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Multidisciplinary development and initial validation of a clinical knowledge ba...
Pereira, Ana Margarida; Jácome, Cristina; Jacinto, Tiago; Amaral, Rita; Pereira, Mariana; Sá-Sousa, Ana; Couto, Mariana; Vieira-Marques, PedroMost mobile health (mHealth) decision support systems currently available for chronic obstructive respiratory diseases (CORDs) are not supported by clinical evidence or lack clinical validation. The development of the knowledge base that will feed the clinical decision support system is a crucial step that involves the collection and systematization of clinical knowledge from relevant scientific sources and its...
Self-management web application for persons with schizophrenia
Domingues, José; Gomes, Paulo Veloso; Almeida, Raquel Simões de; Martins, Constantino; Fonseca, Nuno; Santos, Joaquim; Marques, António; Pereira, JavierThis paper describes a web-based application with the purpose of improving the selfmanagement of people with schizophrenia. The main objective with the creation of a web application for mental health management was to provide easy and convenient access to resources, information, and tools that can help individuals manage their mental health issues more effectively and with greater autonomy. The application inte...
Instrumentos para transformar a experiência de aprendizagem: contexto do ensino...
Jesus, Ângelo; Silva, Armando; Silva, Cândida; Martins, Constantino; Oliveira, Lino; Faria, Luiz; Peres, Paula; Oliveira, Paulo; Lima, VandaO presente livro aborda um conjunto de instrumentos pedagógicos que podem ser usados para potenciar as experiências de aprendizagem em contexto de ensino a distância. O livro destina-se quer a docentes, quer a estudantes. Os docentes podem encontrar no livro informação sobre técnicas e ferramentas que permitam melhorar as experiências de aprendizagem. Os estudantes, como destinatários do processo de aprendizage...
A web-based group decision support system for multicriteria problems
Conceição, Luís; Martinho, Diogo; Andrade, Rui; Carneiro, João; Martins, Constantino; Marreiros, Goreti; Novais, PauloOne of the most important factors to determine the success of an organization is the quality of decisions made. Supporting a decision-making process is a complex task, mainly when decision-makers are dispersed. Group decision support systems (GDSSs) have been studied over the last decades with the goal of providing support to decision-makers; however, their acceptance by organizations has been difficult. This h...
AIRDOC: Smart mobile application for individualized support and monitoring of r...
Almeida, Rute; Amaral, Rita; Jácome, Cristina; Martinho, Diogo; Vieira-Marques, Pedro; Jacinto, Tiago; Ferreira, Ana; Almeida, Ana; Martins, ConstantinoCurrent tools for self-management of chronic obstructive respiratory diseases (CORD) are difficult to use, not individualized and requiring laborious analysis by health professionals, discouraging their use in healthcare. There is an opportunity for cost-effective and easy-to-disseminate advanced technological solutions directed to patients and attractive to different stakeholders. The strategy of AIRDOC is to ...
Mobile application to support children with anxiety disorders
Fonseca, Nuno; Almeida, Ana; Moreno, Maria; Simões De Almeida, Raquel; Faria, Luiz; Marques, António da Silva; Matos, Paulo; Rocha, PedroThis paper describes WEBECOOL, a hybrid web/mobile application with the purpose of improving the self-management of anxiety disorders. The development of WEBECOOL was driven by a multidisciplinary collaboration between computing engineers, psychologists and psychiatrics. The first stage of the web/mobile application test was performed to assess the satisfaction with the technological proposal. Also, several com...
Mobile application for self-management in Schizophrenia: A pilot study
Simões de Almeida, Raquel; Couto, Ana; Da Silva Marques, António; Queirós, C. L.; Martins, ConstantinoThere is an urgent need to develop more effective interventions for psychotic disorders. Mobile Health solutions can address this emerging problem but needs more research. This study aims to present a new intervention and have some preliminary data about weCOPE. The sample is constituted by nine participants with a mean age of 38 years (±9.701), being 78% men, and with mean clinical follow-up time of 10 years. ...
Emotional model for learning
Faria, Ana Raquel Silva; Almeida, Ana; Costa-Lobo, Cristina; Martins, ConstantinoThe aim of this paper is to put forward a new model for emotional interaction that uses learning and cognitive styles and student emotional state to adapt the user interface, learning content and context. The model is based on a constructivist approach, assessing the user knowledge and presenting contents and activities adapted to the emotional characteristics, learning and cognitive styles of the student. The ...
Mobile applications for self-management in psychotic disorders
Almeida, Raquel Simões de; Marques, António; Queirós, Cristina; Sousa, Tiago; Martins, Constantino; Benevides, Daniel; Almeida, AlexandreMental illnesses, such as psychotic disorders, have a great impact on individuals affected and on society, being one of the leading causes of disability [1]. In addition, 60% of people with such problems remain without access to mental health care and, in particular, rehabilitation programs, impairing their functionality, quality of life and social inclusion [2]. This is mainly due to the lack of resources to a...
A hybrid recommendation approach for a tourism system
Lucas, Joel P.; Luz, Nuno; Moreno, María; Anacleto, Ricardo; Almeida, Ana; Martins, ConstantinoMany current e-commerce systems provide personalization when their content is shown to users. In this sense, recommender systems make personalized suggestions and provide information of items available in the system. Nowadays, there is a vast amount of methods, including data mining techniques that can be employed for personalization in recommender systems. However, these methods are still quite vulnerable to s...