The article Filming Concepts, Thinking Images: On Wonder, Montage and Disruption in an Image-Saturated World by Vania Baldi (DigiMedia member) and Nélio Conceição was published in Eidos – A Journal for Philosophy of Culture.

Abstract:

Citation:

Baldi, Vania, and Nélio Conceição. “Filming Concepts, Thinking Images: On Wonder, Montage and Disruption in an Image-Saturated World.” Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 6, no. 2 (2022):  70-85. https://doi.org/10.14394/eidos.jpc.2022.0017 

Special Issue on
Hybrid Games and Interaction Design
to be published at the
Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)
CFP: http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call56

Deadline for submission: January 15, 2023

Guest Editors:
• Nelson Zagalo, DigiMedia, University of Aveiro, Portugal
• Fotis Liarokapis, University of Technology, Cyprus
• Micael Sousa, University of Coimbra, Portugal
• Ana Patrícia Oliveira, University of Aveiro, Portugal
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Important dates:
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• Deadline: January 15, 2023
• Notification to the authors: February 20, 2023
• Camera ready paper: March 15, 2023
• Publication of the special issue: April, 2023

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Overview
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Board games gained significant momentum throughout the past two decades, with some of the best creations earning millions of dollars in funding platforms during 2021, in spite of the Covid-19 pandemic. Additionally, digital games have surpassed all other media, from film to music, in investments and returns. Board and digital games are two forms of play which use the same base of design – the game design – so it was without surprise that a new hybrid approach, that mixed both media, would appear.
Over the past five years, we have seen games with Augmented Reality, board games using smartphones as assisting tools, tablets being used as boards, or even games using real food–edible games. This combination of digital and physical components and strategies in games contributes to a new experience of play which enhances not only the player’s immersion and interaction, but also the contents, presentation, atmosphere, and control of the game. There are some questions emerging in this discussion, namely about the complementary relationship between physical and digital games: What are the borderlines between real and virtual dimensions in hybrid games? How can hybrid games provide a more participatory gaming experience while players become engaged with digital and physical components at the same time? Which model of interaction design of hybrid games best favors player experience, communication, and engagement?
In this special issue, we want not only to present the current state-of-the-art of the hybrid games, as the possibilities beyond current days, making use of speculative approaches to design, as design fiction, but we want to dig deeper through the lenses of interaction design, in order to understand the new needs in the realm of technologies. Furthermore, we want to understand the full impacts and effects of this move on human interaction with game artifacts and consequently find out what should we expect from the discipline of interaction design while using ludic approaches in the next decade.

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Topics of Interest
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The indicative list of topics of interest for this special issue devoted to Gamification of the Learning Process’ includes, but is not limited to:

• Hybrid digital/physical games
• Methods of hybrid game design
• Design Fiction and Hybrid Interaction Design
• Interaction design relation with game design
• Play Hybridism
• Hybrid systems;
• Hybrid design models;
• Hybrid game mechanics and patterns;
• Hybrid storytelling models;
• Hybrid Game interaction models;
• Cognition and game design;
• Aesthetics of Hybrid Digital/Physical Games;
• Board games and Digital Games;
• Hybrid-games design;
• Hybrid game User Experience;
• Players’ physical/digital behavior modelling;
• NPC behavior and Physical Characters

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Submission guidelines and procedure
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All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) must be original and may not be under review by another publication.
The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in .rtf format.
All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers.
Authors are invited to submit 8-20 pages paper (including authors’ information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.).
The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors’ guidelines
->http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=101&a=7

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Authors’ guidelines
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Link to the paper submission page:
http://ixdea-2018.uniroma2.it/ojs/index.php/ixdea/login
(Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section:
“SI: Hybrid Games and Interaction Design”)

More information on the submission procedure and on the characteristics
of the paper format can be found on the website of the IxD&A Journal
where information on the copyright policy and responsibility of authors,
publication ethics and malpractice are published.

For scientific advice and queries, please contact the IxD&A scientific editor marking the subject as:
Hybrid Games and Interaction Design
• nzagalo@ua.pt 

Researchers of the miOne project, DigiMedia, of the Department of Communication and Art (DeCA) of the University of Aveiro, in partnership with the Municipality of Ílhavo – Laboratório do Envelhecimento (Ageing Lab), organize the first edition of the Encontro de Boas Práticas – O Digital na Promoção do Envelhecimento Ativo e Saudável (Best Practices Conference – The Digital in the Promotion of Active and Healthy Ageing). 

It will take place on December 13th, from 10am to 5pm, at DeCA, CCCI auditorium, at the University of Aveiro. Participation in the event is free of charge and registration is open. 

To obtain a holistic view of good practices carried out by multiple Portuguese institutions and projects and to contribute to the development of new technological products that promote active and healthy ageing are the focus of the Encontro de Boas Práticas – O Digital na Promoção do Envelhecimento Ativo e Saudável (Best Practices Conference – The Digital in the Promotion of Active and Healthy Ageing).  

There will be a set of discussion sessions on best practices with several special guests who will share their experience; followed by practical sessions with workshops, round tables, and collaborative design of new digital solutions focused on ageing.  

The program, registration, and more information about the event can be found on the event page (https://ebp-22.pt). 

Note: The event will be held entirely in Portuguese. 

30^th December, 2022: Deadline for submission of proposals

May 2023: Publication forecast

DigiMedia member, Filipe T. Moreira, is one of the guest editors of the Sensos-e Journal special edition. This edition aims to promote the dissemination of work related to Computational Thinking in Education in the following areas: the importance of this area in Compulsory Education; the professional development of educators and teachers, as well as their attitudes and receptiveness to this subject; the resources development and presentation for the implementation of activities; the evaluation of these inclusions and of students’ development; the development of the relationship between Computational Thinking and STEM/STEAM Education; Reflection on what knowledge in this area should be covered in Basic Education; the suitability of knowledge inherent to Computational Thinking for different levels of education; the presentation of reports of practical experiences that translate into examples of articulation of this area with different sciences, at different levels of education, in formal or non-formal educational environments. Being a recent theme, it is also important to understand the challenges that education professionals and educational institutions will face.

The inclusion of Computational Thinking in the curricula of several countries, including Portugal, is due to the growing awareness of the importance of knowledge related to Computer Science for the development of digital skills of citizens, in favour of the transformation of society and the global economy. Thus, with this special edition of Sensos-e, Journal of the Centre for Research in Education (inED) of the School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, authors are invited to submit original research proposals, which may include empirical research, theoretical studies, methodological studies, and research reports, under the theme “Computational Thinking in Education”.

Sensos-e publishes papers in Portuguese, Galician, Spanish, French and English. Each paper is subject to a blind peer review process, under the responsibility of the Editorial Board.

Platform for papers submission: https://parc.ipp.pt/index.php/sensos/about/submissions

Proposals must be identified, in their title, with an indication of the theme as follows: “[PCE] Title”.

For further information, contact the journal’s editor, Manuela Pessanha (sensos-e@ese.ipp.pt).

Bernardo Marques, DigiMedia member, wins the Professor José Luís Encarnação Award 2022. The proposal of a conceptual model and a taxonomy for collaborative augmented reality scenarios, developed by Bernardo Marques during the Doctoral Program in Computer Engineering (PDEI) at the University of Aveiro (UAveiro), has won the Professor José Luís Encarnação Award.

Based on the experience accumulated with industrial partners, a characterization focusing on the essential aspects of collaborative scenarios supported by augmented reality technologies has been proposed.

Bernardo Marques, Samuel Silva, João Alves, Tiago Araújo, Paulo Dias, Beatriz Sousa Santos. “A Conceptual Model and Taxonomy for Collaborative Augmented Reality.” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2021) (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9506837).

This multidisciplinary work results from the collective effort of the various team members over the last few years, and was recently included in the UAveiro journal, Research@ua 2021, vol.12, p. 56, with the title: “Paving the road towards Collaborative Augmented Reality” (https://proa.ua.pt/index.php/researchua/issue/view/1044).

The award includes a presentation of the work, which will take place during the conference: “ICGI 2022 – International Conference in Graphics and Interaction“, held at UAveiro between November 3rd and 4th – https://gpcg.pt/icgi2022/.

The Professor José Luís Encarnação Award was established in 2010 in honor of the professor of the same name, a pioneer of Computer Graphics and a great impeller of the area in Portugal. The award is given by the Portuguese Computer Graphics Group (GPCG) and is intended for students of Portuguese nationality from any cycle of higher education who demonstrate excellent research in the area of computer graphics and applications.

Special Issue “Next Generation of XR Applications for Digital Citizens”

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section “Computing and Artificial Intelligence“.

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2023

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Miguel Gea Megías
Guest Editor

Prof. Dr. Xavier Alamán
Guest Editor

Dr. Rui Raposo
Guest Editor

Special Issue Information

Keywords

Catarina Lelis, DigiMedia member, was Keynote Speaker at Digicom – 6th International Conference on Digital Design and Communication, that took place from November 3 to 5, with a talk entitled “Designers as Heroes — anticipating the impact of design projects”.

The article Home-Based Activities for Children with Speech Sound Disorders: Requirements for a Tangible User Interface for Internet of Things Artefacts by Joaquim Santos (DigiMedia PhD Student), Mário Vairinhos (DigiMedia member), Jonathan Rodriguez and Luis M. T. Jesus was published in Applied Sciences – Special Issue New Digital Technologies for Diagnosis and Rehabilitation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

Abstract:

Citation:

Santos, J., Vairinhos, M., Rodriguez, J., & Jesus, L. M. T. (2022). Home-Based Activities for Children with Speech Sound Disorders: Requirements for a Tangible User Interface for Internet of Things Artefacts. Applied Sciences, 12(18), 8971. MDPI AG.  http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app12188971

The article “Listen to Your Immune System When It’s Calling for You”: Monitoring Autoimmune Diseases Using the iShU App by Cláudia Ortet (DigiMedia PhD Student) and Liliana Vale Costa (DigiMedia member) was published in Sensors.

Abstract:

Citation:

Ortet, C., & Vale Costa, L. (2022). “Listen to Your Immune System When It’s Calling for You”: Monitoring Autoimmune Diseases Using the iShU App. Sensors, 22(10), 3834. MDPI AG. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22103834

The conference of the International Council for Educational Media, under the topic Moving on towards ‘new normal’ in education, took place from 12 to 14 October 2022 in Politécnico de Santarém. DigiMedia was an official partner of the event.

Several DigiMedia members participated in ICEM 22:

• “Narrative and personalization in teaching it and electronics in children from 5 to 7 years old” by Mário Vairinhos, Rui Raposo and Filipe T. Moreira
• “Building/customization of educational scenarios for Immersive Web Environments” by Ricardo Carvalho, Maria Ferreira, Bárbara Cleto, Tiago Paralta, Vítor Silva, Vasco Silva, Carlos Santos, Nelson Zagalo, Mário Vairinhos and Fernando Ramos
• “Exploring the use of Augmented Reality for training computer workstation ergonomic issues” by Rui Raposo, Mário Vairinhos and Pedro Reisinho
• “Building awareness towards issues related with Universal Design: The case of the MrUD project” by Rui Raposo and Mário Vairinhos
• “Hybrid, virtual, or face-to-face? How to incorporate new teaching habits?” by Rosinete de Jesus Silva Ferreira
• “Perceptions of future basic education teachers about the potential of programming in the educational context” by Ana Oliveira and David Oliveira
• “Teachers’ perceptions about IoT technologies in school activities” by Filipe T. Moreira, Mário Vairinhos and Fernando Ramos
• “Developing a gamified digital platform to promote extracurricular activities in basic and secondary schools – preliminary findings” by Ana Raquel Carvalho, Laura Ferreira, Lara Gonçalves, Carlos Santos, João Almeida, Nuno Ribeiro, Miguel Filipe, João Brandão, Samuel Santos, Catarina Dionísio and Luis Pedro
• “Social digital gaming trends of the Portuguese older adults: Preliminary results” by Francisco Regalado, João Almeida and Ana Isabel Veloso
• “OH!Bug: Envolver as crianças na valorização do património natural” by Sara Martins and Filipe T. Moreira
• “Do M-Learning ao Learning Analytics” by David Oliveira and Ana Oliveira

More information on the event available in: https://icem2022.ipsantarem.pt/