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The AlticeLabs@UA laboratory is scientifically coordinated by the University of Aveiro and Altice Labs, through a monitoring committee that defines the strategic and scientific lines to be developed in this context. This committee also ensures the technical coordination and operational management of the laboratory.
People
The AlticeLabs@UA laboratory is scientifically coordinated by the University of Aveiro and Altice Labs, through a monitoring committee that defines the strategic and scientific lines to be developed in this context. This committee also ensures the technical coordination and operational management of the laboratory.
Scientific, Technical and Operational Management Coordination
Scientific, Technical and Operational Management Coordination
Jorge Ferraz de Abreu
Associate Professor with Aggregation in the Department of Communication and Art at the University of Aveiro.
After his undergraduate and master’s degree in Electronics and Telecommunications and his participation in several European projects he joined the Department of Communication and Art, where he completed his PhD in Communication Sciences and Technologies.
He is a Professor in the New Communication Technologies Course, in the Master in Multimedia Communication and in the Doctoral Program in Information and Communication in Digital Platforms.
As a member of the DigiMedia research unit he has been the scientific coordinator of several research projects in the area of interactive TV.
Hélder José Marques Caixinha
Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication and Art at the University of Aveiro.
He has a degree in Electronic Engineering and Telecommunications, a Master’s in Information Management and a PhD in Multimedia in Education from the University of Aveiro. He is Professor in the Degree in New Communication Technologies and in the Master in Audiovisual Communication for New Media, where he also assumes the role of Vice-Director.
Member of the research unit DigiMedia, with participation in the groups Games & Transmedia and Social Media & Learning. He has collaborated in several research projects, national and international, in the area of Technology-Enhanced Learning/Research.
Pedro Carvalho
Graduated in Electronic Engineering and Telecommunications from the University of Aveiro in 1986, Master in Electronic Engineering and Telecommunications from the University of Aveiro in 1998 and postgraduate in Business Management from the Portuguese Catholic University in 2005.
A staff member at Altice Labs (formerly PT Inovação) since 1988, he is currently responsible for the management of RDI (Research, Development and Innovation) at Altice Labs.
Ana Margarida Almeida
Graduated in New Communication Technologies from the University of Aveiro in 1998, with a PhD in Communication Sciences and Technologies from the University of Aveiro in 2006 and a pos-doc in Clinical Communication from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto in 2016.
Associated Professor at the University of Aveiro, is currently Director of Innovation Strategy and Communication.
Researchers in charge of the projects
Researchers in charge of the projects
Mário Vairinhos
Auxiliar Professor at the Department of Communication and Art of the University of Aveiro since 2001, researcher in the area of Interaction Design and Human-Computer Interaction, with particular interest in tangible Media and Mixed Reality. He also develops Digital Art work and Museography projects in interaction design. He was co-founder and editor of Mimesis Contemporary Art journal. Graduated in 1996 in Economics from the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra, in 2001 obtained the Master degree in Digital Arts at the School of Arts of Porto, Portuguese Catholic University. He holds a PhD in Information and Communication on Digital Plaforms from the University of Aveiro and University of Porto.
Mónica Aresta
Assistant Researcher at DigiMedia, University of Aveiro. Got her graduation in New Communication Technologies by the University of Aveiro and her Master Degree and PhD in Multimedia in Education in the same university.
Her investigation interests are related to mobile devices and mobile learning, games and education, computer-mediated communication, online communities of practice and online identity.
Paulo Antunes
With a Bachelor’s degree in Physics Engineering in 2005, a Master’s degree in Applied Physics in 2007, and a PhD in Physics Engineering in 2011, all at the University of Aveiro, in Portugal, Paulo Antunes is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the same university. As a researcher, he is also associated with I3N-Aveiro (Institute of Nanostructures, Nanomodeling, and Nanofabrication) and with the Institute of Telecommunications. His research interests include the study and simulation of optical fiber sensors in silica and polymer fiber, for static and dynamic measurements, data acquisition, optical transmission systems, and sensor networks for various applications, including biomedical engineering applications and structural health monitoring.
Furthermore, he is the author and co-author of more than 180 publications in international journals, book chapters, and technical papers at conferences, with a focus on optical sensing devices and applications.
Pedro Almeida
He has a degree in New Communication Technologies from the University of Aveiro and a PhD from the same university in Communication Sciences and Technologies. He is a lecturer and supervisor in the Department of Communication and Art in the degree in New Technologies of Communication, in the Master in Multimedia Communication and in the Doctoral Programs in Information and Communication in Digital Platforms and Multimedia in Education.
As a member of the Digimedia Research Unit he develops his research in the design of new services to support entertainment and content creation (crossmedia and transmedia) for the new media. He has been responsible for several projects in the area of Interactive (Social) Television contributing to the understanding and redesign of the new television consumption ecosystem.
Pedro Beça
Auxiliary Professor at the Department of Communication and Art – University of Aveiro. Holds a degree in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering (2002), a Master’s degree in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Aveiro (2006) and a PhD in Information and Communication in Digital Platforms from the University of Aveiro and the University of Porto (2013).
His areas of interest are: use of mobile devices and participatory culture; Web and mobile applications development, especially in the design, implementation and validation stages.
Rita Oliveira
As a member of the DigiMedia research centre her investigation interests are related to Accessibility and Usability/UX and the design and development of interactive television services adjusted to users with special needs, namely visually impaired persons, and seniors.
After finishing her PhD in Information and Communication in Digital Platforms (2014), she was involved in several projects as researcher (2014-2015), worked as assistant Professor (2015-2016) and conducted her post-Doctoral research (2016-2018).
Rita Santos
He is a member of the research unit Digimedia (CIC. Digital).
His research interests are currently focused on the design and development of technologies to promote quality of life and well-being.
Telmo Silva
He has a PhD in Information and Communication in Digital Platforms and is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication and Art at the University of Aveiro.
He teaches curricular units in the Degree in New Communication Technologies and in the Master in Multimedia Communication. He was researcher responsible for the project +TV4E: Interactive Television as a vehicle for the diffusion of social services to support the elderly, having also participated in other research projects with funding, of which stand out: UltraTV and 2ndVision.
Carlos Couto
His main research topics are focused on developing design methods and machine learning models towards safer and more economical steel structures. In addition, he is passionate about computational methods and techniques to solve real-life problems, teaching at Informatics Engineering and Computational Engineering degrees.
Firmino Machado
Firmino Machado is a public health medical doctor, with a Master’s Degree in Statistics and a Postgraduate Degree in Health Institutions Management. He completed his PhD in Public Health with research dedicated to the optimization of cancer screening programs. He also completed the training program in clinical research at Harvard Medical School.
He is currently the Director of the Master’s in Medicine at the University of Aveiro, Vice-President of the Clinical Academic Center Egas Moniz Health Alliance and Consultant of the Board of Directors of the Gaia/Espinho Local Health Unit (ULSGE). He is a researcher at the Public Health Institute of the University of Porto in the field of cancer epidemiology and Director of the Early Phase Clinical Trials Unit at ULSGE.
He has published more than 45 scientific articles in scientific journals indexed in Pubmed, and has received more than 15 scientific awards.