TV Discovery & Enjoy

The “TV Discover & Enjoy” project aims to develop a system with a new approach to help users to find the right TV program to watch. The system interaction is based on the typical cognitive process that users face when deciding what TV program to watch.

http://socialitv.web.ua.pt/index.php/projects/sponsored-projects/ineighbourtv/

2012 – 2013

Project Grant: Private – PT Inovação – Inovation Projects;

Funding Value:  20.000 €

NMDE

Jorge Ferraz (Project coordinator);

Pedro Almeida (Team member);

Bruno Teles (Team member);

Márcio Reis (Team member);

Bernardo Cardoso (Team Member);

Herlander Santos (Team Member – PT Inovação)

Crossed TV Games

This research focused on searching and validating innovative forms to engage viewers through Social TV games. In this context an application, combining some social games characteristics with the capabilities of interactive television platforms, was developed for the Meo set-top boxes.

http://socialitv.web.ua.pt/index.php/projects/sponsored-projects/ineighbourtv/

2011 – 2012

Project Grant: Private – PT Inovação – Inovation Projects;

Funding Value:  20.000 €

NMDE

Pedro Almeida (Project coordinator);

Jorge Ferraz (Team member);

Ana Pinto (Team member);

Diogo Costa (Team Member);

Bernardo Cardoso(Team Member – PT Inovação).

Interactive Advertising Models

The goal of the project is to identify new interactive advertisement models that prove to be compatible with the TV present and future viewing habits in IPTV platforms. A prototype using web technologies and a client version was implemented integrated in the set-top-boxes of PT operations, the Meo service.

http://socialitv.web.ua.pt/index.php/projects/sponsored-projects/interactive-advertisement/

2011 – 2012

Project Grant: Private – PT Inovação – Inovation Projects;

Funding Value:  20.000 €

NMDE

Pedro Almeida (Project coordinator);

Jorge Ferraz (Main Researcher);

Nuno Oliveira (Team member);

Márcio Reis (Team Member);

Bernardo Cardoso(Team Member – PT Inovação);

Herlander Santos (Team Member – PT Inovação).

 

iNeighbour TV

iNeighbour TV research project aimed to promote health care and social interaction among senior citizens, their relatives, and caregivers by using the TV set as the main communication device.

http://socialitv.web.ua.pt/index.php/projects/sponsored-projects/ineighbourtv/

2010 – 2012

Project Grant: Public National – Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)

Funding Value:  115.000 €

NMDE

Jorge Ferraz (Project coordinator);

Pedro Almeida (Team member);

Telmo Silva (Team member);

Ana Isabel Veloso (Team member);

Lídia Oliveira (Team member);

 Maria João Antunes (Team member);

Nuno Oliveira (Team member);

Ricardo Pinto (Team member);

João Afonso (Team member);

Ricardo Dias (Team member).

Use of communication and information technology-mediated in web ecologies by the senior citizen

The project aims to evaluate the impact of the use of ICT in online environments in the emotional variables of senior citizens and build an online social community.

http://www.seduce.pt/SITE_PT/projeto.html

2010 – 2014

Project Grant: Public National: Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) by Compete

Project Code: PTDC/CCI/COM/111711/2009 e FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-014337

Funding Value:  75.000 €

NMDE

Ana Isabel Veloso (Project coordinator);

Ana Pires(Main Researcher),

Fernanda Ribeiro(Main Researcher),

Célia Soares(Main Researcher),

Ivo Fonseca(Main Researcher),

Jorge Ferraz de Abreu(Main Researcher),

Lídia Oliveira(Main Researcher),

Liliana Sousa(Main Researcher),

Fernanda Martins(Main Researcher),

Maria João Antunes(Main Researcher),

Óscar Mealha(Main Researcher),

Sónia Ferreira (Main Researcher),

Pedro Amado (Main Researcher)

Liliana Costa (Team Member),

Miguel Marques (Team Member).