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The objective of this project was to evaluate the effectiveness of e-Health tools in supporting clinical decision and empowering patients in the management of clinical situations of the upper respiratory tract. A cluster-randomized controlled study was carried out on all general and family medicine physicians and all community pharmacists in the region covered by the Centro Regional Health Administration. To avoid cross-contamination between the control group and the intervention group, the allocation to the two groups was made on the basis of clusters. The Central Region was divided into 8 clusters according to previous studies carried out. Four clusters were allocated to the intervention group and 4 to the control group, the 8 clusters include approximately 1100 physicians and 1200 pharmacists.

eHealthResp is part of Newsletter 392 from COMPETE 2020 with voice of the Principal Investigator of the project, Maria Teresa Herdeiro. Ana Margarida Almeida (DigiMedia member) is part of the team of this project.

The article in the Newsletter is available HERE

Links

Universidade de Aveiro: Website
Politécnico da Guarda: Website

This project aims to develop a new serious game model, implementing FlavourGame with the aim of overcoming the limitations of digital-only communication typical of computer games/apps. Integrating important emotional and social components of communication, the research team designed a new serious game with a tripartite approach: conversation, participation and tangible interactivity. With the theme of nutrition, FlavourGame aims to support the autonomy and motivation of children from 10 to 12 years old to make healthy food choices.

FlavourGame is part of Newsletter 392 from COMPETE 2020 with voice of the Principal Investigator of the project, Nelson Zagalo (DigiMedia member).

The article in the Newsletter is available HERE

Links

Universidade de Aveiro: Website

Universidade Católica Portuguesa: Website

Universidade do Minho: Website

Lara Sardinha Vieira’s PhD defense takes place on the 13th April, at 2:00 p.m., in Sala de Atos Académicos, Edifício Central e da Reitoria from the University of Aveiro, with the topic A reconfiguração do espaço na promoção de um Ambiente de Aprendizagem Inclusivo: populações NEET e Migrante.

Lara Sardinha Vieira is a student of the PhD programme in Multimedia in Education and her supervisors are Ana Margarida Almeida (DigiMedia, UA) and Neuza Pedro (Instituto de Educação da Universidade de Lisboa).

DigiMedia members are invited to participate in this important moment.

 

 

Resumo:

A expansão dos Ambientes Educativos Inovadores (AEI) tem levado a um aumento da investigação neste campo. Estes ambientes são normalmente concebidos segundo o terno concetual Pedagogia-Tecnologia-Espaço. Neste contexto tanto a Pedagogia como a tecnologia têm sido abordados sobre diferentes perspetivas, em conjunto com o layout do espaço e a disposição de mobiliário, focando-se na sua influência na criação de um melhor ambiente e na melhoria do ensino e da aprendizagem. Contudo é importante compreender como é que um Espaço Físico de Aprendizagem (EFA), um espaço complexo, é por um lado influenciado pelos Meios Digitais e pela pedagogia, e por outro lado como é que os influencia. Além disso, como o abandono escolar é uma realidade, como é que um AEI pode promover a inclusão, nomeadamente, de jovens NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training) e Migrantes. Acresce ainda que com o aumento dos fluxos migratórios, aumenta o número dos jovens migrantes em risco de se tornarem NEET.

O nosso objetivo é criar uma estratégia de design de interiores para um Ambiente de Aprendizagem Inclusivo para as populações NEET e Migrante, através da reconfiguração do espaço. Esta investigação é maioritariamente qualitativa, recorrendo também a métodos quantitativos, e baseando-se na teoria fundamentada construtivista e no design participativo. No decorrer da investigação aplicámos um web-survey, entrevistas em profundidade, workshops seguidos por entrevista em profundidade e observação de vídeo.

Todos os dados recolhidos foram analisados através de quatro dimensões do espaço: tecnológica/digital, arquitetónica, cultural e social. Os resultados, demonstram que o Ambiente Físico de Aprendizagem (AFA) pode ser ainda melhorado nas suas diferentes dimensões. No que respeita à dimensão tecnológica/digital os resultados mostram que a presença dos Meios Digitais motiva os alunos e facilita a melhoria tanto do ensino como da aprendizagem, no entanto, a infraestrutura da rede nem sempre possibilita as atividades. Relativamente à dimensão arquitetónica (espaço construído, mobiliário e percursos) podemos afirmar que se encontra àquem do seu potencial. A dimensão cultural é considerada pelos participantes como a menos importante e a dimensão social é bastante valorizada, em particular no que concerne às interações e às interrelações.

A nossa estratégia de design de interiores para um Ambiente Inclusivo de Aprendizagem: populações NEET e Migrante surge das pontes criadas entre os resultados obtidos e o construto teórico. É constituída por um conjunto de quarenta e duas diretrizes interdependentes.  Estas apontam para um modo de intervenção num espaço existente tendo em vista a sua reconfiguração num AEI inclusivo, considerando as dimensões tecnológica/digital, arquitetónica, cultural e social do espaço.

Palavras chave: Espaço Físico de Aprendizagem; Ambiente Físico de Aprendizagem; Ambiente Educativo Inovador; Ambiente de Aprendizagem Inclusivo; Meios Digitais; dimensões do espaço; NEET; Migrantes.

 

More information available HERE

Ana Isabel Veloso, Oksana Tymoshchuk, Francisco Regalado and Cláudia Ortet, DigiMedia Researchers, were the invited speakers for the online and debate session on the topic “Digital Solutions for Active and Healthy Aging”, that took place on the 24th of March, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm, within the regular meetings of the European Anti Poverty Network, Portugal’s Aveiro District Group.

The aim of this session was to present the innovative technology-based proposals that DigiMedia has been developing and that can support the work of social organizations in terms of improving health, well-being, quality of life and accessibility in human aging, recognizing the diversity of populations.

Raquel Cabral and Juliana Camargo, DigiMedia PhD students, were invited for open Classes with the students of Digital Marketing at the Universidade CatólicaPaortuguesa from Braga, a Curricular Unit taught by Mónica Silva (DigiMedia PhD Student).

– Objective: to provide the students of Universidade Católica Portuguesa from Braga with the reality of the technological offer nowadays, especially in terms of creating websites, social networks and iTV for active aging;
– Curricular Unit: Digital Marketing, 3rd year of Degree in Tourism

Media Play 2023 took place on the 15th of March, between 10:30 am and 4:30 pm, at the CCCI Auditorium in the Department of Communication and Art and promoted an exhibition of the selection of the best projects by undergraduate and masters in the field of multimedia, which have been developed between 2021 and 2023, within the scope of courses taught at UA.

In the event, 44 students presented their work and 15 projects were aiming to be winners.

2Script by Rodrigo Coelho
Accessibility4Blind by Francisca Rocha Lourenço
Aventura no Espaço com a Laika by Bruna Riba, Flávio Brandão, João Neves and Tiago Paralta
Cohabit by Ângelo Santos, Flávia Silva, Henrique França, Raquel Azevedo and Vítor Silva
Composto de mudança by Dinis Antunes and Sofia Bermudez
Cultout by Flávia Silva, Simão Bentes, Vasco Silva and Vítor Silva
Eckoo by Irla Vaz, Beatriz Bastos, Bruno Flamengo, Rejane Fernandes and Ricardo Cruz
EMME by Gabriel Ribeira and Mariana Marques
És DeCá by Maria Miguel Cardoso
FlavourQuest by Cíntia Rodrigues, Miguel Teixeira, João Oliveira and Catarina Pereira
Grasshopper by Carolina Araújo, Francisco Rodrigues Pinto, Miguel Monteiro, Tiago Rebelo and Pedro Costa
Kiro by Ângelo Santos, Luís Simões and Raquel Azevedo
Officium by Ricardo Cerqueira and Tiago Marques
SAVEE by Ana Teixeira, Amarílis Dias, Edgar Quintero and Mariana Alves
Tryon by Vasco Saraiva and Jónatas Roque

Participants were able to get to know each of the projects better in two moments: (i) a creative presentation pitch (3 minutes), and (ii) the exhibition and demonstration of works that will remain open throughout the voting period.

During the day, 116 participants (including students, professors, researchers and representatives from companies) voted in the most promising projects and the winners were:

Prémio Público | Grasshopper by Carolina Araújo, Francisco Rodrigues Pinto, Miguel Monteiro, Tiago Rebelo and Pedro Costa
Prémio Academia | EMME by Gabriel Ribeira and Mariana Marques
Prémio Profissional | Cohabit by Ângelo Santos, Flávia Silva, Henrique França, Raquel Azevedo and Vítor Silva
Prémio Disruptivo | EMME by Gabriel Ribeira and Mariana Marques

The connection to the industry is very important and it is worth highlighting that 5 companies participated actively in the event:

Mindera
Altice Labs
Ubiwhere
Critec
MOG Technologies

Media Play 2023 will take place on the 15th of March, between 10:30 am and 4:30 pm, at the CCCI Auditorium in the Department of Communication and Art and promotes an exhibition of the selection of the best projects by undergraduate and masters in the field of multimedia, which have been developed between 2021 and 2023, within the scope of courses taught at UA.

The main objectives of this event are (ii) to give visibility to the work carried out by students of the different study cycles in the area of Multimedia at the University of Aveiro and (ii) to promote the connection between study cycles, between different areas of UA, as well as with the companies linked to TICE and the city itself.

In this event, 15 projects will be presented, which may include: Apps, Games, Web Pages, UX Prototypes, VR/AR Visualizations. Participants will be able to get to know each of the projects better in two moments: (i) a creative presentation pitch (3 minutes), and (ii) the exhibition and demonstration of works that will remain open throughout the voting period.

Media Play 2023 is open to the entire academic community, companies, institutions and the general public. To participate, one must register at the following link – https://forms.gle/Qs9Vv7t264xq6QQt8 . A bag of coins will be distributed to each event participant and it will be the participants themselves who will vote for the projects with the greatest potential.

For more information, see the event page HERE.

DigiMedia in collaboration with the Inovação Pedagógica group of the University of Aveiro, organized the dialogue series on the topic “Inteligência Artificial no Ensino Superior: Utopia ou Distopia?”, that will include several sessions, with different goals, speakers, formats.

The opening session took place on the 8th of March, at the CCCI Auditorium, and included a keynote talk by the Rector of the University of Aveiro, Doctor Paulo Jorge Ferreira (apresentação) entitled “Novas ferramentas de Inteligência artificial generativas: Riscos e oportunidades” and a round table entitled “IA: Inovação ou Banalização” that included four invited professors from the University of Aveiro coming from different scientific areas – Doctor Pétia Georgieva (DETI – apresentação), Doctor Vânia Carlos (DEP – apresentação), Doctor Nelson Zagalo (DeCA/DigiMedia – apresentação), Doctor Eugénio Rocha (DMat – apresentação). The session was moderated by Doctor Rui Raposo (DeCA/DigiMedia).

The video of the session is already available HERE

 

 

Next sessions that will take place:

Workshop 1: IA nos Média Criativos, 24th March

Workshop 2: IA nas Tecnologias de Programação, 21st April

Workshop 3: IA nas Estratégias de Ensino e Aprendizagem, 5th May

Workshop 4: IA e a Ética Digital, 19th May

Closing session: 31st May

Between 20 and 24 February 2023 DigiMedia researchers Rita Santos and Mónica Aresta participated in the organization and dynamization of the training course “Digital Skills for better employment” in Thessaloniki, Greece. 

 

The event was hosted by the University of Macedonia. Along 5 days, 22 university students and young people newcomers to the labour market from the project’s partner countries (Portugal, Greece, Spain) learned more about various Digital Skills especially relevant to the labour market such as: self-awareness, finding and assessing information online, online communication and etiquette and creating digital content, protecting health and well-being and online safety and data protection. 

The training course was organized in the scope of the project “Back2Basics – bridging the gap between Higher Education and labor market by fostering digital skills” (Erasmus+). This project, coordinated by the University of Aveiro and with partners from Portugal, Spain and Greece, aims to bring the higher education system closer to the labour market needs, by improving the digital skills of Higher Education students. 

Due to her academic and professional experience, Renata Frade, DigiMedia PhD student, was invited to become a <A+> Alliance for inclusive algorithms member. It’s one of the biggest and most important tech feminism associations in the world.

<A+> Alliance leads global strategic advocacy, and thought leadership for feminist AI to actively correct for the real life biases and barriers that prevent women and girls from achieving full participation and equal enjoyment of rights, advocating for a humanist feminist AI, inclusion, gender equality and women’s rights.

In 2020 the <A+> Alliance was a Fast Company 2020 World Changing Idea in AI & Data and  nominated for a WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society) Award for International & Regional Cooperation.  In 2021, the <A+> Alliance was selected for the Paris Peace Forum as an example of a  new global governance.

https://aplusalliance.org/member/renata-frade/

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