The Latin American and Caribbean Collaborative ICT Research Virtual Institute is pleased to announce LACCIR RFP2012 research proposals selected for funding. We would like to acknowledge our founding sponsor Microsoft Research.

LACCIR would like to thank the LAC research community for their participation and patience awaiting for this announcement.

• Mobile and Tangible Computing for the remote monitoring of emotional states in palliative care caregivers, submitted by professor Valeria Herskovic at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile - Chile
• Modeling and Simulation of passenger trips in transit systems under real-time information services, submitted by professor Antonio Mauttone at Universidad de la República - Uruguay
• Read, Create, Share: toward the dynamic book, submitted by professor Miguel Nussbaum at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile - Chile
• Studies and support of work fragmentation for software developers in small and medium size companies, submitted by professor Victor Gonzalez at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de Mexico - Mexico
• Visual Detection of Unusual Events for Automatic Visual Surveillance of the Elderly, submitted by professor Juan Carlos Nieves at Universidad del Norte - Colombia
• Multimodal image retrieval to support medical case--based scientific literature search, submitted by professor Fabio Gonzalez at Universidad Nacional de Colombia – Colombia

More info: http://www.laccir.org/