En el marco del proyecto ARCADIA de ITI, financiado por IVACE FEDER y con número de expediente IMDEEA/2022/22, se trabaja en diseñar e implementar estrategias de gamificación y juegos serios en entornos terapéuticos basados en realidad extendida que permitan experiencias más inmersivas, realistas, atractivas y motivadoras.
En este sentido, el uso del juego como herramienta terapéutica puede aportar numerosas ventajas en el ámbito de la salud mental. Sin embargo, para garantizar la efectividad e impacto positivo de este tipo de intervenciones tecnológicas, es necesario diseñar y desarrollar estas experiencias con un enfoque centrado en el usuario, y teniendo en cuenta el impacto personal y emocional que pueden llegar a tener.
En esta línea, contaremos con una charla de la mano de Corina Sas, catedrática de Interacción Persona – Ordenador, en la Escuela de Informática y Comunicaciones de la Universidad de Lancaster (Reino Unido).
Este tipo de acciones desarrolladas por ITI nos ayudan a poner en valor y visibilizar referentes femeninos en el ámbito STEM, uno de los compromisos adquiridos en el Plan de Igualdad de ITI.
Esta charla se hará en inglés y se celebrará en el marco del ACM Distinguished Speakers Program
Abstract:
Emotional wellbeing and mental health are topics of much social significance, which are also reflected in the growing HCI work aimed to support them. Research in this area covers a broad space from affective computing to affective interaction approach, and the ethical design of wellbeing and mental health technologies has become much needed. This talk will provide design exemplars of technologies for wellbeing and mental health, with an emphasis on the importance of supporting emotional awareness and regulation. The talk will also highlight the value of existing research for articulating novel design implications for ethical wellbeing and mental health technologies.
Speaker’s Bio:
Corina Sas is Professor in Human-Computer Interaction with the School of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University, UK. Her research focuses on designing and evaluating technologies for wellbeing, mental health, memory support, creative and reflective thinking in design, as well as novel tools for designing such technologies. Her work explores and integrates wearable bio sensors, mobile and lifelogging technologies with the aim to shape the interaction design and user experience. Corina serves as Technical Program Co-Chair for ACM CHI 2024, the HCI flagship conference: Human Factors in Computing, Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair for ACM DIS 2023: Designing Interactive Systems, and has been General Co-Chair for the ACM C&C 2021, 2022: Creativity and Cognition Conference, and for British HCI Conference 2007. Corina is member of the Editorial Boards of the ACM Transactions in Human-Computer Interaction, and Taylor & Francis Human Computer Interaction journals. She has published over 200 papers, and her work received extensive media coverage as well as 5 Best Paper and Honourable Mention Awards. She also received 4 Awards for excellence in research leadership and has been investigator on grants totalling over £15 million, including the lead of two prestigious EC-funded Marie Curie Innovative Training Networks which provided interdisciplinary PhD training to 28 early career researchers. Corina super supervised to completion 14 PhD students, and in 2021 I was shortlisted by the UK Times Higher Education for the Outstanding Research Supervisor of the Year Award.
