all audiences. Órbita Laika has been exploring the magic of science for eight seasons with a variety of topics and all kinds of curiosities from experts who help viewers understand their environment and open their minds to new experiences and knowledge. 

You can watch the full episode in the following link: Órbita Laika – T8 – Programa 2: Abracadabra. Find us starting from 46′!

ELEMENT Days: symposium and workshop

The Hearing Body: Sound-driven Body Transformation Experiences Applications for Emotional and Physical Health was the keynote presented by Ana Tajadura-Jiménez in the ELEMENT Days symposium. The symposium was organized for the the end of the project ELEMENT – Enabling Learnability in Movement Interaction on October 13th and 14th, 2022, in IRCAM, Paris, France.

The Hearing Body: Sound-driven Body Transformation Experiences Applications for Emotional and Physical Health

The presentations concerned movement-based interaction, from different perspectives: user-centered and participatory design studies, interactive machine learning tools and applications covering arts (dance and music), education and health.

Ana’s keynote led the theme of Learning or Re-learning Movements and presented an overview of sound-driven body transformation experiences.

You can watch the full presentation below, starting from the beginning of the video: Element (ANR project): Theme 2: Learning or Re-Learning Movements 3/4

2022 European Researchers’ Night

During the 2022 European Researcher’s Night in Madrid, Ana Tajadura-Jiménez participated in Teatro y ciencia: más allá del bienestar (Theater and Science: beyond well-being). This event was a popular science show focused on various aspects related to our well-being, such as water, pollution caused by airplanes, the health of our cells and the impact of technology on the perception of our body. This event alternated theatrical scenes with talks by UC3M research staff on UC3M scientific projects funded by the European Research Council (ERC).

The talk by Ana was titled Tecnologías para experiencias sensoriales de transformación del cuerpo y aplicaciones para la salud (Technologies for sensory-driven body-transformation experiences and health applications).

You can find more information in the following links:

Magic Shoes

Magic Shoes 2016-2019 Magic Shoes was a research project funded by the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigación and the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Grant

Magic Lining

Magic Lining 2017-2018 Magic Lining was a collaborative science-art project with artist Kristi Kuusk funded by the S+T+ARTS initiative of the European Commission, launched under

Judith Ley-Flores

Judith-Ley-Flores

Laia is an Interaction Design researcher. Her research explores how interactive technologies can be designed and used to affect people’s sensorimotor experiences of themselves and others, particularly in contexts of health and wellbeing.

José M. Vega-Cebrián

José M. (Sejo) Vega-Cebrián (pronouns: they/them, he/him) is a movement and computing researcher-designer and a PhD student in Computer Science and Technology. They are currently researching and developing Playful Wearables and Augmented Technologies for Body Experiences, Rehabilitation and Physical Training.

Laura Alonso Alonso

Team-Mohammad-Mahdi-Dehshibi

AQU Associate Professor with a PhD in AI. He specialises in Deep Learning, Complex Systems Modelling, and Unconventional Computing. He joined UOC (Barcelona, Spain) as a postdoctoral researcher in 2018 to develop XAI models for use in affective computing and human well-being.

Laia Turmo Vidal

Team--Laia-Turmo-Vidal

AQU Associate Professor with a PhD in AI. He specialises in Deep Learning, Complex Systems Modelling, and Unconventional Computing. He joined UOC (Barcelona, Spain) as a postdoctoral researcher in 2018 to develop XAI models for use in affective computing and human well-being.