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- Adventure tourism for people with disabilities in Portugal: opportunities and challengesPublication . Lima Devile, Eugénia; Antunes Moura, Andreia FilipaRecently, tourism for all appears as a phenomenon of strategic importance within the world. Contemporary society recognizes the need for inclusion of all and the universal right to participate in tourism activities that enhance human and social development. At the same time, it is important to stress out that, this relatively recent concern and sensitivity, is strictly related to two other global phenomena, aging population and quest for healthier life styles. Therefore, knowing that new realities imply alternative solutions, we believe active tourism combines symbiotically with accessible tourism, emerging as an opportunity for progress at different levels. Within this context, a more dynamic dimension of the tourism offer, adventure tourism for all, should be considered an opportunity for personal well-being, or else, quality of life of its participants. In addition, developing adapted adventure tourism activities to the disabled population will simultaneously provide new business opportunities. In Portugal, we have witnessed a growing interest in accessible tourism and observed the promotion of various public and private initiatives responding to the new tourism development trends. Thus, we suggest a new challenge for the sector under the adapted adventure tourism, presenting two perspectives of reflection in terms of the viability of the proposal and management of the tourism destination. In this paper we will discuss the relevance of accessible adventure tourism activities as an innovative development strategy, responding to new market demands, and potentially adding value to tourism products and destinations. We will base our presentation on a literature review as well as on the analysis of case studies undertaken in Portugal. This could have a pedagogical effect both on those responsible for the tourism sector and on tourists themselves, with or without disability, thus contributing to fight against stereotypes and prejudice still present in our society.
- AIA-BDE: A Corpus of FAQs in Portuguese and their VariationsPublication . Oliveira, Hugo Gonçalo; Ferreira, João; Santos, José; Fialho, Pedro; Rodrigues, Ricardo; Coheur, Luísa; Alves, AnaWe present AIA-BDE, a corpus of 380 domain-oriented FAQs in Portuguese and their variations, i.e., paraphrases or entailed questions, created manually, by humans, or automatically, with Google Translate. Its aims to be used as a benchmark for FAQ retrieval and automatic question-answering, but may be useful in other contexts, such as the development of task-oriented dialogue systems, or models for natural language inference in an interrogative context. We also report on two experiments. Matching variations with their original questions was not trivial with a set of unsupervised baselines, especially for manually created variations. Besides high performances obtained with ELMo and BERT embeddings, an Information Retrieval system was surprisingly competitive when considering only the first hit. In the second experiment, text classifiers were trained with the original questions, and tested when assigning each variation to one of three possible sources, or assigning them as out-of-domain. Here, the difference between manual and automatic variations was not so significant.
- Aprender sexualidade desde cedo : menino ou menina - eis a questãoPublication . Veiga, Maria Luísa Ferreira Cabral dos Santos; Teixeira, Filomena; Couceiro, Fernanda; Martins, Isabel
- ASAPP 2.0: Advancing the state-of-the-art of semantic textual similarity for PortuguesePublication . Alves, Ana; Oliveira, Hugo Gonçalo; Rodrigues, Ricardo; Encarnação, RuiSemantic Textual Similarity (STS) aims at computing the proximity of meaning transmitted by two sentences. In 2016, the ASSIN shared task targeted STS in Portuguese and released training and test collections. This paper describes the development of ASAPP, a system that participated in ASSIN, but has been improved since then, and now achieves the best results in this task. ASAPP learns a STS function from a broad range of lexical, syntactic, semantic and distributional features. This paper describes the features used in the current version of ASAPP, and how they are exploited in a regression algorithm to achieve the best published results for ASSIN to date, in both European and Brazilian Portuguese.
- Assessing Factoid Question-Answer Generation for PortuguesePublication . Ferreira, João; Rodrigues, Ricardo; Oliveira, Hugo GonçaloWe present work on the automatic generation of question-answer pairs in Portuguese, useful, for instance, for populating the knowledge-base of question-answering systems. This includes: (i) a new corpus of close to 600 factoid sentences, manually created from an existing corpus of questions and answers, used as our benchmark; (ii) two approaches for the automatic generation of question-answer pairs, which can be seen as baselines; (iii) results of those approaches in the corpus.
- Atelier : assistive thechnologies for learning, integration and reabilitationPublication . Gomes, Anabela; Páris, César; Barbosa, Jorge; Santos, Álvaro; Martins, Nuno; Teixeira, AnaA special needs individual is a broad term used to describe a person with a behavioural or emotional disorder, physical disability or learning disability. Many individuals with special needs are limited in verbal communication, or in many cases non-verbal, making communication and learning a challenging task. Additionally, new forms of communication based on technology aren´t designed for them, making them increasingly isolated in social and educational terms. In spite of this, and fortunately, new forms of interaction do exist and they enable these particular users to access knowledge and provide them with the ability to interact with others, undertaking otherwise impossible. In this project the technology used will not be an end in itself but only a way to “drop” the mouse/keyboard paradigm making use of affordable devices available in the market that could be adopted by people with special needs that are unable to apply the traditional forms of interaction, thus assisting people in their education, integration and rehabilitation activities.
- Attention and concentration in normal and deaf gamersPublication . Teixeira, Ana; Tomé, Ana; Roseiro, Luís; Gomes, AnabelaIn this research the performance of individuals with normal hearing and impaired hearing while playing a computer game was evaluated. The aim was to study and understand if impaired hearing gamers are at disadvantage when playing games without being able to hear the music. Three levels (attention, concentration and blinking) were measured to compare and understand how sound can influence players’ attention and concentration performance. The data was recorded using Mindwave equipment during the game Outlast considering two scenarios: game with sound and game without sound. The results show that hearing impaired individuals have the same standard of attention and level of concentration as individuals with normal hearing when there is sound in the game. In the case of the blinking level, this is quite different between the scenarios and the analyzed groups. For this particular study the results suggest that sound is not an important level in the attention and concentration performance of impaired hearing players. Although much work still needs to be done, there is evidence of a relation between the attention and the concentration levels between normal hearing and impaired hearing individuals in the presence and absence of sound.
- Behavioral Differences And Impact Of Lowercase And Uppercase Letters On Reading PerformancePublication . Teixeira, Ana Rita; Brito-Costa, Sónia; Ferreira Antunes, Maria Fernanda; Espada, Sílvia MariaThe aim of this work is to understand the impact of lowercase letters and uppercase letters in terms of reading. Four sessions were held in which subjects are aged from 15 to 59 years old. Of the 19 participants with a mean age of 26.52 years (SD=13.14), to understand which letters (lowercase versus uppercase) presents a shorter reading time and higher levels of calmness, considering two different complexity texts (children and scientific) in two different forms of interaction (paper reading and screen reading). Several tests were carried out to ensure the intended result in order to comprehend the influence of various visual variables because of a more precise reading process. Four variables were examined using various sensors, including the Brain Computer Interaction (BCI) device, to measure heart rate activity (HRA) and levels of brain activity (active, neutral, and calm). The number of errors, the reading time, the heart rate variability and the calmness, active and neutral levels were considered. Our findings demonstrate that depending on the type of letters (lowercase versus uppercase), and the type of text (scientific versus children's text), and the reading text presentation (paper or screen), the visual variables have a different effect on reading performance.
- Bem estar escolar : perceções sobre a participação e envolvimento institucional dos alunosPublication . Parreiral, SílviaA literatura revela-nos que ao sentimento de pertença dos alunos à escola, alia-se uma maior participação e envolvimento nas atividades escolares (Wentzel, Battle, Russel, & Looney, 2010), um melhor desempenho académico (Dotterer & Lowe, 2011; Wang & Holcombe, 2010) e um menor abandono escolar precoce (Henry, Knight, & Thornberry, 2012), o que desperta nos alunos um maior bem estar escolar (Covell, 2010; Osler, 2010) traduzido em experiências escolares mais significativas (Swaminathan, 2004). O presente estudo de caso, de natureza qualitativa procurou avaliar o que sentem os alunos sobre a sua ausência nos espaços e momentos decisórios da escola; como reagem a decisões tomadas sem que se tenham pronunciado sobre elas e, na perspectiva dos professores, como atuam os alunos para terem mais voz e participação (formal e informal) na escola. Analisaram-se entrevistas realizadas a grupos de alunos (grupos de discussão), com idades entre os 10 e os 19 anos, e entrevistas individuais realizadas aos directores de turma, de uma escola do 2.º e 3.ºciclos do ensino básico do distrito de Coimbra. Os resultados indicam que alunos e professores mostram-se pouco convictos quanto ao sentimento de pertença dos alunos à escola, revelando tratar-se de uma temática por eles pouco refletida, a qual ainda lhes é pouco questionada. A generalidade dos alunos mostrou-se insatisfeita por ser a quem nada se pergunta e por quem se decide, contudo resigna-se à ideia de que se tomam as decisões acertadas. O que se revela consonante com os professores, para quem a baixa idade e a imaturidade destes alunos os leva a que sejam pouco ouvidos. Concluindo, alertamos para que as perspetivas dos alunos passem a ser devidamente consideradas, levando-os a sentirem-se mais implicados, reforçando a ideia de que à escola cabe a preparação para a sua inserção na sociedade enquanto bons cidadãos, envolvidos e participativos.
- Benefícios da aprendizagem musical no desempenho académico de alunos portuguesesPublication . Mónico, Lisete dos Santos Mendes; Dos Santos-Luiz, CarlosA aprendizagem musical encontra-se associada ao rendimento académico, embora alguma literatura não suporte esta associação. A presente investigação tem como objetivo analisar a opinião de diretores de escolas nas quais se leciona o Ensino Artístico Especializado de Música e seus professores quanto à influência da aprendizagem musical no desempenho académico de alunos que frequentam este tipo de ensino. Realizámos uma análise de conteúdo às respostas de quatro diretores e de vinte professores de alunos que frequentam os Cursos Básicos de Música e de Canto Gregoriano do 3º ciclo do Ensino Básico português. Das 24 unidades de análise definimos Unidades de Registo, que resultaram numa classificação em três categorias: (1) Indeterminação causa-efeito entre aprendizagem musical e desempenho académico, (2) Benefícios não musicais não exclusivos da aprendizagem musical e (3) Benefícios não musicais decorrentes da aprendizagem musical, representando esta categoria 89.6% das Unidades de Registo dos diretores e 93.0% dos professores. Os benefícios no desempenho académico foram enunciados em segundo lugar pelos diretores e em último pelos professores, comparativamente aos ganhos em dois outros domínios emergentes na terceira categoria: desenvolvimento social e pessoal e capacidades cognitivas. Concluímos que os efeitos da aprendizagem musical indicados pelos diretores e professores se estendem muito para além dos benefícios no desempenho académico. Os resultados foram discutidos atendendo à influência que a função profissional dos respondentes poderá ter na apreciação sobre os efeitos da aprendizagem musical no desempenho académico, bem como no desenvolvimento social e pessoal e nas capacidades cognitivas. Os resultados do nosso estudo vão ao encontro da literatura que refere os benefícios não musicais decorrentes da aprendizagem musical.