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VICOMTech
VICOMTech (Visual Communication and Interaction Technologies Centre) is an applied research centre for Interactive Computer Graphics and Multimedia located in the Technology Park of San Sebastian (Spain).
VICOMTech is a non-profit association, founded by the INI-GraphicsNet Foundation, with the Fraunhofer-IGD as founder member, and the Basque Television, Radio and Broadcasting group EiTB, It is currently formed by 16 members.
Since the beginning, VICOMTech belongs to Saretek, the local science, technology and innovation network. Furthermore, the acknowledgement VICOMTech has obtained in these years has paved the way to incorporate into the IK4 alliance and also to be classified as an Innovation and Technology Centre (ITC) by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science.
VICOMTech’s aim is to fulfil the innovation needs of the companies and institutions. For this, the Centre works in applied research and development of multimedia technologies for visual interaction and communication, fosters the mobility and formation of researchers and collaborates tightly with the industry, universities and institutions, and complements other technology centres.
Thus, the knowledge and technologies that VICOMTech masters, directly or indirectly via the network, give added value to its clients, because VICOMTech can provide them the best answer to their specific needs, facilitates them to take advantages from the technological opportunities that may appear and proposes improvements or developments for their products, based on the latest advances of scientific and technological knowledge.
VICOMTech’s research profile is to serve as a bridge between the local and the international environments. This philosophy of applied research helps the local companies to have new opportunities to access a worldwide environment, and to benefit from the latest technological advances in the international context. At the same time, VICOMTech’s participation in international projects complements and improves the main local activity of applied research.
As a Centre of Research Applied in technologies of Computer Graphics and Multimedia, it can contribute in different ways to improve the quality of live of elderly and disabled by means of new possibilities of intuitive communication human-machine, interaction technologies framed in the vision of the environmental intelligence which will ease the inclusion and natural integration of these people within their human and physical environment: possibilities of advanced representation of knowledge information and management centred on the person and his/her particular conditions; as well as the technologies of Computer Graphics in the fields of diagnosis, treatment and screening for medical applications.
