Members and collaborators

Type: Member

Silvia B. Fajardo-Flores

Dra.
medusa@ucol.mx

Head of Accessibility

Engineer in Computer Systems from the Technological Institute of Colima, Master in Information Technology from Monash University (Australia), and PhD in Computer Science from the Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (France).

She worked for more than 10 years as Production Coordinator at the Centro Universitario de Producción de Medios Didácticos (now Dirección General de Recursos Educativos) at the Universidad de Colima, and since 2004 she has been an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Telematics. Her research interests are human-computer interaction, digital accessibility, usability, and educational technology for inclusion.

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
• Tecnologías para la inclusión de estudiantes con discapacidad
  Lepe. F. I., Cortés, T. Y., Fajardo, S. B., Castro, L. A., & Santana-Mancilla, P. C. (2021). Tecnología para la inclusión de estudiantes con discapacidad. Colima, Col: Universidad de Colima.
  https://ww.ucol.mx/publicacionesenlinea/?docto=497
• Tecnologías de información: sus aplicaciones y contribuciones
  Santana-Mancilla, P. C., Guerrero, J. A., Ramírez, J. M. & Fajardo, S. B. (2021). Tecnología de información: sus aplicaciones y contribuciones. Colima, Col: 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
• 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
• 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.