LOCUS – playfuL cOnneCted rUral territorieS – the Internet of Things in the intergenerational creative production of cultural georeferenced contents

LOCUS is a multidisciplinary project with the goal of co-design, develop and evaluate an IoT system and understand its potential to support playful intergenerational engagement in creating and exploring cultural contents and learning about Cultural Heritage of rural territories from the Centre Region of Portugal, namely Amiais Village, in Sever do Vouga. By implementing a playful and immersive Cultural Heritage Tourism approach to foster Amiais’ cultural and socioeconomic development, LOCUS will allow visitors to have immersive gamified experiences, by using a wearable device (bracelet) and their smartphones to interact with augmented everyday things around the village and to collaboratively learn about Amiais’ culture and produce and share multimedia georeferenced contents.

july2018 – july2021

231.150,27 €

231.150,27 €

National Public – FEDER/Compete 2020/Portugal 2020

POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029228

Media Convergence & Cyberculture

Lídia Oliveira Silva

Ana Carla Miguéis Amaro (Co-IR); Vania Baldi; Nelson Troca Zagalo;Rui Pedro Costa Rodrigues; Ana Luísa Rego Melro

Instituto de Telecomunicações – Aveiro (Shahid Mumtaz); Instituto Politécnico do Porto (Rui Rodrigues)

Not available….coming soon

VoluntAge4Seniors2.0 – Service that provides help to older adults from a group of volunteers

VoluntAge4Seniors 2.0 aims to develop a service that provides help to older adults in specific tasks such as a simple household maintenance or accompany in a visit to the doctor, by offering support of a volunteer. The service combines the development of a TV Application to older adults with voice interaction and a web platform to manage the requests and the volunteers.

july -2018 – may 2019

19791 €

19791 €

National Private – AlticeLabs

Alticelabs@UA

Social ITV; e-Health & Wellbeing

Rita Santos

Researchers: Ana Isabel Martins; Mário Rodrigues; Ciro Martins; Hilma Caravau
Grantees: Joana Beja; Pedro Miguel

IEETA; Associação Nacional Gerontólogos

Not available….coming soon

Videobite – Stimulating User Engagement Through Newsworthy Stories Based on Short Online Videos

This project aims to research and develop news engagement strategies by means of the development of a free on-line platform that allows users to create and share news video remixes on social networks. Users will be able to create their own online videos (U.G.C.) based on audio-visual content made available by the Cofina journalists in the platform.

may -2018 – june 2019

~200.000€ €

45.150€

International Private – Digital News Innovation Fund [1]

VideoBite (Round 3) [2]

Social ITV

Pedro Almeida

Researchers: Pedro Beça, Jorge Ferraz de Abreu;
Grantees: Carlos Silva, Arthur Pedrozo.

Cofina, Google, Brightpixel

Available at: [3]

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FlavourGame – Participate and Change, Playing with textures and flavours

FlavourGame is a project in the intersections of arts, technology, communication and health. It is conceived by an interdisciplinary team, and intends to reach kids aged 10-11 yers old for raising discussion and sense-making around the theme of nutrition (food choices). In concrete, we will develop a new serious game that invite real foods – with their flavors, aromas and texturas- into play, through an innovative tripartite communication model: based on conversation, participation and rich tangible interactions. This game will be conceived for an hybrid board game- combining a physical board and a tablet- through a user-centred-design approach, where kids are given voice and space for their own perspectives. At the end, players will be able to access a whole new social and impactful experience, just by the action of a “click”.

july 2019 – june 2022

235.933,14 €

194.683,12 €

National Public – FEDER/Compete 2020/Portugal 2020

POCI-01-0145-FEDER-031024

Games & Entertainment

Nelson Zagalo – Researcher in Charge (RC)
Mário Vairinhos – Co-Researcher in Charge (Co-RC)

Nelson Zagalo; Mário Vairinhos; Patrícia Oliveira

Universidade do Minho; Universidade Católica Portuguesa

FlavourGame Web Page

Gamers4Nature: Game creation tools to promote Environment and Biodiversity preservation awareness

The project aims to promote knowledge about environmental preservation in young people through their participation in game creation processes. Gamers4Nature proposes to develop a toolkit to support game creation for mobile devices and, with the help of schools, to apply it with the aim of encouraging young people of multiple skillsets and backgrounds, to participate in game jams events. The project also proposes the creation itself of game jams events with specific characteristics and provides access to an open repository with the games developed, to facilitate knowledge about environment and biodiversity concerns.

june -2018 – may 2021

237.984,41 €

237.984,41 €

National Public – FEDER/Compete 2020/Portugal 2020

POCI-01-0145-FEDER-031047

Games & Entertainment

Pedro Beça

Ana Veloso, Rita Santos

Associação Bioliving

Not available….wet

Smartly

TV2Mobile intends to take advantage of the proliferation of mobile devices and their increasing use in simultaneous with the visualization of television contents, to notify the user that can, through the application, enjoy discounts or participate in games of bets for example.Imagine the scenario where a supermarket chain has a specific promotion for a store near the user. Thus, alongside with the distribution of advertising (for example to a supermarket), the user will be notified (on television) that a promotion in that supermarket is available and that to benefit from it, in his mobile application should accept the coupon that has been sent to him.

september -2018 – august 2019

19800 €

19800 €

National Private – AlticeLabs

AlticeLabs@UA

Social ITV

Telmo Silva

Pedro Almeida, Rita Oliveira, Rita Santos

AlticeLabs

Not available….coming soon

CHIC – Cooperative Holistic View on Internet and Content

The CHIC – Cooperative Holistic View on Internet and content project was submitted, evaluated and approved for financing under the call “Mobilizers programs “ supported by Portugal 2020 funds. With a total approved budget of nearly 10 M€, CHIC was submitted by a consortium of 24 entities headed by MOG Technologies, S.A. The consortium incorporates different entities, from SME to medium/large companies passing throw institutions from the Portuguese Scientific and Technological System.
The CHIC – project, aims 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.
DigiMedia team will be involved with major responsibilities in the pilot dealing with NLI – Natural Language Interaction for online navigation and cable distribution systems. DigiMedia team main responsabilities will be on the technological mapping of NLI tecnologies, training and modelling, development and implementation of the technical solution, trial run and optimization in heterogeneous conditions, pilot deployment, pilot evaluation and dissemination actions.

October 2017 – October 2020

9.921.622.20 €

367.400 €

National Public – FEDER/Compete 2020/Portugal 2020/Lisboa 2020

Mobilizador – 24498 [1]

Social iTV

Jorge Ferraz de Abreu

Alexandre Ulisses (Team MOG – Project coordinator); Pedro Almeida; Telmo Silva, Pedro Beça; Rita Santos

Companies that produce technology: MOG technologies S.A, Enigma Virtual (Gema), Cluster Media Labs, YouON, VMuse, Altice Labs, SISTRADE;
Entities SCTN: INESC TEC, Universidade do Porto FEUP, FBAUP, FLUP, Instituto Politécnico do Porto (ISEP), Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Universidade Aberta, Centro de Computação Gráfica, Cinemateca Portuguesa, Universidade de Aveiro e Universidade Católica;
Advanced users : Global Notícias, Publicações S.A. (Jornal de Notícias), Altice Labs, Avenida dos Aliados – Sociedade de Comunicação S.A. (Porto Canal), Tipografia Tadinense, Ideias e Conteudos, OSTV (Canal 180), Cinemateca Portuguesa, GMK

Available at: [2]