Happy – Health Awareness and Prevention Personalized for You

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.

September 2014 – May 2018

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

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

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Nuno Ribeiro (Team UA – PhD Researcher);

Ana Margarida Almeida (Team UA – PhD Supervisor)

Filipe Santos-Silva (Team i3S – PhD Supervisor )

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

UNLOVE/UNPOP

The main objective of this project is to develop a digital game aiming the prevention and awareness of dating violence, exploring digital media potential in diverse fields, which calls for a collaborative effort, the project crosses different areas, namely: (i) game design, development and evaluation; (ii) e-health; (iii) and digital media impact in social, educational and cultural contexts.

More info about Unlove/Unpop available at: [1]

February 2017 – August 2018

Project Grant : Public National – Secretaria de Estado da Igualdade

Funding Value: 20 500 € (Global funding); 2500 € (Digimedia)

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Ana Margarida Almeida (Main Researcher – Digimedia)

Application for the elderly to ask for help from volunteers

This project aims to develop a television application that allows older people, in a simple and quick way, to ask a group of volunteers for support in specific tasks such as small domestic repairs or accompany in a visit to the doctor. It is intended that the application, currently under development, allows that certain actions, such as making a request to a volunteer, can also be performed by voice.

January 2017 – September 2017

Project Grant – Private – AlticeLabs@UA

Funding Value: 9724 €

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Rita Santos (Project Coordinator) – Digimedia/ESTGA-UA

Ana Isabel Martins (Team Member ) – IEETA/DCM

Ciro Martins (Team Member ) – IEETA/ESTGA-UA

Hilma Caravau (Team Member ) – Associação Nacional de Gerontólogos

João Moura (Team Member) – DECA

Mário Rodrigues (Team Member) – IEETA/ ESTGA-UA

Pedro Miguel (Team Member) – DETI

Tânia Ribeiro (Team Member) – DECA

Integrated and Intelligent Corporate Communication Platforms

The project aims to develop new product concepts (and their proofs of concept) that can induce a paradigm shift regarding the current practices of corporate ICT usage and their associated fragilities in terms of information management capabilities as well as traceable and structured communication activities.

This collaborative R&D project defines as its ultimate strategic objective the optimization of the human interaction and intuitive‐intelligent information management in the corporate contexts by the development of new info‐communicational tools that leverage the individual and collective performance of the organizations.

January 2017 – December 2019

Project Grant – Public National – Portugal 2020 – COMPETE2020;

Project Code: n. º 21949 Smart EnterCom;

Funding Value: 832 268,06 € (Global funding); 60 033,11€ (Digimedia)

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José Ferreira (Project Coordinator – Finesource/Wavecom)

Óscar Mealha (Main Researcher – Digimedia)

Carolina Félix Abrantes (Team Member)

Mathematics Learning Environment for Autistic

The project aims at the development of a set of training activities with both families and health and educational professionals in order to empower theses groups to better understand the Autism Spectrum Disorders, namely in what concerns math skills and considering he role of digital media in its promotion.

September 2016 – July 2017

Project Grant :Private National – Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Funding Value: 9600 €

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Ana Breda, Departamento Matemática, Universidade Aveiro (Project Coordinator)

Ana Margarida Almeida (Team Member)

CeNTER-Community-led Networks for Regional Innovation

This project aims at identifying the policy tools, which best allow for the valorization of territorial resources in order to promote employment and quality of life in Centro Region. The main outcome of the project will be a proposal of a territorial innovation model led by community and powered by digital media, as well as an impact assessment framework that will foster the foundation of an Observatory for Human Capital and regional innovation performance in the University of Aveiro.

April 2017 – March 2021

Project Grant:  Public National: Portugal 2020 – PO-centro

Funding Value: 1.200.000€

DigiMedia funding: 300.000€

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Fernando Ramos (DigiMedia Team leader and WP3 Coordinator)

Luís Pedro (Team Member)

Margarida Almeida (Team Member)

Maria João Antunes (Team Member)

Distance Education Quality Assurance Framework at the University Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique

The aim of this project is to provide technical support to the Distance Education Center of the University Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique in the development of the Quality Assurance (QA) framework for Distance Education. The project includes the development of the conceptual aspects (QA indicators and standards) and of the QA procedures and instruments.

June 2016-December 2017

Project Grant:  Private: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Funding Value: 17.900€

KMCC

Fernando Ramos (Project Coordinator)

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.

http://mindsafety.web.ua.pt/

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.

http://gps.pt

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)

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 €

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Carlos Santos (Team Member)

João Batista (Team Member)

Luís Pedro (Team Member)