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Francisco Regalado and Tânia Ribeiro, both DigiMedia PhD students in ICPD, won a FLAD (Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento) Papers@USA scholarship. This grant seeks to internationalize Portuguese scientific research and foster the academic growth of participants by supporting researchers in presenting their papers and communications in the United States.
In total, five papers will be presented and published in the proceedings of the HCI International 2024 conference, which will be held from 29 June to 4 July in Washington, D.C.
This upcoming event will showcase DigiMedia’s research and offer a unique opportunity to foster internationalization and network with numerous experts in the field.
The workshop “Tecnologias de apoio à inclusão” will take place on June, 6, at 3:30 PM, in the Room 21.3.15 , Building 21.
This workshop is the fourth session of the Peer2Peer initiative, organized by NEDD. The Workshop will be led by Francisca Lourenço, a Doctoral student, and two DigiMedia researchers Rita Oliveira and Oksana Tymoshchuk.
The session will be in a Hybrid format and will be presented in Portuguese.
Participation is free, but requires registration here.
To attend the session online, click here.
The Best thesis Award 2024 for Information technology was awarded to Sérgio Oliveira, a student of the Master’s on Digital Game Development, a course supported by DigiMedia, with the thesis entitled “Virtual Reality Serious Game for Stroke Rehabilitation at Home”.
This prize is awarded by APCD – Digital Business Community, in an initiative that distinguishes the best master’ theses in three areas: Information Technology, Telecommunication and Media.
DigiMedia congratulates Sérgio Oliveira for this achievement!
More information here
The National Press Day, organized by Associação Portuguesa de Imprensa since 2001, takes place on May 16th and 17th at Museu do Fado, in Lisbon, as a celebration of World Press Freedom Day and World Portuguese Language Day.
This year, the focus is on the challenges of the press and the Portuguese language market. The program features the participation of professionals from different areas, experts and academics, who are part of a solution for the media sector on a national and international level.
The DigiMedia researchers Liliana Costa, Oksana Tymoshchuk, Frederico Proença and Ana Rita Passos present the YoMedia project at this conference, on the 16th May.
More information here.
The DigiMedia researcher, Ana Patrícia Oliveira, presented, for the first time, a communication, developed as a Poster of the Project “Jogo sério híbrido para a prevenção do cancro através da promoção de hábitos de vida saudáveis”, at the IPO Porto Summit https://ipoportosummit.pt/, which took place from 9th to 11th May 2024.
The IPO Porto Summit 2024 is an international event, part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of IPO-Porto, which aims to promote a meeting of generations and professional groups and multidisciplinary researchers in the field of Oncology, under the topic “Research and Innovation in improving healthcare in Oncology”.
A notice for the award of a research grant in the scop of the project BLOCKCHAIN.PT – AGENDA PRR, is now opened.
More information here:
UAonline: https://www.ua.pt/pt/noticias/0/86486
The project FlavourGame will be presented by Patrícia Oliveira, a DigiMedia researcher, in the program “Saúde à Mesa…e não só!”, within the scope of the exhibition “A saúde e a doença aos olhos das crianças”, on June 15, 2024.
This event is and initiative of Fábrica da Ciência Viva in collaboration with Centro Académico Egas Moniz Health Alliance (EMHA), in a consortium with the University of Aveiro and four Local Units of Health Care.
“Saúde à Mesa…e não só!” is the second edition of “Saúde à Mesa”, and comes as an opportunity to meet the enthusiasm for communicating topics in the area of Health, beyond the health eating themes.
The event is part of the presentation of project about Health Literacy, and will take place in the Fábrica da Ciência Viva, Aveiro.
More information here: https://www.ua.pt/pt/fabrica/saude-a-mesa-II
Jorge Ferraz Abreu and Ana Velhinho, members of the Permanent Scientific Committee of the DigiMedia Research Centre, will be the chairs of the session “UX Design and Evaluation of collaborative, participatory and/or social applications and services” at the 26TH International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (https://2024.hci.international/index.html).
The session, which includes 2 slots and 12 papers, will take place on 2nd July 2024, from 8am to 12:30am.
The program of the Conference: https://2024.hci.international/DUXU-program.html
Jorge Abreu, a DigiMedia researcher, visited the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and the Research Groups UVJIA – “Unitat d’Innovació em Videojocs i Intelligència Artificial” (https://ugivia.uib.es) and UGIVIA – Unidad de Gráficos y Visión por Ordenador”, of the Universitat Illes Baleares, Palma, Spain, between the 12th of April 2024 to the 18th of April 2024.
Jorge Abreu, who is the Coordinator of the Social iVX R&D group and Scientific Coordinator of the AlticeLabs@UA, organized two lectures, addressed to a group of postgraduation students and members of the Research Group UGIVIA and to students of the course – “Informática Gráfica”
These sessions’ topics were related to the research on Social and Interactive Viewing eXperiences as well as to the UX evaluation of iTV applications.
Furthermore, Jorge Abreu prepared and conducted a UX evaluation of the GeniusUP application (https://geniusup.uib.eu) developed by UIB.
Catarina Lélis, a researcher at DigiMedia, and coordinator of the Erasmus+ in the field of Science and Technology Communication, was in Erasmus+ Teaching Mobility in Trento, Italy, in April.
Catarina delivered a Seminar to the i3 Unit Augmented Intelligence Center researchers, at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler. She also led a workshop on the Impact Planning for students of the Master’s Degree in Human-Computer Interaction, at the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences of the University of Trento.
This visit was also an opportunity to meet the two students who will come to Aveiro in mobility, in the next academic year, as well as to present the University of Aveiro and the DigiMedia Research Centre during different meetings with students, professors and researchers at the University of Trento.
A workshop on ‘Inclusion and digital technologies’, organized by the team of Espaço Inclui, and led by the DigiMedia researchers Francisca Lourenço, Rita Oliveira, and Oksana Tymoshchuk, was held on the 20th April 2024.
The session, attended by 16 postgraduate students in Special Education – Hearing and Deafness at the Piaget Institute, allowed participants to explore how digital technologies can promote Inclusion.
During the workshop, students explored various tools, digital platforms, and mobile apps that can be tailored to diverse learning needs.
The workshop concluded with a debate session, during which students shared their ideas and experiences and reflected on the potential advantages and challenges of using digital technologies in inclusive education.
The Digital Media Observatory—DigitalOBS is a specialized platform designed to observe and disseminate scientific insights into the media landscape within interconnected societies.
The DigitalOBS platform offers a range of valuable features, including:
– Comprehensive details on projects and doctoral theses developed within the DigiMedia Research Centre, showcasing inputs, outputs, and impacts in an engaging and interactive information visualization format and new global studies that will soon be presented;
– Reports and activities organized by DigitalOBS that are tailored to address contemporary themes and emerging trends in the field;
– Content encompassing diverse resources such as conferences, journals, global and thematic observatories, and complimentary tools, making it a rich repository for individuals interested in exploring the intricate world of digital media.
The DigitalOBS can be accessed on this website https://digitalobs.pt/
