Short bio
Dr Cristina Portalés is a Ramón y Cajal post-doc fellow at the Institute of Robotics and Information and Communication Technology (IRTIC) at Universitat de València (Spain), where she currently works as full PhD senior researcher, being the Technical Manager of the H2020-SILKNOW project (SC6-CULT-COOP-09). She is also professor of Data Visualization at the School of Engineering, at the same university. She had formerly graduated with a double degree: Engineer in Geodesy and Cartography from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain) and MSc in Surveying and Geoinformation from the Technische Universität Wien (Austria). She was a research fellow at the Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (Vienna, 1999-2002), a PhD research fellow at the Mixed Reality Laboratory of the University of Nottingham (UK, 2005) and at the Interaction and Entertainment Research Centre of the Nanyang University of Singapore (2006). She carried out her PhD. at the Fine Arts School of the UPV, with the title “Augmented Reality Multimedia Environments in the Arts Field”, which received an outstanding award by the UPV. First woman receiving the EH Thompson Award (best paper), given by the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society (2010). Author of +80 scientific publications. S&T program committee of diverse international conferences (e.g. ACM SIGCHI ACE, GECCO, ISMAR). She is Deputy Editor of the scientific journal Multimodal Technologies and Interaction (MTI) (Scopus Indexed). Her research interests are focused on computer vision, augmented reality and digital Cultural Heritage. She has a strong interdisciplinary profile and has special interest in the emerging collaborative work between ICT and SSH researchers.
Journal Positions
Co-Editor-in-Chief. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction (MTI).
Editor-in-Chief: Mark Billinghurst. Co-Editor-in-Chief: Cristina Portalés.
Guest Editor. Special Issue "Love and Sex with Robots", MTI.
Guest Editors: Adrian D. Cheok, Cristina Portalés & Chamari Edirisinghe.
Deadline: 20/12/2016.
Guest Editor. Special Issue "Virtual Reality and Games", MTI.
Guest Editors: Carolina Cruz-Neira, Marcos Fernández & Cristina Portalés.
Deadline: 31/08/2017.
Guest Editor. Special Issue "Digital Cultural Heritage", MTI.
Guest Editors: Cristina Portalés Ricart, João M. F. Rodrigues, Alexandra Rodrigues Gonçalves, Esther Alba Pagán & Jorge Sebastián Lozano.
Deadline: 28/03/2018.
Journal Reviewer and/or Editorial Review Board
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
International Journal of Climatology
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
International Journal of Computer Vision and Image Processing (IJCVIP)
International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics (IJCICG)
British Journal of Education, Society & Behavioural Science (BJESBS)
Conference S&T Programme Committee
2018. ISMAR – IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (Reviwer). CORE A*.
2018. GECCO – Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (Reviewer). CORE A.
2017. LSR – Love and Sex with Robots (Reviewer)
2017. ISMAR – IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (Reviwer). CORE A*.
2017. GECCO – Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. CORE A.
2017. BIOSCOPE – Internatinal conference on BIOmedical Smart COmPutation and Engineering (Technical Program Commitee)
2016. LSR – Love and Sex with Robots (Program Committee)
2016. ISMAR – IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (S&T programme committee - Europe). CORE A*.
2016. ICCTICT – IEEE International Conference on Computational Techniques in Information and Communication Technologies (Technical programme committee / reviewer board)
2016. ACC – Conferencia Internacional Arte, Ciencia, Ciudad (Technical programme committee / reviewer board)
2013. ICEC – International Conference on Entertainment Computing (Program Committee)
2011. ICEC – International Conference on Entertainment Computing (Program Committee)
2009. ICEC – International Conference on Entertainment Computing (Program Committee)
2009. ACE – ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (Program Committee)
2008. ACE – ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (Program Committee)
2008. DIMEA – ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts (Program Committee)
2005. ACE – ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (Program Committee)
Prizes
2010. EH Thompson Award. Given by the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society for the paper: C Portalés, JL Lerma and C Pérez, 2009. Photogrammetry and augmented reality for cultural heritage applications. The Photogrammetric Record, 24(128): 316-331. First (and unique) woman winning this prize as main author.
2009. Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award, given by Universidad Politécnica de Valencia.
2000. San Isidoro Award. Given by Instituto Cartográfico Valenciano (ICV) for having the best student record of Tech. Engineer in Topography (promotion 1996-1999).
Research interests
Data Visualization
Digital Cultural Heritageg
Image Analysis
Computer Vision
Augmented Reality
Human-Computer Interaction
3D Acquisition & Reconstruction
Geometric Calibration
Multispectral Imaging
Artificial Intelligence
Arts/Science/Technology
Interdisciplinarity
Interesting
Multimodal Technologies and Interaction (MTI)
AWE 2014 Hiroshi Ishii (MIT) Keynote - Beyond Tangible Bits Towards Radical Atoms
Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?”
Goleman (1998). What makes a leader?