Group Leader

Luis-Felipe Rodríguez I am a full professor in the Department of Computer Science & Design at Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora, México. My research areas include computational modeling of emotions for virtual agents, cognitive agent architectures, affective human-computer interaction, decision support systems, among others. I am member Level-I of the SNI-Conacyt (National System of Researchers) since 2015.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8114-0299
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=IQRBs04AAAAJ&hl=en


PhD Students

Eduardo Javier Islas Cota is working on the design and development of an Intelligent Assistant to provide social support to informal caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s and other dementias.
Thesis: Effects of an Intelligent Assistant on the perception of social support in caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s and other dementias.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=klBIkcMAAAAJ&hl=es&oi=ao

Marco Antonio Esquer Rochin Is working on the design and evaluation of a tangible tabletop for collecting and analyzing data from people with dementia in day centers to determine the cognitive status of people with dementia through their performance in technology-supported cognitive activities.
Thesis. determining the cognitive status of people with dementia through their performance in technology-supported cognitive activities.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XZf_EKgAAAAJ&hl=es


MSc Students

Luis Carlos Osuna Cuen is working on the design and implementation of a data analysis system for the Dorita de Ojeda day care center, whose purpose is to identify relevant trends in Alzheimer’s patients and generate different types of personalized alerts. These alerts are not only intended to support the work of formal caregivers in the early detection of critical situations, but also to notify them of important events within the center and to keep family members and caregivers informed, thereby strengthening comprehensive and preventive care.
Thesis: Data analysis and alert generation system for the care of Alzheimer’s patients in a day care center.


Master’s Graduates

Tania Arisdelci Barreras Díaz is working on the design and evaluation of a platform that is suitable for use as a decision support tool in different day centers that attend to patients with Alzheimer’s.
Thesis: BI solution to support decision-making and analysis of the evolution of Alzheimer’s patients in day centers.

Jesus Jose Gonzalez Vazquez is working on the design and development of a virtual driver’s persuador that will analyze the driver’s behavior and provide conversational recommenation or try to persuade depending on the driver’s behaviors.
Thesis: Virtual intelligent driver’s persuader system.


Doctoral Graduates

Sergio Castellanos Bustamante is working on projects concerning the computational modeling of emotions, advancing in the understanding of how emotions bias cognitive processes of the brain. His main interest is to define those deterministic functions that describe the relationship between the factors that influence the emotional process (e.g. personality or social norms), through simulations with virtual reality.
Thesis: Emulating the bias caused by factors that influence the emotional evaluation process in intelligent agents.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XgWol_0AAAAJ&hl=es&oi=ao

Enrique Osuna Cuen is working on a formal methodology for the development of computational models of emotions (CMEs). Specifically, he is making an intersection of affective computing and software engineering to create such methodology. The main objective is to facilitate the CMEs development process with the help of software engineering practices.
Thesis: A formal software methodology for the development of computational models of emotion of artificial virtual agents in human-computer interaction scenarios.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ggatmuYAAAAJ&hl=es&oi=ao