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Don’t Forget to Take Some Time to Yourself: The Effect of Mobile Phone Reminder...
Peres, Beatriz; Noronha, Hildegardo; Campos, PedroThe lives of informal caregivers can get so busy and overwhelmed that they stop caring for themselves. A simple daily mobile phone reminder may be enough to restore some of their self-care. In this study, we explore the effects of reminders in the lives of informal caregivers, specifically in the Mindful Self-Care Scale subdomains. We found positive effects in the Supportive Relationships and the Mindful Relaxa...
The Impact of Virtual Reality Nature Environments on Calmness, Arousal and Ener...
Noronha, Hildegardo; Campos, PedroVirtual Reality is the current media's epitome of Immersiveness, Presence and Suspension of Disbelief. Both research and gaming industry communities have been building on this in order to exhaustively research and explore feelings of high-adrenaline, scariness, panic and other visceral and instinctive feelings. We take the opposite approach and try to prove that Virtual Reality can also be used to induce feelin...
How much Sample Rate is actually needed? Arm Tracking in Virtual Reality
Noronha, Hildegardo; Campos, PedroThere are plenty of studies dealing with the delays and other relations between head movements and visual response on Virtual Reality setups using head mounted displays. Most of those studies also present some consequences of deviating from those values. Yet, the rest of the human body remains relatively unmapped. In this paper, we present the data found during our research about vision-arm coordination. This d...
LoRaquatica: Studying Range and Location Estimation using LoRa and IoT in Aquat...
Radeta, Marko; Ribeiro, Miguel; Vasconcelos, Dinarte; Noronha, Hildegardo; Nunes, Nuno JardimWhile ubiquitous computing remains vastly applied in urban environments, their applications in ocean environment remain scarce due to the limitations in range and cost of current radio technology. This hinders environmental telemetry in the oceans and other remote areas. In this study, we explore the usage of IoT and Long Range Radio Communication (LoRa) in ocean environments. We study the maximum distance for ...
A multimodal tablet-based interface for designing and reviewing 3D engineering ...
Campos, Pedro; Noronha, HildegardoThe usage of multimodal user interfaces has revolutionized many different activities. However, most of the interactive technologies deployed in real world engineering contexts are still difficult to use, especially when engineering teams need to collaboratively visualize and review large-scale 3D CAD (Computer-Aided Design) models. This is the case of the oil platform industry, which necessarily involves the re...
Collaborative 3d visualization on large screen displays
Mendes, Daniel; Sousa, Maurício; Araújo, Bruno; Ferreira, Alfredo; Noronha, Hildegardo; Campos, Pedro; Soares, Luciano; Raposo, Alberto; Jorge, JoaquimLarge Scale Displays, besides their visualization capabilities, can provide a great sense of immersion to a geographically distributed group of people engaging in collaborative work. This paper presents a system that uses remotely located wall sized displays, to o↵er immersive, interactive collaborative visualization and review of 3D CAD models for engineering applications.
On the usage of different work analysis methods for collaborative review of lar...
Campos, Pedro; Noronha, HildegardoHuman work interaction design is an emerging discipline that aims to encourage empirical studies and conceptualizations of the interaction among humans, their variegated social contexts and the technology they use both with in and across these contexts. In this paper we describe and elaborate around the usage of different work analysis methods in a complex, real world work do main: collaborative review of large...
Designing a mobile collaborative system for navigating and reviewing oil indust...
Noronha, Hildegardo; Campos, Pedro; Jorge, Joaquim; Araújo, Bruno de; Soares, Luciano; Raposo, AlbertoIn this paper, we describe an industrial experience with the creation of a new product for collaboratively navigating and reviewing 3D engineering models, applied to the oil industry. Together with professional oil industry engineers from a large oil company, a team of HCI researchers per formed task analysis and storyboards, designed, imple mented and qualitatively evaluated a prototype that com bines the powe...