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Money Museum
The goal of the project was to specify multimedia solutions to be integrated in the Money Museum project, to validate its technical implementation and to analyze the impact of its interaction solutions in the visitors’ user experience.
http://www.museudodinheiro.pt/destaques
2016
Project Grant : Private: Francisco Providência Design;
Funding Value: 6.000 €
NMDE
Mário Vairinhos (Project coordinator);
Pedro Almeida (Main Researchers);
Interactive television as a support to push information about social services to the elderly
This project, targeted to Portuguese senior population, aims to develop an interactive television (iTV) platform which allows automatically the enrichment of television experience with the integration of contents about public and social services
http://socialitv.web.ua.pt/index.php/projects/sponsored-projects/tv4e/
2016 – 2018
Project Grant – Public National – Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) Compete 2020
Funding Value: 110.700 €
NMDE
Telmo Silva (Project coordinator)
Jorge Ferraz(Main Researcher)
Pedro Almeida(Main Researcher)
Maria João Antunes (Main Researcher)
Gonçalo Santinha (Main Researcher)
Valter Silva (Main Researcher)
Hilma Carapau (Team member)
Carlos Silva (Team member)
Dadiv Campelo (Team member)
Liliana Reis (Team member)
Paulo Neves (Team member)
imprint+
IMPRINT+ is an international project that aims to highlight the amount of natural resources we use in our daily lives. Through education, action and entrepreneurship it empowers young European citizens and communities to restore and conserve their local natural resources.
The motto of the project is that people have the ability to lower their environmental footprint, which will contribute to the restoration of ecological, social and economic balance. IMPRINT+ is a project that guides you in offsetting your environmental footprint through local action.
2016-2017
Project Grant – Public International – Erasmus +;
Funding Value: 410.000 € (global funding), 5.000€ (Digimedia)
NMDE
Carlos Fonseca (Project coordinator – Biology department);
Pedro Beça (Main Researcher),
Pedro Amado (Team Member)
Maria João Antunes (Team Member)
Augmented Reality Guided Surgery
The objective of this research is to develop a navigation system for CGI that combines the visual field of the surgeon using augmented reality technology, real elements and virtual representations of organs, tissues, instruments and meta-information that will allow the surgeon to perform the surgical procedure more quickly and easily.
2016 – 2017
Project Grant: Private – EC Medica, Southport;
Funding Value: 10.000 €
NMDE
Mário Vairinhos (Project coordinator);
Silvino Martins (Team Member)
Sérgio Eliseu (Team Member – University of Aveiro ID+ – Research Institute for Design, Media and culture)
Augusto Silva (Team member – University of Aveiro – IEETA (Institute of Electronics and Telematics Engineering)
Rui Costa (Team member – University of Aveiro – ESSUA – School of Health)
E C MEDICA, Southport,UK
UltraHD TV Application Ecosystem
This project aims to develop an iTV applications ecosystem, based on open technologies, that allows the creation of an advanced set-top box based TV service that may become the future generation of MEO.
2016 – 2018
Project Grant: Public National – Portugal 2020 – Projectos em Co-promoção;
Funding Value: 1.557.000 € (Global Funding); 234.000 € (DigiMedia)
NMDE
Team Altice: Bernardo Cardoso (Project coordinator),
João Nogueira (Team Member),
Hugo Dias (Team Member).
Team UA: Jorge Ferraz (Partner Main Researcher),
Pedro Almeida (Team Member),
Telmo Silva (Team Member),
Pedro Amado (Team Member)
Ana Velhinho (Team Member)
Enrickson Varsoni (Team Member)
Eliza Oliveira (Team Member)
Diogo Oliveira (Team Member)
Rafael Guedes (Team Member)
Sílvia Fernandes (Team Member)
Team IT: Susana Sargento (Partner Main Researcher),
Lucas Guardalben (Team Member)
Mind Safety – Safety Matters (MS-SM)
The Mind Safety – Safety Matters (MS-SM) project aims to improve and innovate methods of teaching safety and health issues in the classroom, motivating and preparing young people to work in safe conditions and to live and learn to be responsible citizens after leaving school.
September 2015 – August 2018
Project Grant: Public International: Erasmus+ – Key Action 2: Cooperation for Innovation and Exchange of Good Practices
Project Code: 2015-1-PT01-KA201-012921
Funding Value: 434.181,00€
KMCC
Luís Pedro (Team Member)
Margarida Almeida (Team Member)
Global Portuguese Scientists
The GPS project pretends to map the paths of Portuguese scientists around the world and to foster collaboration between Portuguese scientists working in different countries, bringing the scientific diaspora closer to Portuguese society, in order to increase its visibility and recognition in Portugal.
September 2015 – April 2016
Project Grant: Private National: Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos
Funding Value: €30.000, 00 €
KMCC
Carlos Santos (Project coordinator)
Luís Pedro (Team Member)
Social TV Highlights – NowUp
The nowUP project is based on a service that automatically creates summaries of TV programs supported on the buzz on social networks.
August 2015 – July 2016
Project Grant: Private – PT Inovação – Inovation Projects;
Funding Value: 20.000 €
NMDE
Pedro Almeida (Project coordinator);
Jorge Ferraz (Main Researchers)
Rita Oliveira (Team member )
Guilherme Cabral (Team member )
Bernardo Cardoso (Team member -PT Inovação)
Diogo Gomes (Team member – IT)
Games for Media and Information Literacy
The Games for Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Learning project (GAMILearning) aims to develop the critical and participative dimensions of media literacy of tweens, through the gamification of the learning experience. Working with cohorts of youth aged 9 to 12 in Portugal and Austin, Texas, the project builds on field-tested research to address the need for student awareness and skill in managing their digital identities with game play and production.
http://gamilearning.ulusofona.pt
May 2015 – April 2018
Project Grant: Public National: FCT- UT Austin Portugal Program;
Project Code: UTAP-ICDT/IVC-ESCT/0020/2014;
Funding Value: €199.937,00 €
KMCC
Carlos Santos (Team Member)
João Batista (Team Member)
Luís Pedro (Team Member)
To be or not to be… formal
The project “To be or not to be… formal” develops links between the non-formal education activities run by Youth NGOs in different geographic and cultural contexts and the formal educational system. Furthermore it aims to produce an handbook to be used by youth workers in preparing international youth mobility and volunteering activities, focusing on educational aspects.
The project involves participants from 6 countries from European Union, candidate countries, Asia and Africa, mixing together non-governmental organizations, public institutions and educational institutions, thus promoting a cross-sectorial cooperation and the development of cross-sectorial tools.
January 2015 – December 2016
Project Grant – Public International – ERASMUS+ KA2 “Capacity building in the field of youth with ACP countries”
Funding Value: 170.000. €
MCC
Pietro Galluccio (Project coordinator )
Vania Baldi (Main Researcher)
Second Vision
The 2nd Vision project aims to contribute for the enrichment of the user’s experience by developing a solution able to provide, through a mobile application based on audio/video recognition, a set of interactive services related with real time and automatic TV services.
July 2015 – June 2016
Project Grant : Public National – FP7- Quadro de Referência Estratégico Nacional (QREN);
Funding Value: 127.000 €
NMDE
Jorge Ferraz (Project coordinator);
Pedro Almeida (Main Researchers),
Telmo Silva (Main Researchers);
Mónica Aresta (Team member);
Rita Oliveira (Team member);
Ligia Duro (Team member);
Miguel Cardoso (Team member);
André Ferreira (Team member);
Luis Capucho (Team member from Outsoft);
Pedro Santos (Team member from Outsoft);
Ricardo Almeida (Team member from Altran);
Orlando Bom (Team member from Altran);
João Minhota (Team member from Altran);
Helder Pinheiro (Team member from Altran)
Introduction of digital books and new hypermedia systems in encouraging reading, creating, sharing and literary expression
One of the biggest challenges of contemporary times is understanding, decoding the new generations, increasingly immersed in the digital world, and especially to encourage and develop in children and adolescents reading and production skills. In this sense, the said project aims to analyze the introduction of digital books and new hypermedia systems in encouraging reading, creating, sharing and literary expression, as enhancers of learning processes, learning and knowledge creation for elementary school students. The team consists of doctors professors from the Federal University of Maranhão – UFMA, the Department of Library Science – DEBIB and the Graduate Program in Design – PPGDG in partnership with teachers at the University of Aveiro – UA, Portugal, Department of Communication and Art – DeCA
January 2014 – December 2015
Project Grant – FAPEMA – Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e ao Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico do Maranhão.
Funding Value: Public International: 29181,63 €
MCC
Cassia Furtado (Project coordinator)
Lidia Oliveira (Main Researcher)
