EMPATIA-CM: Comprehensive Protection of Gender-based Violence Victims through Multimodal Affective Computing

Abstract

The EMPATIACM project begins in January 2019, executed by a multidisciplinary team formed by the Institute of Gender Studies in Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (UC3MIEG, with research staff from several branches of the Social Sciences and Humanities) and by the UC3M-TEC group (formed in turn by research personnel from several branches of Engineering), with the fundamental objective of understanding the reactions of victims of Gender-based Violence (GBV) to dangerous situations, generate mechanisms for automatic detection of these situations and study how to react in a comprehensive, coordinated and effective way to protect them in the best possible way. This objective is divided into six sub-objectives, which demonstrate the need and added value of the multidisciplinary approach.