Pedro Santana

This site contains information about my research and academic interests, current projects, and publications. If you are interested on my not academic life and projects visit my homepage.

Who I am?

I am a Lecturer at the School of Telematics of the Universidad de Colima, and a Software Engineer interested & involved in PHP, C#, Open Source, innovative web 2.0 technologies and trying to make my dreams come true, all that from Mexico.

I spent a year at Create-Net research centre in Italy as an intern researcher, working in the Multimedia, Interaction and Smart Environments Group (MISE) under the supervision of Dr. Oscar Mayora.

At CREATE-NET my research involved to create an aware environment for improving the quality of life, where we may experiment ambient assisted living technologies inspired in the Aware-Home paradigm, from the perspective of the European user.

During my masters degree thesis I work on the Electronic Family Newspaper project, wich aims to provide a technological solution that eases the isolation of elder people living alone in Mexico while their families are abroad, we envisioned a communication tool in the form of a family newspaper through which seniors and their relatives not only maintain close social ties by sharing information, personal reminiscences and cultural stories, but enable them to exercise their minds through its entertainment section, as it has been found that elders experience a cognitive decline as they become older.

My research focus is on Ubiquitous Computing, Autonomous Agents, HCI, Software engineering and Medical Informatics.

I am also affiliated with the Calafia Research Lab at CICESE Research Center in Mexico.

See my projects for more about what I do.

A little more about me

I was born in the state of Jalisco, Mexico in 1980. I moved to Colima, Mexico to study telematics engineering at Universidad de Colima. After that, I worked for UNIVA university as associated professor. In 2003 I got enrolled at CICESE Research Center and UABC university in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico where I got my M.Eng. degree on computer science on HCI and multi-agent systems in the School of Engineering. After that I spent a year in Trento Italy doing research on Human-Computer Interaction.