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The Seneca Foundation has recognized the excellence of a new research group at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT), the electronic design and processing techniques signal, which will develop over the next years a project on emotional technology "a frontier of knowledge ", as described by Jose Manuel Ferrandez, principal investigator.
"So far we based the relationship between computers and humans in cognitive brain level, not on emotional impulses that underlie and are equally or more relevant when making decisions," he argues.
"The emotional technologies propel began in 2010 and currently its economic impact is estimated at 9,000 million euros, but is expected to increase to 42,000 million in 2020," says Vice Chancellor also Internationalization of the Polytechnic.
Among the lines of research that will develop are social robotics, so that robots can interpret the emotions of users and try to improve your mood or alert in case of critical situations and environmental intelligence, so that " own domicile of the individual detected through behavioral patterns, emotional state of the person nonintrusive sensors, "says co-principal investigator, Ramon Ruiz, who already participated in the electronic development of sensor nodes for monitoring homes for the elderly.
Another of the technologies that work these researchers from the Polytechnic, called Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Emotional, seeks to observe the patterns of brain activation to allow the user to interact with the computer or enable mobility systems.
"Is also used in neuromarketing to identify the emotions that processes the limbic system," says Ferrandez.
"Emotions do not lie," he adds.
Detection of emotions through speech is another line of research, with application in the early discovery of early neuronal diseases such as Parkinson's or Alzheimer's.
Health utility also would be the fifth project development path, to work in neuroprótesis of deep brain stimulation for the electrical treatment of patients with emotional disorders.
"The project is very ambitious and seek international collaboration with other research groups to meet these social needs," notes Ferrández.
Seneca, Science and Technology Agency of the Region of Murcia, Foundation has awarded funding to four other groups of the Polytechnic of Cartagena in its last call for Aid Groups and Units Scientific Excellence.
The group Electronic design and signal processing techniques make it up 14 researchers and also has external collaboration of experts as Pedro Gómez Vilda, Eduardo Fernandez and honoris causa of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena Rafael Rebolo.
"We are a diverse and multidisciplinary group" says Ruiz.
The group is also involved in projects vision processing systems and astrophysics instrumentation, working with the European Space Agency.
Source: UPCT
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