Background: the Maguerez Arc stands out as an active teaching methodology that stimulates the problematization of reality and the critical-reflective construction of knowledge, being widely used in the health field, including education about Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Objective: to describe experiences resulting from the use of the Maguerez Arc as a pedagogical strategy in health education about ASD. Metho...
Background: providing home care to people with visual impairments requires specific adaptations and a personalized approach. Nursing, as a profession centered on care, plays a central role in this context. Objective: to describe the experience of a nurse during a home visit to a patient with total blindness. Methodology: a descriptive study based on a home visit conducted in January 2024 in a municipality in th...
O instrutor de hidroginástica, responsável pela prestação do serviço, desempenha um papel muito importante na perceção de qualidade, satisfação e fidelização dos praticantes. Pretende-se com o presente estudo: a) determinar e comparar a perceção dos praticantes de hidroginástica, relativamente à qualidade dos instrutores, de acordo com a idade; b) determinar e comparar a perceção dos praticantes de hidroginásti...
Machine learning offers great potential to developers and end users in the creative industries. For example, it can support new sensor-based interactions, procedural content generation and end-user product customisation. However, designing machine learning toolkits for adoption by creative developers is still a nascent effort. This work focuses on the application of user-centred design with creative end-user de...
This conceptual paper describes a work in progress in the process of design and implementation of the Smart Stage, an interactive music system prototype for collaborative musical creativity in immersive and ubiquitous environments. This system is intended to have a low entry barrier, thus more forgiving to users with lesser experience or knowledge in music, and it is designed with affordances to support intuiti...
In the aftermath of the digital revolution, business models are changing and disintermediation is impacting the music economy. In these circumstances, we observe the widespread claim that music artists are able to successfully reach the market on their own, leveraging access to networked global communications and the use of digital network media as a means of production. This paper argues such arguments feed on...