Thursday 11th June

Venue: Room F103

09.00 – 10.45: Simulation-Based Learning: the results of 2 years of the NESTLED project.
    • Jaana-Maija Koivisto. Senior lecturer, Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Finland.
11.30 – 12.30: Workshop. Political advertising. Presentation of a global archive (1989-2008)
    • Arturo Fito. Artist and associate lecturer. PhD in Art & Technology Department of Fine Arts Faculty (Universidad del País Vasco EHU/UPV) and artistic producer of independent groups.
    • Jorge Luís Marzo. Historian, art curator and writer. Teacher at BAU Design College of Barcelona and member of the BAU Design & Social Transformation Research Group (GREDITS).
    • Xavier Ginesta. Journalist and associate lecturer in the Communication Department, Faculty of business and Communication Studies (UVic-UCC). PhD in Communication and Journalism from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and member of the Media Translation, Communication and Place Research Group (TRACTE) at UVic-UCC.
15.00 – 17.00: Workshop. Simulation-based learning: debriefing and competence assessment

(The activity is full and no more resgistrations are allowed. Please note venue change. New venue: Room B015)

    • Jaana-Maija Koivisto. Senior lecturer, Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Finland. 

Venue: Room F105

11.30 – 12.30: Research presentation
    • Two ongoing research projects on the knowledge of teaching science and mathematics in school. Knowledge and Education Research Group (CODI) at UVic-UCC. Chairs: Mr. Jordi Martí , Mrs Isabel Sellas.
12.30 – 13.30: Round table
    • Comparing online and face-to-face oral interaction in foreign language classrooms. Chairperson: Dr. Marcos Canovas. Dr Lucrècia Keim, Dr Gemma Delgar, Dr Sarah Khan, Dr Àngels Pinyana, Mr Àngel Tortadès, researchers at the Learning and Communication Research Group (GRAC) at UVic-UCC.

Venue: Room F101

09.00 – 10.45: Lecture
    • Literary cartographies of the Costa Brava in English narrative
    • Dr Joan Masnou. Vice-Rector for International Relations and Continuing Education and member of the UVic-UCC research group Contemporary literary texts: study, editing and translation.
11.30 – 12.30: Lecture
    • The place (lessness) of translation
    • David Johnston. Professor of Hispanic Studies at Queen’s University.
15.00 – 17.00: Workshop on Literary Heritage
    • Three doctoral students give short papers on their research projects on literary heritage
    • The origins of the Renaixença in Vic” (The old literary heritage). Pol Serrabassa (TEXLICO research group/Càtedra Verdaguer)
    • Maria Àngels Anglada (Literary heritage today). Mireia Munmany (GETLIHC research group)
    • Literary branding: one hundred years of the Verdaguer brand (Construction of the literary heritage of the future). Ricard Giramé (TEXLICO and TRACTE research groups).

Venue: Mercè Torrents Conference Room

IW’15 – Games4All Meeting, #G4ALLUST #IWHEUVIC

 

09:00 – 10:00: Welcome & Lectures. Ramon Reig-Bolaño, PhD. @ramonreig, Head of Engineering UST at UVic-UCC and Marc de San Pedro @desanpedro, coordinator of the Chair in ICT and Healthcare, UVic-UCC
    • Gamification: using the power of games to give a positive impact, Simon McCallum, PhD. @SimonMcCallum, Gjøvik University College, Norway
    • Games and Gamification to Enhance Engagement in Healthcare, Pamela M. Kato, PhD. @pamkato, Director of research from SGI -Serious Games Institute-, Coventry University, United Kingdom.
    • The mHealth.cat Mobility Plan, Marc de San Pedro, coordinator of the Chair in ICT and Healthcare, UVic-UCC.
10:00 – 10:45: Research and Development Case Studies, conducted by Ramon Reig-Bolaño @ramonreig:
    • Games for Learning, Josep M Serra Grabulosa, PhD. Laboratory of Neuropsychology. University of Barcelona.
    • Europlay Project, Ruthy Acosta, PhD. Director-Growth in Health Research S.L
      Associate Researcher Hospital Sant Joan de Déu & Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona UB.
    • Epidemia, the game, Victor Vallès, Chair of AIDS, IrsiCaixa, UVic-UCC
    • Active-u: playing to stimulate your brain, Maite Garolera, PhD. @maitegarolera, Brain, Cognition and Behavior: Clinical Research, Consorci Sanitari de Terrassa
    • Tobbstop: a smoking cessation game, Gemma Flores, PhD., Institut d’Investigació en Atenció Primària (IDIAP) Jordi Gol
10:45-11:30: Coffee break and poster presentations
11:30-13:00: Expert panel, case studies, conducted by Teresa Bau @tbau_uoc
    • NoaH: neonatologist at home, Albert Pla, PhD., postdoctoral University of Girona, UdG
    • Virtual reality for Health applications, Carles Blanes @OSMbiomedical, Gamification and mHealth Manager, Other Side Mirror (OSM)
    • Patients promoting Apps, a case of breast cancer: Xemio App, Imma Grau @imma_grau, chair ISYS Foundation
    • Doctoralia App, Frederic Llordachs @fllordachs, VP Marketing and Co-Founder of Doctoralia. Co-organizer of Health2.0 BCN Chapter.
    • Social Diabetes App, Victor Bautista @0×564242, Founder and CEO of Social Diabetes
    • Psycooncology, eHealth and Gamification Tania Estapé, PhD., Head of Psycooncology FEFOC Foundation
    • Games for healthcare, what’s next?, Anna Sort @lostnurse, CEO and Founder Playbenefit, BCN
13:00-13:30: Closing panel: moderated by Teresa Bau @tbau_uoc, Free-lance journalist from Barcelona. Mobile Health Global Editor (@mHealthGlobal) and Communication in Patient Power Europe (@patientpower_es & @patienpowereu)
13:30: Networking and lunch

 

patients included.001This is a patients included conference organized jointly by the research Group in Digital and Signal Processing, the Department of Digital and Information Technologies of the University of Science and Technology @UVic_UST and the Chair in ICT and Healthcare, Centre for Health and Social Care Research (CESS), Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVic-UCC) @ticsalut

Venue: Room F102

09.00 – 13.30: Workshop. Biomedical Data Integration and Modelling in Translational Research
    • 09.00 – 09.05: Presentation. Dr Maria Luz Calle, Research Group in Bioinformatics and Medical Statistics, Systems Biology Department, UVic-UCC.
    • 09.05 – 09.40: Multi-omics: methodologies, challenges and a few examples. Dr David Gomez-Cabrero, Unit of Computational Medicine, Center for Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.
    • 09.40 – 10.00: Human immune-data informed HIV T cell immunogens. Rational design of novel HIV vaccines. Dr Beatriz Mothe Pujadas. Researcher at IrsiCaixa and at the AIDS and Related Diseases Chair, UVic-UCC.
    • 10.00 – 10.20: Characterization of chromatin-bound IκBα.Dr Joan Bertran. Research Group in Bioinformatics and Medical Statistics, Systems Biology Department, UVic-UCC.
    • 10.20 – 10.40: Gut Microbiome in HIV infection. Dr Marc Noguera. Researcher at IrsiCaixa and at the AIDS and Related Diseases Chair, UVic-UCC.
10.45 – 11.30 Coffee break and posters
    • 11.30 – 14.00: ROOM 122 Making sense out of complexity: Data exploration and integration approaches through network analysis. Dr David Gomez-Cabrero. Unit of Computational Medicine, Center for Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.
    • 15.30 – 16.10: Knowledge extraction from data mining models for the analysis of omics data. Dr Jaume Bacardit, Computing Science, University of Newcastle.
    • 16.10 – 16.30:  Molecular modelling of membrane proteins. Dr Mireia Olivella. Research Group in Bioinformatics and Medical Statistics, Systems Biology Department, UVic-UCC.
    • 16.30 – 16.50: Flow cytometry: a new source of complex datasets.Dr Julià Blanco. Researcher at IrsiCaixa and at the AIDS and Related Diseases Chair (UVic-UCC).
    • 16.50 – 17.10: Search for drugs to reduce myocardial infarction. Dr Luís Agulló. Research Group in Bioinformatics and Medical Statistics, Systems Biology Department (UVic-UCC).

Venue: Under the skylight (Building B)

12.30 – 13.30: Round table. Women illustrators exhibition (on 20th century women illustrators)
    • Teresa Julio, Catarina Riba, and other researchers of the UVic-UCC research group Contemporary literary texts: study, editing and translation.

Venue: Room F310

09.00 – 13.30: CSR / Social Innovation Symposium
  • 09.00 – 10.45: Incidence of gender and financial indicators of CSR. Dr Anna Sabata and Dr Núria Arimany, members of the UVic-UCC research group EMPREN.
  • 10.45 – 11.30: Coffee break and posters
  • 11.30 – 12.30: CSR in AQUALOGY. Ramon López, Technical innovation, AQUALOGY.
  • 12.30 – 13.30: CSR as a business strategy? Josep Maria Canyelles, expert in Corporate Social Responsibility and organisations. Developer of Responsabilitat Global.
15.00 – 17.00: Neuroscience and Creativity Symposium
  • 15.00 – 17.00: How cognitive disinhibition contributes to creativity. Dr Shelley Carson, Psychology Department, Harvard University.

Venue: Room F206

09.00 – 13.30: Workshop on Aquatic Ecology
    • Moderator: Dr Sandra Brucet. Biodiversity, Ecology, Technology and Environmental Management Research Group, UVic-UCC.
    • 09.00 – 09.20: Welcome and presentation of BETA Technology Centre and the Aquatic Ecology group. Dr Sergio Ponsá, Director of BETA Technology Centre, UVic-UCC.
    • 09.20 – 09.55: Lessons learned from long-term monitoring of lake fish communities and populations. Kerstin Holmgren, researcher at the Large Lakes Unit, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
    • 09.55 – 10.20: Invasive fish, ecology and conservation in high mountain lakes of the Pyrenees. Dr Marc Ventura, researcher at the Blanes Centre for Advanced Studies (CEAB).
    • 10.20 – 10.45: Size-based trophic cascades in aquatic communities. Dr Xavier Quintana, member of the Research Group in Continental Aquatic Ecology, University of Girona.
10.45 – 11.30 Coffee break and poster session
    • 11.30 – 11.55: Quantify the responses of ecosystems and society in a world increasingly rich in N and C but limited in Phosphorus (Synergy Grant). Dr Mireia Bartrons, junior associate researcher, CREAF.
    • 11.55 – 12:20: Impact of nutrient and water level changes on submerged macrophytes along a latitudinal gradient: pan-European mesocosm experiment. Dr Zeynep Ersoy, Middle East Technical University/UVic-UCC.
    • 12.20 – 12:45 Freshwater salinization: testing sub-lethal effects of increased salinity on stream organisms. Dr Miguel Cañedo, post doctoral student, Middle East Technical University/UVic-UCC.
12.45 – 13.30 Networking session
15.00 – 17.30: Workshop on Terrestrial Ecology
    • Moderator: Dr Carme Casas, member of the Research Group in Biodiversity, Ecology, Technology and Environmental Management, UVic-UCC.
    • 15.00 – 15.15 Welcome and presentation of the biodiversity and land ecology area. Dr Carme Casas, lecturer at UVic-UCC.
    • 15.15 – 15:30: Rural landscape changes and effects on vegetation. Albert Palau, doctoral student, UVic-UCC.
    • 15.30 – 16.00: Using vegetation data for understanding biodiversity patterns. Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, post doctoral student, Masaryk University.
    • 16.00 – 16.30: Grassland-forest transition in the Mediterranean: extinction debts, colonization credits and species replacements.Joan Pino, deputy director, CREAF.
    • 16.30 – 17.00. Plant systematics and conservation, entangled disciplines, common future. Javi López, lecturer at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
17.00 – 17.30 Networking session