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Sofia Ribeiro, a DigiMedia PhD student, is promoting, in collaboration with the Centro de Formação da Associação de Escolas dos Concelhos de Aveiro e Albergaria-a-Velha (CFAECAAV), a fifty-hour accredited training course for 3rd cycle and secondary school teachers, as part of her doctoral research entitled “Teachers’ digital development model: Digital platform to create tangible educational resources”. The teacher training aims to improve teachers’ digital competencies, while creating educational resources for specific school subjects.
The training will start on the 9th of October and will take place at 40.1.8 (Department of Communication and Arts) and SALT – Space for Active Learning and Teaching (Department of Education and Psychology). The course has been accredited by the Conselho Científico-Pedagógico da Formação Contínua of the University of Minho.
To register, please click here: https://cfaecaav.cfae.pt/formador/turma/307/detalhe/, after logging into the user’s account. The registration deadline is the 8th of October.
Representing DigiMedia, the post-doctoral researcher Ana Velhinho, won a fellowship from Freepik to attend between the 2nd and 7th of September a Summer School in Málaga (Spain), dedicated to the sustainability and etics of AI in Digital Humanities, relevant to the research within the ongoing project Polariscope, a Platform for the Co-creation and Visualization of Collective Memories.
The 8th Digital Art History Summer School (DAHSS 2024) occurred at the Polo de Contenidos Digitales of Fundación Telefónica. This year’s theme was “Sustainability and Politics of AI”, with sessions organized around four tracks, led by the four speakers of this edition:
- “Track A: Visual AI for Visual Culture. New tools/old critique”, by Leonardo Impett (University of Cambridge), focused on applications of AI and computer vision, looking at how we might use generative image systems like Midjourney and DALL·E for visual culture and art history studies;
- “Track B: Art on the Web: Creating Cultural Heritage Knowledge Networks”, by Edward Anderson (Rijksmuseum), focused on standardized models and vocabularies of the Semantic Web (e.g., OWL-Web Ontology Language; RDF-Resource Description Framework) for enhancing the accessibility and richness of cultural heritage data and fostering collaboration;
- “Track C: Cartographies of Humanities”, by Iacopo Neri (University of Zurich and Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia) focused on spatial analytics of geodata and cartography, working with open-source software and creative coding for mapping ecological and social dynamics at various scales;
- “Track D: The Archive Makes the Image”, by Eryk Salvaggio (independent researcher and artist, former fellow of the Flickr Foundation), focused on how to read images made by artificial intelligence systems and how AI training datasets and heritage archives and collections shape those generated images, based on a critique of the algorithmic curation and production of synthetic content.
The event was organized by Nuria Rodríguez-Ortega, Professor of the University of Málaga and founder of the iArtHIs_Lab research group, and Bárbara Romero Ferrón, a researcher at this lab and the CulturePlex Lab (Western University). DAHSS 2024 had 24 participants from several countries and institutions, consolidating a network of researchers to strengthen ongoing projects and foster upcoming ones.
NEW DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS (15 September 2024)
AlticeLabs@UA is pleased to announce the opening of the 7th Call for Project Proposals.
This open call is an excellent opportunity for professors and researchers at the University of Aveiro with a groundbreaking project idea to receive feedback on their work and secure funding to develop their ideas further. Please submit your proposals until 15 September 2024.
Apply now at https://www.alticelabs.com/altice-labs-ua/
AlticeLabs@UA, an academy-company collaboration in emerging technologies, was established in July 2016 through a partnership between the University of Aveiro and Altice Labs. Recently expanded to new areas, it supports research projects of mutual interest, focusing mainly on these key scientific and technological domains:
– Development of emerging web services
– IPTV and digital content
– Application usability and user experience
– Collaborative or social experience systems
– IoT applications
– Development for Cloud Systems
– Data Science and Engineering (Big Data, Analytics)
– Artificial Intelligence (ML/IA)
– Autonomous Networks
– SDN and NFV network technologies
– Optical network technologies
– Beyond 5G and 6G” technologies
– IoT, Physical computing and other emerging technologies
– Smart Cities, Smart Industry, Smart Ports, Smart AgroTech
– Digital Health
– Smart and Connected Home
– Interactive TV and Digital Entertainment
Let’s push the boundaries of technology together!
#UA #ProjectProposal #Innovation #Technology
A tender is hereby opened for the award of 1 (one) ResearchGrant (RG)under the project Polariscope: Platform for the Co-creation and Visualization of Collective Memories No. 2022.04424.PTDC of Digital Media and Interaction Research Centre, University of Aveiro, in association with the Nova University Lisbon.
The requirements and how to apply may be consulted here or here (Portuguese version).
DigiMedia, a research centre in Digital Media and Interaction, of the University of Aveiro, accepts applications from PhD researchers within the scope of the 7th Edition of the Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).
This call aims to support the hiring of PhD researchers at the beginning of their careers, for a period of 3 years, with a background in the broad area of Digital Media who aim to develop their scientific research activity at DigiMedia, University of Aveiro.
The opening notice can be consulted here and applications must be submitted from September 30th to November 29th, 2024.
DigiMedia, as the host institution, is available to receive and assist researchers in preparing their applications, requesting them to fill this form.
After analyzing the proposals, DigiMedia will contact you. All information about the competition can be found here.
Renata Frade, a PhD Student and researcher at DigiMedia, was one of the women interviewed by the newspaper Público. In the report titled “Sexualizadas e subvalorizadas, elas também querem protagonismo no mundo dos videojogos”, Renata talks about the theme Women in Technology and Technological Feminism.
The report can be accessed here.
Lídia Oliveira, member of the Scientific Commitee of DigiMedia, and Carmen Silva, a visiting researcher who is currently developing her project at Digimedia, have published the article “Artificial Intelligence at the Interface between Cultural Heritage and Photography: A Systematic Literature Review”, in the Journal Heritage (Scopus Q1 Arts and Humanities).
The article can be read here.
Opening call for a special issue on “Generative AI Technologies: Shaping the Future of Higher Education”, for the Journal “Information”, until June 30, 2025.
More information here.
The final event of students@DigiMedia#03 took place on July 18, 2024, with the presentation of 19 projects developed by students in the area of Science and Communication Technologies of all cycles.
More than 80 people attended the event, among participants, researchers and general public.
Students@DigiMedia aims to promote the participation of students in activities related to scientific research, and this 3rd edition focused on an interdisciplinary approach, with participants from different areas, such as Psychology, Social Sciences, Design, IT, Languages, Education, Health and Physics working together in the development of the projects.
Photos and videos of the event here.
Get to know more about this initiative here.
Cláudia Ortet, Francisco Regalado and Tânia Ribeiro, PhD students from DigiMedia (Information and Communication in Digital Platforms), recently presented their research at the 26th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII2024). The conference took place in Washington D.C. from June 29 to July 4, 2024.
During the session on “Digital Empowerment of Senior Citizens to Promote an Active and Healthy Ageing,” chaired by Professor Ana Isabel Veloso, Francisco Regalado (in-person) presented two papers, and Cláudia Ortet (online) another one, respectively:
- Game-Based Solutions for Impacting Digital Competences in Aged Populations: Insights from an Empathetic Workshop. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61543-6_19
- Benchmarking the User Experience and Usability of Online Social Networks: Proposal of an Evaluation Framework. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61543-6_29
- Towards a New (Old) Generation of Cyclotourists: Implementing an Improved Concept of Jizo Brand. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61546-7_15
In a complementary session on “New Media Use in the Everyday Life of Older People – I,” chaired by Professor Eugène Loos, Francisco (in-person) presented a third paper:
- Navigating Paris Digitally: An Exploratory Research of 360º Immersive Videos with Portuguese Participants. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61546-7_17
Tânia Ribeiro (in-person) presented her research during the session on “Playful Experiences: Design and Impact,” chaired by Professor Daniel Říha. Her presentations included:
- Exploring the Variables of Empathy in Gamers: A Comprehensive Survey. https://10.1007/978-3-031-60692-2_8
- Empathic Characters for Digital Games: A Prototype Proposal. https://10.1007/978-3-031-60695-3_17
It is worth noting that the Papers@USA FLAD Scholarship made the in-person participation of Francisco and Tânia possible.
HCII 2024 is a premier venue for disseminating and exchanging cutting-edge scientific knowledge in both theoretical and practical aspects of Human-Computer Interaction. The conference proceedings are available at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs .
The DigiMedia PhD student, Anabela Brandão, took part in the X Viseu Educa Forum to present the results of a literature review carried out as part of the thesis project “Adoption of tools with artificial intelligence in education: a study of the impact on teachers and students”, of her doctorate in Multimedia in Education. Anabela presented in the panel “AI at the service of learning”, in this Forum organized by the Viseu City Council and the Training Center of the Viseu Schools Association.
This presentation addressed the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in an educational context, which raises multiple questions for primary and secondary school teachers. Teachers should understand AI, reflect on the ethical issues raised by these tools in an educational context and find appropriate strategies that allow them to use these tools in a way that is not only ethical and safe, but also, with pedagogical value for teaching and learning processes. Anabela Brandão hopes to have contributed to the reflections of the audience.
The members of the DigiMedia Scientific Committee met for one day, to participate in different teambuilding activities. 23 members of the Scientific Committee met at PCI – Creative Science Park, in Ílhavo, on July 5, 2024. This was an opportunity to rethink the future of our Research Unit, bringing up new ideas of possible projects and networks.
