Social iVX – Social and Interactive Viewing eXperiences – DigiMedia

Social iVX – Social and Interactive Viewing eXperiences

This team is committed to exploring and enhancing the viewer experience within the expansive TV ecosystem. This encompasses user interactions with video content across diverse sources and a constellation of media devices.

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Jorge Ferraz de Abreu

Team Coordinator

Research Projects

Accessibility4Blind

This project aims to address a study in which it is intended to conceptualize, develop and evaluate an aggregation platform of accessibility solutions target to people with visual impairment, incorporating not only an information layer but also a training layer using, for example, explanatory videos and tutorials. The platf...

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CHIC

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...

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MixMyVisit

The MixMyVisit project aims to develop a solution for the automatic creation of memory videos of visits to public and cultural places (e.g., museums, parks, …). These videos will be generated from pre-recorded videos and indexed to different locations in that space and content shared by the user (e.g., photos and videos)....

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NAVSAFETY

Emerging remote sensing technologies for real-time support of navigation safety in harbour areas has as main purpose develop innovative monitoring technologies, in almost real time, for harbour inlets. The developed system collects sea bottom data as bathymetric indicators and local hydrodynamics, namely, physical parameter...

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nowUP

The nowUP project is based on a service that automatically creates summaries of TV programs supported by the buzz on social networks. Currently, viewers post a lot of TV program-related information on social networks while they are watching TV, especially during its key moments. Therefore, the social buzz has the potential ...

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OverTV

The OverTV project aims to develop a system for personalized notifications towards the TV ecosystem. The solution consists of a platform to generate, schedule, and monitor several types of messages delivered through the television set-top box (STB) and mobile devices. Because of the importance of segmentation and timings (w...

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VoluntAge4Seniors

VoluntAge4Seniors intends to be a service that allows older adults to request help from a group of volunteers to support in specific tasks such as simple household maintenance or company for a visit to the doctor. All the process includes evaluation moments with end users, and it is also planned to do a pilot test that will...

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Smartly

TV2Mobile intends to take advantage of the proliferation of mobile devices and their increasing use simultaneous with the visualization of television tents, to notify the user that can, through the application, enjoy discounts or participate in games of bets for example.

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SEDUCE 2.0

The SEDUCE Project (Use of technologically mediated communication and information in Web ecologies by senior citizens). Considering that technology is more omnipresent today and that the use of ICT can present social and cognitive benefits for this population, it is urgent to make technological devices and their multimedia...

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Shapes

SHAPES is an Innovation Action funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme involving a total of 36 partners from 14 European countries. The project aims at creating an integrated and interoperable platform that will bring together a wide range of digital solutions focused on improving the health, wellbeing, and ...

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VideoBite

Videobite is a project of Cofina that aims to create and implement a new centralized platform to manage the workflow of online video by using a federated model to capture, ingest, archive, edit and distribute video in Cofina’s online channels, supporting the entire value chain of Cofina’s digital assets. All digital con...

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TRUE

The project TRUE – Trustworthy news and Related content for a Unified writing Environment, aims to develop an integrated solution to revive school newspapers, in Portuguese, while stimulating and enhancing the younger generations critical thinking, resorting to tools that allow them to assess the veracity of the publi...

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Members

Alcina Prata

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Alcina Prata

Alcina Maria Narciso Prata holds a PhD in Informat...

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Ana Margarida Almeida

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Ana Margarida Almeida

Graduated in New Communication Technologies from t...

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Ana Velhinho

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Ana Velhinho

Ana Velhinho is a post-doc researcher with a BA in...

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Jorge Ferraz de Abreu

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Jorge Ferraz de Abreu

Jorge Abreu began his career while still in the fi...

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Pedro Almeida

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Pedro Almeida

Got his graduation in New Communication Technologi...

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Rita Oliveira

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Rita Oliveira

Rita Oliveira got her graduation in New Communicat...

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Rita Santos

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Rita Santos

Rita Santos holds a PhD in Information and Communi...

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Rui Raposo

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Rui Raposo

Rui Raposo is an associate professor of science an...

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Telmo Silva

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Telmo Silva

Telmo Eduardo Silva got his graduation and Master'...

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