Carlos R. Cunha- Ph.D. in Computer Science
- Professor (Assistant) at Polytechnic Institute of Bragança
Carlos R. Cunha
- Ph.D. in Computer Science
- Professor (Assistant) at Polytechnic Institute of Bragança
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Carlos Rompante da Cunha is BSc in Computer Science from the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal and PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Trás-Os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Informatics and Mathematics. His research interests are in the area of pervasive and mobile computing, distributed systems and security. He is integrated member of the Research Centre in Digitalization and Intelligent Robotics (CeDRI).
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Artificial Intelligence is among the main technologies favored by researchers across different sectors, being as the research topic in focus or as supporting tool, at the same time is also a topic of interest and source of curiosity both for corporations and organizations as well to the common user, over the last years, this general interest has on...
Extended Reality is a technology that is continually growing and popularizing, being considered by many researchers, organizations, and companies an essential component for future technological and social progresses across different sectors, and among those sectors where is being explored is the Healthcare sector. This sector, on the other hand, is...
Technology is constantly supporting in the innovation of the teaching-learning process. Today’s students are more demanding actors when it comes to the environment they have at their disposal to learn, experiment and develop their critical thinking. The area of Mathematics has successively suffered from students’ learning difficulties, whether due...
A Internet de tudo: o grande ecossistema digital
Technological evolution has impelled companies to adopt innovative solutions supported by technologies. In a particular way, brands have been migrating from traditional marketing to digital marketing, with the vanguard of emerging technologies allowing them to obtain competitive advantages. Nowadays, artificial intelligence promises to transform th...
Technology has helped to innovate in the teaching-learning process. Today's students are more demanding actors when it comes to the environment, they have at their disposal to learn, experiment and develop critical thinking. The area of mathematics has successively suffered from students’ learning difficulties, whether due to lack of motivation, lo...
1. Introdução Na evolução das organizações e dos seus Sistemas de Informação sempre se considerou que o seu ativo mais importante eram as pessoas. Que a tecnologia, per si, era um "mecanismo" ao serviço das pessoas-um instrumento que as permite tomar melhores decisões, desde as operacionais às estratégicas. Continuamos hoje a pensar o mesmo, e bem....
Population ageing is occurring at a very fast pace all over the world, which has a significant impact on all aspects of society. It is imperative to ensure that every human being lives with dignity and equality in a healthy environment; this requires an inclusive, comprehensive and prevention-oriented response.According to this thinking, there are...
The aging phenomenon in many of the developed countries all over the world, combined with the increase in life expectancy, has led to an increase in the number of elderly people resorting to nursing homes. In this context, the role of the caregiver is now a focus of increasing importance. The idea of well-being combined with health and the provisio...
In the digital age in which we live, smart technologies are omnipresent no matter the industry we consider. The tourism sector challenged by constant technological and digital innovations and trying to reinvent itself after the pandemics is more than ever relying on smart technologies to improve the value for companies and tourists. With this reali...
Tourism is a very emerging sector in any society, very important in economic terms and in job creation, today any traveler increasingly uses technological means to fully enjoy their trip.The IoT is and increasingly will be a major contributor to smart tourism. To identify the most developed terms in the field of Tourism and Internet of Things, a qu...
This article starts with a short review of recent studies and reports on the adaptation of museums toward digital transformation. This first part aims at giving a contextualization of the current importance of the use of technologies, and an understanding of which are the current strategies and struggles museums face regarding their use. In correla...
Material heritage typically has a whole set of associated immaterial heritage, which is essential to pass on to the visitor as a cultural mission of the destinations and those who manage them. In this sense, the interpretation of material heritage is a complex process that is not a fully efficient process with the mere observation of physical artif...
Smart cities are, by nature, spaces with a richness and diversity of technologies incorporated in their physical spaces, in such a way that they can be seen as a single intelligent and collaborative space. As technological pillars, two important layers arise – the sensory layer and the actuator layer, both of which are strongly interconnected with...
The tourism sector has gained increasing importance in the economy of many regions, or even countries, however, the way in which organizations and territories communicate and promote each other, to attract tourists, significantly impacts the success of the sector, and digital marketing strategies have stood out as promising. Thus, in a digital soci...
Website is a bridge between users and online information. It is extremely important in terms of marketing and must be designed according to the rules of usability, especially in hotel industry. Websites with high usability value will be accessed by more users. Therefore, building a useful website is important. This study aims to evaluate, from the...
Technology is increasingly a transversal layer to all activities and, in this sense, exploring the potential of technology as a driver to support the competitiveness of organizations and nations has become a necessity for survival. Tourism is a fundamental asset in many modern economies and certainly fundamental from a civilizational and generation...
The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis that will be necessary for the development of a future digital marketing plan for CubiCasa OY with the main goal to attract new customers in the United States market. Specifically, the following topics are addressed during the analysis: external and internal examination of CubiCasa in the United State...
Nowadays, there is a growing need for rehabilitation associated with demographic changes and health trends, with an increase in the prevalence of non-communicable diseases and an aging population. Although well-being is classically associated with a set of physical activities, the reality of today’s society often shows that there is a lack of time...
A Realidade Virtual apresenta-se como uma ferramenta tecnológica promissora a qual poderá constituir-se como uma oportunidade para que as organizações possam desenvolver novos paradigmas de comunicação que poderão traduzir-se em vantagens competitivas. A aplicação da Realidade Virtual no âmbito do sector do turismo poderá criar novas oportunidades...
The Internet of Things has revolutionized the way we can think about sales and customer relationship management strategies. In this context, a view of the world where technology is embedded in practically all objects and physical spaces will be an expectable reality. This reality opens up unprecedented opportunities with regard to the levels of cus...
The evolution of technology in the last decade predicts a future where technology is disseminated in the environment in order to merge with the environment itself, being omnipresent. This world paradigm has been associated with the Internet of Things concept or, according to several authors, with the Internet of Everything concept. The potential ma...
Digital marketing is gaining predominance in marketing strategies across the globe. Digitization is becoming more and more present in business, not just changes in consumer behavior, but the adoption of new technologies, tools, and applications is highly disruptive, with immediate impact on the business of all companies. The common link between dig...
Regional museums are relatively recent museum structures that emerged in the late 19th century after universal exhibitions. They are museums specifically dedicated to the representation of a given population in a specific territorial context, highlighting the fundamental traits that characterize the nature and essence of that community, differentia...
Tourism is an information-intensive sector and today's tourist is hungry for information about everything that surrounds him and is increasingly demanding about the mechanisms that are made available for access and interaction with information. This new reality requires rethinking many of the existing solutions. In this context, the Internet of Thi...
Providing gerontological cares represents an increased challenge when applied to rural scenarios. This paper discusses the role of technology in gerontology and specifically how technology-based solutions can be developed to assist the elderly population in rural areas. We also characterize the Northeast Portuguese region exposing its rural charact...
The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) plays a major role in tourism, travel and hospitality industry. The Integration of ICT in the tourism industry is essential for success of tourism enterprise, as such it is necessary to integrate ICT in higher education curricula. This paper analyzes the relevance given by the various Portuguese...
Rural regions are a typology of region rooted around the world. Its identity and matrix are differentiated from the most urbanized regions. Associated with rural areas is a strong negative feeling of depopulation, undeveloped business fabric, less wealth and less ability to attract investment and where public and private services from various secto...
Pages: 463-475 Resumo: O Marketing Digital é uma vantagem determinante para a estratégia empresarial do sector hoteleiro. Para além de ser uma poderosa ferramenta para a implementação de ações e políticas de marketing turístico, também permite o acompanhamento e a aferição dos seus resultados; ajudando a mantê-las num um forte aliado no combate a c...
Technological evolution has led to the emergence of a set of solutions suitable to support mobility and ubiquity scenarios. Wireless computing and mobile devices together with the miniaturization of sensors and actuators, which are now embedded in physical spaces, are today’s reality. This phenomenon opened the door to a set of opportunities for re...
Communication between the different actors present in the school ecosystem is an essential issue. However, in a busy world where parents do not have much time to visit schools regularly, it is crucial to create mechanisms to better monitor student success and school demands. The current pandemic situation caused by the coronavirus has highlighted t...
Tourism is an area of vital interest to the Portuguese economy, having been, in 2019, the largest export economic activity in the country, accounting for 52.3% of services exports and 19.7% of total exports, having tourist revenues recorded an 8.7% contribution to Portuguese GDP (INE). Low density regions such as the territories of Vale do Côa, whi...
In small and rural regions, where we can many times find top quality products, there is, many times, a greater difficulty in promoting their products. This difficulty begins in the nature of the companies that manufacture these products. These companies are typically family-owned or small-sized, not having large capacity to carry out very elaborate...
The evolution of technology has led to a set of technologies suitable for mobility and ubiquity scenarios. Phenomena of wireless computing, mobile devices and, generally, miniaturized sensors and actuators embedded in physical spaces are a today’s reality. This phenomenon has opened the door to a set of opportunities for reengineering the way we pe...
Communication among the different actors present in the school ecosystem is an essential issue. However, in a hectic world where parents do not have much time to visit schools regularly, it is crucial to create mechanisms to better monitor student’s success and school demands. The interaction among school, students and parents presents a growing co...
Contrary to outdoor positioning and navigation systems, there isn’t a counterpart global solution for indoor environments. Usually, the deployment of an indoor positioning system must be adapted case by case, according to the infrastructure and the objective of the localization. A particularly delicate case is related with persons who are blind or...
The provision of gerontological care in rural areas represents an increased management challenge. Framed by the Portuguese Northeast reality, this paper reflects on the role and potential of pervasive and mobile computing in the management of gerontological care, specially in rural areas, explaining the potential of fusion between gerontology and t...
Resumo A popularidade crescente de aplicações Web de acesso massivo que armazenam e analisam grandes quantidades de dados, sendo o Facebook, o Twitter, a Amazon e a Google alguns exemplos proeminentes de tais aplicações, apresentam novas exigências que desafiam os tradicionais SGBDR. Motivados principalmente por questões de escalabilidade, uma nova...
The actual economic paradigm is based on a strongly cooperative model that tries to support a more competitive and global organizations response. With cooperation comes an intrinsic need-interconnection and interoperability of information systems among business partners. This represents, in many areas, a huge organizational challenge, being the fie...
The developments occurring in recent years in the Information and Communication Technologies led inevitably to a great effect on the operation, structure and strategy of organizations around the world, and obviously also in the tourist sector organizations. With the rapid expansion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) throughout almo...
Precision viticulture (PV) and precision agriculture (PA) requires the acquisition and processing of a vast collection of data coming typically from large scale and heterogeneous sensor networks. Unfortunately, sensor integration is far from being simple due to the number of incompatible network specifications and platforms. The adoption of a commo...
The developments occurring in recent years in the Information and Communication Technologies led inevitably a great effect on the operation, structure and strategy of organizations around the world, and obviously also in the tourist sector organizations. Through the Information and Communication Technologies, it is possible to reduce communication...
Conference code: 106714, Export Date: 20 October 2015, References: Hicks, B.J., Culley, S.J., McMahon, C.A., Powell, P., Understanding information systems infrastructure in engineering SMEs: A case study (2010) Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, 27 (1-2), pp. 52-73;
Health information systems are of extreme importance and they became an intrinsic part of the healthcare sector. However, in today's molds and with the advent of the Internet and mobile devices, a paradigm shift, from the current isolated systems to interoperable distributed systems, that take advantage of ubiquitous computing, is needed. In critic...
Wireless sensor networks have found multiple applications in precision viticulture. Despite the steady progress in sensing devices and wireless technologies, some of the crucial items needed to improve the usability and scalability of the networks, such as gateway infrastructures and in-field processing, have been comparatively neglected. This pape...
In this paper, which deals with an work in progress, we present the results of a prototype that aims to enable blind people to autonomously acquire consumer goods in hypermarkets. The prototype implements an architecture that combines inertial, magnetic and multilateration techniques, supported by 802.11 networks and mobile devices. We present the...
Organizations have in-built social responsibility to society. The evolution of technology have enable organizations to interact in an innovatively and more close approach to their clients. But this evolution has not included people with special needs like blind people. And, even those organizations that have enable some kind of support-approach to...
Stating that information and services are ubiquitous, means that they are available anywhere, anytime. The development of mobile-devices with wireless network-access capabilities, together with the decrease in network-traffic costs and the proliferation of free wireless hotspots, makes the use of mobile-devices, as Internet access tools, increasing...
This paper describes a Viticulture Service-Oriented Framework (VSOF) which turns around context elements or tags that are placed in the field and which can be decoded by mobile devices such as mobile phones or PDAs. The tags are used to automatically associate a field location to the relevant database tables or records and also to access contextual...
Nowadays, tourists are increasingly thirsty for information on anything that surrounds him. With the Information Communication Technologies (ICT) evolution that supports the ubiquity, it is necessary to rethink the available models of information and services to tourists. With the evolution of mobile devices, with wireless access, together with the...
This paper describes a business and technological model proposal, known as Inov@Douro, intended to support and to promote competitive and sustained precision agriculture practices in the Portuguese Douro Region. Our approach is based on a distributed cooperative network, tailored to meet the specific needs of viticulture enterprises which also expl...
In critical situations, such as decision making in healthcare, is necessary to have access to all the patient's information, this information must be reliable, and must be accessed in an easy and fast way. These requirements make medical information systems of extreme importance. However in today's molds and with the advent of the Internet and mobi...
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Question (1)
Framing my question:
I think is commonly accepted that the near future will be more and more pervasive. IoT or IoE will be truly a reality.
The approach in the interaction processes between companies and customers will tend to be much more personalized and automated. To this end, recognizing the customer and having information about his profile will be crucial to approach him, in a business context (e.g. in a sales process in a mall). In this context, customers' privacy will emerge as a growing problem to manage, within the legal rights of the customer as a citizen (increased problem when we think in global mobility).
Question:
Instead of a model where each customer defines a set of privacy rules for each company; the creation of a single, state-owned database, where citizens can manage their privacy settings; mandatory for all companies, is it a good solution?
Thank you, in advance, for all your valuable comments.
Kind regards,
Carlos
