• BCNDataset: Description and Analysis of an Annotated Night Urban Leisure Sound Dataset 

      Vidaña Vila, Ester; Duboc, Leticia; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Polls Agell, Francesc; Vargas Barrantes, Harold (Sustainability, 2020, Vol. 12, No. 19, 2020-10)
      Acoustic pollution has been associated with adverse effects on the health and life expectancy of people, especially when noise exposure happens during the nighttime. With over half of the world population ...
    • Design of a Low-Cost Configurable Acoustic Sensor for the Rapid Development of Sound Recognition Applications 

      Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Hervás García, Marcos; Duboc, Leticia; Carbassa Dalmases, Jordi (Electronics, 2020, Vol. 9, No 7, 2020-07)
      Concerned about the noise pollution in urban environments, the European Commission (EC) has created an Environmental Noise Directive 2002/49/EC (END) requiring Member states to publish noise maps and ...
    • Everything is Interrelated: Teaching Software Engineering for Sustainability 

      Penzenstadler, Birgit; Betz, Stefanie; Venters, Colin C.; Chitchyan, Ruzanna; Porras, Jari; Seyff, Norbert; Duboc, Leticia; Becker, Christoph (Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2018), 2018-06)
      Sustainability has become an important concern across many disciplines,and software systems play an increasingly central role in addressing it. However, teaching students from software engineering and ...
    • Fostering desgin patterns education: An examplar inspired in the angry birds game franchise 

      Silva, Diogo; Schots, Marcelo; Duboc, Leticia (Proceedings of the 18th Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality (SBQS 2019) - Education Track p. 168-177 (2019), 2019-10)
      Design patterns aim at easing the reuse of design solutions, saving time in solving recurring problems and supporting code maintainability. However, teaching design patterns is challenging. One of the ...
    • Leveraging Urban Sounds: A Commodity Multi-Microphone Hardware Approach for Sound Recognition 

      Tappero, Fabrizio; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Duboc, Leticia; Alías Pujol, Francesc (Proceedings 5th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications, 2019-03-08)
      City noise and sound are measured and processed with the purpose of drawing appropriate government legislation and regulations, ultimately aimed at contributing to a healthier environment for humans. ...