A dissemination project of the University of Valencia on Neurosciences, Augmented Reality and Artificial Neural Networks is awarded

  • Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit
  • January 16th, 2019
 
(From left to right). Francisco Grimaldo, Emilia López-Iñesta, Jesús Gimeno, Marcos Fernández, Lucía Hipólito and Daniel García-Costa.
(From left to right). Francisco Grimaldo, Emilia López-Iñesta, Jesús Gimeno, Marcos Fernández, Lucía Hipólito and Daniel García-Costa.

The work, called Synapsis UV-FPJ, is a scientific dissemination project on Artificial Intelligence that consists in bringing science closer to citizens through activities that show the latest advances in this field.

Synapsis UV-FPJ has been developed by a research team of the Higher Technical School of Engineering, the Faculty of Pharmacy and the one of Teacher Training and the Institute of Robotics of Information Technology and Communications of the University of Valencia, with the collaboration of the Falla Plaça de Jesús Cultural Association. The project has received the second prize for the best dissemination work of Artificial Intelligence by the Catalan Association of Artificial Intelligence.

Within UV-FPJ project, scientific dissemination articles are carried out, debates such as Real neurons vs. artificial neurons, and lectures at the Brain Awareness Week.

The proposal is for situations that attract large crowds. For example, in 2018 Valencian Fallas, a virtual reality application was created for mobile phones with which a virtual brain could be explored by listening to the sound produced by the activation of the neurons. In addition, you could interact with different information cards about scientific articles.

The research team of the project is formed by Francisco Grimaldo, Emilio Soria and Daniel García (ETSE-UV); Lucía Hipólito and Yolanda Campos (Pharmacy); Emilia López (Teacher Training); Jesús Gimeno and Marcos Fernández (IRTIC-UV); Juan José Medina and Ramón Solaz (FPJ).

In addition, Synapsis UV-FPJ has had the support of the Spanish Society of Neuroscience, the European Federation of Neuroscientific Societies, the DANA Foundation and the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit Chair for Scientific Dissemination of the University of Valencia.