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Dr. Paul Craig is leader of the Sistemas Interactivos research group at the Universidad Tecnológica de la Mixteca. He graduated with an MSc (Distinction) in Software Engineering from Edinburgh Napier University in 2001 and completed his PhD thesis, ‘Animated Interval Scatter-plot Views for the Exploratory Analysis of Large Scale Microarray Time-course Data’ in 2006. Paul worked as a Research Fellow at Edinburgh Napier from 2006 to 2010 and has been involved in research projects with the National Science Foundation, Scottish Enterprise and Conacyt with 20 plus publications including IVJ and BMC Bioinformatics journal papers. His research interests include Information Visualization, Bioinformatics, Information Retrieval and Complex Systems. See http://paulspapers.wordpress.com/. |
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Néna Roa Seïler is a Professor and Researcher working in Sistemas Interactivos Research Group at the Division Computing Department at the Universidad Tecnológica de la Mixteca in Oaxaca Mexico. She is also studying for a PhD at Edinburgh Napier entitled ‘Towards an emotionally intelligent interaction strategy for multimodal ECAs acting as Companions’ and holds an MSc Multimedia- Hypermedia from Télécom ParisTech (ENST) (1997) and an MSc in Design & Innovation from Université de Technologie de Compiègne (2006) in France. She has worked at the Cité des Sciences Museum in Paris, was Art Director of the Creative Studio of France Télécom R&D from 2000 to 2004, and a researcher on the EU funded Companions project from 2007 till 2010. Her research interests are Interaction Design, Emotion as Interaction, Evaluations of User’s Experience, and Embodied Conversational Agents. |
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Ana D. Olvera-Cervantes is a Professor and Researcher working in the Instituto de Ciencias Físico-Matemáticas at the Universidad Tecnológica de la Mixteca and is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Cádiz in Spain. The title of her thesis will be ‘Quantile curves and central regions using regions and Archimedean copulas’. She is also a member of the Sistemas Interactivos research group and has an MSc in Statistics from the Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Texas at El Paso (2012). Her research interests include Affective Computing and Statistical Analysis methods. |
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Ariadna Benítez Saucedo is a Master student in Interactive Media at the Universidad Tecnológica de la Mixteca. She is currently writing her thesis entitled: “Avatares emocionales en la mensajería instantánea”. The project is framed in the field of interaction design and emotional design through implementation of synthetic characters involved in an instant messaging system. Her research interests include design and development of emotional interactive systems with, User Centered Design and Kansei Engineering. |
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Marcela Martínez-Díaz is an undergraduate student in Computer Engineering at the Universidad Tecnológica de la Mixteca currently writing her thesis entitled “Using an intelligent agent as a tutor on a collaborative learning environment” with the Sistemas Interactivos Research Group at the UTM. She recently presented her first conference poster, “Educational Video Games: an alternative to improve primary education in the State of Oaxaca” at the second Congreso Mexicano de Ciencias de la Complejidad at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Her research interests are Educational Videogames and Artificial Intelligence. |
