João Vidal de Carvalho

• PhD
• Polytechnic University of Porto

This book—Advances in Tourism, Technology and Systems Volume 1—from the SIST Series is composed of the best selected papers accepted for presentation and discussion at the 2023 International Conference on Tourism, Technology and Systems (ICOTTS’23). The ICOTTS is a multidisciplinary conference with a special focus on new technologies and systems in...

Destabilised approaches have been the primary cause of fatal accidents during the approach and landing phase, as stated in (Airbus, 2023). The stabilised approach concept is of great importance for the safe operation of an airline during the approach and landing phases (Acarbay & Kiyak, 2020). The elements highlighted in the approach phases are the...

Nutrition is a complex field that assesses the relationship between foods, their nutritional composition and their impact on health and disease. In Portugal, there are around 4000 nutritionists, with 90% employed or self-employed. These professionals work in large collective catering groups and sport, with a growing focus on sports. This proposal a...

After the COVID-19 pandemic, the world began to value sensations and emotions much more, and it has been the tourism sector that has become one of the primary generators of sensory and emotional experiences in different tourist destinations worldwide. In this sense, people began to demand new credit products to finance tourism experiences; however,...

Research on business incubators has been advocating their impacts in promoting industry innovation, economic growth, fostering entrepreneurship, and social development. However, the literature gap concerning business incubator models remains, among them how to operationalize digital ones, and the knowledge about management practices informed by pri...

One of the significant challenges facing the aviation sector is the management of risks arising from its flight operations, especially in the approach and landing phases, where pilot experience and training are of great importance and where the most significant incidents for air safety occur. Therefore, this paper proposes a model inspired by the s...

Tourism is one of the main sectors in recent years that has significantly impacted the countries’ economies worldwide. For this reason, many governments worldwide have begun a series of actions to improve travellers’ perceptions of their tourist destinations, using the power of social networks. However, the characterisation of these perceptions is...

This book features a collection of high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Tourism, Technology and Systems (ICOTTS 2022), held at University of Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile, from 3 to 5 November 2022. The book is divided into two volumes, and it covers the areas of technology in tourism and the tourist experienc...

Nowadays, people have experienced increased stress levels, and sometimes they turn to travel and tourism to solve this. In this order, the hotel industry has sought to generate experiences and products that generate well-being and recall in their guests. Within these experiences, we find sensory experiences, where some studies have shown that, for...

Physical activity contributes to a healthy life. To take better advantage of these benefits it is important to monitor and control the practitioner's physical and mental parameters, in order to improve their performance and health/quality of life. This paper presents a platform, with a web and mobile applications, whose common goal is the monitorin...

The widespread use of Information and Communication Technologies - ICT substantially increases the risks related to information security. In fact, due to the increase in the number and type of cyber attacks, Cybersecurity has become a growing concern in today's society. This phenomenon affects not only individual citizens, but also companies and ev...

The roles and positive impacts of business incubators, including virtual ones, in promoting entrepreneurship and innovation in multiple industries, and their consequent contributions to fostering sustainable economic growth and social development, have been highly advocated in the extant literature. Nonetheless, several authors highlight the urgent...

The importance of Maturity Models in the health area was proven to support, monitor and direct health organizations to better plan and execute to their investments and developments. In this work, two reviews of the literature were collected: one of them focuses on identifying the main maturity models developed in the health area, the similarities,...

Although athlete activism has gained tremendous popularity in all levels of competition over the years. With the Covid 19 pandemic, we started to witness numerous acts of activism such as protests and rallies that counted with the presence and support of some of sport’s biggest names. Moreover, this topic, in specific the fan reaction to athlete ac...

Business incubators have been highlighted as vital contributors and value-creation organizations to entrepreneurs during their venture developments by offering them multiple resources and specialized support. Notwithstanding, several authors call attention to the significant literature gap concerning research focusing on entrepreneurs’ daily lived...

Virtual business incubators have been highlighted for their positive impacts in fostering entrepreneurship and innovation in several business areas, contributing to sustainable economic growth and social development. However, despite their crucial roles, previous literature emphasizes that research concerning their business models has been largely...

El ser humano siempre ha tenido la necesidad de conocer otros lugares, por cu-riosidad inicialmente y, con posterioridad, por motivos de relax, salud, diversión, deportes, naturaleza, congresos o cultura. Sin embargo, desde la década de los cincuenta del pasado siglo el turismo se ha convertido en una nueva «indus-tria», que moviliza a más mil mill...

Planet Earth is undergoing severe climatic changes due to human activities. The carbon footprint increases every year, and the amount of waste produced is reaching alarming values. In a society of consumerism, so many products are disposed in a relatively good condition, being replaced by new ones. The situation is unsustainable. To help facing thi...

The new approach to brands has streamlined the creation of marketing strategies and customer relationships to achieve emotionally strong insights. Audio-branding is hardly used and is difficult to measure its help in creating customer connection with brands. To close this gap, we propose a deep learning model with mixed learning and central affinit...

This book features a collection of high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Tourism, Technology & Systems (ICOTTS 2021), held at the University of Cartagena, in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, from 4 to 6 November 2021. The book is divided into two volumes, and it covers the areas of technology in tourism and the tou...

This book presents high-quality, peer-reviewed papers from the International Conference in Information Technology & Education (ICITED 2021), to be held at the ESPM – Higher School of Advertising and Marketing, Sao Paulo, Brazil, between the 15th and the 17th of July 2021. The book covers a specific field of knowledge. This intends to cover not only...

Si bien hace décadas que las TIC han irrumpido en el ámbito educativo, sin embargo, no en todos los lugares lo han hecho por igual, tanto es así que se acentúa la brecha digital entre países más desarrollados y los que están en proceso. Por ende, es necesario dotar a los centros docentes de las infraestructuras y la formación necesaria en habilidad...

Industry 4.0 concept is based on digitalization, networking, and value-creation. The Industry 4.0 efforts comprise sensing, connectiveness, systems integration, advanced automation, manufacturing data-driven, and cyber-physical production system in the manufacturing systems-context. The digital capabilities and resources provided by Industry 4.0 ne...

The complexity of the information systems (IS) in the higher education institutions (HEI) has been continuously increasing during the last decades. Thus, managers need tools to evaluate the maturity of their IS, in order to continuously improve them. Additionally, the accreditation processes and rankings may also include organisational aspects in t...

Higher education institutions (HEIs) are complex and dynamic organizations in terms of information management, forcing their information systems to respond to enormous challenges and threats. In order to evaluate the HEIs’ information systems, we propose the development of a maturity model capable of supporting the role of HEI’s managers, as well a...

The tourism industry has dynamized the economy of the countries by offering places, as well as related tourism experiences, products, and services. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, some of these tourist destinations were affected by subjective perceptions of users on social networks, within stands out Twitter. To achieve an objective percep...

This book features a collection of high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Tourism, Technology & Systems (ICOTTS 2020), held at the University of Cartagena, in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, from 29th to 31st October 2020. The book is divided into two volumes, and it covers the areas of technology in tourism and th...

The evaluation of brand perception through corporate advertising is currently a challenge for companies since the effectiveness of traditional marketing methodologies depends on the ability of human interpretation, which can lead to un-objective perceptions. This paper proposes a methodology to characterize the brand perception for insurance compan...

One of the main sector that moves the economy of the countries worldwide is tourism and its associated services. Dynamics like globalization has led these countries to create tourism services with global standards, however, in the context of COVID-19 pandemic, these services have been affected as shown the social networks. This fact led to a change...

Electronic business can bring competitive advantages to tourism agencies leading them to better understand their customers while at the same time compete at a global scale for new markets and new opportunities. Guiding a company through new territory pushes management to adapt its strategy and to find a systematic way of conducting potential decisi...

Este número especial da RISTI é composto pelos trabalhos escritos em espanhol e em português aceites para apresentação e discussão na Conferência Internacional de Turismo, Tecnologias e Sistemas de 2020 (ICOTTS´20). A ICOTTS é uma conferência multidisciplinar com foco especial em novas tecnologias e sistemas no setor do turismo e realizou-se entre...

“Cyber-attacks can be more dangerous than guns and tanks”. This statement was made by Junker in his speech in the EU “State of the Union” in 2017 and reflects the extreme importance of this phenomenon. The increasing variety of devices that can access to Internet has contributed to the overall growth of internet users, in all kinds of places and ci...

Maturity models (MM) have been adopted in organisations from different sectors of activity, as guides and references for Information Systems (IS) management. In the educational field, these models have also been used to deal with the enormous complexity and demand of IS management. This paper presents a research project that aims to develop a new M...

Maturity models have been introduced over the last five decades as guides and references for information system (IS) management in organizations from different sectors. In the education sector, maturity models have also been used to evaluate higher education institutions (HEIs) across several dimensions, such as information and communication techno...

This book features a collection of high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Tourism, Technology & Systems (ICOTTS 2019), held at the Universidad Abierta Interamericana, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 5th to 7th December 2019. It covers the areas technology in tourism and the tourist experience, generations and tec...

Internet has changed our lives radically since its inception. It has a particular impact in companies, revolutionizing the way they do business, namely on how they store their information and promote their products. In this new context, two hot topics have been decisive factors in the competitiveness of companies: Digital Marketing and e-Commerce....

Este número especial da RISTI é composto pelos trabalhos escritos em espanhol e em português aceites para apresentação e discussão na Conferência Internacional de Marketing e Tecnologias de 2019 (ICMarkTech’19) e na Conferencia Internacional de Turismo, Tecnologias e Sistemas de 2019 (ICOTTS´19). O ICMarkTech’19 contou com o apoio do Instituto Univ...

Maturity models facilitate organizational management, including information systems management, with hospital organizations no exception. This article puts forth a study carried out with a group of experts in the field of hospital information systems management with a view to identifying the main influencing factors to be included in an encompassin...

The increasing use of a variety of devices that can access the Internet has contributed to the overall growth of Internet use. The growth of Internet use also leads to a general increase in cybercrime concerns as well as the number of users’ victims of this permanent threat. This reality is also very present in Portugal where there is a sense of la...

In the last five decades, maturity models have been introduced as reference frameworks for Information System (IS) management in organizations within different industries. In the healthcare domain, maturity models have also been used to address a wide variety of challenges and the high demand for hospital IS (HIS) implementations. The increasing vo...

Conservative practices, such as manual registry have limited scope regarding preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative decision making, knowledge discovery, analytical techniques and knowledge integration into patient care. To maximize quality and value, perioperative care is changing through new technological developments. In this context, kn...

Maturity models have been adopted in organizations from diff erent sectors of activity, as guides and references for informationsystem (IS) management. In the healthcare field, maturity models have also been used to deal with the enormous complexity anddemands of ho spital info rmation s ystems (HIS). This article presen ts a research project that...

In the last five decades, maturity models have been introduced as guides and reference frameworks for information system (IS) management in organizations within different industries and sectors. In the healthcare domain, maturity models have also been used to address a wide variety of challenges, complexities and the high demand for hospital IS (HI...

In the last decades the Higher Education Institutions (HEI) have been faced with new challenges, requiring profound changes in their internal and external processes. The HEI have handled this new reality by means of the dematerialization of those processes. Thus, capable Information Systems (IS) are required to support such complex processes. Anoth...

A Informação assume hoje em dia, uma importância crescente, sendo uma porta aberta para o futuro. Ela torna-se fundamental para as organizações, na conceção e adoção de novas tecnologias, na exploração das oportunidades de investimento e ainda na planificação de toda a atividade organizacional. A inovação nos Sistemas de Informação (SI), surge como...

A maturidade dos Sistemas de Informação consiste no seu grau de progressão e evolução ao longo do tempo, desde patamares de pouca maturidade até pata-mares de maturidade superior, ou seja, patamares de excelência. Este livro aborda a maturidade dos Sistemas de Informação em geral e a matu-ridade dos Sistemas de Informação hospitalares em particular...

Maturity models have been introduced, over the last four decades, as guides and references for Information System (IS) management in organizations from different sectors of activity. In the educational field, maturity models have also been used to deal with the enormous complexity and demand of Educational Information Systems. This article presents...

No contexto atual de extrema competitividade, a inovação é um desafio permanente para todas as organizações, independentemente da sua área de negócio ou sector de atividade. A gestão da inovação é tão importante quanto fundamental, para uma organização que aposta na melhoria contínua e que ambiciona criar valor para os clientes e/ou colaboradores....

In the last five decades, maturity models have been introduced as reference frameworks for Information System (IS) management in organizations within different industries. In the healthcare domain, maturity models have also been used to address a wide variety of challenges and the high demand for hospital IS (HIS) implementations. The increasing vo...

Perioperative care is changing through advances in technology with the aim of maximizing quality and value. Future transformation in care will be enabled by data and consequently by knowledge. This paper describes a knowledge management and data science research project and its results based on a study applied to the perioperative department at Hos...

The aim of this study is to describe and compare the use of eHealth applications in selected European Union (EU) countries. Using data available from the European Hospital Survey (2012/2013), the study reported in this paper analyses the adoption of five of the most commonly used Health Applications in European Hospitals, namely Electronic Patient...

The aim of this study is to describe and compare the use of eHealth applications in selected European Union (EU) countries. Using data available from the European Hospital Survey (2012/2013), the study reported in this paper analyses the adoption of five of the most commonly used Health Applications in European Hospitals, namely Electronic Patient...

A preliminary analysis of the Individual Student Process (ISP) allowed the detection of difficulties and delays in its access by schools, students, parents, teachers and institutions. Knowing that student success in school substantially depends on the interpersonal supervising of the family, school, and community, access problems make it difficult...

No contexto atual de extrema competitividade, a inovação é um desafio permanente para todas as organizações, independentemente da sua área de negócio ou sector de atividade. A gestão da inovação é tão importante quanto fundamental, para uma organização que aposta na melhoria contínua e que ambiciona criar valor para os clientes e/ou colaboradores....

Maturity Models have been introduced, over the last four decades, as guides and references for Information System (IS) management in organizations from different sectors of activity. In the healthcare field, Maturity Models have also been used to deal with the enormous complexity and demand of Hospital Information Systems (HIS). The present paper i...

Os modelos de maturidade foram introduzidos nas últimas décadas como guias e referencias para a gestão dos Sistemas de Informação de diferentes sectores de atividade. Na área da saúde, os modelos de maturidade têm sido usados igualmente para lidar com a enorme complexidade e demanda associadas aos Sistemas de Informação Hospitalares (SIH). O presen...

A preliminary analysis to the individual student process (ISP) allowed to detect difficulties and delays in its access far beyond the desirable. It was also noted that not always the interested parties had access to the information required. This, obviously, was one of the reasons that motivated the investigation related to student’s academic regis...

Os Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação estão na base do desenvolvimento das organizações e na forma como a sociedade atual, se organiza e evoluí. A sua importância é indiscutível, consensual e transversal a todos os setores de atividade, revelando-se tanto no processamento dos dados para gerar informações úteis, precisas e confiáveis, como na conc...

This article presents the first phase of a research project whose purpose is to introduce a new form of collaboration and communication between the school and the family through an Electronic Booklet (EB). The EB was developed due to the increasing necessity of collaboration between the school and the family, promoting the teaching-learning process...

Os modelos de maturidade são instrumentos facilitadores da gestão das organizações, incluindo a gestão da sua função sistemas de informação (SI), não sendo exceção as organizações hospitalares. Neste artigo, apresenta-se um estudo efetuado junto de um conjunto de especialistas da área da Gestão dos Sistemas de Informação Hospitalares (SIH) no senti...

The maturity models are facilitating instruments of organizational management, including the management of information systems (IS) function, not being execption hospital organizations. This article presents a study conducted with a group of experts from the field of the Hospital Information Systems (HIS) to identify the main influence factors that...

The maturity models are instruments to facilitate organizational management, including the management of its information systems function. These instruments are used also in hospitals. The objective of this article is to identify and compare the maturity models for management of information systems and technologies (IST) in healthcare. For each mat...

In the present paper we put forth a preliminary research aimed at the 7 development of an encompassing maturity model for the management of hospital 8 information systems. The development of this model is justified to the extent that 9 current maturity models in the field of hospital information systems management 10 are still in an early developme...

The maturity models are instruments to facilitate organizational management, including the management of its information systems function. These instruments are used also in hospitals. The objective of this article is to identify and compare the maturity models for management of information systems and technologies (IST) in healthcare. For each mat...

Resumo: Este artigo apresenta a primeira fase de um trabalho de investigação, cujo objetivo é introduzir uma nova forma de colaboração e comunicação entre a Escola e a Família, através de uma Caderneta Eletrónica (CE). A CE surge para dar resposta às crescentes necessidades de colaboração entre a Escola e a Família, fomentando o processo ensino-apr...

Maturity models are tools that favour the management of organizations, including their information systems management task, and hospital organizations are no exception. In the present paper we put forth a preliminary investigation aimed at the development of an encompassing maturity model for the management of hospital information systems. The deve...

This paper introduces the concepts related with maturity models and 6 analyses the evolution of maturity models for Information Systems Management 7 and mainly the evolution of maturity models focused on the management of 8 Hospital Information Systems. We concluded that current maturity models in the 9 field of Hospital Information Systems managem...

In the present paper we put forth a preliminary research aimed at the development of an encompassing maturity model for the management of hospital information systems. The development of this model is justified to the extent that current maturity models in the field of hospital information systems management are still in an early development stage,...

Resumo: Os modelos de maturidade são instrumentos facilitadores da gestão das organizações, incluindo a gestão da sua função sistemas de informação, não sendo exceção as organizações hospitalares. Neste artigo apresenta-se uma investigação inicial que visa o desenvolvimento de um abrangente modelo de maturidade para a gestão dos sistemas de informa...

Stages of Growth, Maturity Models, Hospital Information Systems, Strategy, Management

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