Inga Freire Saboia, a PhD Student at DigiMedia, is involved in the team of two funded projects aimed at patients with COVID-19 and their families.

CoVIVE Social – Hospital Social Service Platform to support patients and their families with COVID-19

We are facing a difficult situation with the COVID-19 pandemic that has been challenging society as whole. In the hospital context, one of the major difficulties is the fact that family visits are suspended which generates insecurity and suffering to the patient.

CoVIVE Social is a project that aims to develop a prototype of a technological solution to improve the communication between the Hospital and the COVID-19 patients’ family. The tool will follow and support all the patient journey during all the hospitalization. This platform will offer update notices about the current patient state to family. Besides that, the social rights will be supported by this tool.

This project will be tested in Fortaleza General Hospital that is the major hospital in Ceará. It is funded by FioCruz (Brazil) and Inova Funcap. The research will be undertaken by a multidisciplinary team that includes physicians, nurses, social assistants, developers and designers.

GISSA Intelligent Bot – Prototype of an Intelligent Platform for Communication with users of primary health care in the COVID-19 Pandemic

We are facing a difficult situation with the COVID-19 pandemic that has been concerning mainly for the risk groups, which includes individuals with chronic diseases, such as Arterial Hypertension and Diabetes, pregnant women, and elderly people.

This project has the main goal to develop a prototype for m-Health solution to promote self-care and guide the user’s journey in primary health care. It will be a prototype for interaction with pregnant women, hypertensive and people with diabetes. This will be undertaken through textual dialogues with a chatbot.

This project will be tested in primary health care in Horizonte (a city in Ceará – Brazil). It is funded by FioCruz (Brazil) and Inova Funcap. The research will be undertaken by a multidisciplinary team that includes physicians, nurses, developers and designers.

The call for Projects in all Scientific Domains promoted by the Foundation for Science and Technology is open from January 28, 2021 until March 10, 2021.

The application form, as well as the application guide, will be made available on January 28, 2021.

All applications must be submitted in English using an electronic form. 

The maximum funding limit for each project is 250 000€.

More information available HERE.

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O Concurso de Projetos em todos os Domínios Científicos promovido pela Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia está aberto entre 28 de janeiro e 10 de março de 2021.

O formulário de candidatura, bem como o guião de candidatura, serão disponibilizados no dia 28 de janeiro de 2021.

Todas as candidaturas devem ser apresentadas em língua inglesa através de formulário eletrónico no Portal de Concursos

O limite máximo de financiamento de cada projeto é de 250 mil euros.

Mais informação disponível AQUI.

The 4th call for project proposals within AlticeLabs@UA is open until 31 December 2020. Professors and researchers from the University of Aveiro (UA) are invited to submit proposals on R&D and Innovation topics of interest to both entities, UA and Altice Labs. These proposals must be significantly different from the ongoing R&D work and from innovative products already on the market.

The AlticeLabs@UA laboratory was created in July 2016 through a protocol signed between the Rectory of the University of Aveiro and Altice Labs. AlticeLabs@UA is located at the Department of Communication and Art (DeCA) and aims at the joint development of academic and scientific projects between the two entities, focusing on the following scientific and technological areas linked to: development of emerging Web services; IPTV and digital content; usability of services and apps; user experience; collaborative or social experience systems; the Internet of Things (IoT) area.

More information and application form at http://www.alticelabs.com/site/alticelabsua/.