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- AR Mobile Application to Enhance the Birdwatching ExperiencePublication . Venâncio, José; Marto, Anabela; Ascenso, Rita Margarida Teixeira; Rodrigues, Nuno; Gonçalves, Alexandrino José MarquesGuard@Lis application was developed to ease the birdwatching activity. The main purpose was to support the discovery and identification of bird species along a trail, encouraging the preservation and protection of nature. To create a new bird observation perspective since augmented reality features were developed to enhance the experience of birdwatching, ensuring the chance to watch even the most elusive birds. Adding animated 3D models of some birds allows the observation of these species that, for several reasons, may not be easy to encounter in their natural habitat when the user is making the trail. The solution is composed of a multiplatform app and a back-office. It is prepared to create routes with hotspots and improve the bird species list. This first version was designed with a route in the city of Leiria, having specific points along the way, defined for the observation of certain species. Guard@Lis application intends to encourage the didactic and educational facets, so the whole development process of this application was to create a guide that allows users to be able to identify and list the number of bird species found. At this stage, the app allows its users to trail the main historical and tourist points of Leiria and collect the bird species observed.
- Blon = Biologia + InformáticaPublication . Ascenso, Rita Margarida TeixeiraO Projeto “BIon=Biologia+Informática” aproximou os alunos do ensino secundário ao en sino superior, com a partilha dos recursos e conhecimentos existentes no Departamento de Engenharia Informática da Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão (ESTG) do Politécnico de Leiria, incentivando os alunos de cinco Escolas de Ensino Secundário a escolher e pros seguir a sua formação na área de ciências e tecnologias. O projeto permitiu-lhes compre ender conceitos e procedimentos da área científica de Bioinformática, realizando ativida des formativas e experimentais usando o método científico, tanto em laboratório infor mático como em sala de aula. O Projeto encontrou a sua plena realização na dinamização das atividades nas escolas par ceiras junto dos alunos em estreita colaboração com os seus Professores, nos anos letivos entre 2012 e 2014 e com a dinamização de páginas na internet.
- Health literacy of the Leiria Polytechnic AcademiaPublication . Ascenso, Rita Margarida Teixeira; Dias, Sara Alexandra da Fonseca Marques Simões; Luís, Luís Francisco Soares; Gonçalves, Dulce Cristina dos Santos IriaLiteracy spans from economic, and financial to digital and information literacy, environmental and environmental sustainability and energy, and statistics literacy to health literacy. Health literacy (HL) has several definitions and numerous HL assessment tools. World Health Organization (WHO) has the 1998 Health Promotion Glossary and defines HL; “Health literacy implies the achievement of a level of knowledge, personal skills and confidence to take action to improve personal and community health by changing personal lifestyles and living conditions”. Several systematic reviews on HL identified tools for HL assessment, namely: Short Assessment of Health Literacy (SAHL) questionnaire and the European Health Literacy Survey with 47 questions (HLS-EU-Q47), with 16 questions (HLS-EU-Q16) , and with only 6 questions (HLS-EU-Q6). These have already been translated into Portuguese and used to assess HL since 2017. In a study published in 2022, Pedro et. al. described that almost half of higher education students in Portugal had inadequate or problematic health literacy levels, with no significant differences between first and last-year students but variations among health-related courses. Data revealed that HL tends to be adequate or excellent among those students with health-related degrees. Limited HL is confirmed at university and higher education students. Is it true in the Polytechnic of Leiria academia? This work follows the CRISP-DM methodology, used for data mining, to perform the exploratory analysis of existing data. Data came from the survey applied to the academia of the Polytechnic of Leiria. HLS-EU-Q16 was applied between 8th December 2020 and 26th March 2021 and saved. Data mining was proposed as a dissertation in the first edition of Data Science Masters. The objectives to be fulfilled by executing the work, started with a Literature review, from a perspective of business understanding and text mining was used. Dataset characteristics were deeply analysed, starting from 431 survey participants. After the whole sample analysis, data mining for students’ subset was performed. Classification analysis and predictive data analysis were performed to achieve School classification based on HL index.