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Maria Júlia Vieira develops doctoral research on gender and video game streaming during Erasmus+ mobility in Norway

Maria Júlia Vieira, a PhD student in the Doctoral Program in New Media, carried out a research mobility under the Erasmus+ program at the University of Stavanger (Norway), during the...

PhD Students Publications Science and society

"Fronteira Digital" highlights ProSeniorTV project

The most recent opinion article in Diário de Aveiro "De Aveiro para os seniores: a televisão como ponte social", written by Gabriel Faria, highlights the ProSeniorTV, a project developed...

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Student presents research conducted as part of Students@DigiMedia #04 at ICICT 2026

Anda-Elena Covaci, currently a second-year student in the Multimedia and Communication Technologies degree programme at the University of Aveiro, remotely presented a scientific paper on 27...

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Virtual Reality for All: Young People Help Create Accessible Games

The DigiMedia Laboratories, LabUA Inclusive and Lab XR, hosted a group of young adults with diverse support needs from the Organization "Pais em Rede" for a co-creation session focused on...

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New regular issue of JDMI is now available

The regular issue of the second semester of 2025 (JDMI Vol. 8, No. 20) is now available. This regular issue, titled “Friction in Games and Computational Media”, guest-edited by...

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DigiMedia Hosts University of Tampere Faculty and Strengthens International Collaboration

DigiMedia recently welcomed two colleagues from the University of Tampere (Finland), Markku Turunen and Pauliina Baltzar, who presented their research areas as well as the Master’s and...

About DigiMedia

DigiMedia – Digital Media and Interaction is an interdisciplinary research centre of the University of Aveiro working at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, and Media Studies, with outputs encompassing Fundamental Research (frameworks, models, and scales), Applied Research (content-based digital products, online services, and digital tools in the form of instances and prototypes), and Industrial Research (in the form of products — Digital Games, Mobile Apps, Interactive TV Apps, Web Apps, and Social Media Apps — and patents).

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Digital Health

The Digital Health team aims to research and design innovative digital media solutions to improve health, wellbeing, care, quality-of-life, inclusion, and active ageing, acknowledging the diversity of target groups, health conditions, user experience and contexts that frame this domain.

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Digital Media & Society

This team investigates the potential of emerging media technologies in preserving cultural heritage, considering ethical implications related to cultural representation and authenticity. A philosophical and psychological convergence on temporality, intergenerationality, and wellbeing supports the research.

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Immersive Play

A research team that is focused on game and narrative design to craft playful and augmented experiences. In specific, it investigates engagement within playful environments to promote behavioural change.

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Social iVX – Social and Interactive Viewing eXperiences

This team is committed to exploring and enhancing the viewer experience within the expansive TV ecosystem. This encompasses user interactions with video content across diverse sources and a constellation of media devices.

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Technology Enhanced Learning & Communities

Drawing on the knowledge gained from the last decade on research and design of social platforms for learning, this team is committed to extending learning environments through ideas of being, belonging and relatedness, considering the power of generative AI.

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JDMI Periodical Publication

The Journal of Digital Media & Interaction is an international open-access journal, published 2 times a year. The journal addresses research on digital media and user experience in creative, cultural and social contexts. It focuses on the socio-technological challenges seen from a transdisciplinary perspective, grounded in media studies and interaction design, as well as in human-computer interaction, communication, cultural studies, design and psychology.

Maria Júlia Vieira develops doctoral research on gender and video game streaming during Erasmus+ mobility in Norway

"Fronteira Digital" highlights ProSeniorTV project

Student presents research conducted as part of Students@DigiMedia #04 at ICICT 2026

Virtual Reality for All: Young People Help Create Accessible Games

New regular issue of JDMI is now available

DigiMedia Hosts University of Tampere Faculty and Strengthens International Collaboration

About DigiMedia

DigiMedia at a glance

31

92

67

955

DigiMedia Research Teams

Digital Health

Digital Media & Society

Immersive Play

Social iVX – Social and Interactive Viewing eXperiences

Technology Enhanced Learning & Communities

DigiMedia network

JDMI Periodical Publication

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