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Research paper thumbnail of TeenPower: Measuring the effectiveness of an intervention program and engaging adolescents towards physical activities using location-aware gamification

2019 IEEE 6th Portuguese Meeting on Bioengineering (ENBENG)

Adolescents, reportedly, easily adopt a sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy behaviors easily carrie... more Adolescents, reportedly, easily adopt a sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy behaviors easily carried into adulthood. Prevention is one of the few viable ways to contain the current epidemic percentages of overweight and obesity. The TeenPower Project has created an intervention program that relies on a mHealth platform to engage teenagers into embracing healthier lifestyle behaviors. Although the program is already fully deployed in some schools, further work is necessary to continue to encourage adolescents into long lasting behavioral changes. It is necessary to measure the effectiveness of this intervention program by analyzing the data generated by the adolescent’s usage of the platform. This analysis may also support the decision-making process of health professionals when planning the future of the intervention program. On the other hand, gamification, the use of game-like rewards and incentives, paired with desired behaviors to increase motivations, is starting to be integrated in the mobile application as a way to engage to adolescents in the platform.

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Research paper thumbnail of Defining clinical conditions in long-term healthcare as a first step to implement Time-Driven Activity Based Costing (TDABC)

BMC Health Services Research, Sep 13, 2018

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Research paper thumbnail of Development of an mHealth Platform for Adolescent Obesity Prevention: User-Centered Design Approach

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Obesity is a chronic condition that influences the quality of life of patients and families while... more Obesity is a chronic condition that influences the quality of life of patients and families while increasing the economic burden for the world population. Multidisciplinary prevention programs are crucial to address it, allowing an early introduction of healthy behaviors into daily habits. Mobile health interventions provide adequate support for these programs, especially considering the gamification techniques used to promote users’ engagement. TeenPower is a multidisciplinary mHealth intervention program conducted in Portugal during 2018 to empower adolescents, promoting healthy behaviors while preventing obesity. An agile software development process was applied to the development of the digital platform that holds a web-based application and a mobile application. We also propose a model for future developments based on the user-centered design approach adopted for this development and the assessment conducted in each phase. The user-centered design approach model proposed has th...

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Research paper thumbnail of Teenpower: an integrated architecture for an mHealth platform designed for e-Empowering teenagers to prevent obesity : A showcase of the TeenPower platform

2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom), 2018

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Research paper thumbnail of Care4Value: measuring value in health in Integrated Continuous Care Units Care4Value: medição de valor em saúde em Unidades de Cuidados Continuados Integrados Care4Value: medición del valor en salud en Unidades de Cuidados Continuos Integrados

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Research paper thumbnail of Care4Value: A Clinical Instrument Data Collection Platform for Long-Term Healthcare Units

2019 IEEE 6th Portuguese Meeting on Bioengineering (ENBENG), 2019

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Research paper thumbnail of Information and Communication Technologies in Long-term and Palliative Care

In the beginning of the 21 st century we experienced a paradigm shift between the acute and infec... more In the beginning of the 21 st century we experienced a paradigm shift between the acute and infectious diseases to the chronic conditions, sustained by the aging of the population. Nevertheless, the education system for health professionals kept the traditional educational models. The main idea of the work here presented is to provide a literature review of the state of the art of information and communication technology (ICT) applied to Long-term and Palliative Care. We conducted an exhaustive investigation from Pubmed and Google Scholar using the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms “information and communication technologies”, “e-Health”, “m-Health” and “long-term care”, “palliative care”. Currently, the existence of a critical mass of Internet users allows quickly diffusion of electronic communication in the medical practice, which translates as a new way to look at the doctor-patient relationship. It is important to define the various ways in which one can establish a doctor-p...

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Research paper thumbnail of O19 Health outcomes in long-term healthcare units: the case of the Care4Value project

European Journal of Public Health, 2019

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Research paper thumbnail of Smart Campus Parking – Parking Made Easy

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2019

The number of users of the parking lots from the campus of the Polytechnic of Leiria, a higher ed... more The number of users of the parking lots from the campus of the Polytechnic of Leiria, a higher education institution in Portugal, has been increasing each year. It is becoming a major concern to the organization to address the high demand for a free parking spot on campus. In order to ease this problem, this paper proposes the design of a smart parking system that can help users to easily find a free parking spot, using an integrated system that includes sensors and a mobile application.

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Research paper thumbnail of Metabolomic Profile and Biological Properties of Sea Lavender (Limonium algarvense Erben) Plants Cultivated with Aquaculture Wastewaters: Implications for Its Use in Herbal Formulations and Food Additives

Foods, 2021

Water extracts from sea lavender (Limonium algarvense Erben) plants cultivated in greenhouse cond... more Water extracts from sea lavender (Limonium algarvense Erben) plants cultivated in greenhouse conditions and irrigated with freshwater and saline aquaculture effluents were evaluated for metabolomics by liquid chromatography-tandem high-resolution mass spectrometry (LC-HRMS/MS), and functional properties by in vitro and ex vivo methods. In vitro antioxidant methods included radical scavenging of 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) and 2,2′-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid (ABTS), ferric-reducing antioxidant power (FRAP), and copper and iron chelating assets. Flowers’ extracts had the highest compounds’ diversity (flavonoids and its derivatives) and strongest in vitro antioxidant activity. These extracts were further tested for ex vivo antioxidant properties by oxidative haemolysis inhibition (OxHLIA), lipid peroxidation inhibition by thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) formation, and anti-melanogenic, anti-tyrosinase, anti-inflammation, and cytotoxicity. ...

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Research paper thumbnail of Immunity Passport Ledger

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Research paper thumbnail of Data visualization techniques for real-time information — A custom and dynamic dashboard for analyzing surveys' results

2018 13th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 2018

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Research paper thumbnail of Care4Value - Patient Care Dashboard

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Research paper thumbnail of Care4Value: medição de valor em saúde em Unidades de Cuidados Continuados Integrados

Acta Paulista De Enfermagem, 2020

Objective: To develop a digital platform for optimizing data collection processes with medical sc... more Objective: To develop a digital platform for optimizing data collection processes with medical scales and monitoring data for measuring value in health. Method: Using an investigative intervention methodology, a platform was developed including qualitative and quantitative approaches in three phases: focal groups were conducted by a multidisciplinary team of investigators and healthcare providers at the pilot study site, an Integrated Continuous Care Unit (UCCI); data from a sample of 21 UCCI users was analyzed as a pre-test to classify [...]

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Research paper thumbnail of Academic Records: A Feasible Use Case for Blockchain?

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Research paper thumbnail of Care4Value: A tailored platform to healthcare instruments in a Long-Term Care (LTC) environment

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Research paper thumbnail of An Experimental Evaluation of ITL, TDD and BDD

Agile development embodies a distancing from traditional approaches, allowing an iterative develo... more Agile development embodies a distancing from traditional approaches, allowing an iterative development that easily adapts and proposes solutions to changing requirements of the clients. For this reason, the industry has recently adopted the use of its practices and techniques, e.g., Test-Driven Development (TDD), BehaviorDriven Development (BDD), amongst others. These techniques promise to improve the software quality and the productivity of the programmers; therefore, several experiments, especially regarding TDD, have been carried out within academia and in industry. These show variant results (some of them with positive effects and others not so much). The main goal of this work is to verify the impact made by the TDD and BDD techniques in software development by analyzing their main promises regarding quality and productivity. We aim to conduct the experience in academia, with a group of students from the Systems Engineering Degree of the Universidad Técnica del Norte, Ecuador. ...

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Research paper thumbnail of Regul-A: A Technological Application for Sensory Regulation of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Home Context

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021

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Research paper thumbnail of Controlled trial of an mhealth intervention to promote healthy behaviours in adolescence (Teenpower): Effectiveness analysis

Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2019

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Research paper thumbnail of Blockchain: A Tale of Two Applications

Applied Sciences, 2018

Bitcoin continues to get more and more attention from the media, mainly because of the volatility... more Bitcoin continues to get more and more attention from the media, mainly because of the volatility of its value and insignificantly associated with the technological innovation. This cryptocurrency is supported by an immutable database and is distributed throughout a network of thousands of nodes, known as Blockchain. One way to ensure that all the concepts behind the Blockchain technology and infrastructure are seized is to conduct the development of one of the most popular context applications for it: a wallet for well-known cryptocurrencies. Yet Another Bitcoin Wallet (YABW) is a hybrid application available for both Android and iOS, which was developed with the Ionic and Angular frameworks. This application communicates with Bitcoin Blockchain to send, receive and store bitcoins; provides a set of features focused on security and user experience, and is available on the Play Store and Apple Store. A rather relevant issue that is becoming a major subject of current research is the...

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Research paper thumbnail of TeenPower: Measuring the effectiveness of an intervention program and engaging adolescents towards physical activities using location-aware gamification

2019 IEEE 6th Portuguese Meeting on Bioengineering (ENBENG)

Adolescents, reportedly, easily adopt a sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy behaviors easily carrie... more Adolescents, reportedly, easily adopt a sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy behaviors easily carried into adulthood. Prevention is one of the few viable ways to contain the current epidemic percentages of overweight and obesity. The TeenPower Project has created an intervention program that relies on a mHealth platform to engage teenagers into embracing healthier lifestyle behaviors. Although the program is already fully deployed in some schools, further work is necessary to continue to encourage adolescents into long lasting behavioral changes. It is necessary to measure the effectiveness of this intervention program by analyzing the data generated by the adolescent’s usage of the platform. This analysis may also support the decision-making process of health professionals when planning the future of the intervention program. On the other hand, gamification, the use of game-like rewards and incentives, paired with desired behaviors to increase motivations, is starting to be integrated in the mobile application as a way to engage to adolescents in the platform.

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Research paper thumbnail of Defining clinical conditions in long-term healthcare as a first step to implement Time-Driven Activity Based Costing (TDABC)

BMC Health Services Research, Sep 13, 2018

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Research paper thumbnail of Development of an mHealth Platform for Adolescent Obesity Prevention: User-Centered Design Approach

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Obesity is a chronic condition that influences the quality of life of patients and families while... more Obesity is a chronic condition that influences the quality of life of patients and families while increasing the economic burden for the world population. Multidisciplinary prevention programs are crucial to address it, allowing an early introduction of healthy behaviors into daily habits. Mobile health interventions provide adequate support for these programs, especially considering the gamification techniques used to promote users’ engagement. TeenPower is a multidisciplinary mHealth intervention program conducted in Portugal during 2018 to empower adolescents, promoting healthy behaviors while preventing obesity. An agile software development process was applied to the development of the digital platform that holds a web-based application and a mobile application. We also propose a model for future developments based on the user-centered design approach adopted for this development and the assessment conducted in each phase. The user-centered design approach model proposed has th...

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Research paper thumbnail of Teenpower: an integrated architecture for an mHealth platform designed for e-Empowering teenagers to prevent obesity : A showcase of the TeenPower platform

2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom), 2018

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Research paper thumbnail of Care4Value: measuring value in health in Integrated Continuous Care Units Care4Value: medição de valor em saúde em Unidades de Cuidados Continuados Integrados Care4Value: medición del valor en salud en Unidades de Cuidados Continuos Integrados

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Research paper thumbnail of Care4Value: A Clinical Instrument Data Collection Platform for Long-Term Healthcare Units

2019 IEEE 6th Portuguese Meeting on Bioengineering (ENBENG), 2019

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Research paper thumbnail of Information and Communication Technologies in Long-term and Palliative Care

In the beginning of the 21 st century we experienced a paradigm shift between the acute and infec... more In the beginning of the 21 st century we experienced a paradigm shift between the acute and infectious diseases to the chronic conditions, sustained by the aging of the population. Nevertheless, the education system for health professionals kept the traditional educational models. The main idea of the work here presented is to provide a literature review of the state of the art of information and communication technology (ICT) applied to Long-term and Palliative Care. We conducted an exhaustive investigation from Pubmed and Google Scholar using the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms “information and communication technologies”, “e-Health”, “m-Health” and “long-term care”, “palliative care”. Currently, the existence of a critical mass of Internet users allows quickly diffusion of electronic communication in the medical practice, which translates as a new way to look at the doctor-patient relationship. It is important to define the various ways in which one can establish a doctor-p...

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Research paper thumbnail of O19 Health outcomes in long-term healthcare units: the case of the Care4Value project

European Journal of Public Health, 2019

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Research paper thumbnail of Smart Campus Parking – Parking Made Easy

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2019

The number of users of the parking lots from the campus of the Polytechnic of Leiria, a higher ed... more The number of users of the parking lots from the campus of the Polytechnic of Leiria, a higher education institution in Portugal, has been increasing each year. It is becoming a major concern to the organization to address the high demand for a free parking spot on campus. In order to ease this problem, this paper proposes the design of a smart parking system that can help users to easily find a free parking spot, using an integrated system that includes sensors and a mobile application.

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Research paper thumbnail of Metabolomic Profile and Biological Properties of Sea Lavender (Limonium algarvense Erben) Plants Cultivated with Aquaculture Wastewaters: Implications for Its Use in Herbal Formulations and Food Additives

Foods, 2021

Water extracts from sea lavender (Limonium algarvense Erben) plants cultivated in greenhouse cond... more Water extracts from sea lavender (Limonium algarvense Erben) plants cultivated in greenhouse conditions and irrigated with freshwater and saline aquaculture effluents were evaluated for metabolomics by liquid chromatography-tandem high-resolution mass spectrometry (LC-HRMS/MS), and functional properties by in vitro and ex vivo methods. In vitro antioxidant methods included radical scavenging of 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) and 2,2′-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid (ABTS), ferric-reducing antioxidant power (FRAP), and copper and iron chelating assets. Flowers’ extracts had the highest compounds’ diversity (flavonoids and its derivatives) and strongest in vitro antioxidant activity. These extracts were further tested for ex vivo antioxidant properties by oxidative haemolysis inhibition (OxHLIA), lipid peroxidation inhibition by thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) formation, and anti-melanogenic, anti-tyrosinase, anti-inflammation, and cytotoxicity. ...

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Research paper thumbnail of Immunity Passport Ledger

Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications, 2022

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Research paper thumbnail of Data visualization techniques for real-time information — A custom and dynamic dashboard for analyzing surveys' results

2018 13th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 2018

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Research paper thumbnail of Care4Value - Patient Care Dashboard

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Research paper thumbnail of Care4Value: medição de valor em saúde em Unidades de Cuidados Continuados Integrados

Acta Paulista De Enfermagem, 2020

Objective: To develop a digital platform for optimizing data collection processes with medical sc... more Objective: To develop a digital platform for optimizing data collection processes with medical scales and monitoring data for measuring value in health. Method: Using an investigative intervention methodology, a platform was developed including qualitative and quantitative approaches in three phases: focal groups were conducted by a multidisciplinary team of investigators and healthcare providers at the pilot study site, an Integrated Continuous Care Unit (UCCI); data from a sample of 21 UCCI users was analyzed as a pre-test to classify [...]

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Research paper thumbnail of Academic Records: A Feasible Use Case for Blockchain?

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Research paper thumbnail of Care4Value: A tailored platform to healthcare instruments in a Long-Term Care (LTC) environment

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Research paper thumbnail of An Experimental Evaluation of ITL, TDD and BDD

Agile development embodies a distancing from traditional approaches, allowing an iterative develo... more Agile development embodies a distancing from traditional approaches, allowing an iterative development that easily adapts and proposes solutions to changing requirements of the clients. For this reason, the industry has recently adopted the use of its practices and techniques, e.g., Test-Driven Development (TDD), BehaviorDriven Development (BDD), amongst others. These techniques promise to improve the software quality and the productivity of the programmers; therefore, several experiments, especially regarding TDD, have been carried out within academia and in industry. These show variant results (some of them with positive effects and others not so much). The main goal of this work is to verify the impact made by the TDD and BDD techniques in software development by analyzing their main promises regarding quality and productivity. We aim to conduct the experience in academia, with a group of students from the Systems Engineering Degree of the Universidad Técnica del Norte, Ecuador. ...

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Research paper thumbnail of Regul-A: A Technological Application for Sensory Regulation of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Home Context

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021

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Research paper thumbnail of Controlled trial of an mhealth intervention to promote healthy behaviours in adolescence (Teenpower): Effectiveness analysis

Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2019

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Research paper thumbnail of Blockchain: A Tale of Two Applications

Applied Sciences, 2018

Bitcoin continues to get more and more attention from the media, mainly because of the volatility... more Bitcoin continues to get more and more attention from the media, mainly because of the volatility of its value and insignificantly associated with the technological innovation. This cryptocurrency is supported by an immutable database and is distributed throughout a network of thousands of nodes, known as Blockchain. One way to ensure that all the concepts behind the Blockchain technology and infrastructure are seized is to conduct the development of one of the most popular context applications for it: a wallet for well-known cryptocurrencies. Yet Another Bitcoin Wallet (YABW) is a hybrid application available for both Android and iOS, which was developed with the Ionic and Angular frameworks. This application communicates with Bitcoin Blockchain to send, receive and store bitcoins; provides a set of features focused on security and user experience, and is available on the Play Store and Apple Store. A rather relevant issue that is becoming a major subject of current research is the...

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