Patricia Abril-Jiménez

Patricia Abril-Jiménez
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid | UPM · Departamento de Tecnología Fotónica

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March 2014 - present
Planet Media
Position
  • R&D Proposal Writer
May 2006 - April 2014
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Position
  • Senior Researcher

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El siguiente documento deriva de un Proyecto de Innovación Educativa titulado "Creatividad e Inteligencia Artificial: Desarrollo de espíritu crítico en los futuros trabajadores de la industrial 5.0", orientado a fomentar el uso crítico y creativo de la IA en el ámbito de la educación técnica e industrial. El objetivo es introducir a cualquier pers...
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Within individual mobility, motorbikes are currently playing an in-creasingly important role. It is a vehicle that, due to its characteristics, allows for comfortable, agile and fast travel within large cities, helping to reduce congestion on the saturated streets and roads around them. On the other hand, and given that it is a reduced vehicle in t...
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Digital transformation has a great effect on industries but also in the perception of their products with high consequences on society as a whole, as driver for innovation. However, there are still many barriers to the adoption of digital technologies, especially in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In the present study we propose a new so...
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Recently, the European Commission announced Industry 5.0 as a strategic initiative toward a value-driven industrial transformation. This new paradigm coexists with previous Industry 4.0 revolution that has guided the efforts towards technology driven industrial digitalisation in the past ten years. As part of this Industry 4.0 strategies, numerous...
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Introduction In the process of growing societies, and especially in the digital era we live in, there is a need for a strong push for innovation that puts citizens at the center of the process from the beginning to build more resilient, cooperative and flexible communities. Different collaborative design approaches have emerged in recent decades, o...
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La presente invención se refiere a una botella de tipo reutilizable que permite su rellenado en dos posiciones distintas de la botella.
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This paper discusses the potential benefits of using augmented reality (AR) technology to enhance human–robot collaborative industrial processes. The authors describe a real-world use case at Siemens premises in which an AR-based authoring tool is used to reduce cognitive load, assist human workers in training robots, and support calibration and in...
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Background: The massive use of digital technologies has created a wide number of opportunities to improve Active and Healthy Ageing (AHA) services and products and respond to the socioeconomic and healthcare challenges caused by the growing ageing population. Therefore, a considerable number of digital AHA platforms have been produced in recent yea...
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Hospitals need to optimize patient care, as, among other factors, life expectancy has increased due to improvements in sanitation, nutrition, and medicines. Hospitalization-at-home (HaH) could increase admission efficiency, moderate costs, and reduce the demand for beds. This study aimed to provide data on the feasibility, acceptability, and effect...
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With the new Industry 5.0 future factories can effectively face the aged workforce challenge, making workflows more enriched and flexible and capable to increase work well-being. This paper described how self-quantified worker could be a successful tool to achieve with this with a careful collaborative design. Our vision aims at empowering the aged...
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Behavioral monitoring tools can be proven to be especially helpful for aging workers for whom it is of paramount importance to avoid sedentary lifestyle, decreasing the possibility to exhibit musculoskeletal, cardiovascular and other health/mental related problems, which could impede their workability and job performance. Towards this direction, we...
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Advanced digitalization and other advanced technologies have proven their value to effectively address our social needs and have played a crucial role in the creation and transformation of society itself. Our daily life operates in an increasingly high-tech environment and revolutionize health provision, but also working conditions. Artificial inte...
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Workers in quarries are exposed to extremely physical demanding work that may pose a risk of adverse health consequences, especially at advanced age. Digital technologies can provide support at workplaces to compensate the daily occupational dangers reducing their impact on long term worker health status. The purpose of this study is to identify re...
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Background Impaired motor function is one of the early symptoms shown in patients with Parkinson Disease (PD). For this reason, rehabilitative interventions have been used for many years to improve motor and non-motor symptoms. Among them, the use of music therapy has shown benefits in helping to overcome some of the most common motor dysfunction....
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Background Home hospitalization (HH) has demonstrated to be a cost-effective alternative with respect ti traditional hospitalization. Digital technologies, such as remote monitoring, have the potential to contribute to its expansion. Tailored educational content is a need to ensure patient safety during the whole admission. Purpose The objective o...
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PurposeHospitalization at Home (HaH) has proven to be more efficient and effective than conventional one, but it also requires a higher number of resources and specialised personnel. Information technologies can make this process scalable and allow physicians and nurses to deliver remote healthcare services for patients hospitalized at home. Howeve...
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Background and aims Population ageing is a typical phenomenon of developed countries with a great influence in their economy and society, with an increment on age-related expenditures. Disruptive solutions are needed to deploy new cost-effective and sustainable solutions for aging well and independent living of our seniors. In this sense, new techn...
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City4Age (Elderly-friendly city services for active and healthy ageing) is a research and innovation project funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Programme. The first and core objective of City4Age has been to enable Ambient Assisted Cities or Age-friendly Cities. The project created an innovative framework on ICT tools and serv...
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The ever-growing life expectancy of people requires the adoption of proper solutions for addressing the particular needs of elderly people in a sustainable way, both from service provision and economic point of view. Mild Cognitive Impairments (MCI) and frailty are typical examples of elderly conditions which, if not timely addressed, can turn out...
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Cultural heritage is an important asset of Europe which is largely underexplored. One of the main reasons is that the general public do not really incorporate cultural activities in their life style. Currently, curators and professionals in the heritage sector face the toughest challenges on how to attract, engage and retain visitors of heritage in...
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Ambient assisted living (AAL) is a complex field, where different technologies are integrated to offer solutions for the benefit of different stakeholders. Several evaluation techniques are commonly applied that tackle specific aspects of AAL; however, holistic evaluation approaches are lacking when addressing the needs of both developers and end-u...
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When it comes to user interaction elderly and people with special needs have special requirements, that evolve over time. Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) envisions ubiquitous, intuitive human-machine interaction running on heterogeneous devices (tablets, televisions, smart-phones, etc.) and by means of multiple modalities (graphics, voice, gesture re...
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Nowadays, the new technological advances make possible to offer different services in a complete personalized way, covering the needs of heterogeneous user groups. In the case of elderly users, the acceptance of technology is a key aspect in their motivation to use certain services, and in consequence, the adaptability of the user interfaces is a c...
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During the last years, the EU population is experiencing an increasing aging process. This tendency is motivating the emergence of new needs and the appearance of diverse services and applications oriented improve the quality of life of senior citizens. The creation of such services requires the use of technological advances and design techniques s...
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Nowadays the new technological advances offer the possibility to provide a great number of different personalized services that cover the needs of diverse categories of users. The application of the Ambient Intelligence (AmI) paradigm and the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) concept makes possible the creation of new applications that can significantl...

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