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Inclusion of daily life elements in recent textbooks: students’ motivation for ...
Alves, Nelson; Aires, Ana Paula; Catarino, PaulaThis paper focuses on the importance of students’ motivation to learn geometry. It focuses on the recent mathematics textbooks adopted for the school year 2022/23 and the integration of references to daily life and students’ experiences that can interest them and lead them to relate the subject contents to their daily lives. Based on the analysis of two new textbooks, we found that despite this integration, we ...
Scene reconstruction for storytelling in 360º videos
Pinheiro, Gonçalo; Alves, Nelson; Magalhães, Luís Gonzaga Mendes; Agrellos, Luís; Guevara, MiguelIn immersive and interactive contents like 360-degrees videos the user has the control of the camera, which poses a challenge to the content producer since the user may look to where he wants. This paper presents the concept and first steps towards the development of a framework that provides a workflow for storytelling in 360-degrees videos. With the proposed framework it will be possible to connect a sound to...
Inpresso AR: a generic augmented book
Rocha, José; Magalhães, Luís Gonzaga Mendes; Alves, Nelson; Guevara, MiguelAugmented Reality (AR) is a technology that enables to show virtual information superimposed on the real world and interact with it. In recent years, this technology has been heavily explored in various contexts, with a focus on enriching the experience provided by smartphones and wearables. AR books techniques consist of adding interactive and immersive properties to physical books, transforming the reading ac...
Heritage BIM integration with mixed reality for building preventive maintenance
Fonnet, Adrien; Alves, Nelson; Sousa, Nuno; Guevara, Miguel; Magalhães, Luís Gonzaga MendesHistorical and cultural building conservation is nowadays limited to high value buildings and only receive financial support when serious issues arise. HeritageCARE project is willing to shift this mentality, towards "prevention is better than the cure". New technologies are able to support such motivation by improving building inspector work during their inspection routine. In that regard, mixed reality will b...
A three-staged approach to medicine box recognition
Ribeiro, Bruno; Alves, Nelson; Magalhães, Luís Gonzaga Mendes; Guevara, MiguelThis paper proposes a novel take on the task of medicine box recognition using a three-staged approach. We present the algorithms that will be used for each stage: barcode recognition, text recognition and feature matching techniques. The final goal of the system is to use a camera mounted on a device using an Android system to correctly identify medicine boxes and then provide people with difficulties (elderly...
Any object is a PC controller
Silva, Rui; Alves, Nelson; Moreira, Pedro Miguel; Fernandes, António RamiresComputer technology continuously evolves at an incredible pace, with today's machines being barely recognizable when compared to the first computers ever created. Despite this, and in spite of the many advances in human-machine interactions, the main method for interfacing with computers has remained the same for several decades. Tangible User Interfaces (TUI) are an interesting alternative to the classical Gra...
Educação musical na intervenção precoce
Alves, Nelson; Vieira, Maria Helena; Serrano, Ana MariaEste estudo procurou ser um contributo para a prática da Intervenção Precoce através da intervenção musical com crianças com Necessidades Educativas Especiais em contexto de Jardim-de-Infância. Tendo como pressuposto os benefícios da inclusão e das parcerias entre pais e profissionais, pretendeu-se realizar um trabalho de investigação que permitisse, de forma global, observar aspectos motores, cognitivos e afec...