The Welcome Day of the Doctoral Programme in New Media took place on September 23, 2022 and clearly highlighted the close connection to the team and the research developed in DigiMedia.

Doctoral Programme in New Media
Welcome Day

09h30 – 9h40 || Opening Session
Director DeCA (Ana Veloso), Scientific Coord. DigiMedia (Nelson Zagalo), Director DP_NM (Óscar
Mealha)

9h40 – 10h00 || UA, DeCA and DigiMedia – Facts & Figures
Director DeCA (Ana Veloso), Scientific Coord. DigiMedia (Nelson Zagalo)

10h00 – 10h30 || Who are we?
Quick individual presentation of all actors – students, active students, teachers, support staff …

10h30 – 11h30 || Keynote – Dorota Kamińska (Lodz University of Technology – Institute of
Mechatronics and Information Systems)
Moderator: Rui Raposo
Dorota Kamińska is an established independent researcher and has been the principal investigator of many projects, mostly focusing on virtual reality, signal processing, and machine learning. In recent years she is involved in an industrial project, which is directly related to her research work on human behaviour analysis. She has very vast experience in leadership (confirmed by the International Project Management Association (IPMA) project management level D certificate) and supervision, which she gained during the TOP 500 Innovators program at Haas School of Business, University of California in Berkeley. Furthermore, she has a proven international collaboration with a different leading research lab in the field of human behaviour analysis, such as research collaboration with the University of Tartu (iCV Lab), University of Barcelona, Computer Vision Centre at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, University of Aveiro and Trinity College Dublin. Due to the nature of her research, affective computing, she has long-term research collaboration with the Institute of Psychology, the University of Lodz.
(https://voxellab.pl/)

11h30 – 11h45 || Break – Informal Social moment: tea, coffee, water, juice, cookies …

11h45 – 12h45 || PD_NM – A doctoral Thesis roadmap
Director and Vice-Director PD_NM (Óscar Mealha, oem@ua.pt e Jorge Ferraz de Abreu, jfa@ua.pt)

13h00 – 14h30 || Lunch Time

DigiMedia Research (14H30 – 18H00)
(Short intro and contextualization of each Research Group @ DigiMedia)

14h30 – 15h00 || Cyberculture: Lidia Oliveira (lidia@ua.pt)
15h00 – 15h30 || Social iTV: Jorge Ferraz de Abreu (jfa@ua.pt)
15h30 – 16h00 || Social Media and Learning: Carlos Santos (carlossantos@ua.pt)

16h00 – 16h15 || Break – Informal Social moment: tea, coffee, water, juice, cookies …

16h15 – 16h45 || e-Health and Wellbeing: Oksana Tymoshchuk (oksana@ua.pt)
16h45 – 17h15 || Advanced Technologies: Rui Raposo (raposo@ua.pt)
17h15 – 17h45 || Games and Transmedia: Ana Veloso (aiv@ua.pt )

17h45 – 18h00 || Closing Session
DP_NM Scientific Committee– Óscar Mealha, Jorge Ferraz de Abreu, Nelson Zagalo

Carlos Santos and Luís Pedro (DigiMedia members) participated in ECTEL2022 – Seventeenth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning – Educating for a new future: Making sense of technology-enhanced learning adoption that took place in Toulouse, France, from 12 to 16 September 2022.

Conference Theme

Educating for a new future: Making sense of technology-enhanced learning adoption

Cláudia Pedro Ortet (DigiMedia PhD Student), Ana Isabel Veloso (DigiMedia Member) and Liliana Vale Costa (DigiMedia Member), published in the Special Issue Wearable Assistive Devices for Disabled and Older People of the Journal Sensors the article entitled Cycling through 360° Virtual Reality Tourism for Senior Citizens: Empirical Analysis of an Assistive Technology. 

Following the First Meeting of Senior Virtual Reality: A Trip to Paris, the researchers assessed the senior citizens’ perceived experience and attitudes toward a designed 360° VR cyclotouristic experiment, using a head-mounted display (HMD) setting within a laboratory context. A total of 76 participants aged between 50 and 97 years old were involved in convergent parallel mixed-method research, and data were collected using a questionnaire based on the technology acceptance model, as well as the researchers’ field notes. Findings suggest that 360° VR with HMD can be an effective assistive technology to foster senior cyclotourism by promoting tourism sites, simulating the cycling pedaling effect, and improving senior citizens’ general wellbeing and independence with physical and mental rehabilitation. 

The Research Summit 2022 took place on the 13th, 14th and 15th of July, under the theme “Open Science”. It is expected to be a forum to foster an important debate among the research community of the University of Aveiro and to increase collaboration, advancing the state of the art and enhancing research efforts on campus.

Several DigiMedia members participated in the sessions.

Programme: 13th July, plenary sessions

Nelson Zagalo
The Academic Press’ contribution to Open Science

Nelson Zagalo
ROUND TABLE: Open Science at UA
Artur Silva, Cristina Cortês, João Coutinho, José Luis Oliveira, Nelson Zagalo, Sara Bosshart & Susana Sardo

Programme: 15th July, students’ pitches

Lorena Sousa (MMEdu)
Developing Open Educational Resources for doctoral education training: an Educational Design Research approach

Ana Raquel Carvalho (MMEdu)
Peer mentoring and its impact on peer mentors academic performance based on participation in a technology enhanced program

André Castello-Branco  (ICPD)
Heuristic model of a health dashboard for citizen engagement in smart cities

Cláudia Ortet (ICPD)
Evaluation of Gamification Strategies’ Impact in the Information and Communication Services of Cyclotourism for Senior Citizens

Tânia Ribeiro (ICPD)
Empathic Playable Characters in Digital Games: a model proposal for the design of Playable Characters

Natural Language Interaction with the television

• Jorge Abreu, Department of Communication and Art & DigiMedia, University of Aveiro
• Pedro Almeida, Department of Communication and Art & DigiMedia, University of Aveiro
• Pedro Beça, Department of Communication and Art & DigiMedia, University of Aveiro
• Juliana Camargo, Department of Communication and Art & DigiMedia, University of Aveiro
• Tiffany Marques, Department of Communication and Art & DigiMedia, University of Aveiro
• Rita Santos, Department of Communication and Art & DigiMedia, University of Aveiro
• Telmo Silva, Department of Communication and Art & DigiMedia, University of Aveiro

Available HERE

miOne: codesigning an “online livable community” for active ageing

• Ana Isabel Veloso, Department of Communication and Art & DigiMedia, University of Aveiro
• Óscar Mealha, Department of Communication and Art & DigiMedia, University of Aveiro
• Carlos Santos, Department of Communication and Art & DigiMedia, University of Aveiro
• Liliana Costa, Department of Communication and Art & DigiMedia, University of Aveiro
• Vania Baldi, Department of Communication and Art & DigiMedia, University of Aveiro
• Liliana Sousa, Department of Education & Psychology & CINTESIS, University of Aveiro
• Sónia Ferreira, School of Education, Center for Studies in Education and Innovation, Polytechnic of Viseu
• Fernanda Martins, Faculty of Arts and Humanities & CITCEM, University of Porto
• Fernando Zamith, Faculty of Arts and Humanities & CITCEM, University of Porto
• Cláudia Ortet, Department of Communication and Art & DigiMedia, University of Aveiro
• Francisco Regalado, Department of Communication and Art & DigiMedia, University of Aveiro
• Henrique Silva, Department of Communication and Art & DigiMedia, University of Aveiro
• Jesse Filho, Department of Communication and Art & DigiMedia, University of Aveiro
• Tânia Ribeiro, Department of Communication and Art & DigiMedia, University of Aveiro

Available HERE

Journal of Digital Media & Interaction

ISSN 2184-3120

The Journal of Digital Media & Interaction is an open access, international peer-reviewed research journal, published by DigiMedia, University of Aveiro.

JDMI has been accepted for indexation in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

Journal of Digital Media & Interaction, Vol.5, No.12: Cultural Representations in Digital Games is now available.

Regular issue with dossier on Emotion and Cognition in Engagement.

Editorial

Dossier no.12 – Emotion and Cognition in Engagement

The ACM IMX 2022 was hosted by the University of Aveiro, from 22 to 24 June 2022.

The ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences (IMX) focuses on challenges and innovations across diverse forms of media engagement and experiences. The aim is to provoke and promote discussion and the sharing of exciting ideas amongst researchers, industry practitioners and the academic community in all forms of media: VR, AR, MR, XR, 360°, live-streaming, online media content, authoring and production, as well as TV.

Several DigiMedia members were involved in the organization of the event:
Local Chairs: Jorge Ferraz de Abreu and Pedro Almeida
Demo Chair: Telmo Silva
Acessibility Chair: Margarida Almeida
Work-in-Progress Chair: Alcina Prata
Publicity Chair: Alcina Prata
Virtual Conference Chairs: Rita Oliveira, Pedro Beça and Hélder Caixinha
Social Media Chair: Rita Santos
Student Volunteer Chair: Ana Velhinho

ACM IMX 2022 Aveiro Wrap Up Video available HERE

. Stream Day 1 – morning session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPGNK7ZEHzQ
. Stream Day 1 – afternoon session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpkNzNb6uxE
. Stream Day 2 – morning session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCb_uiv7TYw
. Stream Day 2 – afternoon session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntsrTR8Wg0I

General Proceedings ACM IMX’22 available:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3505284

Adjunct proceedings available:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wbYkBCpEO9BjWHG_-29SBbg30Er8bzfF/view

DigiMedia members published in the ACM IMX 2022’s Proceedings:

Bernardo Cardoso, Jorge Abreu, and Alcina Prata. 2022. The TV Ecosystem is Fragmented and in Need of New Business and Technological Strategies. In ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences (IMX ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 133–140. https://doi.org/10.1145/3505284.3529976 

Carla V. Leite, Sofia Nunes, Ana Margarida Pisco Almeida. 2022. Supporting the Creation and Evaluation of Interactive Touch Kiosks Designed for the Elderly: A Compilation of Requisites Acknowledging Physical and Psycho-sociological Age-related Changes. In ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences (IMX ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 331–336. https://doi.org/10.1145/3505284.3532979

Pedro Almeida, Pedro Beça, Telmo Silva, Marcelo Afonso, Iulia Covalenco, Carolina Nicolau. 2022. A Podcast Creation Platform to Support News Corporations: Results from UX Evaluation. In ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences (IMX ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 343–348. https://doi.org/10.1145/3505284.3532978

Marcelo Afonso, Pedro Almeida, Pedro Beça, Telmo Silva, Iulia Covalenco. 2022. Usability of Text-To-Speech Technology in Creating News Podcasts using Portuguese of Portugal. In ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences (IMX ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 363–368. https://doi.org/10.1145/3505284.3532968

Some pictures of the event:

In an event that aims to recognize the work developed by the teams of the different projects involved in this first edition, the final students@DigiMedia #01 event took place on July 14th at 15h00, in the CCCI auditorium (DeCA, UA). Students@DigiMedia is an initiative designed with the purpose of fostering students’ participation in scientific research activities.

In the first edition 17 proposals were submitted by 32 researchers. The closing event presented the 13 ongoing projects, involving 31 students from all study cycles (CTC area) and 24 DigiMedia researchers.

The video of the event is already available in the Youtube channel of DigiMedia HERE

The article “Innovative Open Schooling in Secondary Education in Mozambique: Technological Conditions for Students to Attend Distance Learning” by Sérgio Paulo Cossa (DigiMedia PhD Student) and Fernando Ramos (DigiMedia member) was published in the JOURNAL OF LEARNING FOR DEVELOPMENT, VOL. 9 NO. 2 (2022): ISSUE 2 .

Abstract:

Citation:

Cossa, S. P., & Ramos, F. (2022). Innovative Open Schooling in Secondary Education in Mozambique: Technological Conditions for Students to Attend Distance Learning. Journal of Learning for Development, 9(2), 291–304. https://doi.org/10.56059/jl4d.v9i2.639

More information available HERE

Filipe T. Moreira, DigiMedia researcher, will be part of the panel on “Computational Thinking in Education: what sense does it make and what skills does it promote?” at the 3^rd edition of the ‘Mathematics with Life’ meetings, to be held on 24^th September and 1^st October.

This panel aims to contribute to the debate on this topic, clarifying what it makes sense to talk about Computational Thinking in mathematics, its transferability to other disciplines, as well as the skills it promotes in the development of more autonomous and digitally critical citizens.

The other members of the panel are: Carlos Albuquerque – Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon; João Vítor Torres – CCTIC/CIEF, ESE of IP Setúbal; and José Miguel Sousa – Secretaria Regional de Educação da Madeira. It will also be moderated by Margarida M. Pinheiro – CIDTFF, ISCA-UA, University of Aveiro.

This Meeting is part of the ‘Labs Convida’ section of the larger initiative ‘Labs Com Vida’, taking advantage of the synergies of lem@tic – Mathematics Education Laboratory – and LabDCT – Science and Technology Didactics Laboratory, functional structures of the Research Center for Didactics and Technology in Training of Trainers of the University of Aveiro (CIDTFF).

For more information about the event: Informações – Matemática Com Vida – Diferentes olhares sobre o Pensamento Computacional (ua.pt)