Andreia Pinto de Sousa

• PHD
• Lecturer at Lusófona University | Porto University

Online health information and its exploitation in different digital contexts is increasing, creating new interaction experiences in which the perception of credibility and trust plays a fundamental role. In this processes, the Interface has a crucial function, mediating the interaction between users and information and, consequently, influencing he...

A central objective of a Portuguese research project on Young people, News and Digital citizenship – YouNDigital (PTDC/COM-OUT/0243/2021) is to grab news definitions and their connection with youth’s (aged 15-24) democratic needs. The project relies on complementary methods to approach the senses of what news is and how young people get in touch wi...

Aiming to engage young people in critical social matters, the project YouNDigital- Youth, News and Digital Citizenship (PTDC/COM-OUT/0243/2021) is developing a digital newsroom to understand young people’s interests and engagement with news. This paper discusses the methodological process of designing a Web application to host a digital newsroom th...

Indispensable for the proper functioning of democratic societies, journalism assumes a pivotal role in democracy and the community. Although information is the primary element in this area, the visual communication design is equally relevant. Placed on the same level as language and communication, cyberjournalism and visual communication contribute...

Centro de Reabilitação Profissional de Gaia (CRPG) is a Portuguese public association that promotes the social, educational, occupational, and rehabilitation aspects of people with disabilities. The CRPG project presented in this paper is directly related to the Rehabilitation and reintegration of labor accidents and occupational diseases (RAC/LCA)...

Background: This work presents Com@Rehab, a technological patient-centred activity for individuals needing a physical rehabilitation approach and with a specific loss of functionality. Within this scope, this paper focuses on the description of the activity in virtual reality (VR), its components, design and user profile, and its versatility and fu...

Desde o lançamento do primeiro livro do Harry Potter (1997), vários conteú- dos interativos foram lançados para os fãs. O mais recente trabalho criado para os Potterhead pelo Jam City e Portkey Games foi o videojogo para telemóvel, no forma- do de RPG, Hogwarts Mystery. A partir da análise estética e interativa do videojogo acima citado, esta revis...

Virtual Reality (VR) Serious Games can improve physical, cognitive and mental rehabilitation by helping patients stay engaged and entertained while performing rehabilitation exercises. Patients need therapist monitoring and intervention tailored to each patient and to each point in their unique rehabilitation process. This article reports on a prot...

Journalism plays a fundamental role in the history of society and, above all, in the history of democracy. In this sense, since journalism is a product of the informative domain, which is crucial, the truth is that journalism is, at the same time, also a product of the visual realm. And this is precisely where visual communication comes in, namely,...

While the lockdown significantly reduced face-to-face meetings, video conferencing platforms began to be used widely to leverage different sectors, such as academia. In this scope, scientific events such as seminars and conferences were migrating to the online environment. However, online events usually do not dedicate time to group activities, dec...

Privacy is a fundamental human right. However, cybersecurity attacks are growing in number and sophistication. There is the need for more cybersecurity professionals, more specifically, women professionals, otherwise we might miss 50% of the world’s population experiences, ideas and innovation, to help building a more cyber secure society. The obje...

A Interface é incontornável quando se estudam os sistemas de informação. Com este artigo, pretendemos contribuir para o aumento do conhecimento sobre os processos de apresentação de informação de saúde online e, sobre as relações do utilizador com a Interface. A proposta aqui apresentada consiste na divisão da interface em cinco dimensões (visual,...

Every day millions of people access Internet to search for health information. Currently, the main issue under discussion goes beyond the trustworthiness of information reaching the perception of credibility and trust from the users perspective, that goes further the quality of information. Assuming that the user interface is an important actor on...