Last Saturday, July 20th, DigiMedia organized a meet-up in the walkways over the Ria de Aveiro.
Celebrating the end of a very successful academic year was the moto for the organization of a meet-up of DigiMedia researchers held last Saturday, July 20th. This very informal event included a pleasant tour over the Ria de Aveiro walkways and a shared snack on the relaxing area of the “Passadiços” bar. We wish this first edition of the DigiMedia Summer meet-up has just started a tradition!
On June 25th, 2019 it will take place the 1st Annual LOCUS Seminar, entitled Amiais’ Cultural Heritage. The Seminar will have the talk of Daniela Petrelli, Professor at Sheffield Hallam University, specialist in novel forms of interaction design that combine digital technology with product design, also known as Tangible and Embedded Interaction.
The objective of the Seminar is to present the first year results of LOCUS project, with spaces for reflection on its main scientific areas: cultural heritage, internet of things, augmented reality, intergenerational, gamification, among others.
The target audience of the event is the academic community, as well as specialists who are interested in the topics that are going to be discussed and can intervene in order to contribute to the enrichment of the event and, consequently, the project.
The event will take place at the Department of Communication and Art of the University of Aveiro, room 40.2.15, between 2:00 pm and 6:30 pm, under the scientific organization and moderation of Professor Lídia Oliveira and Professor Ana Carla Amaro.
PROGRAM
14h Welcoming
14h30 Opening session – Amiais Territory
António Coutinho (Mayor of the Sever do Vouga Municipality)
Sérgio Soares (President of the Parish Council of Couto de Esteves)
Lídia Oliveira (LOCUS Researcher in Charge)
15h15 Amiais Cultural Heritage from local speeches
Lídia Oliveira
Ana Carla Amaro
Ana Melro
16h Break
16h20 LOCUS: brand & identity
Joana Quental
17h Beyond the Phone: Mobile Cultural Heritage in the Age of the Internet of Things
Daniela Petrelli
18h15 Closing
Please register at https://forms.gle/QAEeYDsDQRrFshZy9
Inquiries: anamelro@ua.pt
SCIENTIA holds another edition, May 15, at ISCA-UA, organized by DigiMedia researcher João Batista and Professor Alberto Costa. In this edition, the keynote speaker is Professor Penousal Machado coordinator of the Cognitive and Media Systems group and the scientific director of the Computational Design and Visualization Lab. of the Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra, which addresses the theme “Artificial Intelligence: Fake it until you make it?” . Research work developed in the context of the ISCA-UA will be presented.
Admission is free, although registration is required. Please follow the available link [1]
Detailed program can be found in the available link [2]
DigiMedia – Digital Media and Interaction Research Centre, from Department of Comunication and Art (DeCA), hosts the event “Internet Day 2019” to celebrate the Internet day with the theme “Interaction Culture”.
The day’s schedule includes, during the morning – a talk by Jeffrey Bardzell Professor of Informatics and Director of the HCI/Design program in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University-Bloomington and a round table discussion comprised by Emília Duarte (Assistant Professor of Ergonomics in Design at Universidade Europeia and Director of the research unit UNIDCOM), Heitor Alvelos (Professor of Design and New Media at the University of Porto and Director of ID+: Institute for Research in Design, Media and Culture – Universidade do Porto), Jorge Rosa (Assistant Professor at Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and Licínio Roque (Assistant Professor at University of Coimbra and Senior Researcher at CISUC – Center for Informatics and Systems).
In the afternoon, project presentations will be made by students of the degree in New Communication Technologies and a debate with guest companies. Following that, a “speed dating” activity will be performed in order to promote connections between students and companies in Sciences and Comunications Tecnologies areas.
Admission is free, although registration is required for certain activities. Please follow the available link [1]
More information regarding the event can be found in the available link [2]
Schedule avilable at [ID_A2]
LOCATION
University of Aveiro – Department of Communication and Art – CCCI Auditorium and connected open space
The 2nd CeNTER Seminar, with the theme “Territory and Innovation: Discourses and Practices”, will be held on April 3rd at 9:30 AM in the Academic Acts Room of the University of Aveiro. The event aims to promote debates about how the various areas involved in the project.
Three panels will be illustrated:
The launch will be in charge of the keynote speaker Álvaro Domingues (University of Porto), at 15.15. The complete program can be known through the event’s website [1].
The participation in the event is open to all interested parties. However, it is necessary to be previously register on the CeNTER website [2].
DigiMedia researchers integrate one of the work packages of the CeNTER Program.
A 48-hour non-stop event to address the design and development of digital games will be held at the Department of Communication and Art, University of Aveiro. The Global Game Jam initiative occurs simultaneously in 108 countries and students, players, industry practitioners and hobbyists from all over the world will be challenged to push their creative boundaries and code. Registering is open until January 15th, 2019.
Beyond the GameJam, five game-related workshops will also take place in DeCA : 1. Game Programming in Unity3D [Programação de Jogos em Unity 3D] (lectured by Mário Vairinhos); 2. Introduction to Pygame [Introdução ao PyGame] (lectured by Diogo Gomes); 3. ‘I want to learn Unity’ : Introduction to Unity3D in practice [‘Quero aprender Unity’: Introdução ao Unity 3D na prática] (lectured by Tânia Ribeiro); 4. Character animation: from paper to screen [Animação de personagens: do papel ao ecrã] (lectured by Gonçalo Gomes); and 5. Developing ‘Visual Novels’ using Unity3D [Desenvolvimento de ‘Visual Novels’ em Unity3D] (lectured by Liliana Vale Costa).
To join this Global Game Jame, register in the following link: https://goo.gl/forms/rz4yizVCRmS40i8t2
Further information can be obtained by sending an email to : ggjua2019@gmail.com
Professor Joseph Straubhaar, from the University of Texas at Austin, while visiting Portugal, toke the opportunity to better know the University of Aveiro and DigiMedia Research Centre.
DigiMedia research Centre guided Professor Joseph Straubhaar in to our Research Ecosystem (people, process, research results) fostering the connection for future collaborative work.
In addition, DigiMedia had the pleasure to receive Professor Vicente Gosciola. In this short visit, Professor Vicente Graciola lectured two open classes: “Audiovisual Volumetry: A new approach in the field of Audiovisual Communication” and “Transmedia production: beyond the mettre en scène e mise en scène”.
On november 22, the DigiMedia Research Centre and AlticeLabs (with the support of the American Corner at UA) celebrated the World Usability Day. An electrifying talk presented by Santosh Basapur – lecturer and planning coordinator for human factors and systems design at IIT Institute of Design in Chicago – capture the attention of the audience, in the morning.
In the afternoon, Santosh Basapur made a visit to Altice Labs. In an informal conversation, he discussed topics related to User Experience and Media, namely a more immersive experience with Television.
The talk “Role of usability in Systems Thinking” is available here.
The talk is promoted by a joint collaboration between DigiMedia and AlticeLabs (with the support of the American Corner at UA) towards the celebration of the World Usability Day. It will take place on the 22th of November, 9.30 a.m., in the main auditorium of the CCCI at the University of Aveiro.
The speaker is Santosh Basapur – lecturer and planning coordinator for human factors and systems design at IIT Institute of Design in Chicago.
Santosh shifted to academia after being a principal staff user experience researcher at Motorola Mobility’s (a Google company) Applied Research Center in Chicago for 10 years. His expertise is in using methods from various domains like HCI, human factors, social sciences and anthropology and applying them to UX research.
More information about Santosh Basapur: [1]
A public session to present the results of the UNLOVE project will take place next Friday, October 19th. UNLOVE aimed at developing a digital game to promote awareness and prevent violence dating.
The session, in which the Secretary of State for Equality [1] will participate, will take place in the “Sala de Atos” of the Rectory building of the University of Aveiro and is scheduled to begin at 9:30 am.
DeCA, University of Aveiro
Campus Universitário de Santiago
3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal
Project Ref: UID/05460/2025
Funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU
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