With the emergence of social media and continuous progress and paradigm-shifting breakthroughs in new media, communication professionals need to keep up to date with what consumers are talking about online. Brands tapped into this reality and understood that to influence interactions in this digital landscape, they would need to bring digital influencers into the equation about social media. By recognising that...
Apresentam-se neste artigo resultados de uma investigação que envolveu estudantes do Instituto Politécnico de Viseu (IPV) e que procurou perceber qual a tendência em termos de acesso e uso da Internet por parte dos estudantes do IPV durante os períodos de confinamento em Portugal. Neste estudo de caso implementou-se um questionário e realizaram-se entrevistas que permitiram a recolha de dados junto de 94 partic...
The global pandemic, triggered by the COVID-19 virus, drove millions of higher education post-grad students into a spiral of challenges that, according to their scientific field of studies and focus, could even differ among students from the same program and course. This paper presents the deconstruction, presentation, and analysis of the almost iterative reviewing and rescheduling of research conducted by a st...
This chapter will be focused on contributing to the increase of universal design competencies of future engineers, educators, and designers through the use of mixed reality technologies, closing the gap between theory and field application of principles, towards a more inclusive world and promoting health and wellbeing for all. The experience of a situation where limitations arise in relation to what is taken f...
Without a cure for dementia, researchers are focusing on reminiscence therapy, which effectively improves patients' quality of life. The use of virtual reality as a complement to this non-pharmacological therapy could help mitigate the loss of oral communication competencies in people with dementia. This systematic literature review aimed to investigate the effect of virtual reality-based reminiscence therapy i...
At the end of January 2021, due to the evolution of the epidemiological situation caused by COVID-19, Portugal was forced to implement measures to avoid further spreading of the disease. One of the measures was the suspension of in person classes and non-teaching activities in higher education institutions as of January 22, 2021, a situation that led to the adoption of a completely online modality, similar to w...
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute espiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which was first identified in December 2019 and rapidly evolved into a global pandemic. A nation-wide state of emergency was declared in Portugal, and as a consequence, schools and universities suspended their classes to reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2 infection. This suspensio...
In March 2020, the face-to-face presential model of higher education classes was suspended in Portugal due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced all educational institutions to shift to fully online learning solutions. This scenario posed enormous challenges to institutions, teachers, and students to allow the continuity of teaching activities in the period left for the conclusion of the 2nd semester of the ac...
The rather uncertain short-term future, regarding the evolution of the pandemic caused by COVID-19, left Higher Education Institutions discussing which would be the suitable set of rules and procedures worth adopting for the 2020/2021 academic year, capable of stimulating as well as ensuring in-person teaching and non-teaching activities. It is safe to say that “one size did not fit all” and the study presented...
En todo el mundo, debido a la emergencia sanitaria internacional provocada por la Covid-19, las Instituciones de Educación Superior se vieron obligadas a revisar sus prácticas y, en poco tiempo, a diseñar estrategias, establecer normativas y elaborar planes de apoyo capaces de respaldar una adopción más amplia y generalizada de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) en los contextos de enseña...