UPS student Mateo Parreño is currently studying electronic engineering in the university's branch campus in Quito, he wrote a paper titled "Teaching-Learning of basic language of signs through didactic games", which he also presented in the "9th International Conference on Education Technology and Computers (ICETC 2017)". 

ICETC was held in Barcelona, Spain in late December 2017, it is the most important academic event in Spain regarding technologies for education and computers. This event is attended by universities and institutes from around the world and is sponsored by the International Association of Computer Sciences and Information technologies.

Scientists, academics, engineers, educators and students of different nationalities met in the conference to exchange ideas and present the advances in these fields. The work of Parreño, under the tutorship of professor Johanna Celi, is a didactic game based on gestural sensors for tracking fingers that allows the interaction between one or two users through an attractive interface. The educational process assumes a playful facet that would favor the learning of sign language of children, people with hearing disability and / or anybody who is interesting in learning.

Parreño presented the results of his research during the session titled "Theory of teaching and education in Engineering" where there were also researchers from Brazil, China, Austria, Japan, Taiwan, the United States, the United Kingdom and Ecuador. The paper will be published in the International Conference Proceedings Series by ACM (ISBN: 978-1-4503-5435-6), archived in the ACM Digital Library