Our projects span a wide array of topics, from cutting-edge advancements in sociotechnical innovation’s governance, including research in Artificial Intelligence, care technologies, disability publics inclusion or sustanaibility studies. Through meticulous planning, experimentation, and collaborative teamwork, we strive to make meaningful contributions to our respective fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We invite you to explore our projects and delve into the fascinating realms of inquiry they represent. Whether you are a fellow researcher seeking inspiration, a potential collaborator eager to join forces, or a curious individual interested in learning more about the forefront of interdisciplinary research, we welcome you to dive in and explore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Would you like to propose a collaboration? Contact us here<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n For a comprehensive overview of our projects and their associated data, please visit our database linked here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Main Researcher:<\/strong>\u00a0Miquel Dom\u00e8nech\u00a0(UAB) The project is aimed at promoting the social impact of knowledge generated by universities and other research and innovation entities in Catalonia. Its goal is to address societal challenges through research and collaboration, particularly with civil society organizations. It focuses on contributing to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by tackling issues such as poverty, inequality, gender equality, and sustainability. The project includes research activities, a clear methodology, and a focus on societal and territorial impact, with efforts to ensure gender equality, inclusion, and environmental sustainability. The project will be implemented through close collaboration with public entities, ensuring broad participation and the application of open science principles. The expected results will help advance societal awareness and knowledge dissemination in relevant communities<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n Main Researcher:<\/strong> Miquel Dom\u00e8nech (UAB) The RoMeO project should allow an analysis of the impact of the introduction of robotic devices in institutional care environments. We propose a research -with quantitative and qualitative approaches- with the participation of older people. On the one hand, it will be measured the attitude of older people living in nursing homes towards robots. On the other hand, ethnographic research will be conducted in a nursing home during a pilot study of robot implementation. Main Researcher:<\/strong> Miquel Dom\u00e8nech (UAB) The ULALABS project aims to define a theoretical and practical framework for the implementation and operation of a European distributed Living Lab focused on urban challenges and climate change; a “Laboratory of laboratories” perceived as a shared space Main Researcher:<\/strong> Miquel Dom\u00e8nech (UAB) Des del grup de recerca STSb de la Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona<\/a> estem participant d\u2019una recerca coordinada per la Universitat de Barcelona que es titula \u201cNous objectius terap\u00e8utics en la depressi\u00f3: el paper de la percepci\u00f3 situacional<\/em>\u201c. El projecte vol esbrinar el paper de la percepci\u00f3 situacional en el desenvolupament i tractament de la depressi\u00f3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Des del nostre grup l\u2019objectiu \u00e9s la de generar un espai participatiu d<\/strong>e recerca amb persones que estan o han estat en situaci\u00f3 de depressi\u00f3<\/strong>, per a fer un seguiment cr\u00edtic del projecte i per a aportar una mirada situada i concernida sobre aquesta realitat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n En aquest moment estem buscant persones per a la primera fase d\u2019entrevistes (a persones que estan o han estat en aquesta situaci\u00f3), per entendre i recollir com es veu i es defineix la depressi\u00f3 en primera persona. A partir del mar\u00e7 volem obrir el proc\u00e9s de recerca participativa. <\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n Main Researcher: Miquel Dom\u00e8nech Argem\u00ed <\/strong> (UAB) DEMOC grants are for original and unpublished research projects in the field of democratic quality, leading to scientific results and proposals for intervention applicable in this field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our research project deal with the following topics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Main Researcher:<\/strong> Miquel Dom\u00e8nech (UAB) The research project \u201cEthics for robots caring for us\u201d has as main objective the construction of an ethical framework for the design and use of social care robots in Catalonia, in the field of childhood, elderly people and health. The project is based on an interdisciplinary perspective, with the aim of reflecting and integrating intersectionality between the different disciplines and research areas related to social robotic care. For this reason, in the research team, led from a sociological perspective, researchers come from philosophy, engineering, sociology, nursing and psychology. The project aims to reflect on what seems to be an inevitable incorporation of social robots in care tasks, with the goal of building an ethical framework in a context of multidisciplinary innovation, in which development and technological application seem to have been previous to the reflection on the ethical and care model linked to this development. This reflection will be carried out with the various actors involved in the design and use of social care robots in three areas: childhood, elderly and health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The theoretical perspective used is based on the reflections and academic debates developed by Science and Technology Studies (STS), more specifically the corpus of knowledge related to the relationship between humans and machines. From this perspective there are uses the reflections that make up the ethics of care and empirical ethics in the development of ethical frameworks that guide relationships between people and machines. As a work process, the proposal is developed using the so called vision assessment, a methodological proposal to identify and evaluate the future views of the various actors involved in a particular technology that will be used, with the intention of preventing unwanted futures and, at the same time, promote the most desired.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n Main Researcher:<\/strong> Miquel Dom\u00e8nech (UAB) Main Researcher:<\/strong> Miquel Dom\u00e8nech Argem\u00ed (UAB) The aim of this research is to develop an ethical framework for the design and use of social robots in children\u2019s hospitals. The project will involve the different stakeholders in the process of designing and using social robots in hospital contexts. The aim is to construct an ethical framework that encapsulates the meanings, priorities, interests and concerns of all stakeholders. The research and development of this ethical framework will be conducted from the perspective of the ethics of care, while also integrating insights from scientific and social studies of the relationship between people and machines covered by the concept of empirical ethics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n http:\/\/www.fundaciogrifols.org\/en\/web\/fundacio\/-\/etica-per-a-robots-algunes-consideracions-per-al-disseny-de-robots-socials-per-a-hospitals-infantils-<\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n Main Researcher:<\/strong> Miquel Dom\u00e8nech Argem\u00ed (UAB) and Francisco Tirado Serrano (UAB) In our knowledge societies it is a common topic to show the enormous difficulties that ordinary people experiment when they want to participate in the processes of definition of social politics and common services. Frequently, it is put forward that such situation is inevitable because of the mentioned politics and services are based on specific and complex technoscientific developments. Nevertheless, in the last decade it has appeared an important scientific and political tradition questioning that affirmation. This tradition poses lay people have the right to participate in the production of a knowledge and technology that is thought and designed in order to improve, precisely, their lives. Such participation means both a relevant improvement in the quality of our democracies and a better definition and acceptation of the technoscientific products and results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our research is based on this tradition and we propose the following hipothesis: the social appropiation of expert knowledge and the citizen participation conform a important democratic value. This has to be strengthen and the ways it works have to be deeply analysed in order to figure out the dimensions and variables that can facilitate a permanent relation between lay people and experts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n Main Researcher:<\/strong> Miquel Dom\u00e8nech Argem\u00ed (UAB) For the last years the research groups GESCIT and ATIC were involved in research projects related to citizen participation in public technoscientific controversies as well as policies and services for dependency care in Spain. Such researches indicate changes in the form that Spanish society perceives the role of science and technology in the daily lives of citizens and show the implications of expert knowledge and technical devices in ageing, identity construction, social organisation and institutions. It is increasingly more common the constitution of hybrid assemblies mixing lay people and experts in order to solve public controversies. Such hibrid forums can take place as an institutional (\u201ctop-down\u201d) initiative, promoting participatory mechanisms such as public consultation and consensus conferences, or as social mobilization (\u201cbottom-up\u201d) actions, as for example, those of concerned groups that call for greater participation in the definition of policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This coordinated project aims to compare the mechanisms of participation with the processes of mobilization by experiencing and analy zing the formation of hybrids forums of experts and non-experts on issues relating to collectives with difficulties to express their voice in the public arena. In order to achieve this goal, each investigation group will focus on one of those dimensions applied to the case of people affected by policies for the promotion of the independent living in Spain. The GESCIT will be devoted to the mapping of institutional consensus experiences between expert and citizens in Spain and will implement a consensus conference with experts and older people. The ATIC will analyze the reality of the concerned groups regarding the promotion of independent life in Spain and will identify the processes of hybridization of knowledge and expertise in these mobilizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The combination of these two dimensions will offer a general diagnostic on participatory experiences and mobilisations of concerned groups in Spain. It will reveal the strengths and weakness of both processes, as well as the potential of each one for the hybridization of knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n Sub-project of:<\/strong> \u201cScience, Technology and Democracy: Expertise, Institutions an Citizen Participation. (DEMOCIT)\u201d The main objectives of the project are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1) To inventory the participative experiences promoted by the public administrations in the last five years in Spain, with special attention to those that involve groups with less possibilities of making hear their voice in front of problems concerning them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2) To analyze the strengths and weaknesses in the organization and execution of the identified participative processes, as well as in their results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3) To identify a relevant subject matter that could serve to promote a consensus conference with the participation of experts and older people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4) To design and to carry out a consensus conference with experts and older people as an exercise of dialogic democracy in the local arena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5) To analyze the strengths and weaknesses of consensus conferences in terms of its capacity to assemble in the same collective experts and older people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6) To elaborate indications and useful recommendations for public administrations interested in organizing consensus conferences regarding outstanding issues for citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n Main Researcher:<\/strong> Miquel Dom\u00e8nech Argem\u00ed (UAB) <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n Main Researcher:<\/strong> Francisco Tirado Serrano (UAB) and Andr\u00e9s G\u00f3mez Project Length:<\/strong> 01\/04\/2011-28\/02\/2014Main STS-b’s projects<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
ROBOPILOT: Un estudi pilot per a la introducci\u00f3 de robots en la cura de persones grans (2023-2026)<\/summary>\n
STS-b Team Members:<\/strong> Domenech Argemi, Miquel<\/a>\u00a0(Investigador\/a principal)
Barat Auleda, Oriol<\/a>\u00a0(Colaborador\/a), I\u00f1iguez Rueda, Lupicinio<\/a>\u00a0(Investigador\/a), Feliu i Samuel-Lajeunesse, Joel<\/a>\u00a0(Investigador\/a), Ramirez Nethersole, Rosanna<\/a>\u00a0(Colaborador\/a), Martinez Martinez, Luz Maria<\/a>\u00a0(Investigador\/a), Rivero Fern\u00e1ndez, Antonio\u00a0(Colaborador\/a), Dom\u00e8nech Pou, Sara\u00a0(Colaborador\/a), Vall\u00e8s Peris, N\u00faria\u00a0(Colaborador\/a), S\u00e1nchez Fibla, Mart\u00ed\u00a0(Colaborador\/a)
Project Length:<\/strong>\u00a02025\u00a0\u2192\u00a02027
Founding Source: <\/strong>Agaur 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\nEngeeniring Care in Nursing Homes: Robots Meet Older People (RoMeO) (2023-2026)<\/summary>\n
STS-b Team Members:<\/strong> Lupicinio \u00cd\u00f1iguez Rueda <\/a>(UAB), Maria Pilar Dellund\u00e9 (UAB), Joel Feliu Samuel-Lajeunesse (UAB), Luz Maria Mart\u00ednez (UAB), Joan Moy\u00e0-K\u00f6hler (UAB), Rosanna Ram\u00edrez (UAB) i Oriol Barat-Auleda(UAB).
Project Length:<\/strong> 2023-2026
Reference:<\/strong> PID2022-141950OB-I00
Amount:<\/strong> 2023-2026
Founding Source: <\/strong>Convocatoria 2022 – Proyectos de Generaci\u00f3n de Conocimiento – Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovaci\u00f3n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We approach to robotics in healthcare from the framework of science and technology studies (STS). From an STS approach, it is assumed that a specific technology is not just an artefact, but a network of devices, processes, and actors that become interrelated in an assembly. This research will offer elements of reflection and work on a field of study that has been little explored, such as the use of technologies in geriatric residences. This will improve the understanding of innovation processes and contribute to the design and implementation of new
technologies capable of meeting the needs of users. The general objective (GO) is to promote a reliable incorporation of robotic devices adjusted to the needs and wishes of elderly people living in institutional care settings.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\nUniversity Lab of Labs for Transformative Societal Innovation: Articulating collaborative and inclusive learning communities through shared R+D+i agendas among European regions (ULALABS) (2023-2026)<\/summary>\n
STS-b Team Members:<\/strong> Miquel Domenech <\/a>(UAB), Oriol Barat-Auleda(UAB).
Project Length:<\/strong> 2023-2026
Link to the project:<\/strong> www.ulalabs.eu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
and interconnected R&D&I infrastructure between HEI partners to promote transformative innovation policies within and between European regions through the articulation of open and collaborative Learning Communities and shared Agendas.
ULALABS will focus its activities on the development of Learning Communities as key elements of the distributed Living Lab model, offering support and learning opportunities during the project. The pilot program will be the focal point of activities that will allow testing and demonstrating i) the potential for cross-learning between partners, communities and regions, as well as ii) distributed learning, where shared knowledge is generated. -hoc between partners.
The project is expected to produce:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
New Therapeutic Targets in Depression: The Role of Situational Perception (2023-2026)<\/summary>\n
STS-b Team Members:<\/strong> Joan Moy\u00e0-K\u00f6hler (UAB)
Project Length:<\/strong> 2023-2026
Founding source\/s:<\/strong> Marat\u00f3 de Tv3 per a la Salut Mental<\/a>.
Reference:<\/strong> TV3-432\/C\/2022 (202215-32)
Project\u2019s link:<\/strong> New Therapeutic Targets in Depression<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nL’activisme mediambiental i el seu efecte en les pol\u00edtiques locals. El cas de la Plataforma Anti-Incineradora de Cercs (2019-2021)<\/summary>\n
STS-b Team Members:<\/strong> N\u00faria Vall\u00e8s-Peris (CSIC), Oriol Barat Auleda (UAB) and Francisco Tirado Serrano (UAB)
Project Length:<\/strong> 03\/10\/2019 \u2013 15\/12\/2021 Reference:<\/strong> DEMOC00002
Founding source\/s:<\/strong> Departament de Governaci\u00f3 i Relacions Institucionals (Generalitat de Catalunya)
Amount:<\/strong> 12.000\u20ac<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Ethics for robots caring for us (2019-2021)<\/summary>\n
STS-b Team Members:<\/strong> N\u00faria Vall\u00e8s Peris (CSIC), Cecilio Angulo (UPC), Ludovica Larusso (UAB)
Project Length:<\/strong> 2018-2021
Founding source\/s:<\/strong> Fundaci\u00f3 \u201cLa Caixa\u201d
Amount:<\/strong> 74.496,06\u20ac
Project\u2019s link:<\/strong> \u00c8tica per a robots que ens cuiden<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nIn the hands of machines. The future of technologies of care (2016-2017)<\/summary>\n
Lecture series<\/strong>. More information at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\nEthics for robots: some considerations in the design of social robots for children\u2019s hospitals (2016-2017)<\/summary>\n
STS-b Team Members:<\/strong> Mireia Faucha (UAB), Rodrigo de Oliveira (UAB), Guillem Pal\u00e0 Nos\u00e0s (UAB) i N\u00faria Vall\u00e8s Peris (CSIC)
Project Length:<\/strong> 01-10-2016 a 01-10-2017
Founding source\/s:<\/strong> Fundaci\u00f3 V\u00edctor Gr\u00edfols i Lucas
Amount:<\/strong> 5.000\u20ac<\/p>\n\n\n\nHealth and Technoscience. Citizen Participation in Social Aproppiation of Knowledge and Technological Design Processes (2015-2017)<\/summary>\n
STS-b Team Members:<\/strong> Juan Mu\u00f1oz Justicia (UAB), Lupicinio \u00cd\u00f1iguez Rueda (UAB), Guillem Pal\u00e0 Nos\u00e0s (UAB), Gonzalo Correa Moreira (UAB), Rodrigo de Oliveira Machado (UAB), Juan Carlos Aceros Guraldr\u00f3n.
Reference:<\/strong> CS=2014-59136-P
Project Length:<\/strong> 01\/01\/2015-31\/12\/2017
Founding source\/s:<\/strong> Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad, Plan Nacional de I+D+I
Amount: <\/strong>42.350\u20ac
Project\u2019sWebsite:<\/strong> https:\/\/tecsal.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nScience, Technology and Democracy: Expertise, Institutions an Citizen Participation (2015-2017)<\/summary>\n
STS-b Team Members:<\/strong> Juan Carlos Aceros Gualdr\u00f3n (UAB), Maria Tereza Leal Cavalcante (UAB), Gonzalo Correa Moreira (UAB), Israel Rodr\u00edguez Giralt (UOC), Daniel L\u00f3pez G\u00f3mez (UOC), Asun Pi\u00e9 Balaguer (UOC)
Reference:<\/strong> CSO2011-29749-C02-00
Project Length:<\/strong> 01\/01\/2012 \u2013 31\/12\/2014
Founding source\/s:<\/strong> Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovaci\u00f3n, Plan Nacional de I+D
Amount:<\/strong> 33.880\u20ac
Project\u2019s Website:<\/strong> http:\/\/psicologiasocial.uab.es\/democit\/inicio<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nConsensus Conferences in Knowledge Societies. An Essay of Dialogic Democracy with Elder and Experts (CONSENSUS) (2012-2014)<\/summary>\n
Main Researcher:<\/strong> Miquel Dom\u00e8nech Argem\u00ed (UAB)
STS-b Team Members:<\/strong> Juan Carlos Aceros Gualdr\u00f3n (UAB), Maria Tereza Leal Cavalcante (UAB), Gonzalo Correa Moreira (UAB)
Reference:<\/strong> CSO2011-29749-C02-01
Project Length:<\/strong> 01\/01\/2012 \u2013 31\/12\/2014
Founding source\/s:<\/strong> Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovaci\u00f3n, Plan Nacional de I+D
Amount:<\/strong> 33.880\u20ac
Project\u2019s Website:<\/strong> http:\/\/psicologiasocial.uab.es\/democit\/inicio<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nCitizens in the Knowledge Society: Analysis of Citizens\u2019 Participation Obstacles in Deliberative Processes (DEMOC) (2013-2014)<\/summary>\n
STS-b Team Members:<\/strong> Israel Rodr\u00edguez Giralt (UOC), Daniel L\u00f3pez G\u00f3mez (UOC), Tom\u00e1s S\u00e1nchez Criado (UOC), Gonzalo Correa Moreira (UAB), Paula Caryan Gonz\u00e1lez Galv\u00e1n (UAB)
Reference:<\/strong> 2013 DEMOC 00033
Project Length:<\/strong> 01\/07\/2013-30\/06\/2014
Founding source\/s:<\/strong> Departament de Governaci\u00f3 i Relacions Institucionals (Generalitat de Catalunya)
Amount:<\/strong> 7.500\u20ac<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe psychosocial dimensions of the Pandemic H1N1. A comparative study between Spain and Mexico (2011-2014)<\/summary>\n
Reference:<\/strong> JCI-2010-06447<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Founding source\/s:<\/strong> Programa Juan de la Cierva, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovaci\u00f3n
Amount: <\/strong>100.980\u20ac<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n