Caroline Queiroz Santos

• Doctor of Computer Science
• Professor at Federal University from Jequitinhonha and Mucuri's Valleys

Visto que as informações circulam de forma instantânea entre as pessoas nos dias atuais e dada a importância de se combater as fake news nas redes sociais, o presente trabalho tem como objetivo contribuir para que haja uma diminuição de notícias falsas disseminadas na rede, através da proposta de criação de uma aplicação web chamada “LieDetector”....

Estratégias gamificadas têm sido discutidas para ensino do Pensamento Computacional (PC). Este trabalho propõe uma análise através do modelo UTAUT para averiguar a aceitação da metodologia gamificada no desenvolvimento do PC. Metodologicamente, a primeira etapa foi o mapeamento sistemático da literatura, seguida da preparação do material e da aplic...

Este artigo descreve uma pesquisa de cunho exploratório e abordagem qualitativa, realizada com professores do ensino fundamental, que consistiu na realização de oficinas sobre o ensino do Pensamento Computacional (PC). Por meio da aplicação de questionários, investigou-se as percepções docentes acerca das possibilidades de ensino do PC nas séries i...

To extract information and knowledge of the large amounts of data generated nowadays is a need that has been challenging researchers from several fields such as computing, communication, health and applied social sciences. In the context of tourism data in Brazil, from a specific scenario, we noticed that the field’s professionals don’t use techniq...

Currently, we observe a growing interest in obtaining information about what circulates on social media. There is interest in extracting and analyzing data obtained from the Web for a number of reasons as users opinions, users behavior, and networks evolution, for instance. Our study seeks to comprehend how data visualization could support social m...

With the increasing amount of data available in digital media, new professional practices emerged in journalism to gather, analyze and compute quantitative data that aims to yield potential pieces of information relevant to news reporting. The constant evolution of the field motivated us to perform a systematic review of the literature on data-driv...

A análise de dados de mídias sociais tem sido uma prática crescente, tornando a visualização de dados um aspecto importante no contexto de apresentação dos grandes volumes de dados tipicamente extraídos dessas mídias. Um dos desafios nesta área está na apresentação eficiente desses grandes volumes de dados, provendo técnicas que apoiem os processos...

In the past few years, telling stories with data (narrative visualization) has been receiving progressive attention, due to many benefits of its use. Seminal works in the field mapped the main characteristics involved in designing this kind of visualization. However, through analyzing a set of related academic studies and comparing them with such s...

Help resources are available in many ways and required in many applications. However, in the digital game context, little has been investigated and discussed about why, how and when to offer help in order to not jeopardize the gameplay. In this work, we present an exploratory research on gamers' preferences and opinions about help in games, conduct...

Interactive data visualization techniques are an important way to obtain information from large datasets. Data journalism is an emerging area that strongly makes use of such techniques. In this work we investigate the relationship between journalists (and media professionals) in their job routine and data visualization, with the main goal of unders...

This paper presents preliminary results of a survey conducted to understand the needs of social network data analysts in relation to data visualization. Semistructured interviews were conducted in order to find out if analysts know and use data visualization, as well how they consider it important. This is work in progress that aims to raise a disc...

This paper presents preliminary results of a survey conducted to understand the needs of social network data analysts in relation to data visualization. Semistructured interviews were conducted in order to find out if analysts know and use data visualization, as well how they consider it important. This is work in progress that aims to raise a disc...

Global Software Engineering (GSE) has became a part of the academic curricula in Computer Science courses. However, training students for GSE inherits the challenges of teaching Software Engineering (SE) in globally distributed environments. Furthermore, the most related experience in teaching graduate students reveals difficulties in developing GS...

Abstract in Informática Pública vol. 9 (2): 95-96, 2007

Digital games have become very popular and yet there is littlestudy on how gamers learn a game. In this paper, we presenta preliminary study in this matter, conducted by means of asurvey to investigate gamers’ preferences and strategies whileplaying and learning a game. Participants were also askedabout the importance of help systems in games and w...

Nowadays it is notorious the growth and the popularity of social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, especially with the facilities provided by the use of mobile devices. Considering these social networks, Twitter has a different approach: a friendship connection doesn’t need to exist and a person can follow another person or organizat...

Este trabalho propõe a TAP Parade, uma ação composta por visualizações interativas para conscientizar a população sobre o consumo inteligente de água. O foco principal da ação é a instalação de torneiras ``gigantes'' em diferentes pontos de uma cidade, para que o cidadão possa interagir com projeções de visualização de dados sobre consumo de água,...

Resumo Os smartphones estão cada vez mais presentes na vida das pessoas e, com isso, o desenvolvimento de aplicativos para esses dispositivos tem crescido. Este tipo de aplicação requer atenção especial na qualidade da comunicação do sistema com o usuário. Este trabalho apresenta um estudo de caso da aplicação do Método de Inspeção Semiótica e Méto...

In the process of software development, the ease with which the user can perform his/her tasks in the system - commonly called usability - is an important requirement. The prototyping of user interfaces is one of the most widely used techniques to specify this type of requirement. This paper presents the importance and need to improve and increase...

O artigo procura analisar a inclusão digital como elemento facilitador para o desenvolvimento local. Seu objetivo é analisar e avaliar os ganhos sociais propiciados pelo acesso à tecnologia da Internet por meio de telecentros comunitários, procurando identificar tendências de desenvolvimento local a partir da ampliação do uso das TICs, em uma regiã...

RESUMO O artigo procura analisar a inclusão digital como elemento facilitador para o desenvolvimento local. Seu objetivo é analisar e avaliar os ganhos sociais propiciados pelo acesso à tecnologia da Internet por meio de telecentros comunitários, procurando identificar tendências de desenvolvimento local a partir da ampliação do uso das TICs, em um...

This paper presents the results of a qualitative research whose objective was to broaden the understanding on the participation of youngsters and adolescents on Internet-based social networks. Data collection was conducted from participants of the Cidadao.NET (Citizen.NET), which is a digital inclusion project that covers the north and northeast re...