The Aldaba-WIB (Women, ICT & Business) Chair presented one of the awards at the VII XoveTIC Congress, held on October 17 and 18 at CITIC, which drew 120 junior researchers. The event aims to showcase the talent of the new generation of researchers in the field of Information and Communications Technologies.
During the closing ceremony, nine awards were presented to recognize excellence in the congress’s most outstanding papers. Each award comes with a cash prize of 300 euros.
The Aldaba-WIB Chair Award was granted to the paper “Effectiveness of Virtual Reality in Reducing Public Speaking Anxiety: "A Pilot Study" by María Oliveira, Raquel Simões de Almeida, Paulo Veloso Gomes, João Donga, Bruno Teixeira, António Marques, and Javier Pereira. This is a pilot study that shows, using virtual reality, how to reduce public speaking anxiety.
Read the full news story here, including all the winners of the VII XoveTIC Congress.