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Sup? I'm diekus, an Ambient Intelligence and Accesibility PhD student researching natural user interfaces, accesibility and mediatecture. I currently work at CAIAC, a center specialized in accesibility and ambient inteligence (AmI) in Catalonia. Feel free to contact me, you can do so by several means here. Enjoy.
the long story...
Hello. I am Diego González, commonly known as diekus. I am a computer engineer graduated in 2008 from the Costa Rican Institute of Technology. I underwent a master’s degree in Information Systems there as well. Nowadays I returned to a student’s life in 2010 with a master’s degree in Multimedia Technologies following with a PhD program in AmI at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
In the past I’ve developed myself in the private and public sector. I firmly believe in the successful combination of both sectors in order to drive innovation and knowledge to the industry and the other way around resources and opportunities to the academia. I have worked with big companies such as Microsoft Corporation, Chiquita Brands International and Dole Food Company. I have also worked in big local software consultancy companies as Dinámica Consultores. I have learned a lot in those places and keep many good memories of them, but my interest in areas other than line of business applications, business intelligence and databases has made me move on to the academia also, where I had the opportunity to teach various courses in my alma matter, being able to handle around 80 young minds from diverse areas of engineering – it has been one of the most thrilling work experiences in my life, and I hope I can return part time to the academia and do research on things that I am really passionate about.
One's areas of interest vary through time. It seems like yesterday when I, as every computer science student, wanted to be a video game developer or glorified web master. Technology, as our mind, never stops evolving. Currently my main areas of interest are related to mediatecture, multimedia, mobile technologies, human computer interaction and natural user interfaces. I try to read and keep up to date on the subject, as well as work in related fields, a task not always easy to find, nonetheless, exciting when done.
When I am not studying, I enjoy traveling around Europe and going out. I love music and will be always in company of my trusty music player- Hans Zimmer is a genius in my humble opinion. I also enjoy taking photographs of things that I visualize as part of a composition for media projects, most of them which just stay in my mind. I have a week spot for gadgets and consider myself to be very well informed of the gadget-culture and of course, a proud owner of some of the best pieces of consumer-oriented electronic artifacts available in the market today.
Luis Diego González Zúñiga | Barcelona, 2012
