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The SECURHOME project aims to develop and validate a non-invasive device that through the daily behaviour of a person can detect, using artificial intelligence techniques, if there’s a risk or not through their daily activity at home analysing their movement, sound, temperature, use of the television, etc., collecting this data from a non-invasive device and through the use of different artificial intelligence techniques the system will be able to learn the behaviours and the possible variations that may occur. This way it will adapt to the user’s lifestyle and thus prevent any eventuality.
Once the device detects any eventuality, it will send alerts to previously configured family members and to the nearest health care center, in this way an agile and strategic method of attention will be achieved for the affected tenant, thus avoiding having to resort to some type of direct communication for your alert. Also, the system will be highly configurable, allowing for days of absence, presence of pets, type of notification to relatives, health center to be notified, etc. In this way it is considered that for this project the main objective will be to help elderly people, providing them with greater independence and security in their home.
Once the device is developed, two field studies will be carried out to validate the system and evaluate the acceptance of it by users while making a legal analysis of the implications that storage and analysis of personal data by systems may have on artificial intelligence.
The DigiMedia team was involved with major responsibilities in the project related to the mobile application in charge of domestic interaction through the television.
January 2019 – September 2020
90 000 €
21 945 €
Programa de Cooperación INTERREG V-A España-Portugal (POCTEP 2014-2020)
Social iTV
Jorge Ferraz de Abreu
Rita Oliveira; Telmo Silva; Pedro Almeida
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Universidade de Vigo
Universidade de Lisboa
DigiMedia
Inga Freire Saboia, a PhD Student at DigiMedia, is involved in the team of two funded projects aimed at patients with COVID-19 and their families.
We are facing a difficult situation with the COVID-19 pandemic that has been challenging society as whole. In the hospital context, one of the major difficulties is the fact that family visits are suspended which generates insecurity and suffering to the patient.
CoVIVE Social is a project that aims to develop a prototype of a technological solution to improve the communication between the Hospital and the COVID-19 patients’ family. The tool will follow and support all the patient journey during all the hospitalization. This platform will offer update notices about the current patient state to family. Besides that, the social rights will be supported by this tool.
This project will be tested in Fortaleza General Hospital that is the major hospital in Ceará. It is funded by FioCruz (Brazil) and Inova Funcap. The research will be undertaken by a multidisciplinary team that includes physicians, nurses, social assistants, developers and designers.
We are facing a difficult situation with the COVID-19 pandemic that has been concerning mainly for the risk groups, which includes individuals with chronic diseases, such as Arterial Hypertension and Diabetes, pregnant women, and elderly people.
This project has the main goal to develop a prototype for m-Health solution to promote self-care and guide the user’s journey in primary health care. It will be a prototype for interaction with pregnant women, hypertensive and people with diabetes. This will be undertaken through textual dialogues with a chatbot.
This project will be tested in primary health care in Horizonte (a city in Ceará – Brazil). It is funded by FioCruz (Brazil) and Inova Funcap. The research will be undertaken by a multidisciplinary team that includes physicians, nurses, developers and designers.
The University of Aveiro is promoting the Global Game Jam® (GGJ), from 29 to 31 January 2021, the largest game creation event in the world, which takes place simultaneously in dozens of countries.
DigiMedia members are involved in the organization of the event – Ana Veloso, José Nunes, Liliana Costa, Mário Vairinhos, Mónica Aresta, Nelson Zagalo, Pedro Beça, Silvino Martins, Tânia Ribeiro – along with other researchers from the Department of Communication and Art, the Department of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics and the School of Technology and Management of Águeda.
In the past edition of Global Game Jam® (GGJ) more than 60 UA members participated, among students, teachers and researchers.
The University of Aveiro participates for the fourth time (https://globalgamejam.org/2021/jam-sites/universidade-de-aveiro-ggj2021), now in an online format. The organization expects the participation of more than a hundred young creative and innovative university students, who during the 48 hours of the event will develop team games.
For more information please contact ggj.uaveiro@gmail.com.
Call for Articles and Reviews
Journal of Digital Media & Interaction
ISSN 2184-3120
The Journal of Digital Media & Interaction is an open access, international peer-reviewed research journal, published by DigiMedia, University of Aveiro.
JDMI is calling for articles and reviews within the scope of the Journal for the Number 10.
Articles
Articles should follow the Template Guidelines, and should be between 4000 and 7000 words.
Articles should be anonymized for double-blind peer review.
Reviews
JDMI also accepts reviews of books/films/games/apps of interest within the scope of the Journal.
Reviews should be between 1000 and 2500 words.
Review texts are published in the Reviews section and are not subject to peer-review.
Important Dates
Submission of full articles and reviews: 1 May 2021
Notification of revision: 15 June 2021
Revised version: 30 June 2021
Publication: 30 July 2021
Guidelines for authors
Articles and Reviews can be submitted in English, Portuguese, French or Spanish.
All submissions must be made through the OJS platform of the journal JDMI. Follow the authors’ guidelines and use our .doc template.
Call for Research Dossiers or Thematic Number
Journal of Digital Media & Interaction
ISSN 2184-3120
The Journal of Digital Media & Interaction is an open access, international peer-reviewed research journal, published by DigiMedia, University of Aveiro.
JDMI is calling for Research Dossiers, meaning, calls to publish a collaborative and comprehensive series of essays (between 4 and 8 articles, 4,000 to 7,000 words each) under a shared theme, for example: a specific theoretical or methodological approach; a technological advancement; a historical design analysis; a specific conference or festival, etc.
Dossiers/Thematic number should aim to make a clearly defined intervention within the rubric of the overall theme and will usually have a curated aspect that is explicitly discussed in a critical introduction.
If you wish to submit a dossier to JDMI, follow the guidelines below, and submit your proposal, to our e-mail: deca-jdmi@ua.pt (cc lidia@ua.pt; nzagalo@ua.pt )
Research Dossiers Guidelines
Journal of Digital Media & Interaction invites senior researchers to present research dossiers, following the below rules:
1 – At least one of the coordinators must have a PhD and work widely published. Also, they can’t be more than three.
2 – Dossier/Thematic number coordinators submit proposal to deca-jdmi@ua.pt (cc lidia@ua.pt; nzagalo@ua.pt ) of one to two pages, explaining the domain and focus, as the objectives and expected types of papers.
3 – After approval by the journal editors, coordinators can publish a Call for the Dossier, and the Journal will also publish a general public call for the number in which the dossier will be published.
4 – The process of submission and peer-review, is done by the journal, and follows all internal steps, e.g. double blind refereeing procedures.
5 – The coordinators will then use the results of the peer-review to do the final selection of papers to appear in the Dossier/Thematic number, which passes through a discussion with the journal editors. The articles not accepted in the Dossier/Thematic number, if complying with editorial guidelines and accepted by the scientific peers can be published outside of the dossier/Thematic number, depending on Editors decision.
6 – The coordinator can’t have more than one paper in the dossier.
7 – The coordinator writes a critical introduction to the dossier, which is published with the dossier.
8 – Situations omitted in this guide will be decided by the Editors.
More information for authors: Authors | Journal of Digital Media & Interaction (ua.pt)
We are facing a difficult situation with the COVID-19 pandemic that has been concerning mainly for the risk groups, which includes individuals with chronic diseases, such as Arterial Hypertension and Diabetes, pregnant women, and elderly people.
This project has the main goal to develop a prototype for m-Health solution to promote self-care and guide the user’s journey in primary health care. It will be a prototype for interaction with pregnant women, hypertensive and people with diabetes. This will be undertaken through textual dialogues with a chatbot.
This project will be tested in primary health care in Horizonte (a city in Ceará – Brazil). It is funded by FioCruz (Brazil) and Inova Funcap. The research will be undertaken by a multidisciplinary team that includes physicians, nurses, developers and designers.
January 2021 – February 2022
120000 reais
FioCruz and Inova Funcap
e-health & Wellbeing
Inga Freire Saboia
Nowadays, we are facing a difficult situation with the COVID-19 pandemic that has been challenging society as whole. In the hospital context, one of the major difficulties is the fact that family visits are suspended which generates insecurity and suffering to the patient.
CoVIVE Social is a project that aims to develop a prototype of a technological solution to improve the communication between the Hospital and the COVID-19 patients’ family. The tool will follow and support all the patient journey during all the hospitalization. This platform will offer update notices about the current patient state to family. Besides that, the social rights will be supported by this tool.
This project will be tested in Fortaleza General Hospital that is the major hospital in Ceará. It is funded by FioCruz (Brazil) and Inova Funcap. The research will be undertaken by a multidisciplinary team that includes physicians, nurses, social assistants, developers and designers.
January 2021 – March 2022
120000 reais
FioCruz and Inova Funcap
e-health & Wellbeing
Inga Freire Saboia
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.
The DigiMedia Research Centre YouTube Channel is now available HERE. You are all invited to subscribe this channel in order to keep up with our communication activity.
Aida Domínguez, Professor in the field of Journalism, Advertising and Audiovisual Communication from the University of Malaga, presented an online seminar entitled “Big Data and Communication: Methodologies of capture and visualization of information”, within the scope of the Doctoral Programme Information and Communication in Digital Platforms. The recording is available on DigiMedia YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni2UTZBchQc 
Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220; CODEN: SENSC9) is the leading international peer-reviewed open access journal on the science and technology of sensors. Sensors is published semimonthly online by MDPI.
The Special Issue “Simplified Sensing for Ambient Assisted Living in Smart Homes”, that belongs to the section “Sensor Networks” is open for submission until 31 May 2021. Jorge Ferraz de Abreu (DigiMedia member) and Ángel García Crespo (member of the Advisory Board of DigiMedia) are Guest Editors of this special issue.
This Special Issue invites researchers to carry out studies and identify potential avenues to expand the studies on existing and develop new systems to improve the quality of life of older people in single-person households and also promotes the use of sensors and the Internet of Things (IoT) in a non-invasive way, in order to make elderly people feel safe, but at the same time comfortable at home.
Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Keywords
Sensors and IoT for AAL and smart homes
Sensors and IoT for indoor and outdoor active aging
Sensors and IoT for rehabilitation and telemedicine and telecare in smart homes
Security and privacy in AAL applications
Machine Learning for advanced AAL applications
Prototypes and experiments in real scenarios
Social aspects of the use of AAL, considering patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals
The 9th Iberoamerican Conference on Applications and Usability for Interactive TV (jAUTI’2020) was hosted by the SocialiTV group of the DigiMedia Research Centre in the University of Aveiro with the special participation of the Network on Applications and Usability of Interactive Digital Television (RedAUTI). Due to the current situation with Coronavirus (COVID-19), the conference was held online on December 18, 2020.
The conference aimed to gather researchers from universities and the industry from all around the world, to share their work within the fields of digital television, interactive television and online video.
Jorge Ferraz de Abreu, Pedro Almeida and Telmo Silva were Program Chairs, along with Maria Jose Abasolo Guerrero. There were several DigiMedia members in the Scientific Committee of this online international event that included 28 presentations.
The call for Projects in all Scientific Domains promoted by the Foundation for Science and Technology is open from January 28, 2021 until March 10, 2021.
The application form, as well as the application guide, will be made available on January 28, 2021.
All applications must be submitted in English using an electronic form.
The maximum funding limit for each project is 250 000€.
More information available HERE.
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O Concurso de Projetos em todos os Domínios Científicos promovido pela Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia está aberto entre 28 de janeiro e 10 de março de 2021.
O formulário de candidatura, bem como o guião de candidatura, serão disponibilizados no dia 28 de janeiro de 2021.
Todas as candidaturas devem ser apresentadas em língua inglesa através de formulário eletrónico no Portal de Concursos
O limite máximo de financiamento de cada projeto é de 250 mil euros.
Mais informação disponível AQUI.
