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DigiMedia members led 11 proposals submitted to the 2017 FCT call for research projects on all scientific domains. After the completion of the evaluation, we are now glad to announce that three out of those 11 proposals (27%) were selected for funding. Other 5 proposals received a positive evaluation and were considered eligible for funding.
The projects approved, addressing topics that are in the frontline of DigiMedia’s research priorities, are:
- SEDUCE 2.0 – Use of Communication and Information in the miOne online community by the senior citizen (PI: Prof. Ana Isabel Veloso);
- LOCUS – PlayfuL Connected Rural Territories – The Internet of Things in the intergenerational creative production of cultural georeferenced contents (PI: Prof. Lídia Oliveira);
- Gamers4Nature – Game creation tools to promote awareness of environmental and biodiversity preservation (PI: Prof. Pedro Beça).
The proposal FlavourGame – Participate and Change, Playing with Textures and Flavours, leaded by Nelzon Zagalo, researcher that recently joined DigiMedia, was also selected for funding. Initially submitted under the scope of another research unit, the project will be integrated and executed under DigiMedia’s scope of activities.
These four new projects represent a total funding of over 1 M€ spanning for 3 years. A total of 14 new research grants (including 4 PhD positions) will be open, fostering new opportunities for PhD students and other researchers.
6 june 2018
6 of june, at 15:00 p.m., PhD. María Purificación Subires from the University of Málaga, presents the conference “Visualization tools for the Data Journalism” in the Department of communication and Art of the University of Aveiro. The conference is related to the research work she is currently working in the area of journalist, María Purificación Subires is also responsible for several classes at the andalucian university.
María Purificación research focuses in Journalism Innovation manly in Data Journalism and Geo-Journalism. Nevertheless, the researcher interests are wider reaching the Communication and Territory, Culture and Heritage, among others relevant themes.
María Purificación was invited by DigiMedia – Digital Media and Interaction Research Center, a research center affiliated to the Department of Communication and Art of the University of Aveiro, for a stay research of two weeks, with a grant of the Association of Postgraduate Ibero-American Universities – AUIP. One of the activities proposed is the conference ““Visualization tools for the Data Journalism”, that takes place the next Wednesday, since 15:00, in the room 40.2.5 of Department of Communication and Art at the University of Aveiro.
University of Aveiro – Department of Communication and Art – Room 40.02.5 department of communication and Art of University of Aveiro
17 May 2018
DigiMedia – Digital Media and Interaction Research Centre, from Department of Comunication and Art (DeCA), hosts the event “Internet Day 2018” to celebrate the Internet day with the theme “leisure and pleasure”.
The day schedule includes, during the morning, two talks: the first by Associate Professor Matthew Kushin from Sheperd University named “The Cost of Clicks and Shares: Questions on the Civic and Political Potential of the The Internet in the Attention Economy” and the second one, presented by Professor Armando Malheiro at University of Porto, named “Diferentes formas de estudar a internet”.
In the afternoon there will be project presentations made by students of Novas Tecnologias da Comunicação and a debate with guest companies. Following that, is an activity of “speed dating” that promotes connections between Sciences and Comunications Tecnologies students and companies.
To finish the day takes place a session of Biodanza, taught by Raquel Bontempo, this activity estimulates the human development through dance and music.
Admission is free, although registration is required for certain activities (speed dating and Biodanza).
More information regarding the event in: http://digimedia.web.ua.pt/internet-day/
University of Aveiro – Department of Communication and Art – CCCI Auditorium and Room 40.1.8
31 January 2018
Happy (Health Awareness and Prevention Personalized for You) – http://digimedia.web.ua.pt/archives/category/projects – , won the Health category of the Santa Casa Challenge 2017, the digital social innovation contest promoted by the Santa Casa da Misericórdia (link: https://santacasachallenge.com/)
The application was developed by Nuno Ribeiro, a PhD student in Multimedia and Education at the University of Aveiro (UA) and is part of a project funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Under the orientation of Ana Margarida Almeida, a professor at DeCA – UA and senior researcher of the research center Digimedia, and Filipe Santos Silva, coordinator of the team of the Communication Unit at i3S (Institute of Research and Innovation in Health at the University of Porto), Nuno Ribeiro develop an App that adapts to the profile and context of each user.
Happy is the first Portuguese application to prevent cancer; it monitors the risk of cancer and gives personalized recommendations for the reduction of the risk.
The recommendations are based on several factors such as the information that the user gives about their behavior and the geo-spatial location of the mobile phone.
Convento São Pedro de Alcântara, Lisboa
Happy – Health Awareness and Prevention Personalized for You
Happy is a cancer prevention mobile app that uses personal information data and instant contextual data to tailor the contents provided to the user in the form of daily suggestions (notifications/short messages). This app acts in real-life settings in terms of behaviour change and cancer prevention knowledge as it aims to persuade users to change their behaviour, making healthier choices, thus reducing their personal risk of developing several types of cancer. The main focus is based in the persuasive power of triggers, and several strategies based on different behaviour change techniques such as barrier identification, prompting, social support, social comparison, and behaviour modelling.
September 2014 – May 2018
Research Grant: FCT grant number SFRH/BD/92996/2013;
Project Grant: Project HYPE (Private funding: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation)
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Nuno Ribeiro (Team UA – PhD Researcher);
Ana Margarida Almeida (Team UA – PhD Supervisor)
Filipe Santos-Silva (Team i3S – PhD Supervisor )
Ipatimup – Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto
i3S – Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, UP
More info available at: http://happy-app.eu
6-9 November 2017
As a result of the participation of the University of Aveiro in the UltraTV project (led by Altice Labs), a new Interactive Television concept will be demonstrated at the Web Summit at the Altice stand, which stands out the possibility to offer a unification of contents from various sources. Over a single and disruptive User Interface, developed by the research group on Social iTV of the DigiMedia Research Unit, it is possible to access both television contents and content from other players (Youtube, Facebook videos and even Netflix) over the Tv screen.
This new concept of television ecosystem allows users to see the contents of several players, materializing in a FlowTV approach. Users do not need to frisk from application to application, or be confronted with different user interfaces.
The concept was prototyped by Altice Labs, in articulation with the team from the University of Aveiro, over the Luna framework from Craftwork. In addition to the unification of contents and sources, we highlight the recommendations based on user profiles, the look and feel of the User Inteface and the User Experience that it provides.
The research results of the consortium, of which is also part IT, represents a significant contribution to the future of television.
* The UltraTV project (ref. 17738) is co-financed by COMPETE 2020, Portugal 2020 and the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER).
Lisbon – Altice Arena (formerly Known as MEO arena) and FIL
2-4 November 2017
The Department of Communication and Art at the University of Aveiro will host from 2th to 4th of November the XIII Congress of APImprensa/ International Conference of Portuguese language press in the world.
The Research Centre DigiMedia accepted the challenge proposed by the conference organizers – Associação Portuguesa de Imprensa and will present a performance entitle “The Future of the Television Ecosystem” based on four project prototypes driven by ULTRA TV, GUIDER, NOW UP and +TV4E projects.
The conference aims to gather researchers from universities and the industry, to share their experiences about emergency measures for the Media, Distribution / Monetization, Entrepreneurship in Media and Vocational Training and Press Council.
Detailed program, registration process and other relevant information can be access at: https://congressodaimprensaportuguesa.wordpress.com/
University of Aveiro – Department of Communication and Art
The colloquium of the research group in cyberculture presented different studies on the problematic relations between networking information circulation, contents reading and sharing practices, modalities of propagating and automated news.
We analyzed the state of the research in the framework of the datification culture and and examples of data analysis. Last, but not least, we presented case studies on phenomena of radical polarization in social media and the spreading of misinformation online.
The Department of Communication and Arts through the Digimedia Reserach Center hosted the 13th Joint European Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning, from October 9 to October 13. The summer school was organised by the European Association of Technology Enhanced Learning – EATEL (http://ea-tel.eu/) and the University of Aveiro (http://www.ua.pt).
The summer school was directed mainly to PhD students and instructors from all countries. The programme covered topics from a broad range of domains in the field of TEL and included practical and methodological sessions as well as opportunities for discussion of doctoral works and netowrk sessions for future collaborations between PhD students, experts in the field and peers across Europe.
DigiMedia – Digital Media and Interaction Research Center was widely represented in Techdays 2017 – the largest National Technology Forum that took place on the 12th – 14th 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 Center headed the strategic scientific domain of TICE with eight of its R&D projects. Digital platforms, mobile applications and physical computing prototypes were available to the public to interact.
The DigiMedia Research Center also was presente on the TICE.PT stand, with the CHIC project – Cooperative Holistic view on the internet and Content. A project supported by Portugal 2020 funds, with budget of nearly 10 M€. The DigiMedia Research Center is one of the 24 entities of the project consortium headed by MOG Technologies, S.A.
In the Altice stand, DigiMedia Research Center was represented by ULTRA TV and +TV4elderly projects.
On the ANI – Agência Nacional de Inovação stand, was presented the “Happy: Health Awaerness and Prevention Personalized” project. This project is being developed by Nuno Ribeiro, student in Multimedia and Education PhD, and has been widely recognized and was one of tree finalist of the Born of Knowledge Contest (http://www.bornfromknowledge.pt/).
With the R&D projects presented in Techdays 2017, is clear the impact of the DigiMedia Research Center scientific research to and for society.
Techdays 2017 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 6th Iberoamerican Conference on Applications and Usability of Interactive TV (jAUTI’2017) took place at the University of Aveiro from the 12th to 13th of October 2017.
This edition was organized by members of the Social iTV group of the Research Centre Digimedia with the special participation of the Network on Applications and Usability of Interactive Digital Television (RedAUTI).
The conference gather researchers from different iberoamerican countries (Spain, Portugal, Brasil, Equador and Argentina) and had also the participation from several industry players. It was an excellent opportunity to discuss different thematic areas in the field of Interactive Television: accessibility in Digital TV, Services and Design of User Interfaces for Digital and Interactive TV, as well as their Audiences, Contents and Technologies.
Angel García Crespo (from University Carlos III of Madrid) and Tiago Silva Lopes (from Altice-MEO) addressed two remarkable keynotes. More info and photos at the conference FB page.
12-14 October 2017
DigiMedia accepted the challenge proposed by University of Aveiro and will present eight of its R&D projects in TechDays. Digital platforms, mobile applications and physical computing prototypes will be available, addressing different contexts with focus on the design, prototyping and validation of user-centered technology solutions.
Besides those projects, that will be available in our stand, Nuno Ribeiro, Ph.D. fellow in Multimedia and Education, will present his final pitch for the Born from Knowledge Contest (http://www.bornfromknowledge.pt/) on his project “Happy, Health Awareness Personalized for You”. The pitch will take place on the 12th of october (10am).
Techdays 2017 is going to take place on the 12th – 14th of October in Aveiro’s Exposition Center. It’s the largest National Technology Forum, a joint organization between Aveiro Municipality, the University of Aveiro, the Telecommunications Institute, the Business Association – INOVARIA, the TICE.PT and Habitat Sustentável.
Techdays 2017 gathers what is best done in the RD national centers, companies involved in the sector and public institutions aiming to be a platform that stimulates the creation of interfaces between the academic world and the business world.
More info is available: http://www.techdays.pt/
