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Lima, Catiele, José Barata, Pedro Fernandes, and Tiago Cardoso. "Urban-Architect Role in Smart-City planning - Literature Review and Case Studies." International Conference on Engineering. Madeira - Portugal 2017. Abstract

The Urban-Architect role in smart cities is a topic that has not received much attention from the scientific community. This article studies the work of the traditional responsible for thinking the cities, the Urban Architect. Under a critical proposition, aspects of this problematic are identified, which is in part nourished by the deficient action of these professionals.
The study was divided into two parts, the first one materialized through a bibliographical survey, in this section it is presented; 1 - a more detailed description of why this research work; 2 - a contextualisation of the transition of the scenarios is explained; 3 - the problematization and the reflection are raised for some reasons of the "disqualification" of the action of the architect-urbanist in the scene.
The second is based on the discussion between the authors and case studies; 4 - aspects are discussed and some characteristics are listed for "(re) framing" within the ideal scenario; 5 - four case studies are described: two smart cities built from scratch and two cities being transformed into smart cities; 6 - the limitations, conclusions and strands for future work are woven.

Santos, Vitor, Carolina Santos, and Tiago Cardoso. "Use of sociology concepts as the basis of a model for improving accessibility in Smart Cities." Procedia Computer Science. 67 (2015): 409-418. Abstract

The use of mobile devices and their use for Internet access, for georeferentiation and services consumption had a huge increase.

Today, these devices ability to establish cooperation networks and to interact intelligently and cooperatively with the surrounding environment has growing importance.

In this paper, we propose a system, based on a model which uses the social paradigms in mobile ubiquitous interactions, capable to effectively connect and integrate these devices in order to improve the accessibility in the cities. The model is inspired in concepts from the theory of organizations and sociology, as the notions of “social role”, “ownership” and “responsibility”, to be incorporated in each device.

We present an example for applying the model in the context of accessibility in smart cities for the pedestrian traffic light automatic management.

Santos, Vitor, Tiago Cardoso, and Eva Oliveira. "Using creativity techniques to create new computer games." VideoJogos'2014. 2014. Abstract

In the face of growing global game production competition, the ability to come out with new ideas to create computer games is widely recognized today as important. In this context, the chance to resort - in a practical way - to known creativity techniques or adaptations of these to help innovation in this field is a promising challenge, both in the field of entertainment games and the so called serious games. In this article we present the development of a research work in this area and the result proposal method for the introduction of creativity in Games Design. The main objective is the construction of innovative Games that have not been identified by the normal methods used in the analysis of games proposals. We present a case study of the method implemented for the identification of new games design opportunities in an MSc Games course.

Simao, José, Luisa Cotrim, Teresa Condeco, Tiago Cardoso, Miguel Palha, Yves Rybarczyk, and José Barata. "Using Games for the Phonetics Awareness of Children with Down Syndrome." International Conference on Serious Games, Interaction and Simulation. Springer, Cham, 2016. 1-8. Abstract

Computers and technology can play a key role in supporting learning, namely for students with special educational needs. Nevertheless, despite the emphasis the society puts on the use of technology and its fast proliferation in the area of education, few initiatives focus on the specific needs of children with disabilities. Motivated by this gap, this research work proposes a computer assisted education application that targets to teach talking and reading through games. The work described herein was carried out in close cooperation with - , a child-care institution that works with children with distinct growth disorders, namely the Down syndrome.