Passos Laboratory

Room monitoring with Arduino

Arduino is a open hardware platform targeted to be used by beginners (here we are). Our primary objective is to check whenever the room lights are on, if the air-con temperature is inadequate and also (as a bonus) the humidity in the room.

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Arduino to the rescue
Whispering to pseudo-real voice

Most research done on whispering voice works basicaly on a text to voice manner. Our study tries to reconstruct the whispering signal without intermediates.

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Whispering voice transformation
Suction Cup Transducers

Fetal heart monitoring is still done mostly making use of a cumbersome belt to hold the doppler on the abnominal wall. In this study, we propose the use of suction cups to hold the transducers in place.

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Fetal Heart Tracing
Distributed Data Mining

Crawling web pages has been a well known technique to retrieve information from the Internet. In this study we propose a distributed aproach for web crawling based on the master-slave model and a communication protocol in order to avoid slaves to download repeated contend.

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Web Crawling
Information Privacy

The use of face-matching programs in surveillance is real and can easily find criminals that pass in front of such cameras. But how much of our own privacy are we willing to give up in order for this technology to advance?

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Privacy

University Courses

Learning is a process that happens inside and outside of the classroom. Here you can find some material I've been using in my classes.

If you are my student, you will be familiar with the material. If not, fell free to use it and I hope it can be useful.

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Research

From interface design to technology surveys, we are interested in every subject related to IT and society.

You can check our current and past projects here.

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Publications

Publications are as important as researching. Publishing your work is a way to contribute to human body of knowledge and to show others what you are doing. Here, you will find our laboratory publications.

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About our laboratory

In the IT and Communication laboratory we aim to research about the influence of technology in our lives during worktime or leisure. Here, we are not worried about using leading-edge technology but how current technology can be used to enhance our lives.

Students are welcome to propose any topic they have interest for further research. For a list of our current research topics please check our research page.

We believe that having strong IT skills is not only a differential for students future but also will help them to better understand their surroundings.

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Room monitoring with Arduino

Whispering to pseudo-real voice

Suction Cup Transducers

Distributed Data Mining

Information Privacy

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