News & Press
Collaboration with Mexico at First National Forum on Science, Technology, and Innovation
The Urbis project, which is a collaboration on citizen participation and mobile crowdsourcing between IPICYT Mexico and Idiap, was presented at the First National Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation in Mexico City on August 8 2018. The event was organized by the National Council of Science and Technology.
Article (in Spanish): Dolphin Tank: movilidad y seguridad ciudadana
Aug 24, 2018
Children education project supported by SenseCityVity at the World Water Forum 2018
Supported by the SenseCityVity research team in Mexico and Switzerland in 2017, the project "Education for Water Protection in Colombia" will participate at the 8th World Water Forum in Brasilia (March 2018), with additional support of the OEI (Organizacion de Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura).
OEI news:
http://oei.org.br
Project video:
http://filmambiente.com
World Water Forum 2018:
http://www.worldwaterforum8.org/
Mar 14, 2018
Civic Media, Mobile Crowdsourcing, and the Public Good: A Framework for Urban Data Science
Prof. Daniel Gatica-Perez (Social Computing Group) gave a talk about his work in Latin America and Switzerland at the First European Seminar on Urban Data Science in Amsterdam.
The event, held on December 4, 2017, was organized by the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS), and gathered experts from academia, industry, and city offices working across disciplines, including geography, computing, and design.
Link to the event: AMS SEMINAR ON URBAN DATA SCIENCE
Credit: AMS Institute
Dec 06, 2017
Idiap’s SenseCityVity project presented at the House of Switzerland in Mexico
An innovative project on mobile sensing and youth participation between Switzerland and Mexico will be presented on November 8 at the House of Switzerland in Mexico, Mexico City.
The House of Switzerland in Mexico (Casa de Suiza en Mexico) is a temporary pavilion built in the heart of Mexico City by the official representation of Switzerland. The pavilion has been created to celebrate the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries, and was inaugurated on October 27 2016 as part of the activities framing the State visit of the Swiss president, Mr. Johann Schneider-Ammann.
SenseCityVity is a collaboration between institutions in Switzerland (Idiap and EPFL) and Mexico (IPICYT). The project was originally supported by the Seed Money Programme of CODEV in 2014 and 2015, and by CONACYT since 2016. The project’s goal is to engage citizens as factors of social change, through the use of mobile tech tools to improve the understanding of socio-urban problems in communities and cities. SenseCityVity is developed by a group of specialists in information technologies, psychology, media, urbanism, and visual arts.
The project will be presented by our Mexican partner, Prof. Salvador Ruiz Correa (IPICYT) and other team members.
Further information:
House of Switzerland in Mexico
Nov 08, 2016
SenseCityVity at Poder Hacer: International Conference on Creative Cities
The SenseCityVity project was presented at Mexico City's First International Conference on Creative Cities.
Salvador Ruiz Correa (IPICYT) presented the SenseCityVity project at Poder Hacer -- the First International Conference on Creative Cities on September 23, 2016.
The conference was organized by Lab for the City (Laboratorio para la Ciudad), Mexico City’s office for civic innovation and urban creativity.
Links:
http://poderhacer.labcd.mx/en
http://labcd.mx/labforthecity/
Sep 26, 2016
Keynote on Civic Multimedia at CBMI 2016
Prof. Daniel Gatica-Perez gave a keynote talk on "Civic Multimedia, Crowdsourcing, and the Public Good" at the 14th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI) in Bucharest, June 16, 2016.
Jul 19, 2016
SenseCityVity presented at UNIL Seminar on Practices of Digital Humanities
Prof. Daniel Gatica-Perez introduced the SenseCityVity project in an invited talk at the University of Lausanne Seminar on Practices of Digital Humanities on May 25, 2016
Jun 01, 2016
SenseCityVity presented at Tech4Dev International Conference
Darshan Santani presented the SenseCityVity project at the Tech4Dev International Conference held at EPFL on May 2-4 2015.
Jun 01, 2016
SenseCityVity presented at CICESE, Mexico
Prof. Daniel Gatica-Perez talked about SenseCityVity in an invited talk on Civic Multimedia he gave at CICESE, Ensenada, Mexico on April 6, 2016.
Apr 13, 2016
SenseCityVity on EPFL Flash Newspaper
The SenseCityVity project on mobile crowdsourcing, urban perception, and collective action was featured on EPFL Flash.
Mar 15, 2016
SenseCityVity presented at EPFL Essential Talks Series
The SenseCityVity project was presented at the Essential Talks Series organized by the EPFL Center for Cooperation and Development on March 3 2016.
Mar 10, 2016
SenseCityVity in Mexican TV news
The SenseCityVity project (Idiap-IPICYT) was featured on Mexican TV news.
Feb 09, 2016
SenseCityVity expands work in Mexico
Collaborative research in Mexico by the Social Computing Group at Idiap engages citizens as factors of social change and expands to several cities.
Feb 05, 2016
SenseCityVity presented at Youth Institute of Guanajuato
The SenseCityVity project was presented during the The Second Symposium on Youth Research organized by the Youth Institute of Guanajuato (INJUG) in Mexico.
Dec 14, 2015
SenseCityvity Leon: a new initiative on urban awareness and youth action
Our colleagues Hector Gomez and Victor Islas (Iberoamerican University & ITSI) present an overview of their initiative with students in Leon City, Mexico.
Nov 25, 2015
SenseCityVity presented at meeting on Observatories for Tourism in Mexico
SenseCityVity was presented by Salvador Ruiz-Correa at the Third Meeting of Observatories for Tourism in Guanajuato City, Mexico, on September 7-8. The meeting was co-organized by the National Ministry of Tourism (SECTUR) and the State Ministry of Tourism of Guanajuato.
Sep 18, 2015
SenseCityVity presented to local government in Mexico
The SenseCityVity project was presented by Dr. Salvador Ruiz-Correa at IPLANEG (Institute of Planning, Guanajuato State, Mexico.)
Aug 25, 2015
SenseCityVity: study about the urban geography of Guanajuato
The SenseCityVity project was featured in CONACYT News (Mexico's National Council of Science and Technology).
Jul 13, 2015
SenseCityVity program concludes its first year
After a year of work, the results of the SenseCityVity project were presented at the Don Quixote Iconographic Museum by the team lead by Dr. Salvador Ruiz Correa.
Mar 23, 2015
Results of SenseCityVity presented in Guanajuato
Supported by institutions in Mexico and Switzerland, the results of the SenseCityVity project were presented by Dr. Salvador Ruiz Correa, Co-Principal Investigator. Students from CECYTEG Campus Guanajuato conducted a study using mobile devices, which were used to document socio-urban problems in the city.
Mar 16, 2015
SenseCityVity+ starts today
SenseCityVity+, the new phase of the SenseCityVity project, has started today under the support of EPFL Cooperation and Development Center (CODEV)
Feb 17, 2015
A success: project about students filming city problems
News coverage of the results of SenseCityVity appeared on Periodico Correo in Guanajuato City.
Feb 16, 2015
SenseCityVity Documentary Film Festival
The SenseCityVity Documentary Film Festival took place at Centro de Estudios Cientificos y Tecnologicos (CECYTEG), Guanajuato City, on February 10, 2015.
Feb 12, 2015
SenseCityVity at DigitalPolis, Paris
Daniel Gatica-Perez discussed the work done in the SenseCityVity project at the DigitalPolis Symposium in Paris, France, Jan 29-31, 2015. The symposium gathered a multidisciplinary audience developing theoretical and technical approaches to understand digital cities.
Feb 02, 2015
SenseCityCity at Symposium PI on Art and Technology
Our work on mobile crowdsourcing for urban awareness was presented at the Symposium PI in Monthey on Friday 28th November.
Dec 01, 2014
SenseCityVity presented at EPFL CODEV Conference
The results of the SenseCityVity project were presented at the EPFL Center for Cooperation and Development (CODEV) Seed Money Conference, held on October 30, 2014.
Nov 04, 2014
SenseCityVity presented at Telefonica Research
Daniel Gatica-Perez, co-leader of SenseCityVity, gave a talk about the project at Telefonica Research (TID) in Barcelona, Spain on October 14.
Oct 15, 2014
SenseCityVity researchers attended EPFL Round Table on Latin America
The partners of the SenseCityVity project attended the EPFL Round Table on Swiss Scientific Collaboration with Latin America, held on September 9, 2014.
Sep 19, 2014
SenseCityVity donates two smart whiteboards to high-school, Periodico Correo, Mexico
The SenseCitiVity project donated two smart boards to the School of Scientific and Technological Studies of Guanajuato State (CECYTEG), through the Institute for Scientific and Technological Research of San Luis Potosi (IPICYT).
Sep 19, 2014
SenseCityVity seeks to address social problems, with support of young students and mobile devices Zona Franca, Mexico
León, Guanajuato- "This is an initial project that seeks to understand how mobile devices can be used to analyze problems in the urban-social context". This is a pilot project that will be done with the participation of a group of students from the CECYTEG high school in the city of Guanajuato.
Jul 23, 2014
SenseCityVity: new project is presented in Mexico EN-CONTRADOS Magazine
“Observe, feel, and share” Is the slogan of the new collaborative project between Mexico and Switzerland, SenseCityVity, presented on Monday evening in the city of Guanajuato by Dr. Salvador Ruiz Correa, Co-Director of the Center for Mobile Life Studies (CMLS), researcher at CIMAT and Professor at IPICYT (Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica.) The objective of this project is to get young people of Guanajuato city to improve the urban surrounding using mobile devices, focusing around a methodology where both scientific thinking and community action join forces for the greater good.
The project contemplates three stages: The first consists in organizing a group of 100 students from the CECYTEG school in smaller groups, so they use their knowledge to detect social problems. Once these are identified, the second stage will commence, which is structured around a four-week long collection of multimedia data obtained with mobile devices, which will allow critical reflection by the students, who will create documentaries to generate problem-solving ideas.
In the third and final stage, the documentaries with be showcased in the city, an activity organized so that the hard work done and the ideas created by the students can be seen and shared with the community.
The project involves the participation of an international group of specialists, with backing of EPFL UNESCO CODEV Chair in the areas of: Information and Computer Science, Sociology, Psychology, Media Communication, and Visual Arts; all of whom are working together towards improving life in the city of Guanajuato.
SenseCityVity: new project is presented
By Mario Espinoza, March 12, 2014
http://en-contrados.com/presentan-sensecityvity/
(Translation Credit: Salvador Ruiz)