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Cognitive Sensing, Human Factors, Digital Biomarkers, Artificial Intelligence, Assistive Technology in Healthcare, Mental Health Applications, Cognitive Assessment with Intelligent Interfaces, Immersive Learning Environments, Mental Training, Cognitive Computing
Austria

Biography

- Education & training

2000-present Research Manager at Joanneum Research
2000 PhD in Computer Science with distinction
1998-2000 Fraunhofer IAIS, Sankt Augustin, Germany (visiting researcher)
1996-2000 Graz University of Technology (research assistant)
1996 Dipl.-Ing in Computer Science with distinction
1995 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (study awardee)

- Awards

2024 Best Paper Award, Intl Conf Appl Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE, CCIoT)
2019 Best R&D Project at Joanneum Research
2018 Best Poster Award, Alzheimer Europe Conference
2018 Gender & Diversity Price of Graz University of Technology
2017 Excellent Service Award, International Conference of Computer Vision Systems
2016 Best Paper Award: AGILE Intl. Conf. on Geographic Information Science
2015 Gold Paper Award: Intl. Conf. on Advances in Computer Entertainment Techn.
2014 Best Paper Award: IEEE Electrotechnical and Computer Science Conference
2013 Best Paper Award: Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition
2005 Best Paper Award: Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition
2001 Excellence Award: Mobility Award of Austrian Ministery of Innovation
1998 Best Demonstration Award at British Machine Vision Conference

- Conference chairing

2025 Cognitive Computing and Internet of Things, AHFE 2025, Orlando, FL, USA
2024 Cognitive Computing and Internet of Things, AHFE 2024, Nice, France
2023 Cognitive Computing and Internet of Things, AHFE 2023, San Francisco, CA, USA
2022 Cognitive Computing and Internet of Things, AHFE 2022, New York City, NY, USA
2021 Cognitive Computing and Internet of Things, AHFE 2021, Virtual Conference
2021 Intl Symp on AI for Prevention and Intervention in Dementia Care, AIDEM, virtual
2020 Intl Symp on AI for Prevention and Intervention in Dementia Care, AIDEM, virtual
2019 European Forum Alpbach, Session Mental Health & Assistive Robotics, Austria
2017 AAL Forum Europe, Motivation for Dementia Intervention, Coimbra, Portugal
2016 European Forum Alpbach 2016, Session Playful Training für Dementia Care
2015 Intl Sympos Attention in Cognitive Systems, ISACS 2015, Hamburg
2015 Intl Workshop Intelligent Digital Games for Empow & Inclusion, Atlanta, GA
2014 Intl Workshop Intelligent Digital Games for Empow & Inclusion, Haifa
2014 Intl Sympos Attention in Cognitive Systems, ISACS 2014, Bielefeld
2013 Intl Sympos Attention in Cognitive Systems, ISACS 2013, Beijing
2013 Intl Workshop Intelligent Digital Games for Empow & Inclusion, Chania
2008 Intl Workshop on Attention, Performance in Computat Vision, Santorini
2007 Intl Workshop on Attention, Performance in Computat Vision, Hyderabad
2005 Intl Workshop on Attention, Performance in Computat Vision, San Diego
2004 Intl Workshop on Attention, Performance in Computat Vision, Prague
2003 Intl Workshop on Attention, Performance in Computat Vision, Graz
2003 Third International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, Graz

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Activities

Employment (3)

JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH: Graz, Styria, AT

2000-04-01 to present | Head of Human Factors Lab, Research Manager, Head of Research Team, Key Researcher (DIGITAL - Institute for Digital Technologies)
Employment
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Lucas Paletta

Graz University of Technology: Graz, Styria, AT

1996-01-08 to 2000-03-31 | Research Assistant (ICG - Institute of Computer Graphics and Vision)
Employment
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Lucas Paletta

Fraunhofer-Institutszentrum Schloss Birlinghoven: Sankt Augustin, Nordrhein-Westfalen, DE

1999-09-01 to 2000-02-28 | PostDoc (Intelligent Autonomous Systems IAIS)
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Lucas Paletta

Education and qualifications (3)

Graz University of Technology: Graz, Styria, AT

1996-08-01 to 2000-02-28 | Dr. techn. (PhD, computer science)
Education
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Lucas Paletta

Graz University of Technology: Graz, Styria, AT

1990-10-15 to 1996-06-30 | Dipl.-Ing. (Institute for Software Technology)
Education
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Lucas Paletta

Johns Hopkins University: Baltimore, Md., US

1995-01-15 to 1995-05-31 | Joint Study Awardee (Department of Computer Science)
Education
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Lucas Paletta

Professional activities (1)

Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition: Graz, Österreich, AT

2005-06-01 to 2008-06-01 | Member of Board
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Lucas Paletta

Funding (14)

AMIGA - Gender-sensitive Social Assistive Robotics to Motivate Mental Health Training Activities

2023-04 to 2025-03 | Grant
Austrian Research Promotion Agency (Vienna, Styria, AT)
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FFG Projektnummer: FO999892829

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Lucas Paletta

SmartAktiv - Smarte Aktivierung zur Verbesserung Kognitiver Leistungsfähigkeit durch Entscheidungsassistenz und Digitale Biomarker

2023-04 to 2024-12 | Contract
Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK) (Vienna, AT)
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Lucas Paletta

FAIRWork - Flexibilization of complex Ecosystems using Democratic AI based Decision Support and Recommendation Systems at Work

2022-09 to 2025-08 | Grant
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
GRANT_NUMBER:

101069499

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Lucas Paletta

AI-Refit - AI-enabled Playful Enhancement of Resilience and Self-Efficacy with Psychological Learning Theory

2021-11 to 2023-10 | Grant
Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK) (Vienna, AT)
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Lucas Paletta

SIXTHSENSE - Smart integrated extreme environment health monitor with sensory feedback for enhanced situation awareness

2020-04 to 2023-10 | Grant
European Research Council (Brussels, BE)
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Lucas Paletta

AMIGO - Motivating training activities for people with dementia with social robotics and dialogue-based coaching

2017-11 to 2020-06 | Grant
Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK) (Vienna, AT)
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Lucas Paletta

PLAYTIME - Playful Multimodal Daily Training, Diagnostics and Recommendation System within a Social Network

2017-05 to 2020-06 | Grant
Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK) (Vienna, AT)
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Lucas Paletta

MMASSIST - Assistance systems in production in the context of human-machine cooperation

2017-05 to 2020-04 | Grant
Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK) (Vienna, AT)
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Lucas Paletta

MASELTOV - Mobile Assistance for Social Inclusion and Empowerment of Immigrants with Persuasive Learning Technologies and Social Network Services

FACTS - Human Factors Technologies and Services

2011 to 2015 | Grant
Federal Ministry of Labour and Economy (Vienna, AT)
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Lucas Paletta

LOOKAT - Semantic Mapping of Pedestrian Visual Attention

2008 to 2010 | Grant
Austrian Research Promotion Agency (Vienna, AT)
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Lucas Paletta

MACS - Multi-sensory autonomous cognitive systems interacting with dynamic environments for perceiving and learning affordances

2004-09 to 2007-11 | Grant
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
GRANT_NUMBER:

004381

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Lucas Paletta

Cognitive Vision – Key Technology for Personal Assistance

2003 to 2009 | Grant
FWF Austrian Science Fund (Vienna, AT)
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Lucas Paletta

MOBVIS - Vision Technologies and Intelligent Maps for Mobile Attentive Interfaces in Urban Scenarios

Grant
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
GRANT_NUMBER:

511051

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Lucas Paletta

Peer review (3 reviews for 2 publications/grants)

Review activity for Human-Intelligent Systems Integration. (2)
Review activity for npj digital medicine. (1)