Open Day Indústria da FCT NOVA, October 2018
BioVisualSpeech participated in the first edition of the Open Day Industry FCT NOVA with a demonstation of the VisualSpeech Sibilants Game and the VisualSpeech Sustained Phoneme Game.
European Congress of Speech and Language Therapy, May 2018
The BioVisualSpeech FCT.UNL and ESSA team members participated in the 10th CPLOL Congress (European Congress of Speech and Language Therapy), Estoril, Portugal. The ESSA team was also in the congress Scientific Committee.
EXPO FCT
EXPO FCT is an open house day at FCT/UNL in which high school students from all over the country come to visit the university. Each department offers a set of activities, which consist of demonstrations of the work developed at the university.
Futurália, Mar 2018
BioVisualSpeech participated in Futurália, Feira de Educação, Formação e Orientação Educativa, at FIL, Lisboa. Futulália is the biggest exhibition of education and higher education in Portugal.
Roteiro Inovação, Fev 2018
The VisualSpeech Sibilants Game was demonstrated during the visit of the Portuguese Prime Minister, the Minister for Presidency and Administrative Modernization and the Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education, to Roteiro da Inovação at FCT.UNL.
Pictures and excerpts from media coverage of the event (TVI, CMTV, canal YouTube República Portuguesa, canal YouTube Câmara Municipal de Almada):
Visit from Almada's Mayor to FCT.UNL Campus, 24 Nov 2017
The VisualSpeech Sibilants Game was demonstrated at the Dep. of Computer Science during the Presidente da Câmara de Almada's visit to the campus.
European Researchers Night
Pictures, movies and interviews (SIC and Antena1) of the event:
Recording Antena1
Symposium CMU Portugal 2017
The BioVisualSpeech team participated in the event with a presentation, participation in panel IV - Humans and Machines, a demonstration of the Sustained Phoneme Game, and three posters:
Encontro Ciência 2017
The BioVisualSpeech project participated in Encontro Ciência 2017 with demonstrations of NovaSpeech, The VisualSpeech Sustained Phoneme Game and Sibilants Game (see prototypes).
Interview to Sofia Cavaco (YouTube canal Encontro Ciência PT):
Movimento Código Portugal, Pavilhão do Conhecimento, 11 Dec 2016
The VisualSpeech Sustained Phoneme Game was demonstrated at Movimento Código Portugal, Lisboa.
Best Poster Award - ACE, Nov 2016
BioVisualSpeech FCT.UNL team members work on a serious game for the sustained vowel exercise received the Best Poster Award at the International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, Osaka, Japan.
iTF - 3rd Speech Therapy Symposium/III Simpósio de Terapia da Fala, Nov 2016
The team members Margarida Grilo and Isabel Guimarães were part of the organizing committee for the 3rd Speech Therapy Symposium, with the theme "The new technologies in speech therapy". The symposium's goal was to discuss the impact of the technologic evolution in therapy intervention and future diagnosis.
The following presentations and demonstrations were given by the team members Carla Viegas, Marta Lopes and Ivo Anjos:
- Carla Viegas presented "Intelligent personal assistantes: How na IPA could improve your workflow as a speech therapist".
- Marta Lopes presented "A voice-controlled serious game for the sustained vowel exercise" and demonstrated her work at the TECH Market show.
- Ivo Anjos demonstrated his work on "Intensive therapy: games for training fricative consonants at home" at the TECH Market show.
Pictures of the event:
RIs Workshop | CMU Portugal, Sept 2016
The BioVisualSpeech project was presented by João Magalhães at the RIs Workshop | CMU Portugal, Lisbon.
NOVA LINCS Workshop, May 2016
The BioVisualSpeech project was presented by Sofia Cavaco at the NOVA LINCS External Advisory Board Meeting/Workshop.
Innovation Research Lab Exhibition at Medical Valley Center Erlangen, July 2016
Carla Viegas presented her work on decision support systems for speech and language therapy at the Innovation Research Lab Exhibition, Medical Valley Center Erlangen, Germany.
World Student Meeting on Speech and Language Therapy, 6-8 July 2015
Three team members, João Magalhães, Mariana Diogo and Ricardo Carrapiço participated in the World Student Meeting on Speech and Language Therapy, Leiria, Portugal, 6-8 July 2015. The two following presentations were given:
Festival In, 2014
Festival IN is the main event on innovation and creativity that takes place in the Iberian Peninsula. VisualSpeech was one of the few projects selected to represent Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCT/UNL).
Pictures of the event:
