Maria Eduarda Moreira Abrantes Ferreira da Silva

Short bio

Eduarda Abrantes holds a PHD in Visual Arts and Intermedia of the Faculty of Fine Arts San Carlos of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain), with the thesis "Dynamic Narratives. Web Interactive Structures", having been approved with distinction (2013). Eduarda has a background in New Media Design, Photography, and Illustration. She published editorial illustrations in various Portuguese prominent newspapers and magazines, among which we can highlight Newspaper Expresso; Elle Magazine; DNA Magazine - Diário de Noticias and Jornal i (i Newspaper). Currently she is a professor specializing in User Interface Design and Visual Art within the Games and Multimedia Undergraduate Degree at Higher School of Technologies and Management from Polytechnic University of Leiria, Portugal. Eduarda has also directed this program in the past. She is interested in areas of Interactive Narratives, User Interface Design, Immersive Technologies, and Gamification Design. Eduarda is an active researcher affiliated with the Computer Graphics and Multimedia Research team, part of CIIC - Computer Science and Communication Research Centre at the Polytechnic University of Leiria. Her research focuses on serious games, immersive technologies, and gamification design techniques.

Latest Journals Publications

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Latest Conference Publications

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Abrantes, Eduarda; Pinto, Carina; Carlos Guerra; Afonso Simão; Marta Fortes; Ivan Barroso; Filipe Gonçalves; Reis, Gustavo. "MorphoPlay - Designing a Serious Game to Diagnose Children with Speech Problems.". Trabalho apresentado em ICGI2023 - International Conference on Graphics and Interaction, Tomar, 2023. Publicado

2023
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Latest R&D Projects

Veggies4Heart - “Veggies4Heart" - Creation of a digital game to promote vegetable consumption in schools; Funded by Challenges Accelerator – Challenges in Cardiology; CCISP-HES-SO – Seed money for joint Swiss-Portuguese academic projects.;

Google Digital News Initiative - Google Digital News Initiative: “A region that brings us together: gamification as a new approach to storytelling, engagement and revenue for Região de Leiria newspaper";

GAMELABSNET - GAMELABSNET -Desenvolvimento de uma Rede Transnacional de Centros de Demonstração de Tecnologias de Jogos de Vídeo e Gamificação aplicadas à transformação digital de PME nos sectores económicos prioritários do SUDOE; Funded by Programa Interreg SUDOE;
Total budget: 1.721.000,00€;

2019 - 2022
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