The Welcome Day of the Doctoral Programme in New Media took place on September 23, 2022 and clearly highlighted the close connection to the team and the research developed in DigiMedia.
Doctoral Programme in New Media
Welcome Day
09h30 – 9h40 || Opening Session
Director DeCA (Ana Veloso), Scientific Coord. DigiMedia (Nelson Zagalo), Director DP_NM (Óscar
Mealha)
9h40 – 10h00 || UA, DeCA and DigiMedia – Facts & Figures
Director DeCA (Ana Veloso), Scientific Coord. DigiMedia (Nelson Zagalo)
10h00 – 10h30 || Who are we?
Quick individual presentation of all actors – students, active students, teachers, support staff …
10h30 – 11h30 || Keynote – Dorota Kamińska (Lodz University of Technology – Institute of
Mechatronics and Information Systems)
Moderator: Rui Raposo
Dorota Kamińska is an established independent researcher and has been the principal investigator of many projects, mostly focusing on virtual reality, signal processing, and machine learning. In recent years she is involved in an industrial project, which is directly related to her research work on human behaviour analysis. She has very vast experience in leadership (confirmed by the International Project Management Association (IPMA) project management level D certificate) and supervision, which she gained during the TOP 500 Innovators program at Haas School of Business, University of California in Berkeley. Furthermore, she has a proven international collaboration with a different leading research lab in the field of human behaviour analysis, such as research collaboration with the University of Tartu (iCV Lab), University of Barcelona, Computer Vision Centre at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, University of Aveiro and Trinity College Dublin. Due to the nature of her research, affective computing, she has long-term research collaboration with the Institute of Psychology, the University of Lodz.
(https://voxellab.pl/)
11h30 – 11h45 || Break – Informal Social moment: tea, coffee, water, juice, cookies …
11h45 – 12h45 || PD_NM – A doctoral Thesis roadmap
Director and Vice-Director PD_NM (Óscar Mealha, oem@ua.pt e Jorge Ferraz de Abreu, jfa@ua.pt)
13h00 – 14h30 || Lunch Time
DigiMedia Research (14H30 – 18H00)
(Short intro and contextualization of each Research Group @ DigiMedia)
14h30 – 15h00 || Cyberculture: Lidia Oliveira (lidia@ua.pt)
15h00 – 15h30 || Social iTV: Jorge Ferraz de Abreu (jfa@ua.pt)
15h30 – 16h00 || Social Media and Learning: Carlos Santos (carlossantos@ua.pt)
16h00 – 16h15 || Break – Informal Social moment: tea, coffee, water, juice, cookies …
16h15 – 16h45 || e-Health and Wellbeing: Oksana Tymoshchuk (oksana@ua.pt)
16h45 – 17h15 || Advanced Technologies: Rui Raposo (raposo@ua.pt)
17h15 – 17h45 || Games and Transmedia: Ana Veloso (aiv@ua.pt )
17h45 – 18h00 || Closing Session
DP_NM Scientific Committee– Óscar Mealha, Jorge Ferraz de Abreu, Nelson Zagalo
