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PROJECT TITLE

Happy – Health Awareness and Prevention Personalized for You

SHORT DESCRIPTION

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.

DATES

September 2014 – May 2018

FUNDING SOURCE

Research Grant: FCT grant number SFRH/BD/92996/2013;

Project Grant: Project HYPE (Private funding: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation)

DIGIMEDIA MAIN AREA

KMCC

RESEARCH TEAM

Nuno Ribeiro (Team UA – PhD Researcher);

Ana Margarida Almeida (Team UA – PhD Supervisor)

Filipe Santos-Silva (Team i3S – PhD Supervisor )

PARTNERS

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

PROJECT TITLE

Introduction of digital books and new hypermedia systems in encouraging reading, creating, sharing and literary expression

SHORT DESCRIPTION

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

DATES

January 2014 – December 2015

FUNDING SOURCE

Project Grant – FAPEMA – Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e ao Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico do Maranhão.

Funding Value: Public International: 29181,63 €

DIGIMEDIA MAIN AREA

MCC

RESEARCH TEAM

Cassia Furtado (Project coordinator)

Lidia Oliveira (Main Researcher)

PARTNERS

PROJECT TITLE

Distance Education Quality Reference Framework in Mozambique

SHORT DESCRIPTION

In this project the quality reference framework for the evaluation and accreditation of Distance Education institutions and programs in Mozambique was developed and implemented. The project also included the definition of the procedures related with the evaluation and accreditation of institutions and programs.

DATES

January 2014-December 2015

FUNDING SOURCE

Project Grant:  Private: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Funding Value: 64.715€

DIGIMEDIA MAIN AREA

KMCC

RESEARCH TEAM

Fernando Ramos (Project Coordinator)

PARTNERS

INED-Distance Education Institute of Mozambique

PROJECT TITLE

Flexible TV Viewing

SHORT DESCRIPTION

The Flexible TV Viewing project has the objective to implement an iPad application that enables the users to find television programs. The developed application offers a unique and creative way to discover TV content from various sources (Live, Recorded or VoD), according to the set of user-selectable criteria (TV genre, duration, rating or companionship).

PROJECT WEBSITE

http://socialitv.web.ua.pt/index.php/projects/sponsored-projects/flexible-tv-viewing/

DATES

2013 – 2014

FUNDING SOURCE

Project Grant: Private – PT Inovação – Inovation Projects;

Funding Value:  20.000 €

DIGIMEDIA MAIN AREA

NMDE

RESEARCH TEAM

Jorge Ferraz (Project coordinator);

Pedro Almeida (Main Researchers);

Bruno Teles(Team member);

António Pereira (Team member);

Bernardo Cardoso(Team member);

Herlander Santos ((Team member-PT Inovação).

PARTNERS

PROJECT TITLE

Use of Communication Technologies in Portuguese Public Higher Education

SHORT DESCRIPTION

The main objectives of the TRACER project were the definition of a methodology and the deployment of an online platform (U-TRACER) able to provide evidence of the use of Communication Technologies in learning context by the Portuguese Public HEIs.

PROJECT WEBSITE

http://cms.ua.pt/TRACER/node/1

DATES

April 2011-March 2014

FUNDING SOURCE

Project Grant: Public National: FCT

Project Code: PTDC/CPE-CED/113368/2009

Funding Value: 152.506€

DIGIMEDIA MAIN AREA

KMCC

RESEARCH TEAM

Fernando Ramos (Project Coordinator)

Rui Raposo (Team Member)

Pedro Almeida (Team Member)

João Batista (Team Member)

Luís Pedro (Team Member)

Marta Pinto (Team Member)

Dalila Coelho (Team Member)

PARTNERS

PROJECT TITLE

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

SHORT DESCRIPTION

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.

PROJECT WEBSITE

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

DATES

2010 – 2014

FUNDING SOURCE

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 €

DIGIMEDIA MAIN AREA

NMDE

RESEARCH TEAM

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).

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