Jorge Borges

Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro | utad · Serviços de Informática e Comunicações

Taking into consideration a current legal Portuguese framework about accessibility requirements for websites and mobile applications of the public sector, we present an e-Learning project aiming to enhance awareness about the need of the development of accessible of Web contents, thus promoting digital inclusion. In this context, in this paper we...

Experiences with online learning in higher education are increasing in number. This is due to advancements in technology, technological savviness of teachers and students, evolution of teaching practices, and changes in student expectations. That is why understanding learners’ and teachers’ needs, expectations, and perceptions of their proficiency...

Portugal, as part of the European Union, has general legislation regarding accessibility and inclusion for general purposes, particularly for education. There are several international and national initiatives, including some projects. However, disabled and non-disabled people still do not share equal opportunities. In this project a proposal for a...

The University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), in an effort to streamline processes and reduce bureaucracy, decided to develop and use an in-house document management system to handle processes. However, this practice created additional needs such as the actual digital signing of documents associated with the institution business and adminis...

In a higher education institution, professors and researchers may have to perform several distinct roles and activities such as teaching, researching, management, and community outreach. The performance evaluation of these professionals must consider a wide range of information, which is used in a complex evaluation process. This work reports the d...

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have come a long way on the usage of Information Systems (IS) at the several phases of the execution of their business plan. These organizations are very peculiar in the sense that most of the IS technologies have been developed as a consequence of the research work of the HEIs, positioning them as creators and...

The research activities in a Higher Education Institution (HEI) is highly dependent of the development of research projects. Most times, these projects have, at the core of their workforce, scholarship fellows financed by the project budget and responsible for the execution of very specific research tasks. The procurement process, leading to the co...

In this paper, we present the work that has been recently developed in University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD) to promote teachers’ motivation for the use of technologies in their pedagogical practices. UTAD is a portuguese higher education institution that, despite the initiatives that have been developed since 2010, continues to growth r...

Sports, Health and Wellbeing play a crucial role in our lives. More than that, Sports and Wellbeing means Health. In this 21st century, these three areas cannot work without technology and innovation. Smartphone or wearables are two of so many products that increase the way that we made sports or live a better life. To live we need to maintain a he...

Introduction NFC stands for Near Field Communications and is set of short-range wireless technologies, typically requiring a separation of 10 cm or less. NFC protocols establish a generally-supported standard, in contrast with other close-range communication proprietary technologies, that are currently used for specific applications, such as, ID ca...

Este artigo reporta a evolução do processo de gestão de listas de espera cirúrgicas na rede hospitalar pública portuguesa, pela perspetiva do trabalho de desenvolvimento e instalação de software desenvolvido pela UTAD, enquanto parceira do Ministério da Saúde, para a criação de um sistema de informação para gestão de programas de recuperação dessas...

Data centres have been evolving and growing throughout the years. Examples of this growth and evolution include mainframe to distributed, single to clusters and now, organizations begin the task of server consolidation, physical to virtual. Virtualization technology serves as a great enabler of data centre optimization, consolidation and migration....

EDIT: the language was later published here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308920749_The_specification_of_dynamic_behaviour_in_Web_page_design Several archaeological, historical or heritage-related entities in Northern Portugal are joining efforts to promote their activities among local communities, using interactive and multimedia tech...