Jano Moreira De Souza

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro | UFRJ · Departamento de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computação

Amid pandemic lockdowns, digital nomads exhibit remarkable resilience and adaptability, showcasing the evolving dynamics of remote work. As Artificial Intelligence (AI) intersects with digital nomadism, it offers profound insights into the future of work, transcending national borders and reshaping traditional workplace norms. Lever-aging the Gioia...

Gender diversity is a recurrent topic in the STEM field. The lack of women's presence in the field is a concern for important organizations such as the UN and UNESCO. This matter impacts collaboration since the absence of team diversity can affect the result obtained. Due to this context, the present study aims to analyze collaboration regarding ge...

In the dynamic intersection of business and technology, teams of specialists must collaborate to solve complex problems and drive important projects. However, there's a space for improvement in our understanding of cross-domain collaboration within IT projects. This research addresses this gap by analyzing collaborative knowledge work practices, em...

Internet-based paradigms and technologies supported by the Internet of Everything (IoE) gain notoriety by integrating people, sensors, data, and processes in the most diverse applications, especially in collaborative approaches. Intelligent services utilize technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) to facilitate teamwork and joint efforts in v...

AI applications streamline workflows, automate tasks, and require adaptive strategies for effective integration into business processes. This research explores the transformative influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on various industries, such as software engineering, automation, education, accounting, mining, legal services, and media. We inv...

The world is changing increasingly faster, bringing uncertainty and complexity to many processes, and this acceleration leads to the rise of demand for studies regarding the future. Futures Studies have been widely used to support decision-making, emphasizing forecasting technologies’ timing, diffusion, and life cycle. Therefore, evaluating previou...

The rise of artificial intelligence agents and information technology platforms governed by data-driven algorithms has had profound impacts on the way knowledge work is managed and carried out. Concerning the novel uses of digital work platforms, the arising tensions might suggest that the socio-technical design frameworks adopted by major tech fir...

The Fostering Women to STEM MOOCs (FOSTWOM) project aims to increase the number of women in STEM careers through the participation of young women through free-access Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). One of its actions was the conception of the Heroine's Learning Journey (HLJ), a framework structured into 3 acts and 12 stages, which employs a he...

The rise of artificial intelligence agents and information technology platforms governed by data-driven algorithms has had profound impacts on the way knowledge work is managed and carried out. Concerning the novel uses of digital work platforms, the arising tensions might suggest that the socio-technical design frameworks adopted by major tech fir...

The COVID-19 pandemic, a transformative event in modern society, has disrupted routine, work, behavior, and human relationships. Organizations, amidst the chaos, have innovatively adapted to the evolving situation. However, many countries were unprepared for the magnitude of the challenge, revealing the fragility of health responses due to inadequa...

Objective: To present a narrative literature review to identify, analyze, and characterize the state of the art about methodologies for developing openEHR archetypes. Method: An exhaustive literature search in the computer science field. We used the databases: IEEE Digital Library, ACM Digital Library, Science Direct, Scopus and Springer Link. The...

In this paper, we continue our investigations on digital nomadism and the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the work-related aspects and lifestyle of digital nomads (DN). The findings presented in this empirical study reflect the analysis of the impact of COVID-19 outbreak (and its waves) on the market economy and work-life boundaries of DNs as percei...

Governments and organizations utilize Knowledge Management to create, share, use, and manage their knowledge to gain competitive and strategic advantages. They also use Futures Research techniques, such as Foresight, technology assessment, and technological forecasting, to comprehend the forces that shape the future and consequently affect them. De...

Ciência, Tecnologia, Engenharia e Matemática (STEM) são áreas cruciais para o desenvolvimento socioeconômico do Brasil que sofrem com a falta de diversidade. Neste artigo, analisamos a participação feminina no Ensino Superior em STEM de 2010 a 2019 usando a metodologia SAGA da UNESCO. Os resultados mostram que a participação feminina em STEM aument...

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are crucial areas for Brazil's socioeconomic development, which suffer from a lack of diversity. In this paper, we analyze female participation in STEM Higher Education in the period of 10 years from 2010 to 2019 using the UNESCO SAGA methodology. The results show that female participation in...

In this paper, we continue our investigations on digital nomadism and the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the work-related aspects and lifestyle of digital nomads (DN). The findings presented in this empirical study reflect the analysis of the impact of COVID-19 outbreak (and its waves) on the market economy and work-life boundaries of DNs as percei...

This article discusses the Brazilian maritime authority’s efforts to monitor and control vessels in specific maritime areas using data from the naval traffic control system. Anomalies in vessel locations can signal security threats or illegal activities, such as drug trafficking and illegal fishing. A reliable Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) is nec...

The fast growth of the urban population increases the demand for energy, water, and transportation, amongst other needs. This study explores the current state and future scenarios of Smart Cities and the environmental, economic, and social challenges that must be overcome. We used the Rapid Review method to understand the challenges of implementing...

This paper explores the challenges and strategies used to design, build and evaluate a collective intelligence (CI) model to support discussions about cities. Through an autoethnography of ideas and discussion practices in both online and offline contexts, this work explores the tensions between the chosen methodological approaches, including desig...

The massification of remote work, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, has been causing significant changes in productive and working arrangements, both for individuals, organizations, and society. At the level of personal life philosophy, for example, this transformation can be evidenced in the dissemination of digital nomadism values such as wor...

During a Futures Study, researchers analyze a significant quantity of information dispersed across multiple document databases to gather conjectures about future events, making it challenging for researchers to retrieve all predicted events described in publications quickly. Generating a timeline of future events is time-consuming and prone to erro...

BACKGROUND Over the past two decades, there has been a growing need to develop electronic health records (EHR), which have been introduced into hospitals and clinics to manage patient data. Emerging the use of openEHR and the need for developing openEHR archetypes. OBJECTIVE The aim of our study was to provide a systematic literature review to ide...

Collaboration of organizations with universities and research institutes is a way of decreasing not only the time but also the cost of R&D activities in innovation projects. This paper is a study on knowledge transfer measurement models in order to analyze their metrics and identify the use of techniques for measuring the flow of knowledge between...

The 4th Industrial Revolution is causing profound and accelerated changes to work, bringing new opportunities and challenges as practically all occupations are impacted by new technologies. The transformations in the labor market were accelerated even more due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the scenario in which old occupations cease to exist and new...

Recent technological advancements have made Large Language Models (LLMs) easily accessible through apps such as ChatGPT, Claude.ai, Google Bard, and HuggingChat, allowing text generation on diverse topics with a simple prompt. Considering this scenario, we propose three machine-machine collaboration models to streamline and accelerate Delphi execut...

Work has been continuously changing throughout history. The most severe changes to work occurred because of the industrial revolutions, and we are living in one of these moments. To allow us to address these changes as early as possible, mitigating important problems before they occur, we need to explore the future of work. As such, our purpose in...

Meetings are a fundamental part of a group decision-making process. As organizations grow across the globe and remote teams rise, the meetings become even more complex. Therefore, new technologies expanded the definition of a meeting as a face-to-face situation to an activity distributed in space and time. In this research, we identify similarities...

Stakeholders' Map of Digital Nomad Ecosystem published in "The role of wannabes in the digital nomad ecosystem in times of COVID-19 pandemic" October 2022

The purpose of this paper is to reveal a set of new results obtained from an ongoing investigation focused on the way that the particular characteristics which are inherent to "wannabe" digital nomads' activities contribute to the sustainability of the whole digital nomad ecosystem. In line with the premise of this research, we assume the importanc...

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is causing considerable changes to the world of work. The interaction between technology and work, which takes many forms such as digitalization, automation, and augmentation, is happening quickly and broadly, impacting economic sectors left almost untouched by previous industrial revolutions. In this scenario, High...

Este artigo apresenta uma iniciativa de utilização de Inteligência Artificial no âmbito da Defensoria Pública do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, a Caixa de Intimação com Inteligência Artificial (CICIAR), desde a motivação para o seu desenvolvimento até os benefícios dos usuários do serviço implementado. Os resultados apontam melhorias para a Defensoria P...

Large organizations usually spread their research and development (R&D) around the world, hindering coordination efforts when performing future‐oriented technology analysis (FTA) studies. FTA is commonly used in R&D planning, especially on research prioritization. Therefore, we developed an FTA framework for large and geographically spread organiza...

In the process of creating a Technological Roadmap, a large amount of data must be analyzed, and future events may be spread across several document databases, making it harder to researchers retrieve all future events described in these publications in a timely fashion. Technology Roadmapping is a time-consuming and error-prone method that usually...

In this paper, we report on new findings about the results of an empirical study which aims to investigate how the COVID-19 pandemic has been shaping nomadic work practices and also challenging the lifestyles of digital nomads (DN). To do this, we collected textual data from posts in a Reddit community. We argue that, in order to understand how to...

In recent years, digital technologies have been used to support discussions about the city and also to involve citizens in participatory public processes. However, despite the widespread use of social media platforms, old issues related to engagement and participation still persist in digital initiatives. The main goal of this study is to carry out...

Future-oriented Technology Analysis (FTA) has been widely used in organizations to support the management decision-making process with emphasis on forecasting the timing, diffusion, and life cycle of technologies. The concept of Industry 4.0, understood as the connection between machines, systems, and assets to create intelligent networks that will...

Future-oriented Technology Analysis (FTA) has been widely used in organizations to support the management decision-making process with emphasis on forecasting the timing, diffusion, and life cycle of technologies. The concept of Industry 4.0, understood as the connection between machines, systems, and assets to create intelligent networks that will...

The growth and diversification of public debate made it possible for civil society to become more participatory in decision-making processes. In other words, it enabled citizen participation, which is the interaction between civil society and public authorities to solve problems. Furthermore, with the development of Information and Computer Technol...

Desde a Revolução Industrial houve transformações profundas nas condições de trabalho. Em cerca de 200 anos, foram dados saltos do ponto de vista tecnológico, econômico e social. O século XXI trouxe descobertas que estão desencadeando alterações bastante significativas, com forte impacto sobre os trabalhadores. Este estudo verificou a expectativa d...

In the process of creating a Technological Roadmap, a large amount of data must be analyzed, and future events may be spread across several document databases, making it challenging to researchers retrieve all future events described in these publications in a timely fashion. As such, Technology Roadmapping is a time-consuming and error-prone metho...

eSports is a growing economic activity and is receiving international recognition as a sport, including in the next Olympics. This paper explores the collaboration challenges that professional eSports players face during competitions. This is important to understand this relatively new computer-mediated profession allowing for the better management...

Despite the importance of STEM for economic development, the area still presents an impressive gender gap, as women account for only 29% of students enrolled in STEM courses in Brazil, with participation rates falling to nearly 10% in Computing and certain Engineering courses [1]. Considering this challenge, we created the Heroine Learning Journey...

Nos últimos anos, o avanço e a popularização da tecnologia ampliaram as oportunidades de participação do cidadão nas discussões relacionadas à política e a sociedade. No entanto, os cidadãos ainda têm pouco conhecimento sobre seus direitos e deveres neste cenário. Embora seja possível encontrar algumas iniciativas que tentem resolver o desafio enco...

As cidades inteligentes têm a tecnologia como pilar de apoio à aplicação de seus conceitos. O presente artigo apresenta um conjunto de benefícios percebidos pelos gestores públicos que participaram do projeto de implantação da plataforma de gestão urbana denominada SIGELU. Os dados foram coletados através de entrevistas semiestruturadas e analisado...

In 2018, CAPES' Evaluation Directorate proposed a new methodology for Qualis, the journal classification system used to score the scholarly output of Masters and PhD programmes in Brazil, which used a system with varied composite criteria specific to each Evaluation Area. A unified criterion without distinction by areas was proposed, based on WoS,...

In 2020, it was estimated that gender parity would be reached in 99.5 years [1]. In 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the gender parity was set back by a generation with the number of years until parity reaching 135.6 [2]. In Engineering Education, reaching gender parity is a challenge recognized by the Research Agenda for Engineering Education t...

Many studies have focused on estimating the impact of automation on work around the world with results ranging widely. Despite the disagreement about the level of impact that automation will have, experts agree that new technologies tend to be applied to every economic sector, thus impacting work regardless of substituting or complementing it. The...

We report the first findings of an empirical study aimed at investigating how COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the work practices and lifestyles of digital nomads (DN). To do this, we analyzed messages, questions and comments posted by digital nomads in a specific online discussion community of the Reddit social network. Preliminary findings indicate...

Over the past decades, the use of digital technologies to support participatory urban planning and design has been repeatedly described as a crucial instrument and critical building block for tackling historical problems of participation in such processes. Social media, e-participation platforms, and crowdsourcing applications are examples of techn...

Citizen engagement in building user-curated narratives of complex or long-lasting news stories has been the key foundation of the design and implementation of the Acropolis virtual environment. Previous user studies have shown, by positive evidence, that this goal can be pragmatically achieved, but the challenge now lies in assessing: a) the extent...

It has been a quarter of a century since the publication of the first edition of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD) held in 1996 in Beijing, China. Despite some attempts to empirically examine the evolution and identity of the field of CSCW and its related communities and disciplines, the scar...

We report the first findings of an empirical study aimed at investigating how COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the work practices and lifestyles of digital nomads (DN). To do this, we analyzed messages, questions and comments posted by digital nomads in a specific online discussion community of the Reddit social network. Preliminary findings indicate...

Purpose Brazil is struggling as the unemployment rate is 12.4% and nearly 13m people are unemployed. The fourth Industrial Revolution is advancing, and the country needs to consider how it will impact the labor market. This work explores the impact of automation on the Brazilian workforce to supply decision-makers with information about the subject...

The paradigm of the Internet of everything (IoE) is advancing toward enriching people’s lives by adding value to the Internet of things (IoT), with connections among people, processes, data, and things. This paper provides a survey of the literature on IoE research, highlighting concerns in terms of intelligence services and knowledge creation. The...

In the past few years, the gender gap has reduced globally but there is still a long road ahead until parity. At the current rate, it will take 99.5 years to close the gap globally and 59 years to do it in Latin America. In Brazil, female enrolment in tertiary education has increased but participation in STEM programs is still low when compared wit...

Over the past decade, online crowdsourcing has established itself as an emerging paradigm that industry and government have been using to harness the cognitive abilities of a multitude of users distributed around the world. In this context, microtask crowdsourcing has become the method of choice for addressing a wide range of diverse problems. Micr...

This work proposes a methodology applied to repositories modeled using star schemas, such as data marts, to discover relevant time series relations. This paper applies a set of measures related to association, correlation, and causality to create connections among data. In this context, the research proposes a new causality function based on peaks...

O processo de participação cidadã tem sido influenciado pelas tecnologias de informação e comunicação dando espaço a uma nova forma de participação denominada participação eletrônica. Alguns estudos apontam que ferramentas de e-participação podem ampliar o acesso e o engajamento. Contudo, para explorar ao máximo o potencial das ferramentas de e-par...

UNSTRUCTURED Aedes aegypti is a vector for the transmission of diseases such as dengue fever, chikungunya, Zika fever, and yellow fever. In 2016, over one million cases of these diseases were reported in Brazil — an alarming public health issue. One of the ways of controlling the disease is by inspecting and neutralizing the places where the Aedes...

Background: Aedes aegypti is a vector for the transmission of diseases such as dengue fever, chikungunya, Zika fever, and yellow fever. In 2016, over 1 million cases of these diseases were reported in Brazil, which is an alarming public health issue. One of the ways of controlling this disease is by inspecting and neutralizing the places where A. a...

The recent political, economic, and social situation has given rise to question on the part of citizens regarding their own space for political participation. Social movements in the form of protests are an example of this growing need for society’s participation. One thing that can expand these possibilities is technology. It is correct to affirm...

Resumo Com o avanço da 4ª Revolução Industrial, as discussões sobre o Futuro do Trabalho se intensificam ao redor do mundo. No Brasil, onde a taxa de desemprego supera os dois dígitos, as políticas públicas sobre o emprego tendem a ser tratadas no médio e curto prazo, visando diminuir parte da população desempregada. Por outro lado, é preciso també...

Estimation of the presence of people in real time is extremely useful for businesses in providing better services while saving money. In this paper, we propose a technique for estimating the number of mobile devices present at a certain place and time, through analysis of WiFi probe requests from smart devices. Our goal is to address the problem th...

RESUMO As iniciativas de participação com o objetivo de estreitar a distância entre governos e cidadãos têm aumentado. Os conceitos de governança digital, governo eletrônico e participação eletrônica entraram na agenda de grandes organizações que buscam o desenvolvimento da sociedade. Nesse contexto, a utilização de ferramentas de participação elet...