For the seventh time, the University of Aveiro hosted the Global Game Jam – the largest game creation event in the world, involving thousands of participants (jammers) from more than 100 countries, which this year took place .

Organised by teachers and students from the Master’s in Digital Games Development (MDJD), this year’s edition – which took place at the Complexo das Ciências da Comunicação e Imagem (CCCI) and was supported by the DeCA, DigiMedia and IT Telecommunications Institute – had more than 40 participants, including students from DeCA, DeTI and IPCA (among others).

Before the game creation marathon, the participants had the chance to take part in a vast programme of workshops in the fields of multimedia, arts and IT. At the end of the marathon, 13 projects were presented at the CCCI of the Department of Communication and Art. The games developed are available for free download at https://globalgamejam.org/group/714/games.

Open seminar with JANIKA LEOSTE:

Title: Supporting social interaction in hybrid STEAM learning

When: May 18 @ 2:30 pm -3:30 pm (Lisbon Time)

Where: Anfiteatro João Branco, DeCA, UA

Zoom link: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/81600940428

JANIKA LEOSTE is a researcher in educational robotics and chief specialist in entrepreneurial cooperation and Innovation at the School of Educational Sciences, Tallinn University, Estonia. Janika’s research focuses on the sustainability of technology enchanced educational innovations, including robot integrated learning, and the didactics of STEAM learning at all school levels. Her short bio https://www.etis.ee/CV/Janika_Leoste/est?lang=ENG&tabId=CV_ENG

Pâmela Pinto works as a journalist for the Ministery of Health in Brazil (2012 – until now) and developed her post-doc research in DigiMedia, as an invited researcher, together with Professor Maria João Antunes and Professor Ana Margarida Almeida (01/09/2019 – 31/08/2021).

On June 16, 2021, at 4:00 pm, Pâmela Pinto will present an open online seminar on the results of her post-doc research which marks the end of her research stay at the University of Aveiro. The survey “Ehealth Strategies of the Governments of Portugal and Brazil on Instagram” problematized the uses of this platform in both countries, as a mediator of information on health to citizens. The monitoring of the profiles of the National Health System and the Brazilian Ministry of Health pointed out the reconfigurations of these spaces in the context of the pandemic and reiterated the importance of these channels to expand the reach of messages of public interest.

Access to the seminar:

online, via zoom: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/88144687952?pwd=QWk4K0tESS9QVTljdmlBZFJQalBLdz09

ID da reunião: 881 4468 7952
Senha de acesso: 941427

Short bio

Pâmela Araujo Pinto got her graduation in Journalism at the Universidade Federal do Maranhão (2007), and her Master’s Degree and Ph.D. in Communication, in Universidade Federal Fluminense (2010 and 2015). She also works as a journalist for the Ministery of Health, in Brazil (2012 – until now).
Currently, she conducts her Post-Doctoral research at the Department of Communication and Art (University of Aveiro).
Her research interests are related to ‘communication and public health’, ‘institutional communication and social media’ , with emphasis on Instagram.

The University of Aveiro is promoting the Global Game Jam® (GGJ), from 29 to 31 January 2021, the largest game creation event in the world, which takes place simultaneously in dozens of countries.

DigiMedia members are involved in the organization of the event – Ana Veloso, José Nunes, Liliana Costa, Mário Vairinhos, Mónica Aresta, Nelson Zagalo, Pedro Beça, Silvino Martins, Tânia Ribeiro – along with other researchers from the Department of Communication and Art, the Department of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics and the School of Technology and Management of Águeda.

In the past edition of Global Game Jam® (GGJ) more than 60 UA members participated, among students, teachers and researchers.

The University of Aveiro participates for the fourth time (https://globalgamejam.org/2021/jam-sites/universidade-de-aveiro-ggj2021), now in an online format. The organization expects the participation of more than a hundred young creative and innovative university students, who during the 48 hours of the event will develop team games.

For more information please contact ggj.uaveiro@gmail.com.

The 9th Iberoamerican Conference on Applications and Usability for Interactive TV (jAUTI’2020) was hosted by the SocialiTV group of the DigiMedia Research Centre  in the University of Aveiro with the special participation of the Network on Applications and Usability of Interactive Digital Television (RedAUTI). Due to the current situation with Coronavirus (COVID-19), the conference was held online on December 18, 2020.

The conference aimed to gather researchers from universities and the industry from all around the world, to share their work within the fields of digital television, interactive television and online video.

Jorge Ferraz de Abreu, Pedro Almeida and Telmo Silva were Program Chairs, along with Maria Jose Abasolo Guerrero. There were several DigiMedia members in the Scientific Committee of this online international event that included 28 presentations.

It is the largest Portuguese collaborative Research & Development project within the area of Media. It’s called CHIC – Cooperative Holistic View on Internet and Content – and involved 3 years of work, more than 30 partners and stakeholders.

The closing seminar of CHIC will be held on December 11^th, at 9:45 a.m., in an exclusively digital event, where the strengths of each of the 10 subprojects developed and pragmatised in pilots will be exposed.

Programme of the seminar and Registration form available HERE.

More information on the speakers HERE.

CHIC – Cooperative Holistic View on Internet and Content (October 2017 – October 2020)

The CHIC – project, aimed to develop, test and demonstrate a wide range of new processes, products and services that have a significant impact on the audiovisual and multimedia sectors. These products by their nature will have a clear mobilizing effect on other important sectors of culture such as the cultural heritage, archives, books and publications or the performing arts.

The DigiMedia team was involved with major responsibilities in the pilot dealing with NLI – Natural Language Interaction for online navigation and cable distribution systems. The DigiMedia team main responsibilities will be on the technological mapping of NLI technologies, training and modelling, development and implementation of the technical solution, trial run and optimization in heterogeneous conditions, pilot deployment, pilot evaluation and dissemination actions.

On 11^th December, 2020, at 11 a.m., within the scope of the Doctoral Programme Information and Communication in Digital Platforms, Professor Aida María de Vicente Domínguez from the University of Malaga will present the seminar “Big data and Communication: methodologies of capture and visualization of information”.

Access to the seminar:
online, via zoom: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/85826156370
ID of the meeting: 858 2615 6370

Short bio

Professor in the field of Journalism, Advertising and Audiovisual Communication, member of the research group “Studies of communication and information society” (UMA) and of the organizing committee of the European Data and Computational Journalism Conference.

Recent research

Some of the latest book chapters in prestigious publishers are:
“Las fuentes en el periodismo y la divulgación científica: disfunciones informativas en el entorno digital” (2020);
“Estrategias divulgativas visuales para la comprensión de la información científica” (2020); “Cómo informar de un texto científico en un medio de comunicación” (2019);
“Los tecnicismos del lenguaje científico: estrategias divulgativas de comprensión lectora en los medios de comunicación” (2019).
“Comunicación organizacional y divulgación científica: material académico `la universidad como fuente” (2019).

And among the most recent publications in scientific journals indexed in Scopus are:
“La guía de expertos como herramienta de comunicación y divulgación científica: gestión y diseño en la Universidad de Navarra”;
“Análisis del consumo de medios digitales españoles durante la pandemia del coronavirus SARSCoV-2”.

She has just coordinated the work “Specialized Communication in the XXI Century” at the McGraw Hill publishing. And she is a researcher in a national project on fakes news since January 2020, after finishing in December 2019 in the project “European media and construction”.

Fellipe Brasileiro, Professor at the Department of Communication and the Postgraduate Program in Communication at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), developed his post-doc research in DigiMedia together with Professor Ana Margarida Almeida within the E-health and Wellbeing research group (01/12/2019 – 30/11/2020).

On December 2, 2020, at 3:30 pm, Professor Fellipe will present an open online seminar entitled “Informational resilience and digital networks in health contexts” – Report of the experience as Invited Researcher at DigiMedia, which marks the end of his research stay at the University of Aveiro.

Access to the seminar:

online, via zoom: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/81042448053

ID da reunião: 810 4244 8053

Short bio

Fellipe Sá Brasileiro holds a PhD in Information Science and has been developing research activities related to health information and communication practices in digital environments. He is an adjunct professor at the Department of Communication and the Postgraduate Program in Communication at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), Brazil. He is a visiting professor (2019-2020) at the Department of Communication and Art at the University of Aveiro (UA), Portugal, and develops the research project “Informational resilience in digital social networks”, at the post-doctoral level, in collaboration with the E-Health and Wellbeing Research Group.

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Recent research

BRASILEIRO, F. S. Resiliência informacional em redes sociais virtuais: práticas colaborativas, emoções e mobilidade. João Pessoa: Editora UFPB, 2019