RICARDO MANUEL COELHO DE MELO (BA15-5065-3EF4)

Curriculum Vitae

RICARDO MANUEL COELHO DE MELO

Ricardo Melo is a senior researcher at Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS, working on the Human-Centred Design team, where he is conducting design research and project management in the areas of industry 4.0, digital literacy, and technology assessment, including with non-mainstream audiences, among others. He is also a Guest Adjunct Professor at ISCAP P.Porto and has lectured in different universities. Ricardo holds a degree in Communication Design from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (2008), a Master in Multimedia from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (2012), and a PhD in Design from the University of Porto (2018). He is an expert in communication and interaction design, as well as on technology assessment in real life contexts. His research interests are in communication, interaction, interface and game design, as well as in user experience, accessibility and usability, digital media, storytelling, and creativity.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: RICARDO MANUEL COELHO DE MELO

Citation names

Melo, Ricardo
RMC, Melo

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: BA15-5065-3EF4
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3186-3752

Email addresses

ricardo.melo@fraunhofer.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone

220430324 (Professional)

Websites

https://www.aicos.fraunhofer.pt/en/home.html (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - Arts - Architectural design

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
French	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)
Spanish; Castilian	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)
Portuguese	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2013 - 2018 Concluded	Design (Doutoramento) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal "On Serendipity in the Digital Medium: Towards a Framework for Valuable Unpredictability in Interaction Design" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Aprovado
2010 - 2012 Concluded	Mestrado Multimédia (Mestrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal "Call to Adventure: Designing for online serendipity" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17/20
2003 - 2008 Concluded	Design de Comunicação (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/02/01 - Current	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal
	Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/02/01 - Current	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2016 - Current	Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal

2018/09 - 2022	Lecturer (University Teacher)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2009/02/02 - 2014/02/28	Designer	Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2015/03/01 - 2017/02/28	On Serendipity in the Digital Medium: Towards a Framework for Valuable Unpredictability in Interaction Design PD/BD/105802/2014 PhD Student Fellow Instituto de Investigação em Design Media e Cultura, Portugal
2013/06 - 2015/05	Assistance Solution for improving cooking skills and nutritional knowledge for Independent Elders Provided by PTCRIS: 133019	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2014/03/01 - 2015/02/28	The Serendipitous Web: Mechanisms and processes for designing online serendipity. SFRH / BI / 52385 / 2013 Research Fellow Instituto de Investigação em Design Media e Cultura, Portugal

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2020/01/07 - Current	Augmented Humanity POCI-01-0247-FEDER-046103 Principal investigator Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal	Agência Nacional de Inovação SA Ongoing
2024/01/01 - 2024/12/31	Value systems in digital health technologies 2022.15724.CMU Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2022/01/03 - 2024/04/30	Adaptation, development, and deployment of a chatbot to improve health literacy and care of first-time parents FCT AGA-KHAN / 541742216 / 2019 Researcher Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Aga Khan Development Network Ongoing
2020 - 2023/06/30	Wound Analysis to Support Clinical Decision POCI-01-0247-FEDER-048922 Researcher Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal	Agência Nacional de Inovação SA Ongoing
2013/06/01 - 2015/12/31	Solução Assistiva para melhorar a aptidão para cozinhar e o conhecimento nutricional para séniores independentes AAL/0002/2012 Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Félix, Beatriz; Melo, Ricardo; Marques, Raquel; Alves, Paulo; Salgado, Pedro Faria. "Learning from Health Professionals: A User-Centred Approach to Design a Wound Monitoring Platform". In Caring is Sharing – Exploiting the Value in Data for Health and Innovation. IOS Press, 2023. 10.3233/shti230137 Jorge Ribeiro; Cristina Santos; Elsa Oliveira; Ricardo Melo. "Designing a Worker Companion - Design Implications from On-Site and Remote Participatory Design in the Context of Industry 4.0". 2022. 10.1007/978-3-031-05544-7_31 Ricardo Melo. "Desenvolvimento de Produtos Digitais". 2022. 10.56002/ceos.0016ch Ricardo Melo. "Mobile Marketing". 2022. 10.56002/ceos.0022ch Melo, Ricardo; Cardoso, Pedro; Fava, Fabrício; Raimundo, José; Mangueira, Camila. "Play to Design with Cards GO: A card-based game for game design and creativity". In Perspectives on Design and Digital Communication: Research, Innovations and Best Practices.. Springer Series in Design and Innovation., 2020. Accepted
Conference abstract	Cardoso, Pedro; Carvalhais, Miguel; Melo, Ricardo. "Breaking the Hedonistic Loop: Meaning before fun in videogames". Paper presented in 21st International Conference Consciousness Reframed 2019: Sentient States: Bio-mind and Tecnho-nature, Porto, 2019. Published
Conference paper	Francisco Nunes; Joana Couto Silva; Beatriz Félix; Ricardo Melo; Heike Winschiers-Theophilus; Naveen Bagalkot; Nervo Verdezoto; et al. "African Co-Design: Past, Present, and Emerging". 2023. 10.1145/3628096.3629080 Cardoso, Pedro; Melo, Ricardo; Carvalhais, Miguel. "Breaking the Hedonistic Loop". Paper presented in ARTECH 2019, Braga, 2019. Published • 10.1145/3359852.3359902 Fava, Fabrício; Cardoso, Pedro; Melo, Ricardo; Raimundo, José; Mangueira, Camila. "Cards GO: A card-based game for game design and creativity". Paper presented in DIGICOM 2019 – 3rd International Conference on Design and Digital Communication, Barcelos, 2019. Published Melo, Ricardo; Carvalhais, Miguel. "Affording Serendipity: Human Activities for Valuable Unpredictability in the Digital Medium". Paper presented in International Conference on Marketing and Design: International Conference on Marketing and Design, Faro, Portugal, Faro, 2018. Melo, Ricardo; Carvalhais, Miguel. "The Interactor Cedes Control: An Heuristic for Planned Serendipity in Interactive Systems". Paper presented in ICLI 2018, 4th International Conference on Live Interfaces. Inspiration, Performance, Emancipation, Porto, 2018. Published Melo, Ricardo; Carvalhais, Miguel. "The Serendipitous Pattern in Interaction Design". Paper presented in ISEA 2018 Intersections, Durban, 2018. Published Melo, Ricardo; Carvalhais, Miguel. "The Chance of Serendipity". Paper presented in Symposium on Cybernetic Serendipity Reimagined, 2018 AISB Convention, Liverpool, 2018. Published Melo, Ricardo; Melo, Ricardo; Carvalhais, Miguel. "Patterns for Serendipity in Interaction Design". Paper presented in xCoAx 2017, Lisbon, 2017. Published Melo, Ricardo; Carvalhais, Miguel; Melo, Ricardo. "Defamiliarisation towards Divergency". Paper presented in 5th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Lisboa, 2017. Published Melo, Ricardo; Carvalhais, Miguel. "Valuably Unsought: Systems for Digital Serendipity". Paper presented in ISEA 2017, Manizales, 2017. Published Melo, Ricardo; Carvalhais, Miguel. "Convergence and Divergence: A Conceptual Model for Digital Serendipitous Systems". Paper presented in ISEA 2016, 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Art, Hong Kong, 2016. Published Melo, Ricardo; Melo, Ricardo; Carvalhais, Miguel. "Serendipitous Information and the Design Process: A Case Study". Paper presented in Designa, Covilhã, 2016. Published Melo, Ricardo. "Convergence and Divergence". 2016. Melo, Ricardo; Carvalhais, Miguel; Lamelas, André. "Get Lost! and Filtershuffle". Paper presented in UD15: Periphery and Promise, 4th PhD in Design Forum., Porto, 2015. Published Melo, Ricardo; Carvalhais, Miguel. "Sentience and Information Encountering in the Digital Medium". Paper presented in Artech 2015, 7th International Conference on Digital Arts, Óbidos, 2015. Published Melo, Ricardo; Carvalhais, Miguel. "Get Lost! and Filtershuffle: Designing mobile applications for unpredictability". Paper presented in UD15: Periphery and Promise, 4th PhD in Design Forum, Porto, 2015. Published Melo, Ricardo; Carvalhais, Miguel. "Meaningful Accidental Discoveries: The Design of Serendipity on the Web". Paper presented in UD14: 3º Encontro Nacional de Doutoramentos em Design, Aveiro, 2014. Published Melo, Ricardo; Carvalhais, Miguel. "The design of Horacle — Inducing serendipity on the Web". Paper presented in xCoAx 2013: First Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X., Bergamo, 2013. Published Melo, Ricardo; Carvalhais, Miguel. "Designing For Serendipity: Systems and Methods for Serendipitous Discoveries on the Web". Paper presented in Crossing Digital Boundaries: Artech, Faro, 2012. Published
Conference poster	Santos, Marta; Melo, Ricardo; Cardoso, Pedro; Carvalhais, Miguel. "Princípios de pesquisa online para a serendipidade: o processo criativo como caso de estudo". Paper presented in UD16 – 5º Encontro de Doutoramentos em Design, 2016.
Journal article	Mucha, Henrik; Correia de Barros, Ana; Benjamin, Jesse Josua; Benzmüller, Christoph; Bischof, Andreas; Buchmüller, Sandra; de Carvalho, Alexandra; et al. "Collaborative Speculations on Future Themes for Participatory Design in Germany". i-com 21 2 (2022): 283-298. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/icom-2021-0030. 10.1515/icom-2021-0030 Ferraz, Inês; Reis, Marta; Cardoso, Pedro; Pinto de Sousa, Andreia; Giesteira, Bruno; Melo, Ricardo. "Updating Bem-me-ker: An User-Centred Approach to Redesigning an Onboarding Application for Cancer Patients". Journal of Digital Media & Interaction 3.9 (2020): 103. https://proa.ua.pt/index.php/jdmi/article/view/19641. Open access • Published • https://doi.org/10.34624/jdmi.v3i9.19641 Miguel Carvalhais; Pedro Cardoso; José Raimundo; Ricardo Melo. "Designing games that prioritize meaning over fun". Contemporânea - Revista do PPGART/UFSM (2019): https://doi.org/10.5902/2595523341302. 10.5902/2595523341302 Carvalhais, Miguel; Cardoso, Pedro; Raimundo, José; Melo, Ricardo. "Designing games that prioritize meaning over fun". CONTEMPORÂNEA 2 4 (2019): 1-8. Open access • Published Melo, Ricardo; Carvalhais, Miguel. "Regarding Value in Digital Serendipitous Interactions". Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts 8 2 (2016): 37-37. Published • 10.7559/citarj.v8i2.182 Melo, Ricardo; Lamelas, André; Carvalhais, Miguel. "Unpredictability in Everyday Photography: A Case Study". Ubiquity: The Journal of Pervasive Media 5 (2016): 243-252. Published

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2014/11/08	Designing Serendipities	Narrative Strategies Symposium M-ITI: Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (Ponta do Sol, Portugal)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/02/22 - Current	O impacto da gamificação, no engajamento dos clientes do segmento de retalho alimentar, em aplicações mobile portuguesas. Supervisor	Marketing Digital (Master) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
2022/03/07 - Current	The Impact of Usability on an Ecommerce Website – A Case Study in The UK Lighting Industry Supervisor	Marketing Digital (Master) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
2022/03/07 - Current	A influência do design nos perfis dos influenciadores na área de nutrição, no Instagram Supervisor	Marketing Digital (Master) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
2022/02/22 - Current	O Consumidor Português na Era do Metaverso: Compreensão dos Padrões de Consumo Supervisor	Marketing Digital (Master) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
2022/01/14 - Current	A Human-Centred approach for Explainable Artificial Intelligence through visualization Co-supervisor	Multimédia (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2020/09/01 - Current	Jogos Cívicos: Os jogos como instrumento para a literacia mediática e a cidadania na esfera pública digital Co-supervisor	Programa Doutoral Medias Digitais (PhD) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/09/11 - 2024/03/31	EndoVis: Visualising health data and lived experience of endometriosis patients through co-design Co-supervisor	Teoria e tecnologia della comunicazione (Master) Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
2022/09/01 - 2023/07/04	Red Bull´s Managed Channels Tools & Services Internship Report Supervisor	Marketing Digital (Master) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
2022/11/02 - 2023/07/01	MensSana: Design of a mental well-being self-report inteface for shopfloor workers Co-supervisor	Multimédia (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023 - 2023	O impacto das notificações móveis no consumidor Supervisor	Digital Marketing (Master) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
2022 - 2023	Red Bull Managed channels tools & services - Relatório de Estágio Supervisor	Digital Marketing (Master) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
2021/01/01 - 2021/11/30	Digital Marketing in Luso-Nihon: A Comparative Study from Portugal to Japan Supervisor	Marketing Digital (Master) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
2020 - 2020	O papel do Marketing Digital em tempos de pandemia e isolamento social, no contexto do Fitness – O caso do AmazinGym Supervisor	Mestrado em Marketing Digital (Master) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
2020 - 2020	Information Visualisation Practices for Improving Patient Readability of Blood Pressure, Health Data, and Health Literacy Co-supervisor	Mestrado Multimedia (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2019 - 2019	Estratégias Digitais para Alcançar Nichos de Mercado Supervisor	Marketing Digital (Master) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
2018 - 2018	O impacto dos Messenger Chatbots em experiências de Mobile Commerce em Portugal Co-supervisor	Marketing Digital (Master) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
2016 - 2016/07/12	Princípios de pesquisa online para a serendipidade: o processo criativo como caso de estudo Co-supervisor	Multimédia (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2016/11/03 - Current	Facebook Exquis - MM-XX (2016/11/03) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2016/10/19 - Current	Antifluffy GO - FUTUREPLACES 2016 (2016/10/19) Workshop (Co-organisor)
2015/10/19 - 2015/10/20	UD15: Periphery And Promise 4th Phd In Design Research Forum University Of Porto, Portugal 19 + 20 October, 2015 (2015/10/19 - 2015/10/20) Conference (Co-organisor)

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2020/02/18 - Current	Guest Speaker: Design is Made of People - Human centred Design at Fraunhofer AICOS Symposium	Forms 2020 Universidade Lusófona do Porto, Portugal
2019/07/12 - Current	Comunicação: Fraunhofer AICOS's Human-Centred Design of Personal Technologies Meeting	7 Meses Com 7 Curadores Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg Fakultat fur Chemie und Pharmazie, Germany
2018/02/15 - Current	Guest Speaker "Design e a Informação Digital" Round table	Estado do Design Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal
2014/02/13 - Current	Guest Speaker - "Lá e de Volta Outra Vez" Symposium	Tudo Isto É Design Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal
2015/08/03 - 2015/08/08	Palestra TRAVELOGUE SUMMER SCHOOL Travelogue Summer School is a forum for debate and collaborative practice dedicated to professionals and students in the fields of design, architecture, arts and related disciplines. Our aim is to collaboratively build a practice-based investigation towards publishing a unique guidebook about Porto. 3–8.08.2015 Other	TRAVELOGUE SUMMER SCHOOL Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2023/07/27	Perceções da Comunidade LGBTQIA+ sobre as campanhas de MKT e pinkwahsing: estudo exploratório (Thesis) Main arguer	Madalena Costa de Carvalho (Master) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
2022/10/14	Intentional Friction in the User Interface of Digital Games (Thesis) Main arguer	Isabella Barbosa Silva (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2022/10/10	O Papel da Visualização de Dados na Comunicação de Ciência: Padrões de Design para a Literacia Científica (Thesis) Main arguer	Ana Teresa Cardoso Duarte Silva (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal
2022/07/20	Jogos para Literacia Criativa: Uma framework para cultivar a literacia criativa através de jogos (Thesis) Arguer	José Manuel da Conceição Raimundo (PhD) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2022/06/30	MOOV: proposta de uma aplicação que visa otimizar a comunicação de uma empresa de transporte de mercadorias (Thesis) Main arguer	Ana Margarida de Sousa Couto (Master) Universidade Lusófona do Porto, Portugal
2022/06/06	O design e o Lúdico como Mecanismos no Tratamento da Anorexia Nervosa (Thesis) Arguer	Viviane Peçaibes de Mello (PhD) Museu da Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2021/02/19	UX Research: A Flow Proposal Based On The UA Web Portal Development (Thesis) Main arguer	Sydney de Almeida Neto (Master) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2020/10/20	Documentary as Game (Thesis) Arguer	Joana Patrícia dos Santos Malagueira (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2020/10/15	Designing User Interaction with Linked Data in Historical Archive (Thesis) Arguer	Cláudia Raquel Amaral Conde Guedes (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2019/10/16	SYD Live CV: A New Proposal for Work Overview (Thesis) Arguer	Stanislav Solonenco (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2019/07/19	Gaming as a Social Construct: Towards a Framework for Player Socialization in Massive Multiplayer Online Videogames (Thesis) Arguer	Ena Skopljakovic (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2019/07/19	Lado B: Um Caso de Estudo sobre Jogos Críticos como Meio para a Literacia Mediática na Era da Pós-Verdade Política (Thesis) Arguer	Juliana Vieira Valentim (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2018	Estereótipos e narrativas autobiográficas: a instalação multimédia como indutor da prática reflexiva	Daniela Isabel Lopes Ribeiro (Master) Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2018	Let's Play the Visual Trail: A Framework for the Analysis of the Mise-en-jeu	João Pedro Silva Ribeiro (Master) Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2018	Explorando retórica de jogo no cruzamento entre jogos sérios e art games para aprendizagem: caso de estudo do projeto Beaconing	Margarida Pereia da Rocha (Master) Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2023/04/23 - 2023/04/28	CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (978-1-4503-9421-5)	Association for Computing MachineryNew YorkNYUnited States
2022/08/11 - 2022/10/14	Computers & Graphics Volume 109, December 2022	Elsevier Ltd

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2023/11/09 - 2023/11/11	Digicom - 7th International Conference on Design and Digital Communication
2023/07/05 - 2023/07/05	xCoAx 2023 11th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X
2023/05/30 - 2023/06/02	Intermediartes 2023	ESMAD
2022/11/03 - 2022/11/05	DIGICOM 2022 - 6th International Conference on Design and Digital Communication
2022/07/06 - 2022/07/08	xCoAx 2022 10th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X
2021/07/12 - 2021/07/16	xCoAx 2021 9th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X
2020/11/05 - 2020/11/06	Digicom - 4th International Conference on Digital Design and Communication	Aveiro
2020/07/08 - 2020/07/10	xCoAx 2020 8th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X	Graz
2018/11/21 - 2018/11/22	Videojogos 2018: 6th Conference on Videogame Sciences and Arts. Porto, 21 & 22 November	Porto
2018/07/03 - 2018/07/05	xCoAx 2019 7th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X	MILAN