HAPLAB

Congratulations to our newest PhD graduate, Dr. Katherine Vergara! 🎓✨ She successfully defended her doctoral thesis, “Designing Learning Experiences to Support Girls’ Technological Self-Efficacy: The Role of Physical Computing, Metacognition, and Emot… instagr.am/p/DUTy7BDFL4h/

Big news for our community! 🎉🏆 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile has been named one of the Celonis Academic Centers of Excellence 2025/2026 by Celonis! This recognition highlights our commitment to cutting-edge research and education in process… instagr.am/p/DUTFBxCFfT_/

Congratulations to our new MSc graduate, Daniela Concha! 🎓✨ She successfully defended her Master’s thesis, “Visualization of Data from Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring and Actigraphy Exams for the Diagnosis of Pediatric Patients.” 🩺📊👶. Her rese… instagr.am/p/DUQaRzfDXrt/

Amazing news from the end of 2025 which we need to share with the world: huge congratulations to Marcos Sepúlveda on being promoted to Full Professor! 🎉🎓 This well-deserved recognition celebrates years of impactful research, mentorship, and leadership… instagr.am/p/DUNzURUjo6r/

A team of 8 researchers from HAPLAB was present at ICPM Uruguay in October 2025! 🇺🇾✨ Here’s what we were up to: 🖼️ 2 research posters presented 🎤 1 Show & Tell session 💻 Live demos 🪑 Session chairing 🏆 And a huge milestone: Prof. Marcos Sepúlveda w… instagr.am/p/DUMBZjsEl34/

Visit the Haplab stand TODAY at the @escueladeingenieriauc research exhibition 🤩 Our students and researchers are sharing their research on technologies for people, interfaces, processes and more! ☀️☺️🎉👨‍💻👩‍💻 instagr.am/p/DPl8-XgjeO_/

📢 New paper! 📢“Process-oriented feedback for ultrasound-guided central venous access training: a randomized controlled trial” was recently published in BMC Anesthesiology, a high-impact clinical anesthesiology journal. This interdisciplinary work 🤝 (m… instagr.am/p/DPWXdkYD6B8/

New paper! "MyAphasia: A Mobile Application for the Treatment of Aphasia in a Hospital Environment", by Andrés A. Sánchez-Cabrera, Pedro O. Rossel, Fabiola Aguirre-Delgado, Laura Aravena-Canese, Karen Chandía-Vásquez, Valeria Espejo-Videla, Valeria Hersk… instagr.am/p/DO6DuD6jwCC/

New paper! 🌱 "Care4Plant: Mobile Application for Informal Caregivers" 🌱, by Bernardo Fernández-Zambrano (@ucscconcepcion), Carolina Fuentes (@cardiffuni), Pedro O. Rossel (@ucscconcepcion) and Valeria Herskovic, was just accepted in the journal Softwar… instagr.am/p/DOqtjzDiHUU/

New paper! "Boxy Board: Supporting Novice Learners through a Progressive disclosure approach for physical computing" by @stemtivista Katherine Vergara, and Valeria Herskovic, was just accepted at the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (… instagr.am/p/DOn4tHTlaPi/

Professor Jorge Muñoz-Gama visited @fib.upc as part of a brief research stay for teaching innovation in introductory computer science courses. The project is called: "Pasantía de Investigación para cursos introductorios de programación en la Universitat… instagr.am/p/DOgUDQEE8T1/

Congratulations to the HAPLAB Process Mining researchers, who will be presenting a poster in ICPM 2025, to be held in Montevideo, Uruguay 🇺🇾! The poster is titled "Towards Multidimensional Process Performance Analyses with Process Mining", by I. Velásque… instagr.am/p/DMaQ3aXvB13/

Happy to share the news that two papers have been accepted as Work-in-progress to CLEI 2025 Conference: - "Towards the Application of Process Mining for Analyzing the Performance of Mining Processes" by I. Velásquez, M. Sepúlveda, and J.J. Jara: This pap… instagr.am/p/DMWkuMCzCK2/

New paper! "Understanding the use of physical computing in K-12 education: A systematic literature review", by @stemtivista Katherine Vergara, Pedro O. Rossel and Valeria Herskovic was just published at Educational Research Review (WOS, Q1). Congratulati… instagr.am/p/DMQFhMbzgaM/

New paper! "A multinational study on artificial intelligence adoption: Clinical implementers' perspectives" - by Luis Marco-Ruiz, Miguel Ángel Tejedor Hernández, Phuong Dinh Ngo, Alexandra Makhlysheva, Therese Olsen Svenning, Kari Dyb, Taridzo Chomutare,… instagr.am/p/DCz30_bvskn/

New paper! "Implications of losing a need- and merit-based scholarship on the educational trajectory: a curricular analytics approach", by Juan Pablo Salazar-Fernandez, Jorge Munoz-Gama, and Marcos Sepulveda, was recently published at Higher Education. C… instagr.am/p/DCp9AOnP6EE/

New paper! "Do Cookie Banners Respect My Browsing Privacy? Measuring the effectiveness of Cookie Rejection for limiting behavioral advertising", by Mateo Ormeño, Ha Dao (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany🇩🇪), Valeria Herskovic, Kensuke Fukuda … instagr.am/p/DCHqHm_v3gl/

We are happy to share that our co-director, Valeria Herskovic, was named Head of the Computer Science Department @dccuc from June 2024 👩‍💻🎉. She was interviewed for the university newspaper about this new position (link in profile). instagr.am/p/DCEcKx2PC95/

Congratulations to our new MSc graduate, Mateo Ormeño (@mateo.ormeno_)! His thesis was titled, "Automated Discovery of Online Behavioral Advertising on the Web", and his research was conducted with the collaboration of the National Institute of Informati… instagr.am/p/C_lj6slPVHR/

Thinking about postgraduate studies (PhD, MSc) at our research lab? Please read on! (in spanish) and follow ➡️➡️➡️ postgrados_inguc 🎓 Feria de Postgrado 2024 Ingeniería UC Chile ¡La Feria de Postgrado es el lugar perfecto para empezar tu viaje acad… instagr.am/p/C-3Tv_5vJAU/