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Rethinking Personal Health Tools for Complex Chronic Conditions
The paper “Between Control and Uncertainty: Understanding Self-Tracking Practices in Enigmatic Disease Management”, authored by LASIGE’s MSc student Maria Jerónimo and integrated researchers Tiago Guerreiro and Ruben Gouveia, explores how people living with poorly understood and highly individualised chronic conditions use self-tracking to manage the uncertainty and fluctuations associated with their illnesses. While self-tracking tools […]
Bridging the Gap Between Real Social Dynamics and Digital Games
The paper “Characterising Gaming Group Experiences”, authored by LASIGE’s PhD student Daniel Reis and integrated researcher André Rodrigues, and Kathrin Gerling (KIT), explores the social structures that form when people play digital games together and how they fundamentally impact play. While playing video games is a highly popular social activity, prior research has largely focused […]
NavXR project @ Smart City of Rock
LASIGE researchers showcased an interactive demonstrator focused on accessibility and inclusive technologies from the NavXR project at Rock in Rio Lisboa. Our PhD students Pedro Trindade and Manuel Piçarra were at the event as part of the Smart City of Rock initiative at the University of Lisbon stand. During the event, visitors had the opportunity […]
Optimising Multi-Source Energy in Smart Houses: The ATIRENDEE System
Tiago Rodrigues, Joana Morgado, Márcia Barros, Alan Oliveira, and José Cecílio, LASIGE Researchers, published the paper ” AI-driven IoT recommender system for enhancing energy efficient management in smart houses” in the Expert Systems with Applications journal, a Top-ranking journal. This research presents the Artificial InTelligence-driven IoT REcommeNDEr Energy System (ATIRENDEE), a solution designed to enhance […]
BinBot project @ Smart City of Rock
BinBot project, awarded funding through the competitive LASIGE/FCT Seed Projects Call 2025, was showcased, by Frederico Cerqueira, our researcher and MSc student, at Rock in Rio Lisboa as part of the Smart City of Rock initiative at the University of Lisbon stand, where the first full-scale prototype was demonstrated to the public for the first […]
Can cooperative drones overcome payload and autonomy limitations in aerial transport?
The COOPERATIVE project, “Cooperative Transport of Payloads Using Drones”, has officially started at LASIGE, exploring new approaches for the coordinated aerial transport of suspended payloads using multiple unmanned aerial vehicles. Awarded funding through the competitive LASIGE/FCT Seed Projects Call 2025, the project investigates a two-drone leader–follower configuration designed to overcome the payload capacity and autonomy […]