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Papers by Maria José Magalhães
2019 IEEE 12th International Conference on Global Security, Safety and Sustainability (ICGS3)
Nowadays it is possible to verify that there is a change in the way of buying, that is, the tradi... more Nowadays it is possible to verify that there is a change in the way of buying, that is, the traditional means of shopping is increasingly giving way to the electronic medium and, consequently, electronic payment means. The Internet, by making it possible to purchase and pay online, through means such as PayPal, Credit Cards, PaySafeCard, among others, has contributed to greater convenience, speed and efficiency, making the daily life of the population easier. This phenomenon gives rise to a new generation of consumers, the online consumers [1]. Therefore, the objective of this research was to understand which means of online payments are most used by consumers. As a way of responding to this objective, a quantitative methodology was used, in which an online questionnaire was created to collect data Some results corroborate with the literature, but others contradict it, especially regarding the age range of online consumers.
Procedia Computer Science, 2015
Academics are expected to engage in several works in several different domains, namely research a... more Academics are expected to engage in several works in several different domains, namely research and development, general management and services to the community, while lecturing a set of courses. Academics might differ in their preference for some of these activities and also in their corresponding performance. Quality assurance in academic institutions implies monitoring performance, what is frequently done by measuring a set of quantitative results at the end of a certain period. Project Management best practices can change this frequent practice, introducing, for instance, the concept of cost efficiency, allowing for objective comparisons between different types of activities. For this to happen there is a need to monitor the time spent by each academic in each activities or, at least, in each set of activities of the same type. The challenge is to know how to do that. Game Theory has been studying decision making in competitive environment, which is increasingly the case in academic institutions. Therefore, there is a primary need to verify if a relevant percentage of the academics have a perception that there is an incentive to lie in their timesheets, due to competitive thinking. This paper presents a pilot study that allowed concluding that time management input modules in project management information systems for academic activities must be automated, eliminating the human factor in timesheet fillings.
Pelas suas características, os Caminhos de Santiago de Compostela enquadram-se no Turismo de Natu... more Pelas suas características, os Caminhos de Santiago de Compostela enquadram-se no Turismo de Natureza e no Turismo Religioso atraindo um elevado número de turistas e peregrinos. Por ser um percurso ao ar livre e envolver o contacto directo com o meio ambiente, este tipo de percursos podem apresentar alguns perigos para os turistas/peregrinos, relacionados com o relevo, fauna e flora desconhecidos, condições climatéricas, etc…. Esta apresentação tem por objectivo abordar as questões de segurança relacionadas com percursos pedestres, em geral e no caso concreto do Caminho Central de Santiago, bem como as boas práticas recomendadas para a redução do risco, permitindo aos peregrinos e/ou turistas efectuar o percurso com um nível de segurança acrescido.
Este trabalho apresenta um estudo sobre as ameaças que as infra-estruturas de segurança colocadas... more Este trabalho apresenta um estudo sobre as ameaças que as infra-estruturas de segurança colocadas nos percursos pedestres representam para os turistas de natureza. O método de investigação utilizado foi o estudo de caso, sendo o caso o percurso pedestre PR3 – Rota da Penha em Guimarães, Portugal. Concluiu-se deste estudo que a existência de infra-estruturas de protecção, que, não apresentando uma protecção efectiva, servem apenas de aviso, podem levar os turistas a considerar as situações como menos perigosas, tornando-os mais vulneráveis às ameaças existentes. Esta situação é agravada pela confluência de vários tipos de turista em determinados pontos do PR3.
The attacks with CBRN (Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear) agents are more and more a... more The attacks with CBRN (Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear) agents are more and more a concern for the security of the world, especially since some terrorist groups have access to CBRN weapons. This work reviews the developments on CBRN protective clothing and concludes that this is a field of growing interest from researchers all over the world. The research focus on several aspects: military boots, protection clothes, forecasting models of protection and comfort characteristics, the importance of improving the comfort and physiological stress, development of membranes and construction models, etc. The developments that arise in this work are spread over several areas, demonstrating that multidisciplinary knowledge is an important factor for a more efficient and effective progress on CBRN clothing.
Proceedings of the SmartCity360 2016, 2017
The aging of population worldwide and the increasing of average life expectancy of the world popu... more The aging of population worldwide and the increasing of average life expectancy of the world population become a social and economic problem for society. It's necessary to provide solutions which can maintain the independency of elderly and their mobility, along more time, avoiding the unnecessary permanence in hospitals and institutions for the elderly. The use of IoT using textiles is a very interesting approach because of the proximity of people to these materials. This work reviews the development on IoT using textiles to increase the mobility of elderly people and concludes that this is a field of growing interest. Although, there is few investigation, especially in what concerns studies focusing on the importance of improving the mobility of the elderly. There are studies that lead to the possibility of promoting this physical capability but have not been designed for that purpose, but we believe that approach of the problem of mobility of elderly people using the IoT based on clothes should be treated with specificity, because the consequences of this not happening, will affect not only the elderly but the whole society.
Hotels are a home away from home, with many similarities but also with many differences. This wor... more Hotels are a home away from home, with many similarities but also with many differences. This work reviews the existing knowledge on privacy issues in the hotel industry and concludes that this is a field of increasing attention from researchers all over the world but there is still much to do in order to help the industry to adopt the best practices that can maximize profit while protecting their clients’ privacy rights. From the existing knowledge it is possible to conclude that privacy issues are not only a legal requirement in many countries, but are also a managerial and marketing opportunity for hotels, but there aren’t clear indications to this industry on how to create, implement and publicize adequate information security policies or on how to align the marketing strategies to the importance of privacy assurance.
Procedia Computer Science
In a nature-based demarketing tourism plan the elaboration of promotional products are very impor... more In a nature-based demarketing tourism plan the elaboration of promotional products are very important to reach the goals of encourage and awareness tourists to the demarketing measures used. The elaboration of a promotional product involves, in part, a creative process, making the evaluation of the final product subjective and, therefore, compromising the acceptance criteria and the finalization of the project. This work presents a tool for a common issue addressed in promotional tourism demarketing plans: raising environmental awareness. This tool can help to objectivate its acceptance criteria, making the process of acceptance of the final product (the promotional tourism demarketing plan) more objective, predictable and simpler.
Proceedings of the SmartCity360 2016, 2017
The Internet of Things (IoT) represents an opportunity for the hotel industry to increase custome... more The Internet of Things (IoT) represents an opportunity for the hotel industry to increase customer satisfaction while simultaneously reducing operational costs. This paper analyses the existing knowledge on this subject, through a review of the relevant publications indexed by Scopus and/or ISI Web of Science, concluding that, despite the existence of many relevant patents, registered in the past few years, the published research is very limited on this topic. The restriction to publication prior to the conclusion of the patent registration process may be a justification for this fact, and, if so, the near future will bring many novelties that will help the development of the hotel industry. It is also possible to conclude from this work that the potential of IoT is not yet well explored in the hotel industry, once authors frequently theorize on the use of IoT for applications that could easily be of interest for the hotel industry, but fail to identify that opportunity as a major market.
This work has been supported by FCT – Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia within the Project Sco... more This work has been supported by FCT – Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia within the Project Scope UID/CEC/00319/2013
2019 IEEE 12th International Conference on Global Security, Safety and Sustainability (ICGS3)
Nowadays it is possible to verify that there is a change in the way of buying, that is, the tradi... more Nowadays it is possible to verify that there is a change in the way of buying, that is, the traditional means of shopping is increasingly giving way to the electronic medium and, consequently, electronic payment means. The Internet, by making it possible to purchase and pay online, through means such as PayPal, Credit Cards, PaySafeCard, among others, has contributed to greater convenience, speed and efficiency, making the daily life of the population easier. This phenomenon gives rise to a new generation of consumers, the online consumers [1]. Therefore, the objective of this research was to understand which means of online payments are most used by consumers. As a way of responding to this objective, a quantitative methodology was used, in which an online questionnaire was created to collect data Some results corroborate with the literature, but others contradict it, especially regarding the age range of online consumers.
Procedia Computer Science, 2015
Academics are expected to engage in several works in several different domains, namely research a... more Academics are expected to engage in several works in several different domains, namely research and development, general management and services to the community, while lecturing a set of courses. Academics might differ in their preference for some of these activities and also in their corresponding performance. Quality assurance in academic institutions implies monitoring performance, what is frequently done by measuring a set of quantitative results at the end of a certain period. Project Management best practices can change this frequent practice, introducing, for instance, the concept of cost efficiency, allowing for objective comparisons between different types of activities. For this to happen there is a need to monitor the time spent by each academic in each activities or, at least, in each set of activities of the same type. The challenge is to know how to do that. Game Theory has been studying decision making in competitive environment, which is increasingly the case in academic institutions. Therefore, there is a primary need to verify if a relevant percentage of the academics have a perception that there is an incentive to lie in their timesheets, due to competitive thinking. This paper presents a pilot study that allowed concluding that time management input modules in project management information systems for academic activities must be automated, eliminating the human factor in timesheet fillings.
Pelas suas características, os Caminhos de Santiago de Compostela enquadram-se no Turismo de Natu... more Pelas suas características, os Caminhos de Santiago de Compostela enquadram-se no Turismo de Natureza e no Turismo Religioso atraindo um elevado número de turistas e peregrinos. Por ser um percurso ao ar livre e envolver o contacto directo com o meio ambiente, este tipo de percursos podem apresentar alguns perigos para os turistas/peregrinos, relacionados com o relevo, fauna e flora desconhecidos, condições climatéricas, etc…. Esta apresentação tem por objectivo abordar as questões de segurança relacionadas com percursos pedestres, em geral e no caso concreto do Caminho Central de Santiago, bem como as boas práticas recomendadas para a redução do risco, permitindo aos peregrinos e/ou turistas efectuar o percurso com um nível de segurança acrescido.
Este trabalho apresenta um estudo sobre as ameaças que as infra-estruturas de segurança colocadas... more Este trabalho apresenta um estudo sobre as ameaças que as infra-estruturas de segurança colocadas nos percursos pedestres representam para os turistas de natureza. O método de investigação utilizado foi o estudo de caso, sendo o caso o percurso pedestre PR3 – Rota da Penha em Guimarães, Portugal. Concluiu-se deste estudo que a existência de infra-estruturas de protecção, que, não apresentando uma protecção efectiva, servem apenas de aviso, podem levar os turistas a considerar as situações como menos perigosas, tornando-os mais vulneráveis às ameaças existentes. Esta situação é agravada pela confluência de vários tipos de turista em determinados pontos do PR3.
The attacks with CBRN (Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear) agents are more and more a... more The attacks with CBRN (Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear) agents are more and more a concern for the security of the world, especially since some terrorist groups have access to CBRN weapons. This work reviews the developments on CBRN protective clothing and concludes that this is a field of growing interest from researchers all over the world. The research focus on several aspects: military boots, protection clothes, forecasting models of protection and comfort characteristics, the importance of improving the comfort and physiological stress, development of membranes and construction models, etc. The developments that arise in this work are spread over several areas, demonstrating that multidisciplinary knowledge is an important factor for a more efficient and effective progress on CBRN clothing.
Proceedings of the SmartCity360 2016, 2017
The aging of population worldwide and the increasing of average life expectancy of the world popu... more The aging of population worldwide and the increasing of average life expectancy of the world population become a social and economic problem for society. It's necessary to provide solutions which can maintain the independency of elderly and their mobility, along more time, avoiding the unnecessary permanence in hospitals and institutions for the elderly. The use of IoT using textiles is a very interesting approach because of the proximity of people to these materials. This work reviews the development on IoT using textiles to increase the mobility of elderly people and concludes that this is a field of growing interest. Although, there is few investigation, especially in what concerns studies focusing on the importance of improving the mobility of the elderly. There are studies that lead to the possibility of promoting this physical capability but have not been designed for that purpose, but we believe that approach of the problem of mobility of elderly people using the IoT based on clothes should be treated with specificity, because the consequences of this not happening, will affect not only the elderly but the whole society.
Hotels are a home away from home, with many similarities but also with many differences. This wor... more Hotels are a home away from home, with many similarities but also with many differences. This work reviews the existing knowledge on privacy issues in the hotel industry and concludes that this is a field of increasing attention from researchers all over the world but there is still much to do in order to help the industry to adopt the best practices that can maximize profit while protecting their clients’ privacy rights. From the existing knowledge it is possible to conclude that privacy issues are not only a legal requirement in many countries, but are also a managerial and marketing opportunity for hotels, but there aren’t clear indications to this industry on how to create, implement and publicize adequate information security policies or on how to align the marketing strategies to the importance of privacy assurance.
Procedia Computer Science
In a nature-based demarketing tourism plan the elaboration of promotional products are very impor... more In a nature-based demarketing tourism plan the elaboration of promotional products are very important to reach the goals of encourage and awareness tourists to the demarketing measures used. The elaboration of a promotional product involves, in part, a creative process, making the evaluation of the final product subjective and, therefore, compromising the acceptance criteria and the finalization of the project. This work presents a tool for a common issue addressed in promotional tourism demarketing plans: raising environmental awareness. This tool can help to objectivate its acceptance criteria, making the process of acceptance of the final product (the promotional tourism demarketing plan) more objective, predictable and simpler.
Proceedings of the SmartCity360 2016, 2017
The Internet of Things (IoT) represents an opportunity for the hotel industry to increase custome... more The Internet of Things (IoT) represents an opportunity for the hotel industry to increase customer satisfaction while simultaneously reducing operational costs. This paper analyses the existing knowledge on this subject, through a review of the relevant publications indexed by Scopus and/or ISI Web of Science, concluding that, despite the existence of many relevant patents, registered in the past few years, the published research is very limited on this topic. The restriction to publication prior to the conclusion of the patent registration process may be a justification for this fact, and, if so, the near future will bring many novelties that will help the development of the hotel industry. It is also possible to conclude from this work that the potential of IoT is not yet well explored in the hotel industry, once authors frequently theorize on the use of IoT for applications that could easily be of interest for the hotel industry, but fail to identify that opportunity as a major market.
This work has been supported by FCT – Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia within the Project Sco... more This work has been supported by FCT – Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia within the Project Scope UID/CEC/00319/2013