O Laboratório de Biomecânica da Universidade do Porto (LABIOMEP-UP) foi criado com a intenção de congregar os esforços da massa crítica da Universidade do Porto nos domínios da Biomecânica, sejam eles dedicados ao ensino, investigação e extensão universitária, nos domínios desportivo, forense, clínico, da saúde e da segurança, da ergonomia, etc. Trata-se, portanto, de uma unidade de vocação transversal à generalidade dos territórios da Universidade e, por isso, eminentemente trans e interdisciplinar.

Dedicando-se ao estudo das causas e dos efeitos das forças e tensões geradas e aplicadas pelos e aos sistemas biológicos e aos dispositivos protéticos e ortópticos, o LABIOMEP-UP recorre à medição e processamento de dados relativos a forças internas e externas aos sistemas biológicos e aos seus efeitos, nomeadamente cinemáticos e plásticos, os domínios de operação alongam-se da dinamometria à cinemetria, passando pela eletromiografia, morfometria (interna – recorrendo a imagem médica – e externa – recorrendo a levantamento de forma planar e 3D), termografia e bioenergética. Em qualquer destes espaços, e particularmente no domínio da sua interpretação cruzada e integrada, a informática está recorrentemente presente, seja através de aplicações “cliente”, seja através de soluções dedicadas vocacionadas para a solução de problemas específicos. Este é, obviamente, um casamento virtuoso: dos que fluem sem que se percebam grandes tensões entre os méritos e limitações de cada parte. Pelo contrário: não podem já viver uns sem os outros…

“Investigação, ensino e serviços em Biomecânica: um casamento virtuoso com a informática” será apresentada dia 28 de junho, às 15:00, na sala B011 da FEUP, com a moderação do Prof. Rui Camacho (DEI).

“João Paulo Vilas-Boas was born in 1960; Full Professor of Biomechanics at the University of Porto, Faculty of Sport, since 2004; Head of LABIOMEP-UP – Porto Biomechanics Laboratory, University of Porto; ISBS Geoffrey Dyson Award 2022; Invited Full Professor of Biomechanics at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto, since 2009; resident of the International Council Biomechanics and Medicine in Swimming (icBMS); Head of the Biomechanics Laboratory of the University of Porto (LABIOMEP); Member of the Scientific Committee of the Doctoral Course in Sport Sciences of the University of Porto; Member of the Scientific Committee of the Doctoral Course in Physiotherapy of the University of Porto; Member of the Scientific Committee of the Doctoral Course in Occupational Health and Safety of the University of Porto; Member of the Direction Board of the Research Unit CIF2D / FCT; Participant and responsible for several financed research and co-promotion applied research projects; Promoter, co-promoter or advisor of more than 40 Ph.D. defended thesis in Portugal and abroad; Promoter of more than 95 M.Sc. dissertations; teaches Biomechanics and Swimming Science at graduation and post-graduation courses of Sport Sciences, Bioengineering, Physiotherapy and Podiatry in a number of universities in Portugal and abroad; Invited speaker at more than 220 scientific and professional meetings; Author of more than 760 presentations to scientific and professional meetings; Author of more than 420 scientific papers internationally published under peer review process, from which more than 290 indexed at SCOPUS (h-Index=32); Author and / or editor of 14 books with national or international circulation;

Editorial boards member of: Journal of Swimming Research; Springer Book Series: Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics (LNCVB); Journal for Computational Vision and Biomechanics; Revista Brasileira de Docência, Ensino e Pesquisa em Educação Física, Faculdade Central de Cristalina, Brazil; Motricidade; International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Review Editor of: Frontier in Bioengineering – Biomechanics.

Associated Editor of: Sports Biomechanics; Portuguese Journal of Sport Sciences; International Journal on Multidisciplinary Approaches to Innovation (IJMAI).

Peer Review boards of more than 30 international journals.

Chairman of the X International Symposium on Biomechanics and Medicine in Swimming, Porto 2006; Co-chairman of the XXIX International Conference on Biomechanics in Sports, ISBS’2011, Porto; Swimming coach for more than 20 years, having participated at European and World Championships; Six times proposed and three times elected “Coach of the Year” of the Portuguese Swimming Coaches Association ; Three times Swimming Teams Portuguese National Champion (Futebol Clube do Porto); Coached bronze medalists in Dunkerque and Malta European Junior Swimming Championships; Olympic Coach at Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004; Member of the board of the Portuguese Swimming Federation between December 2004 and 2008; President of the General Assembly of the Portuguese Swimming Federation from 2008 to 2012; Member of the Board of the Olympic Committee of Portugal since 2012; Vice-President of the Olympic Committee of Portugal since 2021.”

A décima segunda sessão das Creativity Talks terá como oradora a distinta investigadora da Universidade do Minho, Fátima Morais, sobre “O indivíduo criativo: da confluência de requisitos aos desafios da cognição”.

“A criatividade explica-se na conceção de uma rede de variáveis em interação, pessoais e sociais. Todavia, o foco deste trabalho estará no indivíduo, o ator inicial da gestação de uma ideia criativa.  Mais do que tentar responder ao que criatividade é, refletir-se-á o que um indivíduo criativo requer – o termo “requisitos” implica potencialmente a operacionalização de conceitos, logo, uma postura proactiva e concreta de promoção. Neste contexto, após se entender o indivíduo criativo como uma confluência de diferentes dimensões, ter-se-á como alvo de maior detalhe a sua cognição. Os processos cognitivos criativos são as ferramentas que tipicamente marcam, em qualidade e em maior frequência de utilização, os indivíduos que provocam inovação. Esta análise carregará a responsabilidade de que tais ferramentas sejam aplicadas e promovidas no quotidiano de todos – serão partilhados variados exemplos desse desafio educativo. Espera-se que tal partilha permita novas ideias nas práticas de quem nos escuta.”

Maria de Fátima Morais é licenciada em Psicologia pela Universidade do Porto e doutorada em Psicologia da Educação pela Universidade do Minho. Nesta última Universidade, é Professora Auxiliar do Instituto de Educação. É investigadora integrada do Centro de Investigação em Educação (CIEd) na Universidade do Minho. É membro da Associação Nacional para o Estudo Intervenção na Sobredotação (ANEIS) e da Rede Internacional de Investigação, Intervenção e Avaliação em Altas Capacidades Intelectuais (REINEVA). Pertence ao Conselho Científico e Editorial de algumas revistas. Tem feito consultadoria a associações de estudo e de promoção da criatividade (exs: Torrance Center Portugal; ANEIS) e tem publicações a nível nacional e internacional acerca desse tema.

A sessão terá lugar dia 22 de junho, às 18:00, na sala B008 da FEUP, e contará com a moderação de Manuel Firmino Torres, Professor do DEI. Será igualmente transmitida via Youtube.

A entrada é livre mas a inscrição necessária.

“Internet of Things and Security” será apresentada quarta feira, 21 de junho, às 14:45, na sala B006, com a moderação do Prof. António Pimenta Monteiro, docente do DEI.

Pelo autor:

“Internet of things (IoT) as a new discipline has emerged since more than two decades, it is a technology vision to widen the classic Internet by integrating new applications and connecting physical devices (such as sensors, actuators …). Reinforced by AI, IoT has gained a broad presence over different economic sectors, namely industry, agriculture, transportation, logistics, health, management of cities and homes … According to some criteria of energy autonomy, distance and smartness level, several connection types and protocols are available. Similarly as for the OSI or TCP/IP models for computer networks, IoT could be also perceived as a succession of at least three layers (Edge layer, Fog layer, and Cloud layer). Some connection protocols, such as RFID, ZigBee, WIFI, NB-IoT, and LoraWAN, are used for the communication infrastructure, while other protocols such as MQTT, CoAP, and HTTP are considered at the application level. With the advent of Industry 4.0, the proliferation of IoT was intensified, leading to the emergence of smarthomes, smartcities, smartfactories, industrial IoT (IIoT), Medical IoT (MIoT) … IoT combined with AI and data engineering is transforming our daily lives and environments. Meanwhile, this wide use of IoT is facing real security threats that could disrupt the availability of the services or inject fake data streaming. Unfortunately, most of the used devices are not prepared to protect themselves, and do not assure the least level of security. In this talk, we will present some concepts, technologies, and applications of IoT; then, we will deal with the IoT security aspect and raise awareness on this topic.
Keywords: IoT/IIoT, Industry 4.0, Smart devices, AI, IoT layers, IoT protocols, Security.

Mostafa AZIZI received a State Engineer degree in Automation and Industrial Computing from the Engineering School EMI of Rabat, Morocco in 1993, then a Master degree in Automation and Industrial Computing from the Faculty of Sciences of Oujda, Morocco in 1995, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Montreal, Canada in 2001. He also earned tens of certifications in Programming, Networking, AI, Computer Security … He is currently a Professor at the department of computer engineering, ESTO, University Mohammed 1st of Oujda. His research interests include Security and Networking, AI, Software Engineering, IoT, and Embedded Systems. His research findings with his team are published in over 100 peer-reviewed communications and papers. He also served as PC member and reviewer in several international conferences and journals (See https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qlTcK5MAAAAJ).”

A criatividade é um dos recursos mais preciosos do ser humano. Devemos-lhe a nossa civilização, a nossa cultura e todos os benefícios que as artes, a ciência ou a tecnologia oferecem. Atualmente, vivemos dos resultados produzidos por pessoas criativas ao longo dos tempos. Neste sentido, a criatividade é inesgotável. A criatividade cria criatividade. Podemos definir a criatividade como a capacidade de transformar ideias e conhecimentos para obter novos conhecimentos. O pensamento e a ação criativos geram novos pensamentos e ações criativos. A criatividade é contagiosa e, por isso, contagia as pessoas que nos rodeiam. Esta é a ideia que será explorada na palestra de Katja Tschimmel. Nesta abordagem, não se centrará apenas no indivíduo criativo – o artista, o designer, o escritor ou o cientista – mas pretende compreender a pessoa criativa como parte integrante de um sistema complexo. Um sistema vivo que pode ser um grupo de pessoas, uma equipa, uma organização, uma cidade ou/e toda a sociedade. Esta Conversa sobre Criatividade tem como objetivo contagiar a audiência com criatividade, 1. oferecendo conhecimentos sobre o fenómeno da criatividade e 2. inspirando a geração de novas ideias e conhecimentos através de informações, imagens e pequenos exercícios de pensamento.

 “The Creativity Virus” será apresentada por Katja Tschimmel no dia 4 de maio, às 18:00, sala B021.  A sessão será moderada pelo Prof. João José Pinto Ferreira e será transmitida via Youtube

Entrada livre mas inscrição necessária.

Short-Bio:

Katja Tschimmel, German by birth and Portuguese by choice, is a consultant and executive trainer, researcher and lecturer, coach, and conference speaker. Having a Ph.D. in Design and a Master in Applied Creativity, Katja researches and works in the fields of Creative Thinking, Design Thinking, Creative Processes and Innovation for more than 25 years. She is the author of several books and articles about Creativity and Innovation. Katja Tschimmel is the managing owner of MINDSHAKE, a Consultancy in Creative Thinking and Design (www.mindshake.pt). She is also a Guest Professor at the University of Porto (FEP/FEUP) and Porto Business School, giving Master Classes in several other educational higher institutions in Portugal and abroad. Since January 2023, she is the Portuguese Ambassador of the World Creativity and Innovation Week (https://wciw.org/)

“Network construction from data and network visualization” será apresentada na quarta feira, 26 de abril, às 14:30, sala I-105, e será moderada pelo Prof. Rui Camacho, docente do DEI.

Pela autora:

“The lecture will show how to extract data from vector data in the form of a network – and how the analysis of the constructed network helps to improve the results of classical datamining, e.g. to reveal otherwise undetectable relationships.  The advantage of networks is that the data is extended with links between certain (similar) pairs of data objects.

If we focus on biomedical data, the network approach is one of the innovative multivariate approaches to analyze complex biomedical datasets.  Patient profile similarities are essential for observers to study and visually assess relationships between groups of similar patients, and to do this, patient data is converted into a patient similarity network.”

Bio

Dr. Eliška Ochodková is an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VŠB – Technical University Ostrava. She holds a Master’s degree in computer science from Palacký University in Olomouc and a PhD degree in computer science ( in cryptography) from VŠB – TU Ostrava.

Her research interests are social network analysis (network science) and bioinformatics, focusing on the analysis of biomedical data using network construction from biomedical data.  Currently she is also working on new methods for protein complex detection and information processing and retrieval from microarray data.

She teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses related to data analysis and cryptography. She is a Deputy Head of the Department of Computer Science at home university.

“At the intersection of job quality and innovation” será apresentada quarta feira, 12 de abril, às 14:30, na sala B021, com a moderação do Prof. António Coelho, docente do DEI.

Pelo autor:

“The link between innovation and job quality is increasingly elaborated in empirical studies (Duhautois, et al. 2020; Laursen & Foss 2014; Mathieu & Boethius 2021, 2022; Muñoz de Bustillo, et al. 2022). Job quality has been found to be linked to both the generation of innovations as well as the implementation of externally generated innovations at the workplace level. This presentation examines the mechanisms and cumulative factors behind these processes drawing primarily from a Horizon 2020 project (quinne.eu) examining the generative relationship between job quality and innovation in nine industries, from computer games to healthcare, across the EU (Mathieu & Boethius 2021, 2022).”

Chris Mathieu is a sociologist of work and organization at the Department of Sociology, Lund University. From 2003-2014 he was at the Department of Organisation, Copenhagen Business School. His primary field of research is the organization and quality of working life. From 2015-2018 he was coordinator of the Horizon 2020 project QuInnE (quinne.eu) – Quality of Jobs and innovation Generated Employment Outcomes. In this project he was responsible for studies of innovation and work in the computer games industry and specialist healthcare. He was editor of the Oxford Handbook of Job Quality (OUP, 2022) with Chris Warhurst and Rachel Dwyer. In addition to innovation, job quality and employment issues, he has also published widely on specialist surgical training, gender in organisations, and cultural policy and production, especially inter-occupational collaboration and career in the film industry (see Mathieu & Visanich (2022) Accomplishing Cultural Policy in Europe: Financing, Governance and Responsiveness; Mathieu (2012) Careers in Creative Industries, Routledge).

“This talk is an exploratory tour through this brave new world, and its consequences to our field and to Computer Science (CS) education”, antecipa a oradora de uma apresentação num tópico que, fruto dos avanços da Inteligência Artificial (IA) em “Large Language Models (LLMs)”, mediaticamente expostos pelo ChatGPT, promete revolucionar o desenvolvimento de software.

“The End of Programming (as we know it)” será apresentada pela Prof. Cristina Videira Lopes, com moderação do Prof. João Paulo Fernandes, no dia 23 de março, 18:00, na sala B035, com transmissão online via Youtube.

Pela oradora:

“For the past 80 years, “programming” meant translating a high-level, semi-formal specification of a desired effect from natural language into computer instructions, using an artificial programming language. Mastering these translations requires domain knowledge of algorithms and data structures, talent, and years of practice. Large Language Models (LLMs) are disrupting the very notion of “programming.” The disruption is profound, and at two levels: (1) LLMs are capable of doing those translations automatically, and (2) many of the desired effects can be obtained without the use of algorithms or data structures. This talk is an exploratory tour through this brave new world, and its consequences to our field and to CS education.”

Short-Bio:

Cristina (Crista) Lopes is a Professor in the School of Information and Computer Sciences at University of California, Irvine, with research interests in Programming Languages, Software Engineering, and Distributed Virtual Environments. She is an IEEE Fellow and an ACM Distinguished Scientist. She is the recipient of the 2016 Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest for her work in the OpenSimulator virtual world platform. Her book “Exercises in Programming Style” has gained rave reviews, including being chosen as “Notable Book” by the ACM Best of Computing reviews.

“Computational Inaesthetics: Expanding the Boundaries of Artistic Research and Computational Aesthetics” será apresentada sexta feira, 24 de março, às 14:30, sala I-105, com a moderação do Prof. António Coelho, docente do DEI.

Pelo autor:

“The increasing use of digital technologies in artistic practice, coupled with the recent emergence of AI, has led to a growing intersection and mutual influence between two related fields: artistic research and computational aesthetics. Artistic research involves using artistic practices to generate new insights and understandings about the world and reflect critically on the process of creating art. In contrast, computational aesthetics involves the theory, practice, and implementation of aesthetics within the domain of computing, and in its most formal version relies on mathematical and computational methods to generate and evaluate art.

However, there has been criticism of computational aesthetics for failing to account for the subjective and non-algorithmic nature of aesthetic experience. Nonetheless, this presentation proposes a practical framework that seeks to resolve this critique by highlighting an expanded view of computational aesthetics, which the presenter terms Computational Inaesthetics.

Through the discussion of basic concepts and principles of artistic research and computational aesthetics, and through the analysis of a selection of artworks by the presenter, the presentation explores the ways in which these fields can inform and enhance each other. Furthermore, the presentation provides an overview of the artistic contents and theoretical underpinnings of the presenter’s artistic research PhD project.

Overall, this presentation showcases the exciting potential of bringing together artistic research and computational aesthetics to expand our understanding of aesthetics, art, creativity, and the role of technology and computation in society.”

Martinus Suijkerbuijk is an artist, designer and engineer that currently is working towards completing his artistic research PhD at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Norway. His artistic research is focused on the concept of Computational Aesthetics, which he explores through the use of AI empowered Artificial Aesthetic Agents (AAA) in virtual environments. His diverse background has enabled him to present his research and work at cultural institutions such as ZKM and MetaMorf, as well as technology conferences like CHI 2018 and Philips Trend Event.

“Driving Simulators for the Study of Road Users’ Behaviour” será apresentado terça-feira, 7 de março, às 17:15, na sala B012.

“To be efficient and accepted, road safety counter-measures need to be defined thanks to scientific studies. The question is not only to imagine an optimal solution in the absolute, but to understand the real practices and, based on this knowledge, to design the measures (sensitivity campaigns, changes in Highway Code, changes in initial training curriculum or licence tests, infrastructure (re)design, vehicles homologations, etc.). In our talk we will describe the tools and methods we promote and refined for decades to improve road safety, and their use in research projects. Our approach is systemic and is based on three pillars: instrumentation of vehicles for in-depth naturalistic studies, traffic modelling and simulation using a multi-agents system, and design of driving simulators to study driving behaviors. We will illustrate our approach using research projects we have conducted over these last years.”

Stéphane ESPIÉ is a Research Director at the Gustave Eiffel University. He holds an Accreditation to Direct Research in Computer Science (HdR, Pierre et Marie Curie University, 2004). His main research areas are behavioral traffic simulation (MAS based), and the design of tools to study road user behaviors (driving/riding simulators and instrumented vehicles). He currently conducts his research in SATIE laboratory (Paris Saclay university) where he leads the MOSS (Methods and Tools for Signals and Systems) research group.

“Jan N. van Rijn holds a tenured position as assistant professor at Leiden University (ada.liacs.nl), where he works in the computer science department (LIACS) and Automated Design of Algorithms cluster (ADA).

His research interests include artificial intelligence, automated machine learning (AutoML) and meta-learning.

He obtained his PhD in Computer Science in 2016 at Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University (the Netherlands).

During his PhD, he developed OpenML.org, an open science platform for machine learning, enabling sharing of machine learning results.

He made several funded research visits to the University of Waikato (New Zealand) and the University of Porto (Portugal).

After obtaining his PhD, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Machine Learning lab at the University of Freiburg (Germany), headed by Prof. Dr. Frank Hutter, after which he moved to work as a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University in the City of New York (USA). His research aim is to democratize access to machine learning and artificial intelligence across societal institutions, by developing knowledge and tools that support domain experts.

He is one of the authors of the book `Metalearning: Applications to Automated Machine Learning and Data Mining’ (published by Springer).”

”AutoML and Meta-learning for Neural Network Robustness Verification” será apresentada dia 25 de janeiro, às 14:45, na sala B006 – a entrada é livre, são todos bem vindos.

Abstract: Artificial intelligence is being increasingly integrated in modern society, with applications ranging from self-driving cars to medicine development. However, artificial intelligence models (in particular neural networks) have been notoriously known for being susceptible for various forms of attacks, including adversarial attacks. In a bid to make these models more trustworthy, the field of neural network robustness verification aims to determine to which degree a given network is susceptible to such an attack. This is a very time consuming task, that can greatly benefit from the various advances that the Automated Machine Learning and meta-learning community have made.

In this talk, it will be explained the basis of automated machine learning and meta-learning, and the speaker will talk about their research on applying this to robustness verification. He will also explain how the community can further engage in this endevour towards trustworthy artificial intelligence.