September 12, 2025

Vanessa Pinto talks about her mobility at DigiMedia in an international event

Vanessa Pinto, a former Visiting researcher at DigiMedia, participated in the Binational Meeting Colombia-Brazil Graduate Researchers, organized by UNIRIO and Universidade Surcolombiana.

In this event, which took place from 11th to 15th August, Vanessa Pinto presented her international mobility experience at the University of Aveiro, in a partnership between DigiMedia and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

The researcher had the opportunity to talk about the work that began during the exchange and is still ongoing. She also emphasized that international mobility offers a rich cross-cultural exchange, essential for growth both academically and personally.

June 24, 2025

DigiMedia researchers as chairs of the IMX’25

The Conference ACM IMX 2025, co-organized by the University of Aveiro and the Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil), took place between 3^rd and 6^th June 2025, in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Jorge Ferraz Abreu, a Digimedia researcher, was one of the General Chairs of this conference, along with other members of the DigiMedia team: Pedro Almeida (demo chair), Telmo Silva and Carlos Santos (Web Chairs), Juliana Camargo (Publicity Chair) and Ana Velhinho (Acessibility Chair).

The conference had 22 full papers, 17 WiP, 17 Demos, 1 industry talk, and the participation of 6 doctoral students and 3 keynote speakers.

More information abouit this conference here.

The proceedings from the ACM can be read here and here.

May 19, 2025

DigiMedia researcher completed a mobility program at KU Leuven

Catarina Lélis has just completed her mobility program at KU Leuven, in Belgium, where she had the opportunity to strenghten the existing network. The DigiMedia researcher gave a lesson on visual strategies for UI/UX, a taster on the Impact Plan and led a workshop on dynamic Visual Identities.

In addition, Catarina Lélis participated in a workshop organized by Mintlab, a research unit of the Faculty of Social Sciences, with whom DigiMedia share several research interests.

February 12, 2025

PhD student in mobility in Barcelona

The DigiMedia Doctoral student, Raquel Magalhães Cabral, went on an international mobility programme at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. During this period, she conducted focus groups with experts in pedagogy and technology and collected data at the Co-Design Workshop for the development of her Infocommunicational Model, aimed at enhancing socioemotional competencies in secondary education.

Throughout this journey, Raquel was supported by her co-supervisor, Cristina Mercader, from the Department of Applied Pedagogy, and gained meaningful experiences both in the university environment and within the Catalan school system.

December 16, 2024

Yo-Media participated in the Program Cientificamente Provável

The Yo-media – Youngsters’ Media Literacy in Times of Crisis project participated in “Cientificamente Provável” (Scientifically Probable) program, and hosted 20 students from a secondary school in the Aveiro region, on 25th October.

The DigiMedia team of the Yo-media project organized activities, that promote critical thinking skills and media literacy among young people during health, political, or military crises. Students participated as evaluators of “Data Defenders,” a digital game developed within this project. During their visit, the students provided valuable feedback on the “Data Defenders” game, evaluating its effectiveness in teaching media literacy skills. This hands-on experience contributed to the Yo-media project’s development and gave students practical exposure to digital education tools and research processes.

The Program Cientificamente Provável aims to create partnerships between primary and secondary schools, research units, and higher education libraries. Through direct contact with researchers and higher education facilities, the Program enriches young people’s educational experience.

January 27, 2021

GISSA Intelligent Bot

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

SHORT DESCRIPTION

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.

DATES

January 2021 – February 2022

TOTAL FUNDING

120000 reais

FUNDING SOURCE

FioCruz and Inova Funcap

MAIN DIGIMEDIA R&D GROUP

e-health & Wellbeing

DIGIMEDIA TEAM

Inga Freire Saboia

PARTNERS

January 27, 2021

CoVIVE Social

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

SHORT DESCRIPTION

Nowadays, 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.

DATES

January 2021 – March 2022

TOTAL FUNDING

120000 reais

FUNDING SOURCE

FioCruz and Inova Funcap

MAIN DIGIMEDIA R&D GROUP

e-health & Wellbeing

DIGIMEDIA TEAM

Inga Freire Saboia

PARTNERS

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Vanessa Pinto talks about her mobility at DigiMedia in an international event

DigiMedia researchers as chairs of the IMX’25

DigiMedia researcher completed a mobility program at KU Leuven

PhD student in mobility in Barcelona

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GISSA Intelligent Bot

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