Oksana Tymoshchuk

Oksana Tymoshchuk
University of Aveiro | UA

Doctor of Education
Auxiliary Researcher, DigiMedia

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Introduction
Oksana Tymoshchuk: detains a master in Special Education and holds a PhD in Multimedia in Education at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, and the Post-doc in Communication Sciences and Technologies. She is currently an Auxiliary Researcher in the scientific area of Communication Science and Technologies, DigiMedia, DECA at the University of Aveiro.
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January 2022 - present
University of Aveiro
Position
  • Researcher
Description
  • Auxiliary Researcher in the scientific area of Communication Science and Technologies.
September 2021 - December 2021
University of Porto
Position
  • Researcher
May 2016 - May 2021
University of Aveiro
Position
  • PostDoc Position
Education
September 2012 - March 2016
University of Aveiro
Field of study
  • PhD on Multimedia in Education

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Publications (107)
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The context of territory-based innovation processes includes both barriers and incentives. This chapter presents and discusses the research and findings of a study conducted with two sets of five community-led initiatives, one composed of small-sized initiatives and another composed of larger-sized initiatives, with a view to identify barriers and...
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This article discusses the development of an e-moderation model for an online community in Special Education, whose objective is a more accessible communication between families and education and health professionals. The study used a development research methodology, which involved several complementary steps, including the analysis of existing e-...
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The acquirement and improvement of digital skills by parents and experts is of crucial importance for the incorporation of technological resources in the education and rehabilitation process of children and youth with special needs (SN). This project aims to create and display an online platform that encourages the acquirement of skills in Informat...
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Media literacy plays a pivotal role in equipping young people to react responsibly during crises, cultivating a critical viewpoint and attitude towards global incidents. In this light, game-based innovative learning strategies hold extensive potential to facilitate immersive educational experiences for youngsters, fostering cognitive skill develo...
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Family participation in school has proven to benefit a child's self-esteem, equality in inclusive education, and a more enriching and equitable educational environment. The present study aims to deepen the understanding of the participation of families in the process of Inclusive Education in the first cycle of Basic Education, intending to concept...
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nclusive Education (IE) implies a political, cultural, social and pedagogical change. Its main objective is to defend the right of all students to learn together, creating a school and a society that promotes fair, equitable and humane policies, involving families, teachers, students and community members. The family's participation is fundamental...
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The widespread dissemination of contradictory information through various media platforms can increase anxiety and confusion among younger generations. This highlights the need to promote Media Literacy (ML) skills, enabling them to evaluate online information's validity critically. Video game-based learning can be valuable in this context, fosteri...
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A Educação Inclusiva (EI) pretende responder à diversidade de modo a garantir uma educação de qualidade para todos, independentemente das suas características. A comunicação e a colaboração entre a escola e a família são essenciais neste processo. Este estudo pretende explorar a participação da família na EI e as estratégias que as escolas utilizam...
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Including children with Cerebral Palsy (CP) in preschool benefits all, namely in promoting social and emotional skills (SES). These skills, which involve regulating one’s thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, have an important impact on personal and societal domains across one’s life, namely in managing emotions, and establishing interpersonal interac...
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This study aimed to provide an overview of the doctoral theses carried out in the field of Digital Media over the last six years. Two doctoral programs linked to the DigiMedia Research Centre were considered: the Doctorate in Multimedia in Education and the Doctorate in Information and Communication on Digital Platforms. A total of 46 theses were c...
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A promoção de competências socioemocionais (CSE) na idade pré-escolar é importante para o desenvolvimento global das crianças. Estas competências facilitam a compreensão, a empatia, a comunicação e a colaboração. Ouvir agentes educativos é fundamental na compreensão deste processo. Este estudo tem como objetivos: i) contextualizar e caracterizar o...
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This comprehensive study analyzed the various challenges and significant gaps that exist in the dissemination of spaces that promote the digital inclusion of people with any type of disability in three Portuguese-speaking countries, namely Angola, Brazil and Portugal. These spaces, such as Disability Support Associations or Digital Inclusion Resour...
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Musical expression significantly impacts individual development, enriching cognitive, emotional, and social capacities. This influence is particularly profound in young individuals with cognitive or physical impairments. To address this, we devised an ecosystem of software tools, paired with specially designed hardware devices, such as an eye track...
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Embora os jovens sejam considerados nativos digitais, os estudos constatam que eles não têm necessariamente a literacia mediática que lhes é frequentemente atribuída (Pereira, 2021). A literacia mediática não é apenas uma questão de saber usar dispositivos específicos, implica uma compreensão crítica aprofundada de como os media funcionam, comunica...
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Uma grande quantidade de pessoas com Necessidades Especiais (NE) possui limitações que as impedem de realizar tarefas simples como comunicar, ler ou aceder a documentos, por exemplo. Neste sentido, a disponibilização de meios que promovam uma melhor acessibilidade destas pessoas a informação e materiais é extremamente útil. Deste modo, a criação de...
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This study presents a methodology for assessing the accessibility of two mobile apps, Hominere and Smart Break, using guidelines, automatic validation tools, and manual analysis. Using automated evaluation tools, including WAVE, Access Monitor, SortSite Accessibility Checker and Validator revealed common accessibility issues such as missing or inco...
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Family participation in school has proven to benefit a child's self-esteem, equality in inclusiveeducation, and a more enriching and equitable educational environment. The present studyaims to deepen the understanding of the participation of families in the process of InclusiveEducation in the first cycle of Basic Education, intending to conceptual...
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The World Health Organization - WHO (2021) considers deafness as a disabling hearing loss and estimates that approximately 466 million people have this disability. However, for the deaf themselves, the idea of deafness cannot remain just a hearing loss and authors like Tabery (2014) also reinforce this and combat the abnormalizing characteristic...
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In this article, it is intended to analyze and evaluate the Hominere mobile application regarding its accessibility through manual assessment and automatic tools, guided by the accessibility criteria defined by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). The automated evaluation with the support of various tools (WAVE-Web Accessibility Evaluat...
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Seeking a new way of looking at early childhood, the Cres(SER) project has been supported by the Regional Health Administration of the Centre, presenting an intervention that advocates child's emotional, social, cognitive and cultural development and stable growth since prenatal life, especially during the first three years. Digital media can play...
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Revisão da literatura-Scopus e Web of Science; Criação de uma grelha de análise da presença online e identidade visual; Benchmarking de websites de projetos semelhantes; Identificação de boas práticas a aplicar no projeto; Reformulação da identidade visual do projeto com base nos resultados dessa análise. 1. Metodologia Seguem-se as principais etap...
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3. Results With this analysis, we realize that 50% of the theses developed since 2018 were financed by various funding programs (Image 2), of which 34.8% of the theses were financed by FCT. The most used methodologies are Case Studies and Research-Based Design (Image 3); and the most used instruments are Observation, Surveys, Interviews, and Focus...
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This study was part of the Digital Media Observatory, an initiative of the DigiMedia Research Centre that aims at creating digital data collection, compilation, processing, and a visualization system to understand the complexity, disseminate information, and promote studies on digital media in Portugal and other countries. This study aimed to creat...
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In Portugal, as of late, there has been an increase attending of students with disabilities in higher education (HE), which makes an extending reflection on inclusive education fundamental (Antunes et al., 2020; DGES, 2020). Contemplating inclusive schooling implies searching for ways of remembering all individuals for the instructing and growing e...
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To promote the attendance of children with Special Health Needs in Arts Education Programmes of Music in Portugal, we conducted six awareness workshops. The aim of this study is to evaluate the perceptions and degree of satisfaction of the Participants regarding the Trainer and the contents presented. An Evaluation Questionnaire was developed and v...
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This report integrates the intellectual output 2 (IO2) achievements, which aims to create the prototype of a digital tool to facilitate connections and networking opportunities, bridging gaps and mismatches between the expectations, skills, and needs of young adults with IDD, and both Higher Education provision and employment opportunities.
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To identify how digital media are being used by community-led initiatives of the Centro Region of Portugal, and to identify the requirements that a digital platform for mediation between agents in the territory should have, two focus groups were conducted, involving six small-sized community-led initiatives and six larger-sized community-led initia...
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Making Higher Education more inclusive for students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities can bring significant benefits for the students themselves and for the academic community, in general. Family involvement is essential for the successful transition to post-scholar life, namely Higher Education. This paper presents and discusses the...
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The book "e-health in practice" gathers 10 papers discussed during the 5th International Congress Media Ecology and Image Studies - MEISTUDIES, held on November 2022. The texts deal with misinformation in health on digital platforms, data journalism in the context of Covid-19, and Accessibility, among others.
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Introdução In Portugal, inclusive education is considered fundamental as recommended by the Basic Law of the Educational System, Law Nº 46/86, Official Diary of the Republic of 14 October, and Decree-Laws Nº 344/1990 of 2 November and Nº 54/2018 and Nº 55/2018 both of 6 July. Despite this, in Arts Education Programmes, teachers don´t have adequate...
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This study is based on the experience gained through the research and intervention project on the History of Education - Educational Roots for the Future (ReDuF), funded by FCT in partnership with Murça City Council. The project team has created CITRIME-Murça (Interdisciplinary, Transboundary and Interregional Center for the Memory of Education) lo...
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While the lockdown significantly reduced face-to-face meetings, video conferencing platforms began to be used widely to leverage different sectors, such as academia. In this scope, scientific events such as seminars and conferences were migrating to the online environment. However, online events usually do not dedicate time to group activities, dec...
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Early childhood intervention (ECI) is a very important support system for identifying and assuring effective support to children with disabilities (or at risk) and to their families. It is, thus, important to assess the perception of families, seeking to improve these support services.Patients and methods: With these goals in mind, we carried out g...
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To reflect and clarify the methodological paths we are following, the objectives of this work were to base the choice of the methodology to be used in our research project related to the Inclusive Education of children with special needs in Arts Education Programmes in Music in Portugal. We started by comparing methodologies used in other research...
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This study is part of a research conducted under the CeNTER Program, an interdisciplinary project that aimed to promote the development of the Centro Region of Portugal. The general contribution of this paper is the evaluation of a mobile application prototype to promote the collaboration between the various agents involved in the areas of Tourism,...
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Digital media can provide an essential contribution to the development of local communities by creating digital environments that facilitate the sharing of information, dissemination of knowledge, and construction of organizational learning. Digital media can also promote interaction and collaboration processes among different regional agents, fost...
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A Intervenção Precoce na Infância (IPI) é um conjunto de serviços e recursos que pretende identificar e assegurar um apoio eficaz a crianças com necessidades específicas e às suas famílias. É importante ouvir as famílias, relativamente ao apoio que recebem, no sentido de melhorar este serviço. Objetivos Este estudo pretende: i) Contribuir para a co...
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In order to promote the inclusion of children with Special Needs in Arts Education Programmes of Music in Portugal, an Action-Research project began in September 2018. The present work-an Integrative Literature Review-aims to identify articles related to the theme of our study, analyse what the objectives of these studies were, their methodological...
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With this work, we intend to obtain an in-depth notion about the inclusion of children with motor disabilities due to Cerebral Palsy in the Learning of Music. Through an Integrative Literature Review, we identified 60 articles related to the theme of our study, analysed what the objectives of these studies were, their methodological options and th...
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This paper aims to present the theoretical background and the methodological procedures that supported developing a digital hypermedia platform to promote territorial innovation in the Centro Region of Portugal. It shows the complementary steps to develop a reference framework of digital mediation strategies for territorial based innovation process...
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This paper presents the prototyping and evaluation of a mobile application that is being developed to promote territorial-based innovation. It also describes the methodological procedures adopted for the application design and evaluation phases involved in its construction. To carry out a proof of concept of the prototype with a focus on usability,...
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A Conferência Internacional “Comunidades e Redes para a Inovação Territorial”, organizada pelo Programa Integrado CeNTER e pelo Departamento de Ciências Sociais, Políticas e do Território da Universidade de Aveiro, à qual se associou a V Conferência de Planeamento Regional e Urbano constituiu-se como um espaço de discussão com a comunidade académic...
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This study is part of a larger research effort taking place under the umbrella of CeNTER Program, an interdisciplinary project that aims to promote the development of the Centro Region of Portugal. The general contribution of this paper is the evaluation of a mobile application prototype that promotes collaboration between the various agents involv...
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In Portugal, educational inclusion is considered fundamental, as advocated by the Basic Law of the Educational System, Law Nº 46/86, Diário da República of 14 October, and Decree Laws Nº 344/1990 of 2 November and Nº 54/2018 of 6 July. However, when the mother of a child with Cerebral Palsy went to an Artistic School to enrol her 7-year-old child,...
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In order to contribute to the Inclusive Education of Children with Special Needs in the Arts Education Programmes of Music in Portugal, an Action-Research project was started in 2018. With this work we intend to characterize the child that originated the study and to relate their characterization with studies obtained in the literature review, whos...
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Para comprender a las humanidades digitales en profundidad se debe observar su aplicabilidad. Un ejemplo de iniciativa que reúne conceptos de las humanidades digitales es la Aldea de Xisto, desarrollada en Portugal para atraer personas a las olvidadas aldeas de Portugal. Estas aldeas, que tienen por característica una construcción en piedra, vivían...
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En Portugal, en septiembre del año de 2018 se inició un estudio doctoral titulado: Inclusión de niñas y niños con necesidades especiales en la enseñanza artística especializada: de la Investigación a la acción. Este trabajo doctoral se está llevando a cabo con el apoyo de: La Fundación para la Ciencia y Tecnología de Portugal – FCT; El Centro de In...
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Digital platforms can facilitate the establishment of collaboration networks between tourists and local agents, promoting the importance of dialogue, as well as the opportunity for constant innovation. In this way, digital platforms can help tourists co-create their most valuable experiences with other tourists and influence a tourism destination's...
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Digital platforms can facilitate the establishment of collaboration networks between tourists and local agents, promoting the importance of dialogue as well as the opportunity for constant innovation. In this way, digital platforms can help tourists to co-create their most valuable experiences with other tourists and influence the success of a tour...
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In order to contribute to the Inclusive Education of children with special needs in Music Arts Education Programmes in Portugal, an Action-Research project started in 2018. The study was initiated by the enrollment of a child with cerebral palsy in the Arts education programs. The objectives of this work were to base the choice of methodology to be...
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As políticas educativas resultantes da atuação dos Governos face à pandemia por COVID-19: análise crítica do caso português
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In order to contribute to Inclusive Education of children with Special Needs in Arts education programmes in Portugal, an Action-Research project started at the University of Aveiro in 2018. We intend to find solutions for children with motor disabilities due to Cerebral Palsy who enter in music Arts education programmes in the First Cycle of Basic...
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A inovação de base territorial pode ser entendida como um processo transformador de interação entre agentes onde a criação de valor social e/ou económico se baseia na existência de recursos endógenos. Há uma panóplia de processos de comunicação, colaboração e partilha de recursos específicos que podem fomentar tais mecanismos de inovação. No entant...
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The context of territory-based innovation processes includes both barriers and incentives. This chapter presents the research and findings of a study conducted with two sets of five community-led initiatives, one composed of small-sized initiatives and another composed of larger-sized initiatives, with a view to identify barriers and incentives to...
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My doctoral work, which has been carried out with the support of CIDTFF and my advisors. Is entitled: Inclusion of children with special needs in Arts Education programs: from Research to Action What is the aim? In order to contribute to the Inclusive Education of children with Special Needs in Arts education programmes, and in opposition to what...
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This article brings together empirical academic research on community-led territorial innovation initiatives. By engaging in a systematic literature review, the research analyses the role of digital technology in supporting community-led initiatives. Besides identifying the technologies used, this research develops an understanding both on its purp...
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Com a finalidade de contribuir para a Educação Inclusiva das crianças com Necessidades Especiais no Ensino Artístico Especializado da Música em Portugal, iniciou-se no ano de 2018 um projeto de Investigação-Ação. O nosso objetivo é mostrar os resultados do diagnóstico realizado sobre a caracterização da criança com Paralisia Cerebral que originou o...
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In order to contribute to the Inclusive Education (IE) of children with Special Needs (SN) in Arts Education Programmes (AEP), and in opposition to what is commonly assumed in the sense that they are unable to learn, we intend to find solutions so that children with motor disabilities resulting from Cerebral Palsy (CP) join in AEP of Music, in the...
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Contextualização As Doenças Raras são as patologias que têm uma prevalência inferior a 5 em 10000 pessoas. Em Por-tugal, existem entre 5000 e 8000 doenças raras di-ferentes, afetando 6% da população. As Doenças Congénitas da Glicosilação (CDG) apresentam um grupo de doenças hereditárias muito raras, que afetam a glicosilação (ME, 2019). Estima-se q...
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Este Policy Paper apresenta algumas recomendações como resultado do estudo realizado na Região Centro de Portugal para identificar barreiras e incentivos ao uso das ferramentas digitais e à interação entre agentes na promoção de iniciativas de base comunitária para a inovação territorial. As suas conclusões expõem as principais mensagens-chave e re...