Fernando Moreira

Moreira, Fernando

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Fernando Moreira

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Fernando Moreira established the Science and Technology Department and served as its head from May 2018 until February 2022. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science in 1992, a Master's degree in Electronic Engineering in 1997, and a Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering in 2003, all from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto. In 2018, he also achieved his Habilitation. He has been a dedicated member of the Science and Technology Department at Portucalense University since 1992, where he currently holds the position of Full Professor. Additionally, he serves as a visiting professor at several other esteemed universities. His teaching portfolio encompasses various subjects spanning undergraduate and post-graduate studies. He also supervises Ph.D. and Master's students. He has significantly contributed to his field with over 250 peer-reviewed scientific publications in national and international journals and conferences. He serves as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for various journals and books and has organized numerous special issues for JCR journals. His commitment to advancing research is further reflected in his consistent participation on Programme and Scientific committees for national and international conferences. He held the MSc in Computation coordinator position for a decade, demonstrating his dedication to academic leadership. He is a REMIT research center steering committee member with extensive editorial experience, co-editing several books. His professional affiliations include NSTICC, ACM, and IEEE. His primary research interests encompass mobile computing, ICT in Higher Education, Mobile learning, Social Business, and Digital transformation. He received the prestigious Atlas Elsevier Award in April 2019 for his contributions. Afiliação: Centro de investigação UPT: REMIT. Departamento: Departamento de Ciência e Tecnologia

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REMIT – Research on Economics, Management and Information Technologies

Centro de investigação que que tem como objetivo principal produzir e disseminar conhecimento teórico e aplicado que possibilite uma maior compreensão das dinâmicas e tendências económicas, empresariais, territoriais e tecnológicas do mundo contemporâneo e dos seus efeitos socioeconómicos. O REMIT adota uma perspetiva multidisciplinar que integra vários domínios científicos: Economia e Gestão; Ciências e Tecnologia; Turismo, Património e Cultura. Founded in 2017, REMIT – Research on Economics, Management and Information Technologies is a research unit of Portucalense University. Based on a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspective it aims at responding to social challenges through a holistic approach involving a wide range of scientific fields such as Economics, Management, Science, Technology, Tourism, Heritage and Culture. Grounded on the production of advanced scientific knowledge, REMIT has a special focus on its application to the resolution of real issues and challenges, having as strategic orientations: - the understanding of local, national and international environment; - the development of activities oriented to professional practice, namely in the business world.

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M-English – Podcast: A tool for mobile devices
2011 - Menezes, Célia; Moreira, Fernando
At the beginning of the 21st century in a world dominated by technology it is essential to enhance and update the school, creating conditions for the students to succeed, consolidating the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as a key resource for learning and teaching in this new era. In this chapter we will describe a study that was carried out in a Portuguese school. As a means to overcome some of the existing logistical obstacles in the school, where the possibility of carrying out ICT activities without restrictions was still dreamlike, the podcast was implemented as an m-learning tool. Being aware of the fact that nowadays mobile phones and mp3 players are part of our students’ lives, we took advantage of this fact and the podcast was used as a tool to support, to enhance and to motivate students to learn English, used thus as a complement to traditional (face-to-face) learning.
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Assessment of wearable virtual reality technology for visiting World Heritage buildings: An educational approach
2017-11 - Fonseca, David; Navarro, Isidro; Renteria, Isabela; Ferrer, Álvaro; Reina, Oriol de; Moreira, Fernando
The main aim of this study is to assess the spatial perception of historical world heritage buildings using wearable technologies in an educational framework. The proposal seeks to complement the real experience of visiting the Casa Batlló Museum, an emblematic space (1904–1906, Antonio Gaudí, Barcelona). The main innovative feature of the project is focused on the usability assessment of the video-guide indoor location-based system. The article addresses the first phase of a more complex project, analyzing the behavior of architecture students previously trained in modeling of complex buildings, in order to improve the system for a second phase that will be developed with students with special needs. Using an indoor location system for watching multimedia contents, we can improve the access, the visit, and the spatial perception of historical places for all kinds of students, with or without any special requirements. The results show a lack of usability of the system, especially due to the design of the mobile interface and to some loss of synchronization between the student position and the multimedia contents. However, the students have a better understanding of the museum’s characteristics because of multimedia content, as a clear improvement compared with the classic audio-guide.
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Teaching and learning modelling and specification based on mobile devices and cloud
2017 - Ferreira, Maria João; Moreira, Fernando
In this paper, and in the context of a course of 1st cycle in Informatics, and following the guidelines of the Information Systems courses provided by ACM/AIS, we propose the use of Google tools and Lucidchart modeling tool, aligned with Bloom's taxonomy in our model BML Context Oriented (BML-CO) in a Requirements Engineering course based on Unified Modelling Language (UML) to modeling and specify requirements to a software system. Teaching Requirements Engineering and, in particular modeling and specification requirements, at the higher education institutions is an “arduous” task according to the literature that the proposed approach wants contribute for filling this gap.
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Planeamento online de uma viagem: O turista português
2019-06 - Valente, Gonçalo; Leite, Cláudia; Cardoso, Miguel; Martins, Ana Laura; Au-Yong-Oliveira, Manuel; Moreira, Fernando
O caso em estudo incide sobre o impacto da tecnologia no planeamento de uma viagem de um turista português. Da revisão da literaura, estudos feitos a nível europeu, a tecnologia inerente ao turismo é proporcionada a toda a gama etária, e fundamentalmente para o planeamento de alojamento, transportes e packs turísticos. A absorção de informação é sempre destacada pelo fácil e rápido acesso à Internet cada vez mais acessível a qualquer um, promovendo alterações comportamentais no planeamento turístico. Assim, realizou-se um inquérito online (que teve 180 respostas válidas), que incidiu essencialmente em jovens universitários, mas restrito a portugueses, no qual se determinou que as plataformas são mais usadas para o alojamento (87,2%), transporte (87,2%) e procura de informações (68,8%) em detrimento da restauração (7,3%), sendo estas usadas devido à sua rapidez (79,4%) e simplicidade (80,7%). A concluir, e de encontro ao estudo da revisão bibliográfica, determinou-se que praticamente todos os inquiridos assumem a influência das plataformas digitais no planeamento das suas viagens (99,1%), sendo que 89% vai mais longe e afirma que no futuro todo o planeamento será realizado em exclusivo via online.
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Teaching collaborative data modeling: an approach based on cloud and mobile technologies
2016 - Moreira, Fernando; Ferreira, Maria João
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Educação 4.0 e a transformação dos ambientes de aprendizagem: O Modelo Personalizado de Ambiente de Aprendizagem 4.0
2019-06 - Mesquita, Anabela; Peres, Paula; Moreira, Fernando
As mudanças provocadas pelo desenvolvimento da tecnologia e Indústria 4.0 também tiveram impacto na educação. O ensino superior, os professores, alunos e instituições enfrentam novos desafios. Com este artigo pretendemos contribuir para a discussão dessas mudanças e analisar o seu impacto nas abordagens pedagógicas e modelos de ensino-aprendizagem, sugerindo o desenvolvimento de um modelo Personalizado de Ambiente de Aprendizagem.
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A traditional school towards a new dimension: social learning.
2013 - Seruca, Isabel; Ferreira, Maria João; Moreira, Fernando
Schools have suffered a large (r)evolution at social, economic and technological levels, particularly during the last 10 years, when traditional barriers of transferring information and knowledge silos have been progressively eliminated. Finding experts and knowledge within a school is now easier through Social Learning. A change of paradigm in day-to-day use of information systems and technologies (IST) by students does not sustain such a transformation by itself, however. A change of culture and behavior is also necessary. The appropriate use of IST integrated with the school's processes will depend on both individual and collective efforts, that is, on what may be called "collective leadership". The younger generation is accustomed to sharing, often through mobile devices (MDs), personal information on Facebook, and Twitter, among other platforms, and enters the job market looking for similar tools. These new "social tools" eliminate the barriers of communication and sharing, allowing the production, sharing, and management of information and knowledge within the school between peers and other stakeholders. We believe that Social Learning is much more than just collaboration and sharing, since the IST that is currently available, by itself, allows the school processes to be more dynamic, more "social". These developments, along with the European Commission report "A Roadmap for Advanced Cloud Technologies H2020 under...", imply that the environment of IST (market research, education, etc.) is constantly changing. It is necessary to identify the major changes that can be expected in the next 5-10 years that may affect the IST environment. It is expected, for example, that in 2015 the concept "Bring your own Device" (BYOD) as well as the use of Cloud Computing will be practically general. Taking advantage of these technologies for teaching students through Social Learning, in particular nomadic students, requires a comprehension exercise in how to demonstrate its usefulness with regard to the creation, access and sharing of targeted and safe content. We propose a concept associated with mobile learning, called Create, Share, Document and Teach (m_CSDT). Structured and organized Social Learning, with different ISTs including MDs that comply with the concept m_CSDT will contribute in a particular way to the well-being of the school through the intelligence and agility dimensions. We believe that the intelligence dimension, on its different indicators, is achieved through "collective leadership", since this one is more efficient than hierarchic management, for certain types of tasks, allowing the internal relations of cooperation to increase and improve the flow of knowledge. This because broad participation is usually more effective and leads to more information that can be processed and used in decision-making. The agility dimension is achieved through collaborative work supported mainly by nomadic students, allowing a systemic perception, especially taking advantage of the interconnections between the school's capabilities and learning with IST's opportunities. This research intends to provide a comprehensive view of a new dimension in the traditional schools, i.e. social learning supported by mobile IST – m_CSDT – in order to improve their well-being through the intelligence and agility dimension.
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FCASM2T: The tools and functionalities / Features identification process
2015 - Ferreira, Maria João; Seruca, Isabel; Moreira, Fernando
The huge popularity and evolution of the Web in the last decade, and the rapid advances in ICT allowed an exponential growth of the volume and diversity of data produced by social media. The widespread use of social media has encouraged citizens to give their opinions more freely and actively participate in several aspects of modern life. The data provided in this context can have a great impact on business, where often opinions of customers may contribute to the success of a product or service, or destroy the reputation of a brand or a company. The effective and full use of social media by organizations require that they are able to monitor and analyse the high volumes of heterogeneous data that are produced by these media, so as to obtain relevant information and valuable insights for decision making and for conducting their business. Due to the diversity of social media monitoring tools available and wide range of features offered, the FCASM2T (Framework for classification and adoption of social media monitoring tools) was proposed to classify and guide the process of adoption of such a tool (or set of tools) by an organization. This paper addresses the first stage of the framework, the Tools and functionalities/features identification process, describing its rationale and way-of-working.
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An initial proposal for a Web 2.0 information system that supports a 360º customer loyalty assurance process in private healthcare organization
2017 - Magalhães, Duarte; Martins, José; Gonçalves, Ramiro; Branco, Frederico; Oliveira, Manuel; Moreira, Fernando
This study translates how the potential exists for ICT and Web 2.0 to promote and improve the quality and efficiency of the supply of health services. The segmented and personalized access to individual clinical records is considered in the context of basic support information which simultaneously facilitates an initial screening by a health professional, to all those who fit in a universe of clients and patients of Private Healthcare Organizations - PHO. The context is of excellent customized health care which builds trusting relationships with the target market. The project does however recognize barriers to this change namely by making the health system more transparent clinicians who hitherto have gone mainly unquestioned and unnoticed will subsequently possibly be subject to more scrutiny and possible judicial action in case of mal practice. Nonetheless, with this work we aim to present an initial position relative to the need for the existence of information systems which support the process of creation of customer loyalty in private organizations delivering health care services.
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Dispositivos móveis: estratégia de gestão dos dispositivos na sala de aula e o toolkit do professor
2007 - Paes, Cristina; Moreira, Fernando
As actuais tendências na computação móvel vão no sentido do desenvolvimento de dispositivos cada vez mais embebidos, ou ubíquos, e em rede do que os disponíveis actualmente. Assim, a evolução dos dispositivos móveis, quer em termos de hardware quer na maior quantidade e variedade de aplicações, associada à crescente utilização destes dispositivos, torna-os uma ferramenta potencial para o ensino/aprendizagem. Contudo, é necessário utilizar políticas de gestão destes equipamentos dentro das salas de aulas que vão de encontro às especificidades e características deste tipo de equipamentos. Para além das novas metodologias de ensino/aprendizagem e novos métodos de avaliação é também necessário escolher o tipo de ferramentas que devem ser utilizadas por um professor em disciplinas onde sejam utilizados os dispositivos móveis. Nesta comunicação é apresentada uma estratégia de gestão dos dispositivos móveis na sala de aula e um conjunto de ferramentas que o professor deve possuir para a gestão das disciplinas, do ponto de vista logístico e educacional.

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