Eliza Oliveira, André Castello Branco, Daniel Carvalho, Eveline Sacramento, Oksana Tymoshchuk, Luis Pedro, Maria João Antunes, Ana Margarida Almeida and Fernando Ramos, all DigiMedia members, won the Best Student Paper Award in the 23rd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2021), with a paper entitled “END-USER EVALUATION OF A MOBILE APPLICATION PROTOTYPE FOR TERRITORIAL INNOVATION”.

The article “The Transformative Role of Peer Learning Projects in 21st Century Schools—Achievements from Five Portuguese Educational Institutions” by Ana Raquel Carvalho and Carlos Santos has been
published in Education Sciences as part of the Special Issue Cooperative/Collaborative Learning and is available online:

Abstract: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/11/5/196
HTML Version: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/11/5/196/htm
PDF Version: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/11/5/196/pdf
Special Issue:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/education/special_issues/cooperative_learning

Filipe Moreiras’s online PhD defense takes place on the 27th April, at 02:00 p.m., with the topic “Internet das Coisas em Contextos de Educação: Tecnologias, Potencialidades, Desafios e Mudanças de Paradigmas”.

Filipe Moreira is a student of the PhD programme in Multimedia in Education and his supervisors are Fernando Ramos (DigiMedia, UA) and Mário Vairinhos (DigiMedia, UA).

DigiMedia members are invited to  participate in this important moment.

All instructions are available in the following link: Universidade de Aveiro (ua.pt)

CHALLENGE STUDENTS@DIGIMEDIA  #00

1.CONTEXT

DigiMedia is the research unit of the scientific area of Communication Science and Technologies (CTC) at DeCA. This research unit is organizing a students@digimedia initiative with the purpose of fostering students’ participation in scientific research activities for the academic year 2021/22. 

This initiative is being planned and challenge number #00 is a pilot test for the model to be adopted in this initiative.

2.CHALLENGE

To prepare some aspects of the new master programs offered in the CTC area, a questionnaire will be applied to collect data on the national and/or international context. The selected students will participate in the following tasks: 

• Questionnaire design and administration; 
• Dissemination of the questionnaire; 
• Data Collection and analysis.

3.RESEARCH TEAM

The team coordinator: Carlos Santos 
Other researchers: Mónica Aresta, João Batista, Liliana Costa, Tânia Ribeiro 

4.CONDITIONS AND RESULTS

Deadline for tasks: May 31, 2021 
Working hours per student: 20 hours 
Maximum number of students: 2, from any CTC study cycle 
Results for the students: 

• DigiMedia certificate of participation in the research activity; 
• Co-authorship of a scientific article, if the research team determines the relevance of the scientific publication. 

5.HOW TO APPLY

You can apply until April 23, 2021, using the form available HERE.  

The team coordinator will select the students who present the most appropriate profile to carry out the proposed tasks. The results of the selection process will be announced by April 30, 2021. 

To request any additional information, please contact us via the following email carlossantos@ua.pt 

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 DESAFIO STUDENTS@DIGIMEDIA  #00

1.CONTEXTO

O DigiMedia é a unidade de investigação da área científica de Ciência e Tecnologias da Comunicação (CTC) do DeCA. Com o objetivo de estimular a participação dos estudantes em atividades de investigação científica, a partir do ano letivo de 2021/22, vai dinamizar a iniciativa students@digimedia. 

Essa iniciativa encontra-se a ser preparada e este desafio #00 é um ensaio piloto para o modelo a adotar no lançamento oficial desta iniciativa.

2.DESAFIO

Para preparar alguns aspetos da nova oferta de 2º ciclo da área de CTC, pretende-se dinamizar uma atividade de recolha de dados, nacional e/ou internacional, através de um questionário. Os estudantes envolvidos irão participar nas seguintes tarefas: 

• Desenho e implementação do questionário; 
• Divulgação do questionário; 
• Recolha e análise dos dados obtidos. 

3.EQUIPA DE INVESTIGAÇÃO

Investigador responsável: Carlos Santos 
Outros investigadores envolvidos: Mónica Aresta, João Batista, Liliana Costa

4.CONDIÇÕES E RESULTADOS

Prazo das tarefas: 31 de maio de 2021 
Número de horas de trabalho por estudante: 20h 
Número máximo de estudantes: 2, de qualquer ciclo de estudos de CTC 
Resultados para o estudante: 

• Certificado do DigiMedia de participação em atividade de investigação; 

• Co-autoria de artigo científico, caso os investigadores responsáveis determinem a relevância da publicação científica.

5.COMO CONCORRER

É possível concorrer até ao dia 23 de abril de 2021, através do formulário disponível AQUI.  

O investigador responsável selecionará os estudantes que apresentem o perfil mais adequado para a realização das tarefas propostas. Os resultados da seleção dos candidatos serão divulgados até ao dia 30 de abril de 2021. 

Para o esclarecimento de qualquer dúvida, contactar através do email carlossantos@ua.pt . 

Carla V. Leite, Daniel Carvalho, Sofia Nunes and Ana Margarida Almeida from DigiMedia and Ivone Almeida from CIDTFF, won HEALTHINF 2021 Best Poster Award with a poster entitled Digital Inclusion of Nursing Home Residents: A Usability Evaluation of the Digital Kiosk siosLIFE™.

The presentation of the poster is available HERE.

HEALTHINF is part of BIOSTEC, the 14th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies.

HEALTHINF 2021 took place from 11 to 13 February 2021 in online streaming. The purpose of the International Conference on Health Informatics is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the specification, design, development and application of information and communication technologies (ICT) to healthcare and medicine in general and to the support of persons with special needs in particular. Big data, networking, graphical interfaces, data mining, machine learning, pattern recognition and intelligent decision support systems are just a few of the technologies and research areas currently contributing to medical informatics. Mobility and ubiquity in healthcare systems, physiological and behavioral modeling, standardization of health records, procedures, and technologies, certification, privacy and security are some of the issues that medical informatics professionals and the ICT industry and research community in general are addressing to further promote ICT in healthcare.

Ana Margarida Almeida, coordinator of the DigiMedia Research Group of eHealth and Wellbeing, was the invited speaker in an online seminar for Master Students in Design for Health and Wellbeing from the Escola Superior de Artes e Design do Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, that took place on January 20.

Lucía Ballesteros-Aguayo, Professor in the Audiovisual Communication and Advertising Department of the University of Seville (Spain), will be developing her research in DigiMedia together with Professor Vania Baldi within the Cyberculture research group for three months (01/10/20 – 30/12/20).

During her research stay, she will be focusing on the post-truth in times of pandemic, addressing latent issues in today’s digital society such as fake news, information manipulation, hoaxes or misinformation, and providing alternatives and detection mechanisms in relation to the so-called “alternative truths”. All of them, issues that concern public opinion and that are of great interest to supranational institutions such as the EU (see the Grupo de Trabajo East Stratcom, the Action Plan against Disinformation or the High Level Group (HLEG) on fake news and online disinformation).

Short cv

Lucía Ballesteros-Aguayo
E-mail: lballesteros@us.es

ORCID: 0000-0003-1191-4070
ResearcherID: P-6288-2014
Author Scopus Id: 57211473463
Google Scholar: wcxyZPUAAAAJ

Lucía Ballesteros-Aguayo is PhD in Journalism with a doctoral dissertation about Francoist press that obtained the maximum score, Outstanding Cum Laude. She is currently professor of Universidad de Sevilla and collaborates in research tasks with different international entities such as the National Documentation Institute, Innovation and Research on Education of Florence or the Institute for the history of Catholic Action of Rome. She has performed several research stays abroad and has a wide scientific production about press in totalitarian governments and their social impart, with special interest on fascisms between wars, where we can highlight “La guerra civil española contada por el fascismo italiano: el caso del periódico infantil de Mussolini, Il Balilla” in Ámbitos and “Los periódicos falangistas para la juventud de la posguerra” in Spagna Contemporanea.

Recent research

(2020): Traitors of the Homeland: The stigmatization of reds in falangist discourse. In Juan Rey (Ed.) Men on the Screen. Re-visions of Masculinity in Spanish Cinema (1939-2019) (pp. 31-40), Peter Lang. ISBN: 978-1-4331-6359-3

(2019): Movimientos populistas en Europa: la actualización del discurso totalitario en los medios de comunicación actuales y su repercusión en la opinión pública. Egregius, 2019. ISBN 978-84-17270-66-7

(2019): Alrededor de la comunicación digital, la ética periodística y el problema del género. TSN. Transatlantic Studies Network: Revista de Estudios Internacionales, Vol. 4, Nº. 7 (enero-junio), pp.37-38, ISSN-e 2444-9792

(2019): Entre la Comunicación y la Filosofía. Ámbitos: Revista internacional de comunicación, Nº. 45, pp. 8-11, ISSN-e 1139-1979,

(2019): Comunicación digital: retos y oportunidades. Egregius, pp. 9-11, ISBN 978-84-17270-85-8

Encontro Ciência 2020, meeting with Science and Technology in Portugal, which takes place on the 3^rd and 4^th November, includes 6 posters by DigiMedia PhD students and the presentation by invitation of the project e-Mental by Ana Margarida Almeida.

The main goal of the event was to encourage the participation and interaction between researchers, the business sector and the public in general.

The presentation eMental: avaliação de intervenções digitais de promoção da literacia em depressão e suicídio by Ana Margarida Almeida is included in the thematic session Cultura científica e literacia da saúde which takes place on the 4^th November at 2:00 p.m.

POSTERS

Os Meios Digitais na Literacia para o Nascimento: Recursos Online do SNS – Portugal

PhD student: Carla Leite
Supervisor: Ana Margarida Almeida

A Ferida Sara” – uma estratégia digital audiovisual para literacia em depressão

PhD student: Lersi Durán
Supervisors: Ana Margarida Almeida and Margarida Figueiredo-Braga

Measurement of the User eXperience. Educational games Unlove and Carmen Sandiego.

PhD student: Maria Helena Reis
Supervisor: Ana Margarida Almeida

Dietitians and Nutritionists Behaviour on Social Media: A Scoping Literature Review
PhD student: Inga Saboia
Supervisor: Ana Margarida Almeida

Os incêndios florestais nas plataformas digitais: o cenário português

PhD student: Liliana Gonçalves
Supervisor: Lídia Oliveira

A biblioteca escolar na era digital: proposta de um modelo infocomunicacional

PhD student: Maria José Fonseca
Supervisor: Óscar Mealha

The PhD defense of Hélder Caixinha, a collaborator of the DigiMedia team, took place on 30 September, at 2:30 pm. Hélder was a PhD student in the Doctoral Programme in Multimedia in Education and presented a project entitled: Competências para o e-Learning 2.0 dos estudantes à entrada no Ensino Superior.

The supervisor of the research project is an integrated member of the Research Centre, Professor Fernando Ramos.

We congratulate Hélder Caixinha and his supervisor.

Carlos Santos was the general coordinator of the multidisciplinary team responsible for the creation of the new portal of the University of Aveiro and Ana Margarida Almeida was the coordinator of the evaluation team – https://www.ua.pt/pt/portal/. Being one of the institution’s main communication channel, visited by around 3 million people every year, the Portal includes different communication strategies and new features and functionalities.

This project involved an extended group of people from the University of Aveiro (professors, students, technical assistants) that worked for 18 months developing different dimensions: communication, design, technology and evaluation.

Phase 1 (February 2019 – May 2019) consisted of the transformation of the top menu of the webpage. During Phase 2 (June 2019 – July 2020) the new Editor and the Portal’s technology were developed to support the needs of the sub webs. This work involved the migration of 178 sub webs, about 18000 pages of information and 300 people. To allow a good transition process, 7 training sessions were organized and more than 200 clarifications of doubts.

The success of this project depended on the dedication of an internal multidisciplinary team. Well done!