Ponciano, V., Pires, I., Ribeiro, F., Marques, G., Garcia, N. M., Zdravevski, E., Spinsante, S (2020).
Identification of Diseases Based on the Use of Inertial Sensors: A Systematic Review.
Electronics, 9(5), 778.
https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics9050778
Ponciano, V., Pires, I. M., Ribeiro, F. R., Villasana, M. V., Crisóstomo, R., Teixeira, M. C., Zdravevski, E. (2020).
Mobile Computing Technologies for Health and Mobility Assessment: Research Design and Results of the Timed Up and Go Test in Older Adults.
Sensors, 20(12), 3481.
https://doi.org/10.3390/s20123481
Ponciano, V., Pires, I. M., Ribeiro, F. R., Garcia, N, M., Villasana, M. V., Zdravevski, E., Lameski, P. (2020).
Machine Learning Techniques with ECG and EEG Data: An Exploratory Study.
Computers, 9(3), 55.
https://doi.org/10.3390/computers9030055
Ponciano, V., Pires, I. M., Ribeiro, F. R., Villasana, M. V., Teixeira, M. C., Zdravevski, E. (2020).
Experimental Study for Determining the Parameters Required for Detecting ECG and EEG Related Diseases during the Timed-Up and Go Test.
Computers, 9(3), 67.
https://doi.org/10.3390/computers9030067
Principal Researcher:
Véronique Delplancq
Duration: 2020 – 2022
Cised team members
Isabel Oliveira
Funding
CGD; PV
Pedagogical innovation is at the centre of Higher Education (HE) priorities, with a concern to renew its practices in order to motivate students and provide experiences adapted to the professional reality. The improvement in foreign languages (FL), especially with students who do not proceed with language training, does not discard this questioning, even because the competences in FL in the work environment are unanimously recognized as vital, being therefore, by right their inclusion in the training plans. The Project-based learning approach in an interdisciplinary and collaborative work perspective, using multimodality in communication, is a consistent asset working the various dimensions of language in French and English, in their connections with cognitive representations. JASM project aims to develop an experience of active pedagogy at the School of Education of Viseu with students of the 1st cycle in Media Studies enrolled in the various FL curricular units in order to promote the acquisition of multilingual skills and the development of a plurilingual conscience thanks to the mobilization of the various dimensions of language (aesthetic and emotional, in addition to cognitive), in a creative, collaborative and interdisciplinary work environment.
In this project, the topic of interdisciplinarity is highlighted, combining FL with digital art.
Keywords: pedagogical innovation, higher education, project-based learning approach, foreign languages and linguistic and cultural diversity, multilingual and multimodal artistic creativity, collaborative and cooperative work, aesthetics and emotion.
Principal Researcher:
Maria Paula Carvalho
Duration: 2020 – 2022
Cised team members
Isabel Brás
Ricardo Gama
Funding
CGD; PV
The importance of science education is widely highlighted in the literature. There are national and international mechanisms that evaluate education systems and the scientific competences of students(1,2,3). The purpose of the Science Olympiads is to identify intrinsic problems in the teaching-learning process and to promote science education(4,5). In this competition the pupils perform 2 tests: theoretical and experimental. The experimental exam allows operational skills (know-how) that are not evaluated, e.g. in the PISA and TIMSS studies, to be assessed.
This project is motivated by a study(5) that shows that Portuguese students present a deficit in experimental skills at the International Olympiads at the end of secondary education. Although they undergo an intensive training in the months preceding the international competitions, these students cannot develop some of the skills required. It is necessary to promote science skills from the first years of schooling. Therefore, we designed a pilot study to implement the Experimental Mini-Olympics of Science within the scope of the subject of Estudo do Meio in primary school. The objectives of the study are: to evaluate the feasibility of the Mini-Olympics in the 4th year of primary school; to determine teachers’ needs to implement science activities; to investigate the potential for the Mini-Olympics so as to evaluate the theoretical and experimental science competences of pupils at the end of primary school; to investigate the potential of the Mini-Olympics to stimulate pupils’ autonomous learning and critical thinking; to motivate teachers for new scientific challenges and to increase pupils interest in science. This research will be carried out in the 5 School Groups in the municipality of Viseu, during the 2020/21 school year and will involve principals, teachers and pupils in the 4th year of schooling. Initially an inventory of each school’s resources available for science activities will be performed. The Olympic competitions will be developed and implemented and the results will be published after the data are analysed. Recommendations will be stated in order to improve science education in primary school.
Com as conclusões serão apresentadas sugestões para o ensino das ciências no 1ºCEB.
O estudo será realizado em cooperação com a Ciência Viva, as Sociedades Portuguesas da Física, da Química e da Geologia, a Ordem dos Biólogos, a Association of Polar Early Career Scientists e a International Association for Geoethics.
To sum up, the project is unique because there are no Experimental Science Mini-Olympiads in Portugal at the end of the primary school. The IPV will be a pioneer in implementing this competition, which it intends to expand soon to a national level.
1 http://www.oecd.org/pisa/
2 http://timssandpirls.bc.edu/timss2019/frameworks/
3 http://www.ige.min-edu.pt/upload/Relatorios/GC_EEC_2016_RELATORIO.pdf
4 https://www.dge.mec.pt/olimpiada-da-ciencia-da-uniao-europeia-euso
5 https://estudogeral.uc.pt/handle/10316/43058
Principal Researcher: Maria Pacheco Figueiredo
Duration: 2020 – 2021
CISeD
Team Members
Carlos Pereira
Funding
CGD; PV
Several challenges have been tackled by Portuguese and European Higher Education, many of which are in the pedagogical arena. Although Pedagogy in Higher Education is not an invested area, there are studies, initiatives, projects and structures of great quality in the national context. An important part of the advances in the area has resulted from the systematic analysis, sharing and discussion of practices that have embodied several publications and sustained several interventions in Portugal and internationally. The EQuIPES - Study of Quality and Pedagogical Innovation in Higher Education aims to contribute to this body of experiences and studies that allows to understand and improve teaching and learning in Higher Education institutions, based on the analysis of practices in the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu in communication with partners. Based on projects from the Institute and at national level, EQuIPES will characterize the way IPV’s teaching staff teaches and what supports and constraints teachers recognize in their pedagogical practices. From this diagnosis, follows the identification, characterization and discussion of practices, namely active learning ones, which embody pedagogical innovation. Active learning is understood as a set of flexible practices that seeks the involvement of students through the use of approaches that move away from the teacher as center of the activities and which often resort to digital technologies. These practices, supported by a variety of records and in-depth reviews and input from various stakeholders, are shared and discussed with the closer and the wider community. The study adopts a mixed methodology. It begins with a survey for the the entire IPV that is accompanied by direct observation of spaces used for teaching, registered in a grid. In the second phase, through a snowball sampling, the case studies will be identify: teachers with pedagogical practices with active learning approaches, which we intend to characterize and analyze, using the input of external experts. The teachers involved in these case studies are invited to share these practices in peer-to-peer training spaces open to IPV staff and the larger community, accompanied by expert interventions.
With this approach, we intend to contribute to the visibility of Pedagogy in Higher Education, associated to the construction and utilization of active learning approaches.
Principal Researcher: Manuela Ferreira
Duration: 2020 – 2022
Cised team members
Carlos Quental
Funding
CGD; PV
Knowledge about the health of the Portuguese population has improved significantly, however, young people require particular attention in relation to the determinants of health related to lifestyle. Scientific evidence of school health promotion, innovation and the need to refocus action on results implies the development of more appropriate interventions for the young population. In addition to empowering people and communities to act, it implies recognizing their skills and potential and facilitating their choices. Integrating a broad vision, the AppSaúde: Empower to better live project is created, with the purpose of improving the levels of health literacy of young adults in the central zone of the country. It integrates three specific areas: food, additive consumption and sexuality. The objectives are: to develop an instrument to evaluate the level of literacy of students of higher education in the areas of food, additive consumption and sexuality; monitor health determinants in these areas, and develop a web-based platform that includes a health education program and a forum for the exchange of ideas between students and professionals. The plan for dissemination of results and dissemination of knowledge is in line with the broad territorial scope and corresponds to the domains of health and technologies applied to health.
The impact of the scientific and technological knowledge generated by the project when disseminated will contribute to the regional and national valorization, in a logic of knowledge translation.
This study will be developed by a team with elements that have already carried out other projects in this area. This team, now reinforced by the involvement of 1st and 2nd cycle IPV students, is a guarantee of the success of IPV research and dissemination at national and international level.
Principal Researcher: Carlos Augusto Cunha
Duration: 2020 – 2022
Cised team members
Valter Alves
Rui Pedro Duarte
Funding
CGD; PV
Alzheimer's disease is a progressive loss of mental function, characterized by degeneration of brain tissue, including loss of nerve cells, accumulation of an abnormal protein, and development of neurofibrillary braids. Alzheimer's patients become dependent on other people, even for the most basic tasks. Controlling feeding and hydrating an Alzheimer's patient is thus a crucial task performed by the person who supports their daily routine, called Informal Caregiver (IC).
Conditions of malnutrition, super nutrition, and dehydration are common in people with diseases causing dementia since the loss of their autonomy also manifests itself in the level of their inability to demonstrate food needs. The support of a nutritionist in the preparation and follow-up of a food plan aligned with the needs of the patient is, therefore, fundamental. The monitoring of the food plan is undoubtedly a process that demands from Cl a lot of discipline and the ability to deal with possible circumstantial adaptations, such as replacing foods prescribed in the food plan with other equivalents or changing the quantity of water consumed as a function of ambient temperature.
This project addresses the problem of the creation and monitoring of diet plans in patients with dementia such as Alzheimer's, through the creation of a computer solution. It allows the creation of nutritional plans by the nutritionists using a Web application and the follow-up of these plans by the ICs through an app to significantly increase the quality of life of the patient. The mobile app will be able to send to the CI notifications regarding proper nutrition and hydration in due moments, accompanied by the control of hydration using an intelligent water bottle, will allow ensuring the compliance of the indications of the nutritionist. Besides, the application will suggest alternatives to plan foods if they are unavailable. Another central feature of the solution is the dynamic adaptation of water administration to the patient as a function of the environmental conditions automatically collected by temperature and humidity sensors.
In scientific terms, the project includes the creation of innovative models for adapting food plans using machine learning algorithms and integration approaches, preprocessing and evaluation of data quality collected by external sensors.
Principal Researcher:
Carlos Albuquerque
Duration: 2020 – 2022
CISeD
Team Members
Isabel Paula Lopes Brás
Funding
CGD; PV
This transdisciplinary research and action project foresees the development of innovative health promotion strategies based on a salutogenic paradigm that seeks to empower people to manage their health resources and improve their health literacy. This study is also part of a local need which was identified and discussed by and with local stakeholders (health professionals and the academic community) in the absence of an inclusive, creative, dynamic and concerted strategy to promote salutogenic behaviours among the student of the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu (IPV – Instituto Politécnico de Viseu).
Attending to the experience of the research team in the conception and implementation of health promotion programs and technological solutions applied to health care, it becomes an opportunity to network and gather synergies between several partners among the clinical and teaching fields as well as in research, enhancing IPV in its social responsibilities.
The main objective of the "iPV with Health Plus" project is to develop, implement and evaluate an integrated and institutional health promotion program, creating the resources and organizational structures to support these processes along with the IPV students.
This project is structured with ten complementary tasks and it is aligned with the recommendations and challenges embodied in our current National Health Plan, based on the international guidelines, which emphasises a system of epidemiological surveillance of health determinants, reinforcing the organizational strategies and institutional culture in the field of health. Thus, the iPV Health+ project is supported by a strong networking among higher education institutions and primary health care institutions and it will monitor the health determinants of IPV students, assess their health needs, create an Observatory of the State of Health of the Students of the IPV and conceive a Group of Health Promotion with an integrated, multidisciplinary and multidimensional action in the field of health promotion among the students of the IPV. Considering this, the research team will also develop and evaluate an innovative and inclusive intervention program that, through the use of interactive technologies (app), will promote health literacy and healthy behaviours, according to a structured approach.
The impact expectations of this project clearly outperform issues related to the scientific production and dissemination of knowledge. Its intention is to contribute in a sustained, inclusive and lasting way to the conception and implementation of organizational responses, those focused on the promotion of salutogenic behaviours and also to create technological interfaces and structures that can streamline monitoring, intervention and follow-up procedures of the IPV students according to their health needs as levelling the institution into a national reference.
