POTI – Personal Objects as Tangible Interfaces

Personal Objects as Tangible Interfaces (POTI) is a technology that aims to convert everyday objects and actions into interfaces in the digital world.

At the heart of POTI technology are small electronic tags consisting of motion, sound and light sensors that, when integrated into everyday objects, are capable of recognizing the gestures the user engages in interacting with them on a daily basis. The user from a simple smartphone application can configure labels, via WIFI.

The objective of this project is to develop and evaluate a MVP (Minimum Valuable Product) consisting of two electronic tags and an application, mobile in which the user personalizes the use scenario.

March 2017 – March 2018

Project Grant: Private – Altice Labs

Funding Value:  20000€

NMDE

Mário Vairinhos (IR), Óscar Mealha (Co-IR), José Nunes e Patrícia Oliveira

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)

https://imprintplus.org/partners
 

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)

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.

http://nowup.web.ua.pt/

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)

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.

http://2ndvision.web.ua.pt/

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)

Flexible TV Viewing

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).

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

2013 – 2014

Project Grant: Private – PT Inovação – Inovation Projects;

Funding Value:  20.000 €

NMDE

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).

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)