XOGAMOS

About XOGAMOS

'Xogamos' stands for 'Let's play' in Galician language, appealing the value of social playful activities for cognitive stimulation.

The XOGAMOS project deals with the improvement and sustainability of cognitive stimulation therapies in the elderly through AI models and techniques that will be integrated into a social robot. From a user-centered approach, the project addresses the challenge of ensuring the reliability of the integration of such models that generally make them inadequate in the context of real use. The aim is to evaluate the capacity and value of incorporating the developed AI to support cognitive stimulation activities.

Intelligent Interactions in Social Robots for Cognitive Stimulation Activities (XOGAMOS) is a research project funded under program Convocatoria 2024 - «Incentivación de la consolidación investigadora».

Student assignments

Graduation/Master projects from GrEI/GrIA/MIA programmes can be arranged to support the technology development for several of the ongoing research tasks. For interested Erasmus’ students from other universities or for any other sort of assignments associated to this or any of our projects (XAI4SOC, TELSEC4TAI, SOSFood, iRead4Skills), please contact the respective PIs for alternatives.

Results

Tailoring Furhat robotic head lip-syncing to Galician language: an adaptation and evaluation study.
Paper presented at Interacción ‘25: XXV International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Carla Castedo, Carmen Magariños, Alejandro Catala, Alberto Bugarín-Diz.
A multi-phase pilot study on multimodal evaluation in cognitive tests.
Paper presented at Interacción ‘25: XXV International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Juan Camilo Méndez Flórez, Nelly Condori-Fernández, Alejandro Catala, Alejandro Enriquez
AI-based emotion recognition in dementia through facial expression: A scoping review.
Paper published at Ageing Research Reviews. Volume 114, January 2026, 102975. Noelia Gerbaudo-González, Nelly Condori-Fernández, Alejandro Catalá, Manuel Gandoy-Crego.

About XOGAMOS

Featured objectives

We investigate how to deliver safely more efficient cognitive stimulation therapy with a social robot in dialogic multimodal contexts.

Multimodal QAs

Social robot for cognitive stimulation

Responsible AI

Student assignments

TEAM

Dr. Alejandro Catalá

Juan Camilo Mendez Florez

Martín Omil Nogales

Contact Us

Reach out Alejandro via email for any query.