The UPorto iSchool, represented by Prof. António Lucas Soares (FEUP / DEI) and Prof. Fernanda Ribeiro (FLUP) is, since June 12, 2018, member of iSchools Directors Board , in addition to being present in the Executive Committee of the iSchools European Region.
The iSchools organization is a consortium of Information Schools dedicated to advancing the field of information.
The UPorto iSchool, represented by Prof. António Lucas Soares (FEUP/DEI) and Prof. Fernanda Ribeiro (FLUP) is, since June 12, 2018, member of the Board of Directors of the iSchools (in addition to the presence in the Executive Committee of the iSchools European Region).
The iSchools organization is a consortium of Information Schools dedicated to advancing the information field.
Dates: 25th – 29th June, 09:30 – 12:30 & 14:30 – 16:30
Design is no longer the result of a flash of inspiration, exceptions notwithstanding. To respond to the real needs of people, the designer combines intuition and technical skill to empathize with users, navigate ambiguity, and make users’ latent needs tangible. To do that, the designer has to consider aspects such as functionality, aesthetics, human factors, world views, social implications, production, sustainability, and product life cycles.
This workshop provides an opportunity to answer this call. We will focus on Health and Wellness because of its deep connection with both the functional and emotional needs of users, but the tools explored should be generally applicable. Through a study of the human-centered process, we will develop methods to realize a week-long design project framed by user needs and their context. This will include an immersive experience of lectures, hands-on workshops, fieldwork and, potentially, field-trips. Although the class projects will focus on design solutions for Health and Wellness, at the end of the workshop participants should be able to apply user research methods, ideation, rapid prototyping, product design methods, interaction design, and storytelling to solve real world design problems.
José Colucci is the Director of Research & Development of the Design Institute for Health (DIH). Before joining the DIH, José was a Sr. Director and Associated Partner at IDEO, where he worked for 16 years, Vice-President of Research & Development of ITI, developer of high-resolution, pen-based computer interfaces in Canada; and prior to that, he was the General Manager of the Medical Engineering Division at FUNBEC – Brazil’s largest manufacturer of medical electronics for cardiology.
José has a BS in mechanical engineering, an MS in Industrial Design and a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was a guest lecturer at Harvard, MIT Sloan School of Management, and Olin School of Engineering. Currently he also has a part-time teaching appointment at the University of Texas at Austin.
Tickets: Students: 25€; Academia: 100€; Other professionals: 150€.
More info and registration: https://mil.up.pt/summerinstitute/design-for-health-and-wellness/
Dates: 25th – 29th June, 09:30 – 12:30 & 14:30 – 16:30
Design is no longer the result of a flash of inspiration, exceptions notwithstanding. To respond to the real needs of people, the designer combines intuition and technical skill to empathize with users, navigate ambiguity, and make users’ latent needs tangible. To do that, the designer has to consider aspects such as functionality, aesthetics, human factors, world views, social implications, production, sustainability, and product life cycles.
This workshop provides an opportunity to answer this call. We will focus on Health and Wellness because of its deep connection with both the functional and emotional needs of users, but the tools explored should be generally applicable. Through a study of the human-centered process, we will develop methods to realize a week-long design project framed by user needs and their context. This will include an immersive experience of lectures, hands-on workshops, fieldwork and, potentially, field-trips. Although the class projects will focus on design solutions for Health and Wellness, at the end of the workshop participants should be able to apply user research methods, ideation, rapid prototyping, product design methods, interaction design, and storytelling to solve real world design problems.
José Colucci is the Director of Research & Development of the Design Institute for Health (DIH). Before joining the DIH, José was a Sr. Director and Associated Partner at IDEO, where he worked for 16 years, Vice-President of Research & Development of ITI, developer of high-resolution, pen-based computer interfaces in Canada; and prior to that, he was the General Manager of the Medical Engineering Division at FUNBEC – Brazil’s largest manufacturer of medical electronics for cardiology.
José has a BS in mechanical engineering, an MS in Industrial Design and a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was a guest lecturer at Harvard, MIT Sloan School of Management, and Olin School of Engineering. Currently he also has a part-time teaching appointment at the University of Texas at Austin.
Within the framework of the Graduate Program in Business Intelligence & Analytics, DEI and Porto Business School are organizing a seminar with the title “Human / Digital”, which will take place at Porto Business School, june 15, at 16:30.
Nicholas Negroponte once wrote that the man-machine relationship is one of the most fascinating themes in the history of civilization. We live in a dual world, real-virtual, zero-one, human-digital. But this duality is, at the same time, intriguing: are we really gradually leaving the real world and integrating a virtual world? Or, on the contrary, will we be increasingly resilient so that we do not stop having our feet on the ground?
For this seminar we invited three experts who will help us reflect on the digital citizen, the digital consumer and the digital manager.
Program
4:15 p.| Reception to participants
4:30 p.| Welcome
4:45 p.| “Consumidor/digital” // Diana Almeida, Data-driven Product Manager at Booking.com and alumna PG Business Intelligence & Analytics
5:00 p.| “Citizen/digital” // Pedro Magalhães, Research Fellow at ICS-ULisbon, Scientific Director of the Manuel dos Santos Foundation
5:15 p.| “Gestor/digital” // José Gonçalves, President & Country Managing Director at Accenture Portugal
5:30 p.| Debate
5:55 p.m| Closure
Inscriptions
Creative Colab ’18, which will take place between June 4 and 6, 2018, at the Pole Industries Creative (PINC) of UPTEC, in Porto, is an event organized by The Digital Media Doctoral Program students. This year’s edition is focused on the discussion of digital technology and media as a vehicle for raising awareness of environmental sustainability and the circular economy.
During the event there will happen several workshops inspired by the theme and in particular, on June 5, there will be a seminar in which will participate speakers such as Ricardo Ramires (Service Operations Manager at Siemens Healthineers), Pedro Pinto (technological director of InnoWave Technologies Group), Luísa Magalhães (executive director of Smart Waste Portugal), among others, whose contributions will make Creative Colab ’18 an unforgettable event!
Follow the link of the event, with all the relevant information: https://creativecolab.fe.up.pt. The event is free to participate but registration is required, so you must register through the link https://www.eventbrite.pt/e/registo-creative-colab-2018-re-makers-46219329258.
Argumentation Hub (ARGH) is a collaborative and multidisciplinary laboratory created within the scope of the Media Innovation Labs (MIL) of Oporto University, having as its main objective the theme of argumentation, a topic of research transversal to several scientific areas.
Argh’s mission is to promote multidisciplinary investigation in argumentation. Learning by practicing , the ARGH intends to conduct applied research to produce interesting applications of argumentative technologies, in particular in the field of digital media.
Until April 30, a Call-for-ArgHuments is open to any person, student, teacher or researcher, who has an interest in the topic and an idea or research results on Argumentation; The ArgHuments will be presented on the afternoon of May 3, 2018, as part of the ArgHumantation Workshop — Research and Practice(s) of Argumentation.
A students group from the Computer Engineering Department at Oporto Engineering Faculty is developing a mobile application that aims to help identify landowners in need of cleaning. This project, entitled “Safe Forest”, is being developed in partnership with the Tondela city in order to prevent forest fires, in this area extremely affected in October last year.
After an initial visit in February 2018 of the Computer Engineering Department, led by its director João Cardoso and some subsequent conversations with Tondela city, it was defined that the software and applications will be developed within the curricular unit of Laboratory Management Project (LGP). A students team, who meanwhile created the fictitious company APPly, are working together with the GnR Prevention and Relief Intervention Group (GIPS) and other local agents in order to develop a functional prototype in the creation of a forest register that can identify to whom each territory belongs, as well as the state of cleanliness and conservation , and collect relevant information to help prevent future fires. It also aims to promote more active citizenship by allowing citizens to contribute data and reporting problems in the application.
The project is being guided by Ademar Aguiar Professor, specialized in Software Engineering, and integrates students of Computer Engineering, Multimedia, Service Engineering and Management of FEUP, as well as Communication Design students of Fine Arts Faculty (FBAUP).
A group of students from the Department of Informatics Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto is developing a mobile application that aims to help identify landowners’s properties in need of cleaning. This project, entitled “Safe Forest”, is being developed in partnership with the Tondela Municipal Council in order to prevent forest fires, in this extremely affected area in October last year.
After an initial visit, in February 2018, from the Department of Informatics Engineering, led by its director João Cardoso and some subsequent conversations with the Municipality of Tondela, it was defined that the software and applications will be developed within the curricular unit of Laboratory of Project Management (LGP). A team of students, who in the meantime created the fictitious company APPly, is working together with the GNR Prevention and Relief Intervention Group (GIPS) and with other local agents to develop a functional prototype in the creation of a forest register which can identify who owns each territory, as well as the state of cleanliness and conservation, and gather relevant information to help prevent future fires. It also seeks to promote more active citizenship by allowing citizens to contribute data and reporting problems in implementation.
The project is being guided by Professor Ademar Aguiar, specialized in Software Engineering, and integrates students of Computer Science and Computing, Multimedia, Service Engineering and Management of FEUP, as well as Communication Design students from the Faculty of Fine Arts (FBAUP).
Every year the Bachelor and Master degrees in Information Science come together to carry out an initiative that promotes the dissemination of Information Science in the student and business communities, the Information Science Day (Jornadas de Ciência da Informação).
This year the XVI edition is held, with the theme: “Information Management: 20 years of teaching at the University of Porto”, in the auditorium of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto.
Throughout the day we will have the presence of several speakers and the testimony of alumni who will help us to discuss the theme of this edition.
The XVI Information Science Conference celebrates the 20 years of the former Master in Information Management, as well as the 10 years of the actual Master in Information Science.
To celebrate this milestone we will have the presence of Tom Wilson, Professor Emeritus of the University of Sheffield whose work has promoted broad advances in Information Management, to hold the opening keynote.
The reception of the participants will begin at 8:30 next to the auditorium of the Faculty of Engineering.
Participation in the Conference is free although registration is required.
Book the day of May 14 in your agenda and mark presence in this edition!
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