04-09-2014
The NOVA Laboratory for Computer Science and Informatics (NOVA LINCS) is a new unit of the national Science & Technology network in the area of Computer Science and Engineering, to be launched in 2014/2015. It is hosted at FCT-UNL’s Computer Science Department (DI-NOVA), a leading academic department in Portugal.
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”, whose objective is to leverage on speech and facial expression recognition combined with gaming in order to 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.).
NOVA LINCS results from joining the faculty’s core research strengths previously organized in two separate research units hosted at DI-FCT-NOVA: 1) CITI - Centre for Informatics and Information Technology; and 2) CENTRIA - Centre for Artificial Intelligence.
