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Accegal was born as a collaborative project between the Special Education School Manuel López Navalón (Department of Education and University – Government of Galicia) and the research group GTI (Group of Information Technology) from the School of Telecommunication Engineering (University of Vigo) for the development of accessibility solutions based on mobile devices.
At present time, our work is focused on communication, especially alternative and augmentative.
We work with other centers, associations and individuals. Our work is totally disinterested and non-profit so that our applications are free and run on low-cost devices. That is why we look for support in public and private entities as well as individuals who help us by micro-volunteering. In the acknowledgments page you can see all those who accept to receive credit for your contribution (some contributors prefer to remain anonymous).
Many small people, in small places, doing small things can change the world.
Eduardo Galeano
You can contact us via this website or in contacto@accegal.org
Directors
Fátima María García Doval: former Head of Special Education School “Manuel Lopez Navalón” of Santiago de Compostela. Diploma in Education from University of Santiago de Compostela and BA in Philosophy and Education Sciences by the UNED, PhD in Innovation in Teaching at University of Santiago de Compostela. Currently working Teacher In-Service Training Services at Xunta de Galicia.
Enrique Costa Montenegro: Associate Professor within the research GTI in the Telematics Engineering Department of School of Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Vigo. PhD in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Vigo.
Project Engineers
Jaime González González: Student in the docTIC PhD programme at the University of Vigo and full-time researcher in the Information Technology Group. He is currently in charge of maintaining and developing new applications within the Accegal project.
Francisco de Arriba Pérez: postdoctoral researcher, belonging to the GTI group of the Telematics Engineering Department of the E.E. Telecommunications of the University of Vigo. PhD in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Vigo. He has developed the talkAACtive and PictoXacobeo app.
Silvia García Méndez: PhD in Information and Communications Technologies from the University of Vigo in 2021. Since 2015 she has worked as a researcher in the Information Technologies Group – atlanTTic of the University of Vigo. She collaborates with foreign research centers as part of her postdoctoral stage. She has developed the natural language generation algorithms used in the PictoDroid Lite and talkAACtive applications, and the PictoXacobeo app.
Jonathan Juncal Martínez: student initially enrolled in Telecommunications Engineering, specializing in Sound and Image, and that made the application VirtualTEC as his Master Thesis at the School of Telecommunications Enginnering at the University of Vigo. He was employed as a project engineer for the research group GTI of the university, where he has developed the applications and PictoDroid, MessageTTS, PictoDroid Lite and MyKeyboDroid.
Contributors
José María Pousada Carballo: Former Director of the University Defence Center in the Naval Militar Academy in Marin, center attached to the University of Vigo, and Associate Professor in the School of Telecommunication Engineering at the University of Vigo. PhD in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Vigo. Currently retired.
Elisardo González Agulla: Doctor Ingeniero de Telecomunicación por la Universidad de Vigo, especializado en el diseño y desarrollo de soluciones relacionadas con la aplicación de la Visión Artificial a los campos de la Biometría y de la Estimación Demográfica.
Belén Barragáns Martínez: Deputy Head of the University Defence Center in the Naval Militar Academy in Marin, center attached to the University of Vigo. PhD in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Vigo.
Developers
Iván Pérez Piñeiro: Telecommunications Engineer, specialized in Sound and Image, he made SubTitleMe as his Master Thesis , “Android Application for hearing impaired subtitles for viewing in cinemas” in September 2012.
Diana Beatriz Castellanos Bothia: Telecommunications Technical Engineer, specializing in Telecommunications Systems, she developed her final year project: “Control of the VirtualTEC Android application intended for people with motor disabilities through a BCI interface” read in May 2013.
Eutelo Pena Barreiro: Telecommunications Technical Engineer, specializing in Sound and Image, he developed control through facial movements of the PictoDroid Lite application in his final year project: “Control of an Android application for people with disabilities through facial movements with the OpenCV library” read in October 2013. This project was co-directed by researcher Elisardo González Agulla, belonging to the GTS group of EE. Telecommunications of the University of Vigo.
Jose Ramón Paz Iglesias: student at the Telecommunication Engineering School of the University of Vigo studying Telecommunications Engineering and completed the final year project “Design and development of an Android application for behavior modification through alarms.”
Jose Maria Lopez Astariz: student at the Telecommunication Engineering School of the University of Vigo studying the Degree in Telecommunications Technology Engineering and carried out the final year project “Improvements of an Android application intended to facilitate the communication of non-verbal people.”
David Iravedra Ferreiros: student at the Telecommunication Engineering School of the University of Vigo studying Telecommunications Engineering, Electronics specialty, and completed the final year project “Cognitive stimulation game generators for Android devices (memory)”.
Diego Pérez Gonda: student at the Telecommunication Engineering School of the University of Vigo studying Telecommunications Technical Engineering, specializing in Telecommunications Systems, and carried out the final year project “Cognitive stimulation game generators for Android devices (word search)”.
Esteban Bacelo Souto: student at the Telecommunication Engineering School of the University of Vigo and completed the final year project “Sequence generators for people with special educational needs.”
Maria Laura Sanguiao Sanchez: student at the School of Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Vigo and completed the final year project “Cognitive stimulation game generators for Android devices (puzzle)”.
Miguel Angel Bermudez Lopez: student at the Telecommunication Engineering School of the University of Vigo and completed the final year project “Application of time control for people with autism spectrum disorders.”
Sergio Álvarez González: student at the School of Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Vigo and completed the final year project “Design and development of an Android instant messaging application using pictograms.”
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