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Empowering deaf-hearing communication: exploring synergies between predictive a...
Adão, Telmo; Oliveira, João; Shahrabadi, Somayeh; Jesus, Hugo; Fernandes, Marco; Costa, Ângelo; Ferreira, Vânia; Gonçalves, Martinho FradeiraCommunication between Deaf and hearing individuals remains a persistent challenge requiring attention to foster inclusivity. Despite notable efforts in the development of digital solutions for sign language recognition (SLR), several issues persist, such as cross-platform interoperability and strategies for tokenizing signs to enable continuous conversations and coherent sentence construction. To address such i...
Empowering deaf-hearing communication: Exploring synergies between predictive a...
Adão, Telmo; Oliveira, José A.; Shahrabadi, Somayeh; Jesus, Hugo; Fernandes, Marco; Costa, Ângelo; Ferreira, Vânia; Gonçalves, Martinho FradeiraCommunication between Deaf and hearing individuals remains a persistent challenge requiring attention to foster inclusivity. Despite notable efforts in the development of digital solutions for sign language recognition (SLR), several issues persist, such as cross-platform interoperability and strategies for tokenizing signs to enable continuous conversations and coherent sentence construction. To address such i...
Empowering deaf-hearing communication: exploring Synergies between predictive a...
Adão, Telmo Miguel de Oliveira; Oliveira, João; Shahrabadi, Somayeh; Jesus, Hugo; Fernandes, Marco; Costa, Ângelo; Ferreira, VâniaCommunication between Deaf and hearing individuals remains a persistent challenge requiring attention to foster inclusivity. Despite notable efforts in the development of digital solutions for sign language recognition (SLR), several issues persist, such as cross-platform interoperability and strategies for tokenizing signs to enable continuous conversations and coherent sentence construction. To address such i...
Classifying verb types in Portuguese Sign Language
Martins, Mariana; Costa, Ângelo; Cottim, Joana; Morais, IsabelPortuguese Sign Language (LGP) deaf teachers meet regularly at the Portuguese Deaf Association to develop a scientific and pedagogical basis for LGP teaching, especially as a first language to deaf students in bilingual schools. LGP grammar is one of the four study axes of the curricular program and is also one of the less defined. In order to overcome this fact, describing LGP Grammar has become a major concer...
Electric Vehicles’ User Charging Behaviour Simulator for a Smart City
Canizes, Bruno; Soares, João; Costa, Ângelo; Pinto, Tiago; Lezama, Fernando; Novais, Paulo; Vale, ZitaThe increase of variable renewable energy generation has brought several new challenges to power and energy systems. Solutions based on storage systems and consumption flexibility are being proposed to balance the variability from generation sources that depend directly on environmental conditions. The widespread use of electric vehicles is seen as a resource that includes both distributed storage capabilities ...
PHAROS - PHysical Assistant RObot System
Costa, Ângelo; Martinez-Martin, Ester; Cazorla, Miguel; Julian, VicenteThe great demographic change leading to an ageing society demands technological solutions to satisfy the increasing varied elderly needs. This paper presents PHAROS, an interactive robot system that recommends and monitors physical exercises designed for the elderly. The aim of PHAROS is to be a friendly elderly companion that periodically suggests personalised physical activities, promoting healthy living and ...
Promoting independent living and recreation in life through ambient assisted li...
Costa, Ângelo; Teixeira, Juliana Manuela Figueiredo Freitas; Santos, Nuno A.; Vardasca, Ricardo; Fernandes, José Eduardo; Machado, Ricardo J.The increase in life expectancy with a decrease in birth rates is contributing to the ageing of the European population. This phenomenon, coupled with greater awareness of the quality of life, the need to have cost-efficient assistive care, the intention of people to live independently in their homes, and the technological developments in recent decades, have contributed to the emergence of the concept of ambie...
A framework for monitoring and assisting seniors with memory disabilities
Novais, Paulo; Carneiro, Davide Rua; Costa, Ângelo; Costa, RicardoPopulation aging brings increased social problems. Solutions for this new reality must be devised. Providing care services at home may benefit patients, health service providers, and social security systems and needs to be seen as a possible solution for those social problems. By maintaining the patient at home, in his or her own environment, care services costs can be diminished and, at the same time, the comf...
A different approach in an AAL ecosystem: a mobile assistant for the caregiver
Costa, Ângelo; Gomes, Óscar; Novais, Paulo; Simões, RicardoCurrently the Ambient Assisted Living and the Ambient Intelligence areas are very prolific. There is a demand of security and comfort that should be ensured at people’s homes. The AAL4ALL (ambient assisted living for all) pro-ject aims to develop a unified ecosystem and a certification process, allowing the development of fully compatible devices and services. The UserAccess emerges from the AAL4ALL project, be...
A caregiver support platform within the scope of an ambient assisted living eco...
Costa, Ângelo; Novais, Paulo; Simões, RicardoThe Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) area is in constant evolution, providing new technologies to users and enhancing the level of security and comfort that is ensured by house platforms. The Ambient Assisted Living for All (AAL4ALL) project aims to develop a new AAL concept, supported on a unified ecosystem and certification process that enables a heterogeneous environment. The concepts of Intelligent Environment...