Selene Mota
Selene Mota
Mota, Selene is a scientist and Research Engineer at Samsung Think Tank team. [1]
Education
Selene Mota holds a Ph.D. degree from the department of Design and Computation and Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research has an interdisciplinary orientation that involves four main areas of interest: behavioral analysis, machine learning, affective computing and user-centered design. [4] Her master degree work is pioneering for being able to successfully characterize dynamic patterns of movements that read emotional states from body language. Her Ph.D. is focused on creating large-scale physical activity recognition systems that can be deployed on common mobile phones for monitoring natural occurring behavior in fee-living settings. [5] Selene also holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering with magna cum laude from Monterrey Institute of Technology in Mexico, and a Master in Media Arts and Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [6]During her master she collaborated with Prof. Rosalind Picard in the affective computing group at MIT Media Lab. She was part of the Lemelson Inventor's Program and top five finalist at the MIT 100K Competition and the CIMIT Prize. Mota is also a Ph.D. candidate at the Eindhoven University of Technology, under the guidance of Dr. Panos Markopoulos and Dr. Wijnand IJsselsteijn. [6]
Career
Mota has collaborated with several research institutions such as the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and the German Institute of Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).Currently, Selene Mota is cooperating with Philips Research in developing ambient intelligent systems for supporting social connectedness at home. [5]
Interests
Selene has a strong passion for Scientific Research in the following fields: Wearable computing, Activity recognition, Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial intelligence, and Behavior change Technologies. [6]Along with her colleagues (Aithne Sheng-Ying Pao and Sandra Richter ), Selene created a research facebook page called Pervasive Persuasion on where she regularly posts. Pervasive Persuasion is inspired on investigating how new technologies can motivate people to achieve their health and behavioral goals. [9]