GRISS (Grup de Recerca en Imatge, So i Síntesi / Grupo de Investigación en Imagen, Sonido y Síntesis), is a consolidated research group at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, created in 1980, recognised by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Grup 2009SGR1013) and part of the Department of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising I.

It focuses on the study of the communication process in all audiovisual media, including new types and forms of media. The various projects carried out are focused on the processes of production, diffusion and reception.

The results of these studies are applicable to the strategies of creation, programming and planning of communication in the audiovisual field and the field of information and communication technologies (ICT).They are also applicable to the interpretation of the social consequences and the orientation of communication policies.

New publications by GRISS' researchers
Belén Monclús, together with Miguel Vicente, appears in the latest issue of Observatory OBS and José Luis Valero signs a lesson in the Web portal of the communication

Laura Aymerich, PhD
Laura Aymerich presented her thesis on the "Efect of the tool's complexity and the type of incentive on the user's motivation in interactive advertising for television", supervised by Emili Prado and Matilde Delgado

Meeting on digital local television
Emili Prado took part in the debates on the quality, challenges and opportunities of the digital television held inTenerife, at the TEA - Tenerife Space of the Arts

European Meeting of Media in Madrid
The prime minister of the government of Spain, José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, opens at the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid the European Meeting of Media, where Emili Prado and Rosa Franquet will participate.

Rosa Franquet and Emili Prado at the III Meeting of Contents in the Digital Age
The University of Valencia organises the meeting which this year is entitled "Quality Contents in the New Television Space".