Claudia Zúñiga - Serious applications of technology in games and health

Keywords

Edutainment, gamification, training, health, serious games, e-learning, medicine, video game.

Edutainment 2019 and CoTH Committee

General co-chairs

• Abdennour EI Rhalibi-Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

• Zhigeng Pan-Hangzhou Normal University, PRC.

• Xun Luo-Tianjin University of Technology, PRC.

• Andrés A. Navarro-Newball-Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali.

Program co-chairs

• Feng Tian-University of Bournemouth, UK.

• Alexander Gelbukh-National Polytechnic Institute, México.

• Mario J. Diván-Divsar, Argentina.

• Gerardo Sarria-Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, Colombia.

Organization chairs

• Victoria E. Contreras R.-Destino research group, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, Colombia.

• Diego F. Loaiza B-Universidad Santiago de Cali, Colombia.

• Fabián Castillo-Universidad Libre Cali, Colombia.

Organization co-chairs

• Claudia Zúñiga-Universidad Santiago de Cali, Colombia.

• Hendrys F. Tobar-Universidad del Cauca, Colombia.

• Diego L. Linares-Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, Colombia.

Organization members

• Juan C. Martínez-Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, Colombia.

• Luis E. Tobón-Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, Colombia.

Publicity co-chairs

• Xiaosong Yang-Bournemouth University, UK.

• Leonardo Flórez-Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Bogotá, Colombia.

Workshop co-chairs

• María C. Pabón-Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, Colombia.

• Gloria Inés Álvarez-Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, Colombia.

• Cesar Collazos-Universidad del Cauca.

• Diego L. Linares-Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, Colombia.

• Juan C. Martínez-Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, Colombia.

• Andrés A. Navarro-Newball-Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, Colombia.

• Luisa Fernanda Rincón-Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, Colombia.

International program committee

Andrés Adolfo Navarro-Newball -Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali.

Wolfgang Mueller-University of Education Weingarten.

Juan C. Martínez-Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali.

Mario José Diván-Divsar.

Gerardo M. Sarria-Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali.

Diego F. Loaiza B.-Universidad Santiago de Cali.

Yoshihiro Okada-Kyushu University.

Carlo Harvey-Birmingham City University.

Theresa-Marie Rhyne, Consultant.

Gengdai Liu-Bigo Technology PTE LTD.

Hongchuan Yu, NCCA-Bournemouth University.

Yinghui Wang, Department of Computer Science and Engineering-Xi’an University of Technology.

Jian Chang-Bournemouth University.

Feng Tian-Bournemouth University.

Diego L. Linares -Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali.

Fabian Castillo Peña -Universidad Libre Cali.

María Constanza Pabón-Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali.

Antonio Coelho-University of Porto.

Xun Luo-Tianjin University of Technology.

Xiaosong Yang-Bournemouth University.

Fotis Liarokapis-Masaryk University.

Fuhua Lin-Athabasca University.

Fred Charles-Bournemouth University, Faculty of Science and Technology.

Marc Jaeger-CIRAD.

William Hurst-Liverpool John Moores University.

Hendrys Fabián Tobar Muñoz-Universidad del Cauca.

Xiaogang Jin, State Key Lab-Zhejiang University.

Claudio Palazzi-University of Padova.

Panagiotis Petridis.

Jose Fonseca-Bournemouth University.

Mohd Shahrizal Sunar-Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.

Dunwei Wen-Athabasca University.

Christos Gatzidis-Bournemouth University.

Yuanyuan Shen-Liverpool John Moores university.

Mohammad Swash-Brunel University.

César Collazos-Universidad del Cauca.

Gloria Inés Álvarez-Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali.

Luisa Fernanda Rincón-Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali.

Keynote speakers at the Edutainment 2019 and CoTH 2019

Dr. César A. Collazos

Full professor at Universidad del Cauca (Colombia), Phd in Computer Science (Universidad de Chile) and keynote invited of different workshops. Postdoctoral staying in Spain and Chile working in aspects related with human-computer interaction and computer supported cooperative work, and visiting professor of different ibeoramerican universities in Chile, Spain, Perú, México and Argentina.

Dr. Mario Diván

Full professor and head of the Data Science Research Group at National University of La Pampa (Argentina). Honorary Professor of the Amity Institute of Information Technology (Noida, India), Dr. Diván is a specialist in High Performance and Grid Computing from the University of La Plata, where he received the degree of Ph.D. in Computer Science. His scientific interests lie in the area of data mining, data stream, stream mining, high-performance computing, big data, measurement, and evaluation. Moreover, Dr. Diván integrates the academic committee for the Master and the Ph.D. in Computer Science at the National Technological University of Córdoba, Argentina; directs the Professional Council of Engineers and Technicians of La Pampa, and has been recognized by the Argentinian Computing Society with the National Award of Electronic Government.

Dr. José Tiberio Hernández

PhD in Applied Informatics, ENSTA (Paris, France), and Master in systems and computer engineering (Universidad de los Andes), he is the head of the Visual computing Area (IMAGINE Group) and has served as a full-time professor and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the Universidad de Los Andes.

Professor Edmond C. Prakash

PhD in High Performance Computing and Scientific Visualization, Edmond is currently Professor in Computer Science and Associate Dean for Research at Cardiff Metropolitan University, United Kingdom. With research interests around games technology, big data visualization, human computer animation, high performance computing, interactive digital media and AR/VR, he has held positions and research collaborations in India, Singapore, China, Colombia, UK and USA.

Professor Xun Luo

Professor Xun Luo is a distinguished member of China Computer Federation (CCF). He leads the Technical Committee on Virtual Reality and Visualization (TC-VRV) of CCF as TCVRV’s standing director. Luo is a titular professor at Tianjin University of Technology, as well as Chief Scientist of CAS-Jinyun Cloud Inc., one of the top cloud-service providers in China. Professor Luo’s research interests include virtual reality and augmented reality systems, and natural human-computer interfaces. Also, he obtained B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Masters in Applied Mathematics and Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Chicago, and he is the inventor and co-inventor of 28 U.S. and international patents. Besides basic and applied research, he is also an expert in education and has served as Program Evaluator for ABET and Chinese Engineering Education Accreditation Computer Engineering Commission.

Dr. Sergio Albiol-Pérez

Main Researcher of the “Health Multimodal” Consortium of Campus Iberus (Spain), and also of the team “Sistemas tecnológicos en el campo de la salud” at the Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Aragón (Spain), he defended his PhD thesis with Cum Laude at the Universitat Politécnica de Valencia, Spain, and has been teaching since 2001 at the Computer Science and Systems Engineering Department, Universidad de Zaragoza. With research interests focused on patients with serious injuries and illnesses by using virtual rehabilitation techniques, in the area of Virtual Motor Rehabilitation and systems based on interaction for the recovery of mental disorders, he has organized workshop sessions regarding Virtual Rehabilitation Theories and Applications and has co-authored more than 40 papers around this topic (articles, conference papers and chapter books). Therefore, his research lines are: multimodal systems in patients with neurological disorders, gross and fine rehabilitation in patients with sensorimotor disorders, virtual rehabilitation: fall prevention in old people, and cognitive rehabilitation.