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CHIC – Cooperative Holistic View on Internet and Content
The CHIC – Cooperative Holistic View on Internet and content project was submitted, evaluated and approved for financing under the call “Mobilizers programs “ supported by Portugal 2020 funds. With a total approved budget of nearly 10 M€, CHIC was submitted by a consortium of 24 entities headed by MOG Technologies, S.A. The consortium incorporates different entities, from SME to medium/large companies passing throw institutions from the Portuguese Scientific and Technological System.
The CHIC – project, aims to develop, test and demonstrate a wide range of new processes, products and services that have a significant impact on the audiovisual and multimedia sectors. These products by their nature will have a clear mobilizing effect on other important sectors of culture such as the cultural heritage, archives, books and publications or the performing arts.
DigiMedia team will be involved with major responsibilities in the pilot dealing with NLI – Natural Language Interaction for online navigation and cable distribution systems. DigiMedia team main responsabilities will be on the technological mapping of NLI tecnologies, training and modelling, development and implementation of the technical solution, trial run and optimization in heterogeneous conditions, pilot deployment, pilot evaluation and dissemination actions.
October 2017 – October 2020
9.921.622.20 €
367.400 €
National Public – FEDER/Compete 2020/Portugal 2020/Lisboa 2020
Mobilizador – 24498 [1]
Social iTV
Alexandre Ulisses (Team MOG – Project coordinator); Pedro Almeida; Telmo Silva, Pedro Beça; Rita Santos
Companies that produce technology: MOG technologies S.A, Enigma Virtual (Gema), Cluster Media Labs, YouON, VMuse, Altice Labs, SISTRADE;
Entities SCTN: INESC TEC, Universidade do Porto FEUP, FBAUP, FLUP, Instituto Politécnico do Porto (ISEP), Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Universidade Aberta, Centro de Computação Gráfica, Cinemateca Portuguesa, Universidade de Aveiro e Universidade Católica;
Advanced users : Global Notícias, Publicações S.A. (Jornal de Notícias), Altice Labs, Avenida dos Aliados – Sociedade de Comunicação S.A. (Porto Canal), Tipografia Tadinense, Ideias e Conteudos, OSTV (Canal 180), Cinemateca Portuguesa, GMK
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6-8 September 2017
The paper “Co-designing a Game-Based Learning Platform for Active Ageing: The Case of Jump” was awarded with best Paper Award, at the International Conference on Simulation and AI in Games GAME ON’2017, held at Institute of Technology Carlow in Ireland. From 6 to 8 of September, academics and industry practioners in Games were gathered to discuss such topics as Game Design Methodology, Game Design and Gamification, Artificial Intelligence in Games, Serious Gaming, Virtual Reality in Games and Game Characters.
The authors of the aforementioned paper are Liliana Vale Costa and her supervisor Ana Isabel Veloso. Liliana Vale Costa is a Ph.D. student in Information and Communication in Digital Platforms, a joint doctoral programme of the University of Aveiro and University of Porto and her supervisor Ana Isabel Veloso is a researcher and professor at the Department of Communication and Art, University of Aveiro. Both authors have been doing research relative to the use of technology-mediated tools (specially games) and the ageing process in DigiMedia Research Center.
The paper presented at the conference proposed a framework for involving end-users in game design for active ageing and healthy lifestyles, based on an empirical study that was carried out with thirty-three adult learners aged 50 and over in the co-design of a game-based learning platform.
About the conference GAME ON’ 2017 – https://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/391
9-13 October 2017
The Research Centre Digimedia is pleased to announce the 13th Joint European Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning. This event is organized by the European Association of Technology Enhanced Learning – EATEL (http://ea-tel.eu/) and hosted by the Department of Communication and Art at the University of Aveiro.
The JTEL summer school provides a stimulating learning environment where participants get opportunities to develop research skills, increase their knowledge base, collaborate with others in their own and complementary research areas, engage in debate, have access to experts in the field, and discuss their own work.
The programme will also include practical and methodological workshops as well as opportunities for PhD students to develop their personal research, discuss their doctoral work and build bridges for future collaborations experts in the field and peers across Europe.
The summer school is open for PhD students and instructors from all countries.
More information about the event is available at: http://www.prolearn-academy.org/Events/summer-school-2017/
University of Aveiro – Department of Communication and Art
12-13 October 2017
The Research Centre Digimedia with the special participation of the Network on Applications and Usability of Interactive Digital Television (RedAUTI) organizes the 6th Iberoamerican Conference on Applications and Usability of Interactive TV (jAUTI’2017).
The conference aims to gather researchers from universities and the industry all around the world, to share their works in the digital television, interactive television and online video fields.
This edition will be hosted by the Department of Communication and Art at the University of Aveiro from the 12th to 13th of October 2017 in Aveiro, Portugal.
Detailed program, registration process and other relevant information can be access at: jauti2017.web.ua.pt/
University of Aveiro – Department of Communication and Art
DigiMedia Research Center presents the conference Targeting, Fake News and Ciberpopulism: between algorithmic and cyberculture.
The recent debate about post-truth confirms the emergence of a society of misinformation based on “confirmation bias” and “echo chambers”. Disintermediation showed its reverse, fallacious credulity.
It is a multidimensional topic that covers journalistic, epistemic, aesthetic, political, educational, sociotechnical and cybercultural issues, to which this conference seeks to contribute.
The conference will be held on 18th October 2017, in the Communication and Art Department of University of Aveiro. We are accepting papers’ proposals until 30th July . Selected papers’ will be published in a special issue of OBS*: Observatório peer-reviewed and Scopus index journal.
More info: vbaldi@ua.pt and dedalus.jmmr@gmail.com
Professor Guido Lemos, from Brasil, LAVID (Digital Video Applications Laboratory – http://lavid.ufpb.br) will be visiting us on June 7th, 8th and 9th.
Among other activities, on june 7th there will be a meeting on Accessibility (14H30), in which Prof. Guido will present LAVID’s accessibility projects and talk to us about our work in this area and a speech on Distributed Musical Performances (16H00).
To celebrate the international Internet Day 2017, commemorated worldwide each May 17th, DigiMedia promotes several events on that day. The agenda includes two talks delivered by Andrea Miconi (IULM) and Paulo Monteiro (UA) that will help participants to discuss some of the main challenges about Internet evolution. During the day there will also be room for a debate with representatives of companies and a speed dating moment that will provide the opportunity for students and companies to meet and discuss possible mutual interests.
All the details about the programme of the Internet Day 2017 may be found in: http://digimedia.web.ua.pt/internet-day/
Brian Cabral, director of engineering for Facebook, visited the University of Aveiro last May 5th, 2017. Although this was a short visit, Brian Cabral delivered a talk about “The Future of Multidimensional Video Capture” that attracted a large number of researchers and students that also had the chance to exchange views with Brian.
Fernando Ramos, the Scientific Coordinator of DigiMedia-Digital Media and Interaction research centre, guided Brain in a visit to the labs of DigiMedia where he had contact with some of the flagship projects of our research unit, namely in the fields of web 2.0 digital media (SAPO Campus, GPS) and interactive TV (iNeighbor TV, UltraTV).
At lunch time Brain joined Joseph Paradiso, from the MIT Media Lab also visiting the University of Aveiro, and the members of the coordination board of DigiMedia in very stimulating discussions about the future of digital media technologies and applications.
This visit was possible due to the support from the American Corner delegation at the University of Aveiro and the USA Embassy in Portugal.
Dr. Joseph A. Paradiso, director of the Responsive Environments research group at the MIT Media Lab, has completed his 3- day visit to the DeCA and the DigiMedia research unit with an inspiring lecture delivered last Friday, May 5th, 2017, under the theme “Two Decades of Responsive Environments at the MIT Media Lab”.
Last Wednesday, May 3rd, Joseph Paradiso had already presented his first talk “Augmented Human Interaction with Nature, Buildings, and Things” that had a huge impact in the dozens of researchers and students that attended the event.
The visit of Joseph Paradiso to DeCA/DigiMedia was an intense visit that created several opportunities for in-depth discussions about the current scientific trends and challenges in the area of Internet, Internet of Things and responsive environments.
During this visit Joseph Paradiso also participated in several meetings with researchers from the DigiMedia research unit aiming at exploring scientific relations between with the MIT Media Lab, fostering new bridges for future collaboration.
This visit was possible due to the support from the American Corner delegation at the University of Aveiro and the USA Embassy in Portugal.
Take a very short look at one of Joe’s talks:
Dr. Joseph Paradiso joined the MIT Media Lab in 1994, where he is now the Alexander W. Dreyfoos Professor in Media Arts and Sciences, directing the Responsive Environments Group. In addition, he co-directs the Things That Think Consortium, a group of industry sponsors and MIT Media Lab researchers who explore the extreme fringe of embedded computation, communication, and sensing.
In this 3 days visit Dr. Joseph Paradiso will present two open conferences: “Augmented Human Interaction with Nature, Buildings, and Things” (May 3rd, 3:00pm, DeCA/CCCI Auditorium) and “Two Decades of Responsive Environments at the MIT Media Lab” (May 5th, 2:30pm, DeCA/CCCI Auditorium).
Dr. Joseph Paradiso is author of a long list of scientific publications. One recent chapter he authored about “How Humans Will Connect with the Internet of Things” may be retrieved from https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/article/our-extended-sensoria-how-humans-will-connect-with-the-internet-of-things/.
During his visit, Dr. Joseph Paradiso will also participate in meetings with DigiMedia researchers aiming at discussing current common research interest and fostering cooperation between DeCA/DigiMedia and the MIT Media Lab.
More information about Dr. Joseph Paradiso may be found here: http://web.media.mit.edu/~joep/Bio.html
May 3rd-5th, 2017, Department of Communication and Art (DeCA), University of Aveiro, Portugal
The Research center CIC.Digital/ DigiMedia and the Department of Communication and Art – DeCA, of the University of Aveiro, are celebrating the Internet Day (May 17) with the event “Internet Day @ DigiMedia: Celebrating Uses and Users” and a Photography Contest: “A Look at the Internet in Portugal”, aiming at promoting the photographic production of the UA community, namely in what concerns the uses and impacts of the Internet in Portugal. The initiative is intended for the entire UA community (students, researchers, alumni, employees and teachers).
The proposals can be sent until the April 28th and will be evaluated by and independent jury between April 28 and May 11. Results will be published on May 15 and widely disseminated to the entire UA community. On May 18 the prize will be awarded at a ceremony that will take place at Teatro Aveirense associated with the event “Made in DeCA”.
More information:
If you have any questions, please contact us: daniel.pocas@ua.pt or 935425882
University of Aveiro – Department of Communication and Arts – DigiMedia Research Unit – “Internet Day@DigiMedia: Celebrating Uses and Users” – 17 Maio
The Portugal Telecom Foundation, a public service institution with a primary focus on the Health, Education and Access to Communications areas, is now associated with the postdoctoral project of Rita Oliveira, researcher at the Digimedia Unit . The project aims to promote the access to TV contents with audio description by visually impaired users, suggesting an innovative approach to the traditional way of creating audio description for Television, based on volunteering and collaboration between viewers.
Rita Oliveira’s postdoctoral project, supervised by Professors Jorge Ferraz de Abreu and Ana Margarida Almeida of the Department of Communication and Arts, it is intended, on the one hand, to make the audio description offer more widely available through the development of a cross-platform application for the creation of individual or collaborative contributions by volunteers and, on the other hand, to change the way audio description is accessed by viewers with visual impairment through the development of an Interactive Television (iTV) application accessible to this public.
The research project lasts 36 months and it is expected to end in March 2019, being funded by the FCT national funding agency, under the grant number SFRH/BPD/ 112129/2015. In addition to the partnership with the PT Foundation, the project also has the support of the AlticeLabs@UA laboratory (under an academic project) and with some ACAPO delegations.
The new partnership with the PT Foundation will allow moving forward with more strength to data collection with a broad sample of visually impaired viewers.
University of Aveiro – Department of Communication and Arts – DigiMedia Research Unit
