The DigiMedia Dialogs#3 took place on July 9 with the talks of Raissa Sales (DigiMedia PhD Student), Vania Baldi (DigiMedia Researcher) and Lídia Oliveira (DigiMedia Researcher), followed by a participated discussion on the topic Research in times of platformization: opportunities and methodological challenges in the analysis of digital sharing economy services.

Raissa Sales is a PhD student in Information and Communication at the University of Aveiro (2016). Master in Business Administration from the Postgraduate Program in Business Administration (PPGA), Marketing line, University of Fortaleza – UNIFOR. Graduated in Social Communication – Journalism (2009) and specialist in Communication Counseling (2011) by the same Institution.

Vania Baldi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Aveiro, has a degree in Sociology from La Sapienza University of Roma, has a master’s degree in “Identité et Unité de l’homme” (CETSAH/EHESS/CNRS, France) and Phd in “Ethics and Anthropology” from the University of Salento (Italia). His research interests are related with Network Society, Hypermediated Space and Civic Media, Affordance of Algorithms in Our Lives, relationship between Immediacy and Hypermediacy in Digital Culture, Culture and Imaginary of Consumption, Anthropology and Epistemology of Technique, Spreadable Media among Open Innovation and InfoWar, Engagement and Authorship in WebDoc, Analysis of Discourses on Technological Innovations.

Lídia Oliveira (full name: Lídia de Jesus Oliveira Loureiro da Silva) holds a degree in Philosophy from the University of Coimbra (1990), a Master’s degree in Educational Technology from the University of Aveiro, in partnership with the University of Valenciennes (France) and Mons (Belgium) (1995), and a PhD in Communication Sciences and Technologies  from the University of Aveiro (2002).

Abstract:

he creation and development of digital platforms dedicated to the sharing economy have generated discussions about some economic implications in the markets where it operates and social implications within the scope of its users’ experiences. In addition to the existence of a great diversity of digital services for the sharing of goods and services, the platformization of social experience opens the way to a new set of research practices. In fact, if the functioning of some platforms can limit researchers’ knowledge about intermediation phenomena, at the same time, the researcher’s skill can make some of their functionalities profitable by combining opportune methods and techniques.

The article “Building Trust in Digital Platforms for Sharing Collaborative Lifestyles in Sustainable Contexts ” by Raissa Sales (DigiMedia PhD Student), Ana Carla Amaro (DigiMedia Researcher) and Vania Baldi (DigiMedia Researcher) was published in the journal “Comunicação e Sociedade”.

Abstract

The term “sharing economy” is intended to identify a set of social relations, digitally me-diated, based on the principles of reciprocity and trust. However, such principles must result from the technological and design requirements of the platforms used where users deposit their personal data, insert information about interests and daily practices, communicate with strang-ers and, in this way, create personal bonds. The study hereby presented aims to identify a set of guidelines for building trust in the context of digitally mediated sharing of collaborative lifestyles, on platforms that promote the sharing of experiences in sustainable contexts. Within the scope of this study, sharing collaborative lifestyles means a non-monetary social exchange of knowledge, skills, accommodation, and food. The analyzed platforms — Volunteers Base, The Poosh, and WWOOF Portugal — are non-commercial organizations that promote experiences in educational projects in eco villages, natural construction projects in rural areas, permaculture projects on farms, among others. A multi-case and documentary study of the terms and policies published by these digital platforms was carried out. These regulatory documents were submitted to content analysis, using the Iramuteq and MAXQDA software. From this analysis, 20 guidelines emerged, in three categories: “practices and conduct”, “conditions” and “security and privacy”, which can guide users and platforms in the construction of digitally mediated sharing relationships in a transparent and reliable way.

Citation

The book chapter “Gamifying Soft Skills: a Theoretical Framework” by André Ribeiro, Carlos Santos (DigiMedia Researcher) and Luis Pedro (DigiMedia Researcher) was published in the book Gaming in Action, within the Gaming in Action – engaging adult learners with games and gamification StrategicPartnership project which has been funded with support from the European Commission.

Available HERE

The Research Summit 2021 was held on July 7-9, under the theme “ Art, Science and Innovation in times of trouble”.

It was a forum to foster important discussion among the University of Aveiro research community and to enable collaborations to advance the state of the art and empower the research efforts at the campus.

Given the pandemic, Research Summit 2021 adopted a hybrid model, both in-person and online on the 1st day (plenary) and online on the following days (students’ pitches).

On July 7, the 20 Research Units had their moment for presentation. DigiMedia was represented in this edition by Rui Raposo with the topic “Sleep, eat, engage, repeat”, taking place at 11:10 am.

Research Summit 2021 is available at the YouTube channel of the University of Aveiro.

Day 1, PART1 (morning) – available HERE

Day 1, PART 2 (afternoon) – available HERE

Besides this, all PhD students were invited to present a pitch on their research project. According to the programme, DigiMedia PhD students participated in three panels:

• Multimedia in Education, July 8, 9:00 to 10:20 am, Room 6

Cláudia Barbosa, Media Use and Media Multitasking Habits of Students and Teaching Staff of
the University of Aveiro
Sérgio Cossa, The potential of New Media in distance secondary education in Mozambique
Lersi Durán, Impact of DEEP Psychoeducational Campaign on Portuguese University Students
Marina Pereira, Collaborative environments with a transmedia approach to promote students` motivation and autonomy within the scope of mathematical learning
Maria Reis, Data collection in times of trouble: online sessions games and focus group
Ana Carvalho, Peer learning and its impact on peer teacher students’ academic performance –
proposal of a procedure model
Andreza Souza Santos, Relações entre resiliência, literacia e inclusão digital de estudantes de tecnologia da informação no Brasil

• Information and Communication in Digital Plataforms, July 8, 2:00 to 3:10 pm, Room 9

Allana Albuquerque, Infocommunication management of Social Communicacion System of
Brazilian Federal Prosecution Service
Rossana Moura, Inclusão digital em comunidades rurais no estado do Ceará: diretrizes para
sustentabilidade em projetos sociais com mulheres
Larissa Oliveira, Personal Data Protection by Legal Design: a communication centered on
informed and unequivocal consent
Jesse Filho, Location based-games and active ageing: the pokémon go study in seniors´ life
Inês Santos Moura, Participatory methodologies in the creation of a Web documentary with the
community of Bairro Herculano
Tiffany Marques, The promotion of empathy through proactive behaviours in intelligent assistants for interactive television
Maria José Fonseca, The school library in the digital age: proposal of an infocommunication model
André Branco, Heuristic model of a public health dashboard for citizen engagement in smart
cities
Eliza Oliveira, Precaution and perception of online aggressions: infocommunicational behavior
in the face of the risks at the Portuguese university level
Raissa Sales, Infocommunication and digital platforms in the sharing economy: a multicases
study about the trust in sustainable contexts

• Information and Communication in Digital Plataforms – PROJECT, July 9, 2:30 to 3:15 pm, Room 27

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

CISTI’2021 – 16th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, took place online between 23 and 26 June 2021.

CISTI is an annual technical-scientific event, which aims to present and discuss knowledge, new perspectives, experiences and innovations in the field of information systems and technologies.

Several DigiMedia researchers participated in this international conference:

• Mara Helena Reis and Ana Margarida Almeida – Designing An Application To Support Game-Based Learning: Gathering Functional Requirements From A Qualitative Approach
• Eliza Oliveira; André Branco; Daniel Carvalho ; Oksana Tymoshchuk; Maria Antunes and Luis Pedro – Accessibility and Microcopy Remote Testing of Mobile Applications: The Case of The Center Platform
• Sofia Nunes and Maria João Antunes – Personagens Idosas Nos Filmes de Animação: Análise dos Filmes de Animação Mais Populares Em Portugal
• Pâmela Araujo Pinto; Maria João Antunes and Ana Margarida Almeida –  Serviço Nacional de Saúde de Portugal No Instagram: Percepção dos Universitários Sobre O Conteúdo do @sns_pt No Contexto da Pandemia da Covid-19
• Carla V. Leite and Ana Margarida Almeida –  The Current Status of Online Resources From The Portuguese Health System For Childbirth Education
• Lersi Duran; Ana Margarida Almeida; Margarida Braga and Ana Cristina Gouveia de Almeida Lopes –  Intervenção Audiovisual Psicoeducativa Para A Sensibilização de Riscos Suicidiários
• António Pinho; Mário Vairinhos; Patrícia Oliveira and Óscar Mealha – Six 2.0: Uma Interface Tangível Para Seniores
• Carla V. Leite – Session Chair of Health Informatics

Encontro Ciência’21 will take place in a hybrid format between June 28 and 30, at the Lisbon Congress Center (CCL) and Online, and will have as its framing theme “A Ciência que faz o Amanhã e transforma a Economia”, and the programme includes a communication within the scope of the SEDUCE project.

The communication entitled “Utilização da Comunicação e da Informação na comunidade online miOne pelo cidadão sénior” is part of the panel “Igualdade, Inclusão e Cidadania II”, which will take place on June 29, between 15:30 and 17:00, and will be presented by the researchers Liliana Costa e Francisco Regalado. AVAILABLE HERE

Maria José Fonseca and Renata Frade, DigiMedia PhD students, presented the posters:

• INCLUSÃO, EMPODERAMENTO E FORMAÇÃO DE MULHERES NA TECNOLOGIAAutores: Renata Loureiro Frade
  Instituição: Centro de Investigação em Média Digitais e Interação (DigiMedia)
  Área Científica: Ciências Sociais

• A biblioteca escolar num plano phygital: proposta de um modelo infocomunicacionalAutores: Maria José Fonseca | Óscar Mealha | Eleonor Silva | Adriana Machado | Beatriz Bastos | Irla Thamayca | Rejane Fernandes
  Instituição: Centro de Investigação em Média Digitais e Interação (DigiMedia)
  Área Científica: Ciências Sociais

The Digital Interaction 2021 event, organised by DigiMedia, dedicated to the topic “Surviving the pandemic through the screens”, took place online on June 18, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. This event was attended by researchers, students from all the cycles and members of several companies.

In the morning, the event features two sessions dedicated to “The Interaction Supported by Technology” and “The Pandemic and Communication Technologies”. In these panels the invited speakers were several members of the academic community, students from different cycles and professors, who will share experiences and knowledge built in a period in which virtual interaction had to reinvent itself in multiple ways. The morning ended with the keynote talk of Professor Anders Kalsgaard Møller from Aalborg University (Denmark), with an intervention dedicated to the theme: “Using Digital Media for Learning, Interaction, and Collaboration During the Pandemic”.

In the afternoon, the strategies used by some companies, in different parts of the world, to get around the limitations imposed by the confinements was one of the topics of discussion. The invited speakers for this moment were Alumni of courses in Science and Communication Technology of DecA who are working in different countries, which gives great impact to this panel: Nuno Simaria (Germany), Nuno Escudeiro (Italy), Juliana Teixeira ( Timor) and Daniela Alves (United Kingdom). Also in the afternoon, there was the presentation of some projects by students from the Degree in New Communication Technologies and the Master’s Degree in Multimedia Communication of the University of Aveiro. These projects will be commented on by representatives of companies in the area of ​​communication and information technologies and for this moment we had the participation of Ubiwhere, Pixelmatters, Tice.pt, Critec, Mindera and Altice Labs.

For more information: http://digitalinteraction2021.web.ua.pt and https://digimedia.web.ua.pt/digital-interaction

The article “A framework proposal for digital interventions in perinatal education: the result of a content analysis to WHO intra-partum care recommendations ” by Carla V. Leite (DigiMedia PhD Student) and Ana Margarida Almeida (DigiMedia Researcher) was published in the Special Issue: Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights: Towards Universal Health Coverage Policy and Programming of the International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare (IJHRH).

Abstract

Purpose: This research proposes a framework to guide the development and analysis of digital interventions, namely, through mobile applications, regarding labor and birth. By complying with current scientific evidence, this paper aims to contribute to the safeness and completeness of perinatal health education targeting expectant parents.

Design/methodology/approach: A content analysis was conducted on a document containing World Health Organization guidelines for intra-partum, considering the following categories: timeframe, care options, category of recommendation, to create a data set clearly distinguishing between recommendations and non-recommendations. Context-specific and research-context recommendations, details from dosages, measurements and timings, infant care and non-immediate postpartum topics were considered out of the scope of this study.

Findings: The results were summarized in a table, ready to be used as a data set, including the following 16 care options ranging from health, well-being and/or rights: respect, communication, companionship, pregnant person’s monitoring, status, fetal monitoring, pain relief, pain management, amenities, labor delay prevention, progress, freedom of choice, facilitation of birth, prevention of postpartum hemorrhage, umbilical cord care and recovery. These were distributed across six timeframes: always, admission, first, second and third stage of labor and immediate postpartum. In addition, recommendations and non-recommendations are displayed in different columns.

Originality/value: This transdisciplinary research intends to contribute to: future research on perinatal education; the creation of digital interventions, namely, m-health ones, targeting expectant parents by providing a framework of content coverage; the endorsement of the rights to Information and to decision-making. Ultimately, when put into practice, the framework can impact self-care through access to perinatal education.

Citation

Leite, C.V. and Almeida, A.M. (2021), “A framework proposal for digital interventions in perinatal education: the result of a content analysis to WHO intra-partum care recommendations”, International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHRH-07-2020-0060

Available in: https://ria.ua.pt/handle/10773/31467

The DigiMedia Dialogs#2 took place on June 11 with the talks of Joaquim Santos (DigiMedia PhD Student), Silvino Martins (DigiMedia PhD Student) and Rui Raposo (DigiMedia Researcher), followed by a participated discussion on the topic Bridging interaction and interfaces between the physical and the digital world, moderated by Mário Vairinhos, a DigiMedia Researcher.

Joaquim Santos holds a degree in New Communication Technologies (University of Aveiro  – 2009), a Post-Graduation in Digital Effects (Bournemouth University, UK – 2011) and a Master’s degree in Multimedia Communication, Interactive Multimedia branch (University of Aveiro – 2018). Currently a PhD student in Information and Communication in Digital Platforms at the University of Aveiro, with the theme “Semi-autonomous and Secure Tangible Media Interface: A Framework and A Prototype for Children with Speech Sound Disorders to Use at Home” (Working title). FCT grant SFRH/BD/141119/2018 (October 2018 – December 2021)

Silvino Martins holds a degree (University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro – 2014) and a Master’s degree (University of Aveiro – 2016), both in Multimedia Communication,  the latter  in the Interactive Multimedia branch. His master’s thesis aimed at researching augmented reality applied to a surgical context and included the development and evaluation of technological prototypes in iteration with stakeholders. His main research interest lies in the field of HCI, particularly in what concerns to user experience and interaction design in subjects such as mixed reality, digital games, tangible media and web.

Rui Raposo: Currently an Assistant Professor within the field of Science and Technologies in Communication. His current research interests focus on issues related with UX and Mixed Realities in e-tourism, cybermuseology and cultural contexts. He also develops practical research and supervises work in audiovisual content production with a special focus on documentaries.

Abstract:

In a world where interaction with digital devices is inevitable, interaction paradigms have led us in various directions but, in most cases, have seen little change since the 1980´s. What happens when we go beyond mediation through the, widely known, windows, icons, menus and pointing devices and bring the interaction with digital interfaces closer to our actions and behaviour in the physical world?

This talk will hopefully challenge and enable us to put into perspective various studies with different views on how extended reality has helped bridge the digital and physical realm and how it has found its way into specific use cases such as learning and therapeutic contexts.