Research

PhD thesis concluded

• “Jogos para Literacia Criativa: Uma framework para cultivar a literacia criativa através de jogos”
  José Manuel da Conceição Raimundo
  Supervisors: Pedro Cardoso, Miguel Carvalhais & António Coelho
  2022, UP
• “Migration as movement – repurposing the voice/interface to explore aspects of human migratory movement through artistic research”
  Terhi Tuulikki Marttila
  Supervisors: Diamantino Freitas & Patrícia Gouveia
  2022, UP
• “Modular Architecture for 3D Game Environment Art with Photogrammetry”
  Nataska Statham
  Supervisors: João Jacob, Mikael Fridenfalk & Rui Rodrigues
  2022, UP
• “Instagram Photography: Toward the profiling of photography sharing modes of practice”
  Cláudio António Moreira Alves do Carmo Reis
  Supervisor: José Carneiro
  2022, UP
• “Jogar o Museu: Uma framework para o design de jogos baseados em localização com realidade aumentada para espaços museológicos”
  Maria Van Zeller de Macedo de Oliveira e Sousa
  Supervisors: António Coelho and Pedro Cardoso
  2022, UP
• “Extended skin: designing interactive content for ubiquitous computing materials”
  Isabel Paiva
  Supervisor: António Câmara
  2022, UNL
• “Leveraging eXtended Reality and Human-Computer Interaction for User Experience in 360 Video”
  Paulo Bala
  Supervisors: Valentina Nisi e Nuno Nunes
  2022, UNL
• “Musiquence – Design, Implementation and Validation of a Customizable Music and Reminiscence Cognitive Stimulation Platform for People with Dementia”
  Luís Duarte Andrade Ferreira
  Supervisors: Sergi Bermúdez i Badia e Sofia Cavaco
  2021, UNL
• “Local Attitudes and Perspectives for Sharing Economy Design on a Remote Tourist“
  Island Greicy Silva
  Supervisors: Fernanda Lussà, Cáudia Silva
  2021, UNL
• “Design Model of Interactive Multimedia Features for Scientific Publications”
  Camila Wohlmuth da Silva
  Supervisor: Nuno Correia
  2021, UNL
• “Earth as Interface: Exploring chemical senses with Multisensory HCI Design for Environmental Health Communication“
  Paula Cristina Marques Neves
  Supervisor: António Câmara
  2021, UNL
• “Confronting the Numbers of Women in Computer Science and Engineering: Making the Gender Bias Visible“
  Sara Tranquada
  Supervisors: Nuno Correia, Karolina Baras
  2021, UNL
• “Aesthetic Pleasure from Visual Quotes and its Influence on Individual’s Motivation to Exercise“
  Lígia Costa
  Supervisors: Teresa Romão,  Pedro Campos, Evangelos Karapanos
  2021, UNL
• “New Strategies and User-Generated Content in the Public Service Media News in the Digital World – The Portuguese Case”
  Daniel dos Santos Catalão
  Supervisors: Artur Pimenta Alves and Fernando Zamith
  2021, UP
• “The Digital Media in the Portuguese Education: Representations and Practices”
  Luciano José Santos Reis Moreira
  Supervisors: João Paiva and Carla Morais
  2021, UP
• “Blind or Partially Sighted Visitors in Museums: Enhancing the Visitors’ Experience Through Assistive Technologies.”
  Roberto Ivo Fernandes Vaz
  Supervisors: Diamantino Freitas and António Coelho
  2021, UP
• “Code and Creative Higher Education – Understanding computer programming practices in Portuguese arts and design undergraduate courses.”
  Eduardo José Botelho Batista Morais de Sousa
  Supervisors: Carla Morais and João Paiva 
  2021, UP
• “Immersive media, social change, and creativity: a framework for designing collaborative 360° video productions.”
  António Alberto Castro Baía Reis
  Supervisors: António Coelho and R. B. Brenner 
  2021, UP
• “Anotação Audiovisual no Ensino da Física – um estudo de caso no ensino secundário em Portugal.”
  João Miguel Calisto Marçal
  Supervisors: Maria Manuel Borges and Paula Viana
  2021, UP
• “Leveraging the transmedia entertainment-education framework to augment tourists’ awareness of local values”
  Mara Sofia Gomes Dionísio
  Supervisors: Valentina Nisi e Nuno Correia
  UNL, 2020
• “Protest Images, Collective Portraits”
  Maria Madalena Túbal Miranda
  Supervisor: João Mário Grilo
  UNL, 2020
• “Curating-with: Artistic Methodologies for Social Innovation and Community-focused Acts of Care, Maintenance, and Repair.”
  Michelle Donna Kasprzak
  Supervisors: Sandra Silva and Christopher Csíkszentmihályi
  2020, UP
• “Guerrilla Marketing And Serendipitous Encounters With Science: Exploring innovative communication strategies for public engagement.”
  Paulo Jorge Fontes Domingues
  Supervisor: Jozé Azevedo
  2020, UP
• “Literacia em saúde: uma proposta de intervenção em rede para o desafio de saúde pública em Portugal”
  Hernâni Barros Zão Corga Oliveira
  Supervisors: Helena Lima e António Coelho
  2020, UP
• “Enhancing museum experiences for teenagers through gamification and storytelling frameworks”
  Vanessa Quintal Cesário
  Supervisors: Valentina Nisi e António Coelho
  2020, UP
• “Engaging researchers in research data management: creating metadata models for multi-domain dataset description”
  João Daniel Aguiar de Castro
  Supervisor: Cristina Ribeiro
  2020, UP
• “Music, Reason and/or Emotion”
  Horácio Tomé Marques
  Supervisors: Miguel Carvalhais & Bruce Pennycook
  2020, UP
• “Political Mobilization in Brazil from 2013 to 2017: a Technopolitical Analysis Using Surveys and Social Network Data Mining”
  Marcela Canavarro Rodrigues Martins
  Supervisor: Alípio Jorge
  2019, UP
• “Digital Storytelling for Archaeology: Unveiling the Story of Zambujal in 20th and 21st century Visual Media Formats” (vol1, vol2)
  Guida Paola Silveira Casella
  Supervisor: Daniel Alves
  2019, UNL
• “Comparing and evaluating data-driven journalism: data visualization performance from the perspective of web analytics“
  Ilo Aguiar Reginaldo Alexandre
  Supervisor: António Granado
  2019, UNL
• “Interfacing Jazz: A Study in Computer-Mediated Jazz Music Creation and Performance”
  Rui Miguel Silva Sampaio Dias
  Supervisors: Carlos Guedes & Bruce Pennycook
  2018, UP
• “Expressiveness and Interaction in Live Electroacustic Improvisation”
  Gustavo Miguel Beça Rodrigues da Costa
  Supervisors: Carlos Guedes & Bruce Pennycook
  2018, UP
• “S+V+M: Relationships between the sound, visual and movement domains in interactive systems”
  Rodrigo Guerreiro Vaz Guedes de Carvalho
  Supervisors: Carlos Guedes & Miguel Carvalhais
  2018, UP
• “O Espaço Aumentado na Experiência Artística: Ecrãs, Sistemas e Contextos Físicos”
  Ivo Jorge Meireles de Sousa Teixeira
  Supervisors: Miguel Carvalhais & Pedro Tudela
  2018, UP
• “Applying Real-Time Strategy Game Principles to Emergency Management”
  Hugo Miguel Gonçalves Crespo Machado da Silva
  Supervisors: António Coelho & Rui Rodrigues
  2018, UP
• “Clivagens Digitais e a Participação Cívica e Política: Que tipo de cidadania para o século XXI?”
  João Miguel Barros Aguiar Pereira
  Supervisors: José Azevedo & Pedro Campos
  2018, UP
• “A Social Content Network Proposal for World Films: three essays on the topic”
  Fernando Manuel Pereira Governo
  Supervisors: Aurora Teixeira & Ana Brochado
  2018, UP
• “Interactive Audiences: viewers\users’ engagement in National Film Board of Canada’s interactive documentaries”
  Patrícia Nogueira da Silva
  Supervisor: João Mário Grilo
  2018, UP
• “Virtual Marionette: Interaction Model for Digital Puppetry”
  Luís Miguel Barbosa da Costa Leite
  Supervisors: Verónica Orvalho & Rui Torres
  2018, UP
• “Improving news literacy among 7 to 10 year old children: An experiment with digital gaming“
  Ioli Ribeiro Campos
  Supervisor: António Granado
  2018, UNL
• “Design of Interactive Visualizations of Movies in Space and Time”
  Ana Nunes Jorge
  Supervisors: Teresa Chambel and Nuno Correia
  2017, UNL
• “Design Strategy for Integrated Personal Health Records: Improving the user experience of digital healthcare and wellbeing”
  Inês Martins Sequeira Rodolfo
  Supervisor: Nuno Correia
  2017, UNL
• “My crohn´s disease on real-time information – user experience improvement through cross-platform applications”
  Cláudia Alexandra Cunha Pernencar
  Supervisors: Graça Maria Bordalo Rocha Simões and Teresa Romão
  2017, UNL
• “Jogos Sérios para Treino e Certificação de Competências”
  Ricardo José Vieira Baptista
  Supervisors: António Coelho & Carlos Vaz de Carvalho
  2017.
• “Journalism in the Age of Personalization: A Psychophysiological Approach to the Attention Economy”
  Tiago Araújo e Gama Constante da Rocha
  Supervisors: Paulo Frias da Costa & Pedro Manuel Rocha Almeida
  2017, UP
• “The Visitor Experience Using Augmented Reality on Mobile Devices in Museum Exhibitions”
  Diana Cristina Valente Marques
  Supervisors: José Azevedo & Robert Costello
  2017, UP
• “User Adoption of Government Open Data”
  Frederico Gustavo de Menezes Magalhães Ribeiro Pereira
  Supervisors: Catarina Roseira & Sharon Strover
  2017, UP
• “Creative Response-A New Look at Archiving: The Role Artists Play in Developing Creative Response from Field Recordings of Ethnographic Research“
  Diana Alissa Chester
  Supervisor: Rui Penha
  2017, UP
• “Blood Flow-parameterized texture method for rendering facial expressions“
  Teresa de Jesus Baptista Vieira
  Supervisor: Verónica Orvalho
  2016, UP
• “Os programas de entretenimento em fluxo na televisão generalista em Portugal: o modelo de organização e a sua valorização estética numa convergência de media“
  Adriano José Barbosa Baía Nazareth
  Supervisors: José Azevedo
  2016, UP
• “3D [Embodied] Projection Mapping and Sensing Bodies: A Study in Interactive Dance Performance”
  Joao Filipe Beira
  Supervisors: Sharon Strover & Bruce Pennycook
  2016, UT Austin
• (at UT Austin)
  “The Development and Experience of Gesture and Brainwave Interaction in Audiovisual Performances”
  Yago Parra Moutinho Stucky de Quay
  Supervisors: Sharon Strover & Bruce Pennycook
  2016, UT Austin
• “Online video in the future internet age: business and policy dynamics“
  Vânia Guiomar da Silva Gonçalves
  Supervisors: Artur Pimenta Alves, Joana Resende & Pieter Ballon
  2016, UP
• “Humans in Action at Different Levels: the group, the whole, and the parts”
  Eduardo José Marques Pereira
  Supervisors: Jaime Cardoso & Ricardo Morla
  2016, UP
• “The exaltation of a sense – haptic art“
  Sandra Mónia Couto Coelho
  Supervisor: Miguel Velhote Correia
  2016, UP
• “Syncopation as Transformation“
  Georgios Sioros
  Supervisor: Carlos Guedes
  2016, UP
• “Composição Musical com o Espaço“
  Filipe Cunha Monteiro Lopes
  Supervisor: Carlos Guedes
  2016, UP
• “Expanding Participation in locative media among and about Latinos/as in Austin, Texas”
  Cláudia Silva
  Supervisors: António Granado e Joseph Straubhaar
  2016, UNL
• “Choreographic objects: abstractions, transductions, expressions”
  Carlos Manuel Oliveira
  Supervisor: Carla Fernandes
  2016, UNL
• “Instrumental Fado: a generative interactive system”
  Tiago Videira
  Supervisor: Jorge Martins Rosa
  2015, UNL
• “Bits, Atoms, and Information Sharing: new opportunities for participation”
  Sofia Catarina Mota
  Supervisor: António Câmara
  2015, UNL
• “Augmenting spaces and creating interactive experiences using video camera networks”
  Rossana Santos
  Supervisor: Nuno Correia
  2015, UNL
• “Minimal Computation Structures for Visual Information Applications based on Printed Electronics”
  Paulo Rosa
  Supervisor: António Câmara
  2015, UNL
• “Cultural Journalism in a Digital Environment”
  Dora Santos Silva
  Supervisor: António Granado
  2015, UNL
• “The contribution of communication design as a strategic constituint for the development of organizations – the inputs of digital media“
  Jorge Manuel Lopes Brandão Pereira
  Supervisor: Heitor Alvelos
  2015, UP
• “Biblioteca em rede: Comunicação integrada no contexto das culturas participativas“
  Cláudia Raquel Marques Martins de Lima
  Supervisors: Heitor Alvelos e Viviana Fernández Marcial
  2015, UP
• “Interactive user experience – Effects of augmented reality on consumer psychology and behavior“
  Jasmina Stoyanova
  Supervisors: Pedro Quelhas Brito e António Coelho
  2015, UP
• “Easy Facial Rigging – A dynamic industry standard“
  Pedro Tavares Barata Bastos
  Supervisor: Verónica Orvalho
  2015, UP
• “Location based transmedia storytelling: enhancing the tourism experience“
  Soraia Alexandra Mesquita Ferreira
  Supervisors: Artur Pimenta Alves e Célia Maria Silvério Quico
  2015, UP
• “Interpreting how homophily and weak ties intervene in arousal of surprise in online social networks“
  Carlos Manuel Moita de Figueiredo
  Supervisors: José Manuel Azevedo e Eduarda Rodrigues
  2014, UP
• “Museum of Ransom: Towards a system for the aggregation and interpretation of contemporary participatory video as contextual cultural heritage“
  Daniel da Cruz Brandão
  Supervisor: Heitor Alvelos
  2014, UP
• “Composing music by selection: content-based algorithmic-assisted audio composition“
  Gilberto Bernardes de Almeida
  Supervisor: Carlos Guedes
  2014, UP
• “Experience and Meaning-making Process in Interactive Arts“
  Filipe José Pais Ferreira
  Supervisor: Patrícia Cristina e Silva Figueira Gouveia
  2014, UP
• “Video Interaction using Pen-based Technology”
  Diogo Cabral
  Supervisor: Nuno Correia
  2014, UNL
• “Learning Activities with Semantic. Hypermedia in Higher Education”
  António Maneira
  Supervisors: Carlos Correia, João Correia de Freitas e Johan Hughes
  2014, UNL
• “Despertar consciências: activismos e artes digitais”
  Ana Margarida Barata
  Supervisor: Patrícia Gouveia
  2014, UNL
• “ARTiVIS Arts, real-time video and interactivity for sustainability”
  Mónica Sofia Santos Mendes
  Supervisors: Nuno Correia e Sílvia Chicó (Co-advisor)
  2013, UNL
• “International News Reporting in the Multidimensional Network: The socio-demographics, professional culture and newswork of foreign correspondents working across Sub-Saharan Africa”
  Paulo Nuno Vicente
  Supervisors: António Granado e Rosental Calmon Alves
  2013, UNL
• “Os Media Participativos on-line na luta contra o Cancro: O trabalho de comunicação de cidadãos e instituições“
  Nuno Duarte Martins
  Supervisor: Heitor Alveolos
  2013, UP
• “Evaluation of the Application of e-Learning Methodologies to the Education of Engineering“
  Rita Rodrigues Clemente Falcão de Berredo
  Supervisor: Alfredo Soeiro
  2013, UP