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  • Early Bird Project "A Serious Game for Speech Therapy with Visual Bio-feedback"
  • Jul 2014
  • CITI@NOVA LINCS researcher Sofia Cavaco is the PI of the just approved CMU|PT Early Bird Project "A Serious Game for Speech Therapy with Visual Bio-feedback".

    This is really an exciting project, involving Carnegie Mellon Language Technologies Institute, NOVA LINCS, and Escola Superior de Saúde do Alcoitão, which aims to leverage on speech and facial expression recognition combined with gaming to improve the effectiveness of speech therapy processes, as developed by healthcare specialists.

    The work, driven by Sofia Cavaco and João Magalhães, follows up on several work threads by the MMS team of NOVA-LINCS (sound and image processing algorithms, gaming, interaction, etc).

    UE COST action on multi-paradigm modelling for cyber-physical systems.

    NOVA-LINCS is a partner of the recently approved UE COST action on multi-paradigm modelling for cyber-physical systems.

    CITI@NOVA LINCS researcher Vasco Amaral is the local and also national coordinator of the recently approved UE COST action on multi-paradigm modelling for cyber-physical systems. Participating countries are Belgium, Croatia, Macedonia. Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom. [action site@citi]