O relatório de estágio agora exposto está dividido em três partes. Iniciamos com a componente teórica, apresentando o estado da arte e definindo os conceitos operatórios com os quais iremos trabalhar. Olhamos para o design como um todo e, posteriormente, enveredamos por questões que se prendem com o digital, de onde se destacam internet, web-design, cores, padrões de organização, tipografia nas interfaces, edição gráfica e layouts nas interfaces. Num segundo momento, expomos o histórico da empresa, fazendo o seu enquadramento, tratando o design de interface que se pratica na mesma. Em terceiro lugar, damos conta do desenvolvimento de todos os protótipos até ao resultado final em cada uns dos ecrãs (mobile e desktop). Por último, ainda são apresentadas algumas das palavras proferidas por usuários ao experimentarem a nova versão do website em formato de protótipo (testes de usabilidade).

The growth of the smartphones market share has driven the entry of a large number of new opportunities to launch new applications/mobile tools both by companies but also by individuals’ entities. The prototype solution presented here fits in the increasing emerging of smartphones applications for the health sector. This dissertation presents a solution to prevent a sudden infant death syndrome. It includes biofeedback monitoring of babies, using body sensors to collect data that will be presented in two different mobile applications: the Main Application and the Client Application. Breathing, temperature, position, and heart rate are used, and placed to the baby’s body. The Main Application will receive the data collected by the sensors via Bluetooth. This contains a monitoring tool, which parses and transforms raw data to be readable and understandable for users. This application will send the data to a Web service to be stored in a database that supports the entire created solution. The Client Application will consume the data stored in the database every previous second. Both applications have an important functionality that allows the trigger of alert notifications when an error occurs with the data collected by the sensors and the caregiver is informed with an alert in a short time. This document describes in detail the whole process done to deploy a prototype that demonstrates and validates the proposed solution and is ready for use.

O indivíduo, ao inserir-se sociedade de consumo atual, é constantemente rodeado de estímulos, criados para despertar necessidades e desejos, motivando-o continuamente a consumir. Este consumo é muitas vezes condicionado pela imagem que pretende projetar aos demais, levando à aquisição de produtos, não pela sua função, mas pela sua significação. Com os desenvolvimentos tecnológicos e a mudança de paradigma imposta pela globalização, o consumidor aproxima-se cada vez mais das organizações comerciais, levando à criação de símbolos muito mais eficazes já que são adaptados a cada consumidor. As organizações passaram a usar a experiência de consumo como fonte de informação acerca do cliente, usando-a para melhorar os seus serviços e influenciar a decisão de compra do mesmo. A introdução das plataformas mobile veio criar muitos mais pontos de contacto entre ambos, permitindo uma resposta significativamente mais rápida aos estímulos a que o individuo é sujeito e, consequentemente, motivando-o a o consumir cada vez mais.

Touch screens have made smartphones much more dynamic. However, due to the absence of the physical keyboard, they also made them less accessible for visually impaired people. Considering the input of text as a primary function, the objective of this research was to develop a method that uses the Braille System for typing, from a new virtual keyboard, which is supported by a tactile film superimposed on the touch screen. The method was constructed considering the mobile accessibility guidelines developed by the W3C, World Wide Web Consortium, and the monitoring of a specialist user with congenital blindness and Braille literacy. As a result, BrailleÉcran was developed, the combination of an Android application with a tactile film modeled for 3D printing. Besides the film, the application has the "Configuration Panel", which allows the application to adapt to user preferences and the "Help Center", which provides a spoken tutorial. For evaluation, 10 volunteers performed the experiments that allowed the verification of speed, accuracy, usability and user experience. As a result WPM = 2.52 and TER = 2.68. The usability questionnaire brought positive results, of which we highlight the "You liked to use" issue with 90% acceptance. In the PANAS questionnaire, all the positive affects obtained a maximum score and the negative affects a minimum score. It is estimated that this research offers society not only a method but a quality assistive technology that provides more independence for the visually impaired. In addition, to expand the studies in this area, the prototypes are open source and are available for access and future contributions.

This thesis focuses on the development of a set of guidelines for the implementation of social curatorship features in streaming applications. In collaboration with Sky CP Limited, the project aims to improve personalization, user engagement, and content discovery in streaming services. The thesis goals include analyzing social curatorship concepts, examining existing platforms, and identifying key features for implementation. Furthermore, a proof-of-concept prototype application is developed, and alongside user surveys is used to validate some of the curatorial features.

Context aware mobile applications are being adopted as a premium solution to enhance and augment the user experience of visitors of natural parks and other public and open spaces. Under this assumption, this paper reports on a selection of existent mobile park applications featuring a set of tests that helped electing their key features. The performed evaluation also allowed setting up a proposal for design guidelines aiming the development of such a kind of applications.