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A pioneering longterm experiment on mesophotic macrofouling communities in the ...
Canning-Clode, João; Gizzi, Francesca; Braga-Henriques, Andreia; Ramalhosa, Patrício; Abreu, Pedro; Álvarez, Soledad; Biscoito, ManuelThe mesophotic zone represents one of our planet's largest and least explored biomes. An increasing number of studies evidence the importance of macrofouling species in marine ecosystems, but information on these communities and the factors influencing their structures at mesophotic depths remain poor. This lack of understanding limits our ability to predict anthropogenic impacts or conduct restoration operatio...
A new signal of tropicalization in the Northeast Atlantic: the spread of the sp...
Castro, Nuno; Schäfer, Susanne; Parretti, Paola; Monteiro, João Gama; Gizzi, Francesca; Chebaane, Sahar; Almada, Emanuel; Henriques, FilipeCurrent trends in the global climate facilitate the displacement of numerous marine species from their native distribution ranges to higher latitudes when facing warming conditions. In this work, we analyzed occurrences of a circumtropical reef fish, the spotfin burrfish, Chilomycterus reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1958), in the Madeira Archipelago (NE Atlantic) between 1898 and 2021. In addition to available data sou...
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 ...
LoRattle - An Exploratory Game with a Purpose Using LoRa and IoT
Radeta, Marko; Ribeiro, Miguel; Vasconcelos, Dinarte; Nunes, Nuno JardimThe Internet of Things (IoT) is opening new possibilities for sensing, monitoring and actuating in urban environments. They sup port a shift to a hybrid network of humans and things collaborating in production, transmission and processing of data through low-cost and low power devices connected via long-range (LoRa) wide area networks (WAN). This paper describes a 2-player duel game based on IoT con trollers an...
SeaMote - Interactive Remotely Operated Apparatus for Aquatic Expeditions
Radeta, Marko; Ribeiro, Miguel; Vasconcelos, Dinarte; Lopes, Jorge; Sousa, Michael; Monteiro, João; Nunes, Nuno JardimIoT has been widely adopted by HCI communities and citi zen scientists to sense and control the surrounding environments. While their applications are mostly reported in urban settings, they remain scarce in aquatic settings. Oceans are undergoing an immense increase of human generated pollution ranging from noise to marine litter, where current USV solutions to detect its impact on environment remain at high c...
Shifting from the Children to the Teens’ Usability: Adapting a Gamified Experie...
Cesário, Vanessa; Radeta, Marko; Coelho, António; Nisi, ValentinaIn this poster, we are addressing the topic of "system’s evaluation" from the point of view of assessing the usability of a gamified experience with 20 teenagers aged 15-17 years. The currently tested experience was ideally designed for children 9-10 years. In order to adapt the application to teenagers, we tested it with 20 targeted users. In this poster, we share the results and encourage a discussion among t...
Gaming versus storytelling: understanding children’s interactive experiences in...
Radeta, Marko; Cesário, Vanessa; Matos, Sónia; Nisi, ValentinaMuseum’s audiences are increasingly looking for compelling expe‐ riences where, besides learning, engagement and enjoyment are key success factors. While gaming and storytelling are considered to be common approaches to engage audiences with a museum’s collections, a formal comparison of the two has not been found in literature. In this paper, we present the design and compa‐ rative study of two distinct interv...