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TV2Mobile intends to take advantage of the proliferation of mobile devices and their increasing use in simultaneous with the visualization of television contents, to notify the user that can, through the application, enjoy discounts or participate in games of bets for example.Imagine the scenario where a supermarket chain has a specific promotion for a store near the user. Thus, alongside with the distribution of advertising (for example to a supermarket), the user will be notified (on television) that a promotion in that supermarket is available and that to benefit from it, in his mobile application should accept the coupon that has been sent to him.
september -2018 – august 2019
19800 €
19800 €
National Private – AlticeLabs
AlticeLabs@UA
Social ITV
Pedro Almeida, Rita Oliveira, Rita Santos
AlticeLabs
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As part of the annual celebration of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, the Aveiro District Centre of EAPN Portugal-European Anti-Poverty Network, the Aveiro Social Network and NPISA – Center for Homeless Planning and Intervention of Aveiro, will host the presentation of MOOC course “Union of Minorities. Educational tools for the European cultural mosaic “.
Professor Vania Baldi, will attend the presentation in representation of the Department of Communication and Art from the University of Aveiro and DigiMedia – Digital Media and Interaction Research Centre. The presentation will take place on 24th October, from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., in the D. João Evangelista de Lima Vidal Hall from IPSS Florinhas do Vouga, in Aveiro.
“Union of minorities. Educational tools for the European cultural mosaic” is a Massive Open Online Course for learning competencies to build inclusive educational paths/projects for learners working with minorities and multicultural groups.
The course “Union of minorities. Educational tools for the European cultural mosaic” is a result of the project “Minorities as opportunity and occasion for chrysalis [MOOC]” (reference number 2016-2-IT03-KA205-009153). MOOC implementation was possible with the financial support of Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, in the frame of Key Action 2 “Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices – Strategic Partnerships”, as part of the initiative entitled “The Right to Housing in the Perspective of Homeless Citizens.
The course will be can be access from October the 31th through the link:[1]
The talk is promoted by a joint collaboration between DigiMedia and AlticeLabs (with the support of the American Corner at UA) towards the celebration of the World Usability Day. It will take place on the 22th of November, 9.30 a.m., in the main auditorium of the CCCI at the University of Aveiro.
The speaker is Santosh Basapur – lecturer and planning coordinator for human factors and systems design at IIT Institute of Design in Chicago.
Santosh shifted to academia after being a principal staff user experience researcher at Motorola Mobility’s (a Google company) Applied Research Center in Chicago for 10 years. His expertise is in using methods from various domains like HCI, human factors, social sciences and anthropology and applying them to UX research.
More information about Santosh Basapur: [1]
Following his nomination by the Rector of the University of Aveiro as Scientific Coordinator of DigiMedia for the 2018-2021 term, Fernando Ramos designated the researchers that will join him in the Executive Board: Margarida Almeida, Jorge Abreu, Luis Pedro and Pedro Almeida.
Margarida Almeida, also leader of the e-Health and Wellbeing research group, will have delegated responsibilities as Vice-Coordinator for the internal organization and management, including management data production, communication and facilities management. Jorge Abreu, also leader of the Social iTV research group, will have delegated responsibilities as Vice-Coordinator for external relations with a special focus on promoting national and international R&D partnerships.
A public session to present the results of the UNLOVE project will take place next Friday, October 19th. UNLOVE aimed at developing a digital game to promote awareness and prevent violence dating.
The session, in which the Secretary of State for Equality [1] will participate, will take place in the “Sala de Atos” of the Rectory building of the University of Aveiro and is scheduled to begin at 9:30 am.
The talk ” Interaction Design for All: How to explore our sensory capabilities to promote accessibility” will take place on the 24th of October, 3 p.m., in the “anfiteatro João Branco/DeCA”.
The speaker is Professor Tatiana Aires Tavares, from the Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil who will be with us, at the University of Aveiro, during the next week.
This is an initiative of both the “E-Health & Wellbeing” and “Social iTV” Research groups, from the DigiMedia Research Centre – Digital Media and Interaction .
More information about Tatiana Aires Tavares [1]
DigiMedia – Digital Media and Interaction Research Centre was widely represented in Techdays 2018 – the largest National Technology Forum that took place on the 11th – 13th of October in Aveiro’s Exposition Center.
Throughout several exposition stands, visitors were able to see and interact with different R&D projects.
On the University of Aveiro stand, DigiMedia Research Centre headed the strategic scientific domain of TICE with fourteen of its R&D projects. Digital platforms, mobile applications, physical computing, augmented reality and virtual reality prototypes as well as several multimedia products were available to the public.
With the R&D projects presented in Techdays 2018, is clear the impact of the DigiMedia Research Center scientific research to and for society.
Techdays 2018 was a fantastic opportunity for our researchers to communicate science to a broader audience, allowing practical sessions for design validation as well as opportunities for networking for future collaborations.
The 97th AlticeLabs Tech Day was held on the 19th July under the theme “A new TV experience: UltraTV”, a consortium project that brings together Altice Labs, the University of Aveiro and the Telecommunications Institute, co-financed by Compete2020, Portugal2020 and the European Structural Funds and the European Investment Funds. This project aims to develop an ecosystem of interactive TV applications that allows, on the one hand, to support a TV service with the most advanced functionalities on the market and, on the other, to test new models of interaction.
At that session, Jorge Miguel Rosa, from the B2C Products and Services Department of Altice PT, presented the evolution of streaming content consumption since 2010, with a decrease in live and linear visualization and a substantial increase in catch up TV. Equally relevant in the analysis of the television consumption evolution are the Netflix and Youtube channels, which are responsible for the explosion of online videos and direct access to the consumer. At the same time, there is a substantial increase in viewing on mobile devices such as tablets, laptops, and smartphones. This new paradigm in television consumption gives users control of what they see, when they see and where they see. In this sense, the pay TV business model must be rethought.
In response to the above problem, a set of presentations / demonstrations with proposals to respond to new ways of consuming Interactive TV content was made.In this sense, Professor Jorge Ferraz de Abreu, senior researcher at DigiMedia – Digital Media and Interaction Research Center and full professor from the Communication and Art department (DeCA) of the University of Aveiro (UA) , presented a disruptive User Interface (UI) proposal, with unification of contents and interactions, that is able to take advantage of the different types of devices: TV, mobile and computer. This study led to a UX prototype with a field trial involving at least 20 families and lasting 20 days, and results can be viewed on the Ultra TV website.
The new habits of content consumption on demand also raise technological issues, such as the need to enable public access networks to provide content with the highest quality to the user, regardless of their context or location, using adaptive distribution mechanisms that work in an integrated way. Professor Susana Sargento of the Telecommunications Institute presented and demonstrated the approach taken by her team to respond to this challenge, which involves improving the Quality of Experience (QoE) through mechanisms for predicting user consumption, by the implementation of distributed caches and usage and prefectching, in a content-aware distributed architecture (Content-Aware Adaptation and Distributed Architecture)
At the end of the session, Bernardo Cardoso, from the Digital, Internet and Television department (DIT), demonstrated the integration of the various components in a multilayered architecture, given the various subsystems involved. One of the goals was to support the whole new ecosystem in standards and open and multi operator platforms, capable of being the basis for a new generation of Interactive TV services. In addition, the use of open Set-top Boxes (STB) and the development of an Application Bootstrap Kit (ABK) for this ecosystem allow the creation of new entertainment formats by a wide community of developers / creators. The demonstrations included use cases of Multi Experience, Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), continuity of the television experience between devices, among others, always accompanied by a very interested and participative audience. Source adapted from [1]
The DigiMedia’s Social iTV research group was represented at the ACM TVX 2018, which took place from 26 to 28 June in Seoul, South Korea. This international event gathers the academia and the industry for the dissemination of studies and products in the field of online video, interactive television and User Experience (UX). This year’s edition summed more than 140 participants from about 30 countries. The Social iTV team presented two articles and a demo of the UltraTV project, together with Altice Labs: 1) “Viewers’ behaviors at home on TV and other screens: an online survey”; 2) “Content Unification in iTV to Enhance User Experience: The UltraTV Project”; 3) “UltraTV: an iTV content unification prototype”. With the supervision of a member of our team, the PhD student Carolina Almeida from the Doctoral Program Multimedia in Education was also present with the article “Educational Online Video: opportunities and barriers to integrate it in the entertainment consumption routines”.
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The second edition of Internet Day@UA, an event promoted by the DigiMedia Research Centre and the Department of Communication and Art of the University of Aveiro, ended with a sense of fulfillment and success.
This one day event intended to associate the University of Aveiro, the Department of Communication and Art and DigiMedia Research Centre to the global celebration of the “World Internet Day” that happened on several countries around the world on May 17th.
The opening table, that comprise the Vice-dean Artur Silva, the Director of the Communication and Art Department, Rui Raposo, and the Scientific Coordinator of DigiMedia Research Centre Fernando Ramos, were presented with a full house. After the opening table, Matthew Kushin, Associate Professor from Sheperd University, reflected, through several examples, on the role social media has on everyday life. Professor Armando Malheiro, from University of Porto, followed Matthew Kushin and discussed the importance of associating social sciences and technology as a way to understand the needs of a digital society.
In the afternoon, representatives of several companies (Altice, Bayer Portugal, Pixelmatters, Gfi, Pictonio, Ubiwhere, Inova-ria, Gocontact, Farfetch, Micro i/o) where invited to assist and comment tree students projects associated to the degree cycle of New Communication Tecnhonogies (Planos, SAPO Campus Analytics, Phil).
We finished the Day with the Speed Dating moment. Students and companies facing together in a presentation, evaluation and selection process towards future collaborations.
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It is with great pleasure that we announce to the academic community that Maria Isabel Gomes dos Santos is the winner of the European award “EDF-Oracle eAccessibility Scholarship” of 2017-2018. This event represents an indisputable recognition of the remarkable quality and cleverness of Isabel Santos.
The awarded research work described masterfully by Isabel Santos in her PhD thesis, of the Doctoral Program in Multimedia in Education (DEP/DeCA), entitled “Digital technologies to support the development of the mathematical reasoning of students with autism spectrum disorder” is centered on the creation and validation of a digital prototype for children with autism spectrum disorder promoting the development of their mathematical capabilities. This work was developed by the Thematic Line GEOMETRIX, of the Center for Research & Development in Mathematics and Applications- CIDMA (DMat), emerging as a fruitful collaboration of the research centers CIDMA and DigiMedia (Digital Media and Interaction) of the University of Aveiro.
It was an honor and a great privilege, for us, to have had the opportunity to supervise an academic with such tremendous talent. We could not be more proud of her. Many congratulations Isabel.
The award ceremony will take place in the European Parliament, most probably, next September.
The supervisors,Ana Breda – Coordinator of the T.L. GEOMETRIX and member of CIDMA;
Ana Margarida Almeida – Coordinator of the Health and Wellbeing group of DigiMedia.
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The result of the second call for proposals opened by AlticeLabs@UA (http://www.alticelabs.com/site/alticelabsua/) was recently released. The project Automatic Video Generation (PI: Prof. Telmo Silva) and the extension of the project Voluntage4Seniors (PI: Prof. Rita Santos) were selected for funding and will be hosted by the AlticeLabs@UA laboratory facilities located at the Department of Communication and Art of the University of Aveiro.
These new projects follow the successful completion of the first two projects funded under the first call opened on 2016. In the VoluntAge4Seniors project, led by Rita Santos, an IPTV application to promote volunteers’ support to elders was studied, prototyped and validated. POTI-Personal Objects as Tangible Interfaces, led by Mário Vairinhos, was another project funded by the lab, that resulted in the development of a programmable cube-shaped device enabling an easy interaction with an IPTV TV set by individuals with special needs.
Established in 2016, AlticeLabs@UA is a joint initiative of Altice Labs and the University of Aveiro aiming at promoting research in groundbreaking topics such as IPTV and digital contents, usability and UX, IoT technologies and applications, and emerging web services.
