Members and collaborators

Type: Member

Laura S. Gaytán-Lugo

Dra. en Tecnologías de Información
laura@ucol.mx

Head of IHC

Professor and researcher at the University of Colima, attached to the Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. She obtained the degree of Doctor of Information Technology from the University of Guadalajara. She focuses on the Human-Computer Interaction area. Her research interests include serious gaming, user experience design, accessibility, and social computing.

She serves as the IHC Latino Community Coordinator (LAIHC). She is Co-Coordinator of the Latin American Committee of ACM SIGCHI. Likewise, she participates as Secretary in the direct table of the Mexican Association of Human-Computer Interaction (AmexIHC). She is also a member of the Executive Committee of ACM-W North America. She belongs to the National System of Researchers of CONACYT.

Publications

• An IoT Braille Display towards Assisting Visually Impaired Students in Mexico
  Ramos-García, O. I., Vuelvas-Alvarado, A. A., Osorio-Pérez, N. A., Ruiz-Torres, M. Á., Estrada-González, F., Gaytan-Lugo, L. S., Fajardo-Flores, S. B., & Santana-Mancilla, P. C. (2022). An IoT Braille Display towards Assisting Visually Impaired Students in Mexico. The 9th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications. https://doi.org/10.3390/ecsa-9-13194
  https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4591/27/1/11
• i-Care: an IoMT Remote Monitoring System Of Physiological Pain in Pediatric Patients
  Guzman-Sandoval, V. M., Gaytan-Lugo, L. S. & Santana-Mancilla, P. C. (2021). i-Care: an IoMT Remote Monitoring System Of Physiological Pain in Pediatric Patients. Proceedings of 2021 Mexican International Conference on Computer Science (ENC). https://doi.org/10.1109/ENC53357.2021.9534829.
  https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9534829
• Desarrollo de un juego serio para adquirir competencias en intervención comunitaria para trabajo social
  Rodríguez-Ortiz M. A., Santana-Mancilla P. C., Gaytán-Lugo L. S., García-Ruiz M. A., Montesinos-López O. A. y Guzmán-Sandoval V. (2021) Desarrollo de un juego serio para adquirir competencias en intervención comunitaria para trabajo social. En Santana-Mancilla P. C., Guerrero-Ibañez J. A., Ramírez J. M. y Fajardo-Flores S. B. (Eds) Tecnologías de información: sus aplicaciones y contribuciones. Universidad de Colima
  https://ww.ucol.mx/publicacionesenlinea/?docto=502
• Accessibility Assessment for Online Education Tools: Towards Accessible Principles for a Mexican University
  Fajardo-Flores, S. B., Gaytan-Lugo, L. S., Santana-Mancilla, P. C. & Rodriguez-Ortiz, M. A. (2021). Accessibility Assessment for Online Education Tools: Towards Accessible Principles for a Mexican University. EAI Endorsed Transactions on e-Learning. https://doi.org/10.4108/eai.17-2-2021.168720
  https://doi.org/10.4108/eai.17-2-2021.168720
• A review of deep learning applications for genomic selection
  Montesinos-López, O. A., Montesinos-López, A., Pérez-Rodríguez, P., Barrón-López, J. A., Martini, J. W. R., Fajardo-Flores, S. B., Gaytan-Lugo, L. S., Santana-Mancilla, P. C. & Crossa, J. (2021). A review of deep learning applications for genomic selection. BMC Genomics 22, 19. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-020-07319-x
  https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-020-07319-x
• Human computer-interaction in Latin America
  Castro, L.A., Gaytán-Lugo, L.S., Santana-Mancilla, P. C., Herskovic, V. & Valderrama Bahamondez, E. C. (2021). Human computer-interaction in Latin America. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-021-01550-3
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-021-01550-3
• An IoMT system for health monitoring in athletes
  García Michel, E., Santana-Mancilla, P. C., Fajardo-Flores, S. B., Gaytan-Lugo, L. S., Pérez Andrade, V. H., Amezcua Cobián, G., Virgen Casillas, O., & Zaizar Fregoso, S. A. (2020). An IoMT system for health monitoring in athletes. Avances En Interacción Humano-Computadora, 5(1), 62-67. https://doi.org/10.47756/aihc.y5i1.68
  https://doi.org/10.47756/aihc.y5i1.68
• Towards an electronic device to facilitate navigation in smartphones to people with motor and visual impairment
  Fajardo-Flores, S. B., Gaytan-Lugo, L. S., Villagrana-Larios, G., & Santana-Mancilla, P. C. (2020). Towards an electronic device to facilitate navigation in smartphones to people with motor and visual impairment. Avances En Interacción Humano-Computadora, 5(1), 68-73. https://doi.org/10.47756/aihc.y5i1.69
  https://doi.org/10.47756/aihc.y5i1.69
• Towards a wearable device for monitoring health of athletes
  Victor Hugo Pérez Andrade, Pedro C. Santana-Mancilla, Silvia B. Fajardo-Flores, Eduardo García Michel, Laura S. Gaytán-Lugo, and Miguel A. Rodríguez-Ortiz. 2019. Towards a wearable device for monitoring health of athletes. In Proceedings of the IX Latin American Conference on Human Computer Interaction (CLIHC '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 19, 1–6. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3358961.3358980
  https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3358961.3358980
• Acceso No Visual a Contenidos Digitales
  Fajardo Flores, S. B., Gaytan-Lugo, L. S., Santana-Mancilla, P. C. & Rodríguez Ortiz, M. A., (2019). Acceso No Visual a Contenidos Digitales. In Castro, L. A. & Rodríguez, M. D., Interacción Humano-Computadora y Aplicaciones en México. Academia Mexicana de Computación.
  https://www.amexcomp.mx/files/InteraccionHumanoComputadora.pdf
• Uso de Juegos Serios para la Enseñanza-Aprendizaje de Competencias en Nivel Superior
  Santana-Mancilla, P. C., Garcia-Ruiz, M. A., Gaytan-Lugo, L. S., Rodríguez Ortiz, M. A. & Fajardo Flores, S. B., (2019). Uso de Juegos Serios para la Enseñanza-Aprendizaje de Competencias en Nivel Superior. In Castro, L. A. & Rodríguez, M. D., Interacción Humano-Computadora y Aplicaciones en México. Academia Mexicana de Computación.
  https://www.amexcomp.mx/files/InteraccionHumanoComputadora.pdf
• "They Don't Leave Us Alone Anywhere We Go" Gender and Digital Abuse in South Asia
  Sambasivan, N., Consolvo, S., Batool, A., Ahmed, N., Matthews, T., Thomas, K., Gaytán-Lugo, L. S., Nemer, D., Bursztein, E., & Churchill, E. (2019). “They Don’t Leave Us Alone Anywhere We Go.” Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI ’19, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300232
  https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300232
• Teaching HCI Skills in Higher Education through Game Design: A Study of Students’ Perceptions
  Santana-Mancilla, P. C., Rodriguez-Ortiz, M. A., Garcia-Ruiz, M. A., Gaytan-Lugo, L. S., Fajardo-Flores, S. B., & Contreras-Castillo, J. (2019). Teaching HCI Skills in Higher Education through Game Design: A Study of Students’ Perceptions. Informatics, 6(2), 22. MDPI AG.
  https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/informatics6020022

Projects

• Project development Software application for natural language processing of primary education texts to support reading comprehension in deaf students: Interinstitutional short term project, funded by CONACYT. The aim of the project was to elaborate an extended, 3-year project, for fostering the reading and writing skills of d/Deaf students in elemen...
• Analysis of respiratory patterns for health monitoring in older adults: Develop an IoMT system for remote monitoring of respiration in older adults to make predictions of possible health risk situations through machine learning techniques.