MixAR mobile prototype: visualizing virtually reconstructed ancient structures in situ

Archeology and related areas have a special interest on cultural heritage sites since they provide valuable information about past civilizations. However, the ancient buildings present in these sites are commonly found in an advanced state of degradation which difficult the professional/expert analysis. Virtual reconstructions of such buildings aim to provide a digital insight of how these historical places could have been in ancient times. Moreover, the visualization of such models has been explored by some Augmented Reality (AR) systems capable of providing support to experts. Their compelling and appealing environments have also been applied to promote the social and cultural participation of general public. The existing AR solutions regarding this thematic rarely explore the potential of realism, due to the following lacks: the exploration of mixed environments is usually only supported for indoors or outdoors, not both in the same system; the adaptation of the illumination conditions to the reconstructed structures is rarely addressed causing a decrease of credibility. MixAR [1] is a system concerned with those challenges, aiming to provide the visualization of virtual buildings augmented upon real ruins, allowing soft transitions among its interiors and exteriors and using relighting techniques for a faithful interior illumination, while the user freely moves in a given cultural heritage site, carrying a mobile unit. Regarding the focus of this paper, we intend to report the current state of MixAR mobile unit prototype, which allows visualizing virtual buildings – properly aligned with real-world structures – based on user's location, during outdoor navigation. In order to evaluate the prototype performance, a set of tests were made using virtual models with different complexities.

A autonomia no processo de aquisição da competência plurilingue e intercultural no âmbito da aprendizagem do Espanhol

Relatório de estágio de mestrado em Ensino de Português no 3.º ciclo do Ensino Básico Secundário e do Ensino do Espanhol no Ensino Básico e Secundário

Ensino, aprendizagem e avaliação no Ensino Superior: Perspetivas e práticas

Tese de Doutoramento em Ciências da Educação - Especialidade de Desenvolvimento Curricular

Álbuns narrativos e aprendizagens no pré-escolar. Um estudo de caso

Tese de Doutoramento em Estudos da Criança (área de especialização em Literatura para a Infância).

O novo ecossistema comunicacional e a socialização de crianças e jovens no espaço cultural da lusofonia: contributos da literatura infantojuvenil

Partindo da configuração de um novo ecossistema comunicacional, que tem na internet o seu epicentro, procura-se refletir sobre a influência do mesmo na socialização de crianças e jovens, através da análise da presença de literatura infantojuvenil neste novo media. A observação de que os dispositivos de comunicação digital alargam as oportunidades de acesso à informação entre cidadãos que falam, pensam e sentem em língua portuguesa, foca a questão no espaço cultural da lusofonia.

Apresentação: Lusofonias - reinvenção de comunidades e combate linguístico-cultural

[Excerto] Lusofonia e Interculturalidade. Promessa e Travessia debate a questão lusófona, em três aspetos principais. No atual contexto da globalização, que é uma realidade de cariz eminentemente económico-financeiro, comandada pelas tecnologias da informação, esta obra interroga o sentido das narrativas (literárias e mediáticas, e também das narrativas de histórias de vida) sobre a construção de uma comunidade geocultural transnacional e transcontinental lusófona. Interroga, igualmente, as políticas da língua e da comunicação como combate simbólico pela afirmação de uma comunidade plural, na diversidade de povos e culturas lusófonas. E interroga, ainda, a complexidade do movimento de interpenetração das culturas, o qual, com gradações diversas, que compreendem colonialismo, neocolonialismo e pós-colonialismo, na relação entre povos, traduz o encontro, a assimilação e a dominação, na interação entre nós e o outro. Sendo este o plano geral da obra Lusofonia e Interculturalidade, misturam-se nela distintos regimes do olhar, específicos das Ciências Sociais e Humanas, que vão da sócio-antropologia, à psicologia social, à ciência política e às ciências da comunicação, e da linguística, aos estudos literários, à história e às ciências da educação.

Radio mobility in the digital era: interactivity, participation and content share possibilities in Iberian broadcasters

In the context of the scientific research into radio, recent years have encouraged many theories about the meaning of a post-radio (Oliveira & Portela, 2011), thus enlisting several parameters regarding the inclusion of contemporary radio in the digital and online environments. This digital migration has led to the development of mobile applications for radio, broadening the communicative potential of audiences (Aguado, Feijoo & Martínez, 2013), as well as promoting convergence of interactive content among listeners-users. Aware of this opportunity, the main broadcasters in Spain and Portugal have broadened their radiophonic scope to the mobile platform, especially geared towards smartphones through the development of mobile applications, commonly known as apps (Cerezo, 2010). As a symbol of a culture in permanent changing, smartphones not only provide greater easiness in terms of access and interaction, but also afford larger opportunities for disseminating content among audiences, a phenomenon that some studies have labelled as user distributed content (Villi, 2012). This article presents an exploratory analysis of the current policies of the main Spanish and Portuguese radio broadcasters regarding mobile applications, evaluating the different levels of interaction and participation in these platforms. This observation led to the conclusion, among other findings, that the mobile platform represents a supplementary channel for traditional FM radio, rather than a new medium with its own language and expression.

Estudo da influência cultural no Design de Calçado

Dissertação de mestrado em Design e Marketing

The impact of carbon source in Candida albicans virulence: participation of RLM1 in pathogen host interaction

Dissertação de mestrado em Genética Molecular

ACL injuries identifiable for pre-participation imagiological analysis: Risk factors

Identification of pre-participation risk factors for noncontact anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries has been attracting a great deal of interest in the sports medicine and traumatology communities. Appropriate methods that enable predicting which patients could benefit from pre- ventive strategies are most welcome. This would enable athlete-specific training and conditioning or tailored equipment in order to develop appropriate strategies to reduce incidence of injury. In order to accomplish these goals, the ideal system should be able to assess both anatomic and functional features. Complementarily, the screening method must be cost-effective and suited for widespread application. Anatomic study protocol requiring only standard X rays could answer some of such demands. Dynamic MRI/CT evaluation and electronically assisted pivot-shift evaluation can be powerful tools providing complementary information. These upcoming insights, when validated and properly combined, envision changing pre-participation knee examination in the near future. Herein different methods (validated or under research) aiming to improve the capacity to identify persons/athletes with higher risk for ACL injury are overviewed. 

Para uma pedagogia das literacias: das conceções e práticas docentes aos conceitos e competências discentes. Um estudo da aula de língua portuguesa no 2º ciclo do ensino básico

Tese de Doutoramento em Ciências da Educação (Especialidade em Literacias e Ensino do Português)

A música clássica: um objeto cultural, artístico e comunicacional para o desenvolvimento humano

Dissertação de mestrado em Comunicação, Arte e Cultura

Cultural studies as the new humanities

The purpose of this study is to argue that Cultural Studies may be regarded as the new humanities. Cultural Studies focus on ethnic, post-colonial, communication, anthropological, ethnographic and feminist studies, and only ‘very marginally’ have they shown an interest in literature and literary studies (Aguiar & Silva, 2008). But those fields, which ‘Social Science’ rather than the ‘Arts’ have invested in (Ibid., p. 254), are the touchstone of modernity. Today, the concept we have of humankind is, to a large extent, played out in these areas. The questioning of both humankind and modernity has as backdrop the technologically-driven shift of culture from word to image (Martins, 2011 a). My proposal takes into account this debate, while underscoring how Cultural Studies are engaged in what is current and contemporary, which means, in the present and everyday life.

Interação cultural e interpretatio na epigrafia votiva: o caso da fachada ocidental do conuentus Bracaraugustanus

Dissertação de mestrado em Arqueologia

Valorização do património tradicional em Santana: um contributo para o crescimento do turismo cultural da Madeira

Dissertação de mestrado em Património e Turismo Cultural