Curriculum
Vitae
 
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Current Position

• Full-time Assistant Professor
  Department of Information and Communication Technologies
  Universitat Pompeu Fabra
• Coordinator (and co-designer) of the official master program: Interdisciplinary Master in Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media. Since its start: September 2007.

Former Positions

• Secretary of the
  Institute for Audiovisual Studies: July 2005 - September 2007.

Education

• Doctorate in Audio-visual Communication specialising in Virtual Reality Department of Audio-visual Communication, New Technologies Area. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2001.
• Master in Computer Graphics, Image Processing & Artificial Intelligence Unitat de Processament d’Imatge i Intel·ligència Artificial Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 1993.
• Computer Science Engineer Facultat d’Informàtica Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 1991.

Invited Talks

• "Interactive entertainment, virtual reality and augmented reality", chair of the panel within "iEnter: Workshop on interactive entertainment", CaixaFòrum, February 28-29, 2008.
• "Interaction-driven design: for playful creative experiences and robotics" within "Robots at Play 2007 – Denmark’s second international robot festival", RoboCluster & University of Southern Denmark, Denmark, 23-25 August, 2007.
• "Interaction-driven design: start from user's behaviour" within the special session on "Research Philosophies in Children's Technology Design" at IDC2007 (Interaction Design and Children), Aalborg, Denmark, June 6, 2007.
• "Interactive Leisure: Challenges & Experiences" invited to "Robots at Play, Robotfestival" by RoboCluster & University of Southern Denmark, Denmark, September, 2006.
• "Designing interaction with visual stimuli for low functioning children with autism: criteria & strategies to engage them." within the symposium "Virtual Reality, Associated Technologies and Rehabilitation", University of Haifa, Israel. June, 2006.
• “Interactive Leisure Experiences” invited to "Development of attractions on a digital platform" by Odense Technical College, Denmark, December, 2005.
• "Interaction design to provide a sense of agency in low functioning PAS children through an expressive multimodal experience." within the conference "Virtual Reality, Associated Technologies and Rehabilitation", University of Haifa, Israel. March, 2005.
• “Interaction-driven design. Dealing with socialization, dialogue and meaning through three projects: Lightpools, MEDIATE & Water Games” invited by the Vision Imaging and Virtual Environments group, University College London, November, 2004.
• "Virtual Reality after Simulation. Life after death?" at the meeting "Cognitive Issues of CHIPS Design" of the "CHIPS: Creative Imagination and Social Use" IST Thematic Network, UPF, October 2002, Barcelona.
• "An Interaction-driven Strategy for Virtual Reality Applications" at "CAiiA-STAR Symposium. Extreme Parameters: new dimensions of interactivity", UOC & CAiiA-STAR, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, July, 2001, Barcelona.
• "An Interaction-driven Strategy for Virtual Reality Applications" at the "VR World Congress", sponsored by Electronic Publishing of the IST, EC, UPF, June 2001, Barcelona.
• "Aproximació informàtica a les propietats específiques de la Realitat Virtual, com a mitjà audiovisual digital interactiu generat a temps real, a través del projecte interdisciplinari GALERIA VIRTUAL", Computer Vision Center (CVC), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, May 2001.
• "Galeria Virtual" within "Vision, perception & virtual culture", Fine Arts Faculty, Universitat Politècnica de València, February 2001, València.
• "Galeria Virtual" within "Technology & Imagination", Universidad de Murcia, July 2000, Cieza.
• "Use & Abuse of New Technologies", Visions de Futur’99, Science Museum of the Fundació "la Caixa", April 1999, Barcelona (with J. Wagensberg, C. Gianetti, R. Parés).
• VR Experts Meeting of the European Commission DGXIII/E-4, Luxemburg, February 4, 1999.
• "Topophonia: Terrestrial Music" at Ontario Art Gallery, invited by the McLuhan Program, University of Toronto (Canada), 1994.

Organized Activities

• Special Interest Group (SIG) on "Child Computer Interaction" at CHI2008, ACM SIGCHI, Florence, April 10, 2008.
• Doctoral Consortium at IDC2007 (Interaction Design and Children), Aalborg, Denmark, June 6, 2007.
• Session chair on "Tangible Interaction" at IDC2007 (Interaction Design and Children), Aalborg, Denmark, June 6, 2007.
• Special Interest Group (SIG) on "Designing Interactive Environments for Outdoors Gaming and Play" at CHI2006, ACM SIGCHI, April 25, 2006.

Conference Committees

• Fun and Games 2008, Eindhoven University of Technology, October 2008.
• 3rd International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts (DIMEA 2008), ACM, Athens, Greece, 10-12 September 2008.
• iEnter: Jornades sobre entreteniment interactiu, UAB (CaixaForum), February 2008.
• CHI'07, ACM SIGCHI, Computer Human Interaction, 2007.
• TANGIBLE AND EMBEDDED INTERACTION 2007, Louisiana State University, February 2007.
• medi@terra 06, "gaming realities", Fournos Centre for the Digital Culture with the support of the Greek Ministry of Culture, October, 2006.
• Member of the jury of the "Robots at Play Prize" of the "Robotfestival". RoboCluster & University of Southern Denmark, Denmark, September, 2006.
• ACE 2006, ACM SIGCHI, Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, 2006-06-14.
• Virtual Storytelling | 05: International Conference on Virtual Storytelling 2005, French Association of Computer Graphics, 2005-11-30.
• ACE 2005, ACM SIGCHI, Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, 2005-06-14.
• IEEE VR2005, IEEE, Virtual Reality, 2005-03-12.
• CHI'04, ACM SIGCHI, Computer Human Interaction, 2004-04-24.
• CEIG'2004, Capítulo Español de Eurographics, Congreso Español de Informática Gráfica, 2004-06-08.
• CEIG'2003, Capítulo Español de Eurographics, Congreso Español de Informática Gráfica, 2003-07-02.

Patents

• Inventors: Dr. Narcís Parés
  Title: Interactive device n the shape of an inflatable slide with applications to leisure and children special needs.
  Solicitude Num.: P200703317
  Country: Espanya
  Priority date: 10-12-2007
  Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra
  Exploting companies: Tecnodimensión S.L.
• Inventors: Dr. Narcís Parés
  Title: Natural and non-invasive interface device for interaction with a computer system and operating method
  Solicitude Num.: P200301070
  Country: Espanya
  Priority date: 09/10/2003
  Patent Num.: 2228251 B1
  Concession date: 24/01/2006
  Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra
  Exploting companies: COM-VIS S.L.

Other

• Eurographics member #3201, 1993.
• AIPO member #37, 1999.
• ACM & SIGCHI member #4934764.

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