Program

  • Plenary activity
  • Papers
  • Workshop
  • Industry talk
  • Logistics

Day 1 Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Morning · Opening session

Faculty of Law Auditorium

Time Activity
8:45 AM Logistics Registration and welcome package pickup Faculty of Law Auditorium
9:30 AM – 11:30 AM Plenary Opening ceremony Faculty of Law Auditorium
  1. Address by the JoCICI 2026 General Chairs Dr. Alexandra Martínez Porras (Director of CITIC) and M.Sc. Efrén Jiménez (Director of the Computer Engineering Program, San Carlos Local Technology Campus, TEC). 9:30 AM
  2. Address by the Rector of the University of Costa Rica 9:50 AM
  3. Cultural performance 10:15 AM
  4. Opening keynote Delivered by Dr. Mads Haahr, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (keynote speaker). 10:30 AM
  5. Closing 11:30 AM
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM Logistics Lunch

Afternoon · Parallel sessions

Parallel sessions in three simultaneous rooms.
Time ECCI Auditorium Letras Auditorium: Roberto Murillo CITIC Laboratory 5-2
Session 1 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Papers Session 1A: HCI & Education
  1. ID 22 Delivering in extremis: Exploring a Worker-Centered Design Approach for Food Delivery Workers HCI
  2. ID 17 Current Usability, Accessibility and User Experience Practices in Costa Rica — A Diagnostic Survey HCI
  3. ID 5 Impact of in-game economy balancing methods on player motivation and satisfaction HCI
  4. ID 20 Conversational Artificial Intelligence as a formative tool: Student perceptions of learning and STEM competencies through the use of educational simulators Educational technology
 Papers Session 1B: Software Engineering & Big Data
  1. ID 34 Cwpx: A Framework for Web Programming in C Software engineering
  2. ID 51 ISO/IEC 25000 Criteria extended for Assessing Cloud Native Application Quality Software engineering
  3. ID 60 Human–Human vs. Human–AI Pair Programming: An Exploratory Study of Code Quality in an Educational Context Software engineering
  4. ID 59 Big Data Pipeline for Taxi Trip Processing and Prediction Big data
 Workshop Oracle - Database technologies for AI 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM Logistics Coffee break
Session 2 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Papers Session 2A: IoT & Cybersecurity
  1. ID 48 Synapse-Jacking: A Threat Model for Synaptic-Level Manipulation in Neuro-Inspired Systems Cybersecurity
  2. ID 57 Exploring Approximate Logic Synthesis Opportunities for FPGA-based Designs IoT
  3. ID 7 Human-Building Interaction Through Depth-Based Gestures: A Privacy-Preserving Zero-UI Approach IoT
 Papers Session 2B: Software systems, architectures, applications and tools
  1. ID 11 English or Spanish prompts: Effect of language prompt on LLM code generation quality
  2. ID 45 Introduction to Smart Contract Execution on the Starknet Network for Local Energy Transactions
  3. ID 56 Measurement-Driven Structured Pruning for Energy-Efficient Deep Neural Networks on Edge Devices
 Workshop Oracle - Database technologies for AI

Day 2 Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Morning · Parallel sessions

Parallel sessions in three simultaneous rooms.
Time ECCI Auditorium Letras Auditorium: Roberto Murillo CITIC Laboratory 5-2
Session 3 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Papers Session 3A: Computer vision and image applications
  1. ID 15 Detection of Conservation-Relevant Features in Cultural Heritage Artworks Using Vision Transformers and CNNs
  2. ID 44 Siamese Network for Tattoo Similarity Detection
  3. ID 50 From Pixels to Diagnosis: Using Machine Learning to Classify Medical Image sequences
  4. ID 42 Visualizing Blockchain Vulnerabilities: Tabular-to-Image Transformation for Deep Learning-Based Analysis
 Papers Session 3B: Language models, generative AI and text processing
  1. ID 61 Generating Texts Aligned with CEFR Descriptors for a Language Proficiency Dataset Using LLMs
  2. ID 9 BETenio: A BETO-based Approach to Detect AI-Generated News Articles in Spanish
  3. ID 10 Evaluating the Effectiveness of LLMs Against Manual Searches for Scientific Literature Retrieval
  4. ID 62 A comparative study of reasoning models in historical document preservation
 Workshop Dr. Mads Haahr y Dr. Alberto Salazar Rojas “Designing Educational Video Games for Formal Learning Environments Using the CLG Framework” 9:00 AM – 12:00 NN
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM Logistics Coffee break
Session 4 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Industry talks HPE/Juniper — MIST Cloud: How AI powers self-sufficient networks 10:30 AM HPE/Juniper — Development and Design at HPE - ASIC team 11:00 AM HPE/Juniper — RG create - Robotics 11:30 AM Diprovid — AUGE services 12:00 PM Papers Session 4: Artificial intelligence, NLP and machine learning
  1. ID 49 Evaluating CORDIC-Based and Approximate Softmax Accelerators for Deep Learning Inference on FPGAs
  2. ID 6 Trade-off Between Accuracy and Decision Tree Complexity for Detecting Network Attacks
  3. ID 41 Multimodal Foundation Models for Zero-Shot User Activity Classification: An Exploratory Analysis of Trace Modalities
  4. ID 26 Trends, Benefits, and Challenges in the Use of Generative AI Tools by STEM Students at the Western Campus of the University of Costa Rica

Afternoon · Closing session

Faculty of Law Auditorium

Time Activity
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Logistics Lunch
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Plenary Closing ceremony ECCI Auditorium
  1. Oracle talk: Data + AI 2:00 PM
  2. Address by the JoCICI General Chairs 2:45 PM
  3. Certificate presentation to speakers 3:00 PM