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    Engaging Older Adults in Participatory and Intergenerational Design Teams and Processes: a systematic review of the current investigation
    (ESSACHESS, 2020-06) Amaro, Ana Carla; Rodrigues, Rui; Oliveira, Lídia
    This paper presents the results of a systematic review of the literature (SRL) in the field of Participatory Design (PD), undertaken under the scope of LOCUS – Playful Connected Rural Territories. The project employs an ethnographically, participatory and agile approach to the process of co-designing, developing and evaluating an IoT system to support playful intergenerational engagement in exploring cultural heritage of Portuguese rural territories, by engaging inhabitants, stakeholders and visitors. The SRL aimed to understand how older adults have been integrated and engaged into technology PD teams and processes. This paper focus on the most used methodological approaches and participation methods, along with the challenges in integrating older adults and the strategies to overcome them, which are discussed in the light of project aims. / Cet article présente les résultats d'une revue systématique de la littérature dans le domaine du design participatif, effectuée dans le cadre du Projet LOCUS - Territoires ruraux connectés et ludiques. Le projet utilise une approche ethnographique, participative et agile du processus de co-design, développement et évaluation d'un système d’Internet des objets pour soutenir un engagement intergénérationnel ludique dans l'exploration du patrimoine culturel des territoires ruraux portugais, en impliquant les habitants, les parties prenantes et les visiteurs. La revue systématique de la littérature vise à comprendre comment les personnes âgées ont été intégrées et engagées dans des équipes et des processus de design participatif des technologiques. Cet article se concentre sur les approches méthodologiques et les méthodes de participation les plus utilisées, ainsi que sur les défis de l'intégration des personnes âgées et les stratégies pour les surmonter, qui sont discutés à la lumière des objectifs du projet.
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    Fantasmas digitais e relações Swipe: a cultura infocomunicacional na era das proximidades automatizadas
    (Ci.Inf., Brasília, DF, 2017-11-10) Baldi, Vania; Rodrigues, Rui
    Entre plataformas web e aplicações para smartphone encontramos propostas tecnológicas que pretendem aliviar-nos dos tabus mais enraizados na nossa condição humana. De um lado temos propostas para eternizar a nossa existência, para contornar a angústia do nosso inelutável desaparecimento (e do sentimento de ausência que provoca a recordação dos que já faleceram), de outro lado deparamo-nos com solicitações de gratificação instantânea proporcionada pelas buscas de parceiros digitalmente empacotados em perfis sedutores e potencialmente ao nosso alcance. Comparando sites como boxego.com, thedigitalbeyond.com ou eternal9, serviços movidos pela filosofia que promete que “o coração que parar de bater não deixará de twittar”, com outros serviços móveis como Tinder ou Happn, que promovem combinações amorosas entre desconhecidos, tentar-se-á uma análise dos paradoxos culturais contemporâneos refletidos pelas transformações sociotécnicas. Trata-se, nesse artigo, de refletir sobre alguns novos cenários dos comportamentos infocomunicacionais, questionando a emergência de novos desafios éticos que não remetem estritamente para uma lógica de competências operacionais e informacionais, mas para ambientes digitais que estruturam expetativas e hábitos específicos de interação, sendo essas novas “relações” algoritmicamente mediadas o efeito de uma busca de interatividade camuflada por interação. Temos assim duas dimensões contemporâneas da experiência psicossocial que emergem através das potencialidades facultadas pelas tecnologias digitais, e que nos permitem entender e revelar aspetos ambivalentes e profundos de uma ética e estética “onlife” em constante “mediamorfose”. / Between web platforms and smartphone applications we find technological proposals that seek to relieve us of the most deeply rooted taboos in our human condition. On the one hand we have proposals to perpetuate our existence, to overcome the anguish of our ineluctable disappearance (and the feeling of absence that causes the memory of those who have passed away), on the other hand we are faced with requests for instant gratification provided by the searches of packaged digitally partners in seductive profiles and potentially within our reach. Comparing sites such as boxego.com, thedigitalbeyond.com or eternal9, services that promise that “when the heart stops beating, it will keeping tweeting”, with other mobile services like Tinder or Happn, which promote love combinations between strangers, it will attempt an analysis of the cultural paradoxes reflected by sociotechnical transformations. This article aims to reflect on some new scenarios of info-communicational behaviors, questioning the emergence of new ethical challenges that do not refer strictly to a logic of operational and informational competences, but on digital environments that structure specific expectations and habits of interaction, being these new “relationship” algorithmically mediated the effect of a search for interactivity camouflaged by interaction. Thus we have two contemporary dimensions of psychosocial experience, which emerge through the potentialities offered by digital technologies, and which allow us to understand and reveal ambivalent and profound aspects of an ethic and aesthetic “onlife” in constant “mediamorphosis”. / Entre plataformas web y apps para smartphone, nos encontramos a propuestas tecnológicas cuyo objetivo es liberarnos de los tabúes mas enraizados en nuestra condición humana. Por un lado, tenemos propuestas para perpetuar nuestra existencia para superar la angustia de nuestra desaparición ineluctable (y del sentimiento de ausencia que provoca el recuerdo de los que ya han fallecido), y por el otro nos encontramos con anuncios de placer instantáneo proporcionados por las búsquedas de partners camuflados en perfiles seductores y de fácil acceso. Comparando estas páginas web como boxego.com, thedigitalbeyond.com o eternal9, los servicios impulsados por una filosofía que promete que “un corazón que deje de batir no dejará de tuitear”, con otros servicios móviles como Tinder o Happn, que promueven las combinaciones amorosas entre desconocidos, se intentará hacer un análisis de las paradojas culturales contemporáneas reflejadas por las transformaciones socio-tecnicas. Se trata de reflexionar sobre algunos nuevos escenarios de los comportamientos infocomuncicacionales, a través del cuestionamiento del surgimiento de nuevos retos éticos que no se remiten en exclusivo a una lógica de competencias operacionales y informacionales, pero para entornos digitales que estructuran expectativas y costumbres específicos de interacción. Así, tenemos dos dimensiones contemporáneas de experiencia profesional, las cuales surgen a través de las posibilidades ofertadas por las tecnologías digitales, que nos permiten predecir y revelar aspectos ambivalentes y profundas de ética y estética “onlife” constante “mediamorfosis”.
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    Influence of the graphical layout of television news on the viewers: An eye tracking study
    (OberCom, CIES-IUL, 2016-01) Rodrigues, Rui; Veloso, Ana; Mealha, Óscar
    Television news has continuously experienced several changes, especially related to graphic overlays. The problem with watching TV news is the way viewers receive and process information broadcast by these programmes, given the variety of visual and audio stimuli with which they are confronted. This study focuses on the influence of the graphical layout on the viewers. Specifically, it examines message recall related to TV news. These goals were achieved by means of a case study using eye tracking, applied in two types of TV news broadcasts: one with graphical elements and another with a clean feed (only with the anchor). Finally, participants answered a questionnaire on the contents within the various graphical elements overlaid on the TV news viewed.
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    Interação mediada por uma Cultura Swipe: Uma reflexão centrada nas aplicações móveis de dating
    (12th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 2017-07-13) Rodrigues, Rui; Baldi, Vania
    Numa sociedade onde os smartphones e a Internet móvel atuam cada vez mais como mediadores e potenciadores de laços sociais, encontramos propostas tecnológicas que constantemente colocam novos desafios ao utilizador no modo como este interage e comunica com os demais. Este artigo, centrando-se em aplicações móveis que promovem laços sociais e amorosos entre desconhecidos (como no caso do Tinder, Bumble, Grindr, etc.), impulsionadas por um paradigma de interação baseado no simples deslizar de um dedo no ecrã (swipe), pretende questionar a emergência de novos hábitos info-comunicacionais que não remetem estritamente para uma lógica de competências técnicas e operacionais, mas também para hábitos específicos de interação (cultura swipe). Estes hábitos, quer nas escolhas e interações realizadas pelos utilizadores (aceitar, descartar e passar ao seguinte), bem como nas opções padronizadas e algoritmicamente mediadas, sugerem novos cenários para os comportamentos info-comunicacionais. Esta correlação entre emergentes aplicações de dating e novos hábitos digitais. Estes potenciais novos hábitos e comportamentos, apoiados numa cultura swipe e de User Centered Design (UCD), permitem revelar novas perspetivas no modo como a interação e os relacionamentos se podem basear cada vez mais em interesses descartáveis, efémeros e de escolha padronizada. / In a society where smartphones and mobile connectivity increasingly act as mediators and enhancers of social ties, we can identify technological solutions that bring new challenges to the user, particularly in the way he interacts and communicates with others. This article, by focusing on mobile apps that promote social and loving ties between strangers (Tinder, Bumble, Grindr, etc.), driven by a swipe-based interaction paradigm, aims to explore new challenges, that not only imply technical and operational skills, but also particular habits of interaction (the so-called “swipe culture”). These new behaviours, that include choices and interactions made by the users (actions like accept, discard and/or moving to the next user), as well as the standardized and algorithmically mediated choices made by the apps algorithms, brought to life new scenarios related to info-communicational behaviours. Therefore, the swipe culture and user centered design (UCD) triggered these new habits and behaviours, that were made possible by the features offered by mobile dating applications. Finally, these new habits and behaviours revealed new perceptions and trends in how interactions and relationships can become more disposable, sterile and standardized in the described context.
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    The challenges in the development of technological research projects in generational gap contexts
    (DIGICOM - International Conference on Digital Design & Communication, 2020-11) Rodrigues, Rui; Melro, Ana
    The generational differences that exist in a society or community are not only evidence that one cannot be escape, but a plus for its development. Furthermore, this allows an existence of a connection to the past and as a way of continuity for the future. However, and to increase this importance, the analysis of generational gaps is considered as an aspect that allows development, innovation and creativity, considering the specific context of the research project LOCUS - playfuL cOnneCted rUral territorieS. The article aims to contextualize the generational gaps in Amiais, Sever do Vouga, Portugal and is part of the LOCUS project. The LOCUS project has as main goal to carry out a survey of cultural heritage of the village, with the purpose of developing and apply an Internet of Things (IoT) system for use by residents, stakeholders and visitors. The methodology described in the article is the analysis of the ethnographic research results, namely interviews with privileged informants and informal conversations with residents. Based on these results, it is intended to outline the challenges that are expected to be found in the technological development of the project and the way as it is expected to outcome them.
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    THE PRESENCE OF THREE PORTUGUESE TV NEWS CHANNELS (RTP3, SIC NOTÍCIAS, AND TVI24) ON FACEBOOK
    (3rd International Conference on Education, Social Sciences and Humanities, 2016-08-26) Rodrigues, Rui; Ferreira, Sónia
    The growing popularity of social networks, and their impact on the daily lives of consumers, contributed to news organizations marking their presence on different online platforms. In the case of Facebook, a social network that began as a personal space, it has gradually transformed into a content-sharing space (Oeldorf-Hirsch & Sundar, 2015). Nowadays, Facebook is the second most viewed website in Portugal (Alexa, 2016), and therefore, it has become crucial for Portuguese news agencies to be present on this social network. Although television continues to be the main information source in Portugal, social networks, and specifically Facebook, are increasingly important in news consumption by users (ERC, 2015). This new way of news dissemination, as well as the proliferation that these contents reach in social networks, led to news agencies exploiting these new channels, both to attract new audiences, and to redirect users to their own websites (Castillo, El-Haddad, Pfeffer, & Stempeck, 2014). Thus, it is important to understand how, and what kind of content these agencies put on their Facebook channels, as well as the strategies they use to share these same contents. This study aims to understand how the main news channels of Portuguese TV (RTP3, SIC Notícias, and TVI24) manage and use the social network Facebook to share news contents. To this end, the authors collected quantitative data of all posts placed on Facebook between February 8 and February 14 2016. Approximately 1063 posts were collected and analysed from the three Facebook pages. The results indicate that two of the three channels extensively used their Facebook pages to share and target content to their official websites. Regarding the news sources and type of media used, the three Portuguese TV news channels use similar strategies. However, in what concerns the main thematic and quantity of messages per day, as well as the level of redundancy of information, the three channels operate their pages differently.
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    THE USER PARTICIPATION ON FACEBOOK PAGES OF THE THREE PORTUGUESE TV NEWS CHANNELS – RTP3, SIC NOTÍCIAS, AND TVI24
    (3rd International Conference on Education, Social Sciences and Humanities, 2016-05) Ferreira, Sónia; Rodrigues, Rui
    In recent decades, the national and international media contexts, in particular television, media significantly changed. Although they were not created for the purpose, the role that social networks, in particular Facebook, have taken as a content diffusion platform is unquestionable. Nowadays, traditional media (radio, newspaper, television) use the Web’s potential to distribute news content (Canelas, 2011). Currently, all TV news channels in Portugal have a website or a page on social networks. TV stations have increased communication channels with the public on digital platforms and study strategies that promote the participation and interaction with the news content (Cazajeira, 2015). The TV / Internet convergence will not only reach the content, but also the consumer, who becomes an interactive and participative audience. This reality imposes on journalism a continuous and updated news production system, dependent on a user being permanently connected to the Internet (Cazajeira, 2015). In fact, an ERC report (2015) confirms the relevance that social media has assumed in the publication and consumption of news. Social networks are recognised as one of the most important means for news media consultation, right after television, and the practice of sharing news is very common among consumers of online news in Portugal. Furthermore, when compared to other countries analysed by Reuters Institute (Newman, Levy, & Nielsen, 2015), Portuguese consumers are those who make the most comments to online news, preferring social networks to news sites. Considering the importance of new online platforms for journalism, this study aims to present a quantitative analysis of user participation on the Facebook pages of the three Portuguese TV news channels, specifically RTP3, SIC Notícias and TVI24, between 8 and 14 February 2016. To track this participation, the following parameters were used: the "like" button as a way to study the demonstration of publication interest; "sharing" of a particular element, be it a photo, a video or a text, on their own Timeline, the Timeline of a friend or by private message. This monitoring is important to understand the dissemination of news content; and the comments area. The number of comments will help understand the dynamics and the discussion that the publication has on the public. The results of 1063 posts indicate that of the analysed parameters - "Like", "Comment", and "Share" – the one with the greatest power of participation among the users of the pages of the three Portuguese TV news channels is the "Like" system, followed by "Share" and then "Comment". Analysing the thematic that create the most user participation with "Likes" and “Comments” parameters are "Science and Technology". “Education” and “Humorous/Satirical/Unusual Finally, the publications available end of the night (10pm-1am) has better participation rates.
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    Young Users and the Swipe Logic in Smartphones
    (Meltemi, 2019-03) Fernandes, Samuel; Rodrigues, Rui; Oliveira, Lídia
    In a society of quick technological development, coupled with the growing use of smartphones, new habits of interaction and consumption of contents arise, namely, through gestures based on touch. One of these new habits of interaction is the swipe - quick movement done with the thumb. This gesture allows users to make decisions quickly, spontaneously and decisively, which may not only refer to the swipe logic as a technical aspect of interaction, but also to associate it with possible behavioral changes in the interaction with contents. The aim of this study was to understand if this interaction logic is implicit in the young, if they use it regularly, and if it has implications in the way they interact with them. In order to reach this goal, 34 students from the Department of Communication and Art of the University of Aveiro were asked to take a test using the eye tracker, where they had to complete the proposed tasks, which could be solved with or without the swipe logic. The results obtained lead to the conclusion that participants with android operating system are not familiar with the swipe logic. On the other hand, the participants with the iOS operating system showed to be familiar with this logic and have used it to complete the tasks that have been proposed. Finally, the results also showed that participants were able to perform tasks more efficiently using this interaction logic.