The 17th May is the International Internet Day. The global presence of Internet services in our daily actions is, in the academic field, a practically assimilated fact in the last 20/25 years. And in the future, what do we expect from the Internet in fulfilling the mission of the University of Aveiro? The topic is addressed by Luís Pedro, professor of the University of Aveiro and researcher at DigiMedia – Digital Media and Interaction Research Center.

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Integrated in the stand of the University of Aveiro, DigiMedia’s participation included 4 projects of the SocialiTV group:

– Securhome (https://cenie.eu/en/blogs/securhome ) – a service that makes it possible to monitor seniors’ domestic activity through television;

– Smartly (http://www.alticelabs.com/site/alticelabsua/projetos_investigacao/ ) – a service, supported by a mobile and television application for MEO platform, which receives promotional coupons in addition to television advertising;

– VolunterAge4Seniors (http://socialitv.web.ua.pt/index.php/projects/sponsored-projects/voluntage4seniors/) – a service implemented on MEO television platform that allows seniors to ask for support from entities providing volunteer services;

– Videobite (http://socialitv.web.ua.pt/index.php/projects/sponsored-projects/videobite/) – an online platform (Clip.it) that enables the creation of video remixes of news content and the sharing of these videos on social networks.

Thanks to the participation of DigiMedia members and collaborators in this event, it was possible to show the community some of the best projects developed in the past year.

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DigiMedia – Digital Media and Interaction Research Centre was widely represented in Techdays 2018 – the largest National Technology Forum that took place on the 11th – 13th of October in Aveiro’s Exposition Center.

Throughout several exposition stands, visitors were able to see and interact with different R&D projects.

On the University of Aveiro stand, DigiMedia Research Centre headed the strategic scientific domain of TICE with fourteen of its R&D projects. Digital platforms, mobile applications, physical computing, augmented reality and virtual reality prototypes as well as several multimedia products were available to the public.

With the R&D projects presented in Techdays 2018, is clear the impact of the DigiMedia Research Center scientific research to and for society.

Techdays 2018 was a fantastic opportunity for our researchers to communicate science to a broader audience, allowing practical sessions for design validation as well as opportunities for networking for future collaborations.

DigiMedia – Digital Media and Interaction Research Center was widely represented in Techdays 2017 – the largest National Technology Forum that took place on the 12^th – 14^th of October in Aveiro’s Exposition Center.

Throughout several exposition stands, visitors were able to see and interact with different R&D projects.

On the University of Aveiro stand, DigiMedia Research Center headed the strategic scientific domain of TICE with eight of its R&D projects. Digital platforms, mobile applications and physical computing prototypes were available to the public to interact.

The DigiMedia Research Center also was presente on the TICE.PT stand, with the CHIC project – Cooperative Holistic view on the internet and Content. A project supported by Portugal 2020 funds, with budget of nearly 10 M€. The DigiMedia Research Center is one of the 24 entities of the project consortium headed by MOG Technologies, S.A.

In the Altice stand, DigiMedia Research Center was represented by ULTRA TV and +TV4elderly projects.

On the ANI – Agência Nacional de Inovação stand, was presented the “Happy: Health Awaerness and Prevention Personalized” project. This project is being developed by Nuno Ribeiro, student in Multimedia and Education PhD, and has been widely recognized and was one of tree finalist of the Born of Knowledge Contest (http://www.bornfromknowledge.pt/).

With the R&D projects presented in Techdays 2017, is clear the impact of the DigiMedia Research Center scientific research to and for society.

Techdays 2017 was a fantastic opportunity for our researchers to communicate science to a broader audience, allowing practical sessions for design validation as well as opportunities for networking for future collaborations.