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Joao Alves de Sousa main research areas are game design and animation in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural production. PhD in Science and Technology of the Arts, Specialization in Interactive Art from Universidade Católica Portuguesa, he has been working in recent years on the link between education and entertainment (edutainment). As a researcher at HEI Lab, he has worked together with teams of psychologists in the creation of several multimedia applications that reflect this connection, such as VR Nmesis (2021 - under development) and VR Decision Making Training (2020, used by Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses - OPP), both as simulators for training psychology students. He also coordinated the development of Emotion Recognition Assessment, a mobile app used to assess the ability to recognize human emotions ( 2020 - in tests at the Alzheimer's Day Center and other dementias at Centro Hospitalar Conde de Ferreira). As director of the degree in Video Games and Multimedia Applications at Universidade Lusófona do Porto, he won the "Fazer + 2021" award for Best Innovative Pedagogical Practice, regarding the coordination of multidisciplinary projects using project based-learning methodologies. Master in Digital Animation, he was awarded for directing several animated films. Still in this field, he coordinated the creation of the Motion Comic "YES!" in a didactic project to combat childhood obesity in collaboration with Hospital Pedro Hispano, Matosinhos. He also animated and coordinated the creation of several animated artworks displayed in Augmented Reality in partnership with the artist Ana Aragão in the exhibition No Plan for Japan (Nov 2011-Feb 2022 - Museu do Oriente, Lisbon) and later on Hillside Gallery Tokyo.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
João Alves de Sousa

Citation names

  • Alves de Sousa, João

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
6C1B-FA38-630C
ORCID iD
0000-0003-2162-2901

Email addresses

  • joao.alves.de.sousa@ulusofona.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • 914010641 (Personal)

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts - Architectural design
  • Humanities - Arts - Architectural design
  • Engineering and Technology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2016/07/31
Concluded
 PhD in Science and Tecnhonogy of the Arts - Interactive Art (Doutoramento)
Major in Interactive Art - Videogames
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Investigação em Ciência e Tecnologia das Artes, Portugal
"Os Videojogos Indie Como Forma De Expressão Autoral: Criatividade, Estilo e Significado" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Magna cum Laude
2009/07/31
Concluded
 Sound and Image (Mestrado)
Major in Computer Animation
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola das Artes, Portugal
" O Drama nas Curtas-Metragens de Animação " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16
2006/07/31
Concluded
 Comunication Design (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal
 13
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/12/01 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) HEI-Lab, Portugal
Universidade Lusófona do Porto Faculdade de Comunicação Arquitetura Artes e Tecnologias da Informação, Portugal
2018/10/01 - 2023/11/30 Researcher (Research) HEI-Lab, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2010/09/15 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Lusófona do Porto, Portugal
2023/10/01 - 2024/07/31 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola das Artes, Portugal
2020/02/01 - 2024/01/10 Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Portugal
2018/02/01 - 2018/07/31 Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal

Other Careers

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2008/04/01 - 2010/07/31 Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) CVisual, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017/09/15 - Current Videogames and Multimedia Applications Bachelor Director Universidade Lusófona do Porto, Portugal
2016/09/15 - Current Videogames and Multimedia Applications Bachelor Deputy Director Universidade Lusófona do Porto, Portugal
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. André Carita; João Alves de Sousa. "Exploring Student Perceptions: Analyzing Votes on Video Game Final Presentations in a Video Game Course". 2025.
    10.1007/978-3-031-77566-6_1
  2. Carla Cadete; Andreia Pinto de Sousa; Inês Marques-Aleixo; João Alves de Sousa; Lucimere Bohn. "Designing for Social Impact: Preventing Childhood Obesity with Higher Education Students". 2025.
    10.1007/978-3-031-77566-6_30
  3. João Alves de Sousa. "Digital Animation and Augment Reality as a Way of Added Value to Artistic Exhibition". 2023.
    10.1007/978-3-031-20364-0_31
Conference paper
  1. Cadete, Carla; Alves de Sousa, João; Inês Sofia Marques Aleixo; Andreia Sofia Pinto de Sousa. "Designing for Social Impact: Preventing Childhood Obesity with Higher Education Students". Paper presented in DIGICOM 2024, Barcelos, 2024.
    In press
  2. Souto, Teresa; Dias, Fábio; Ferreira, MJ; Conde, Ana Rita ; gamito, pedro; Alves de Sousa, João; Ricou, Miguel; Marina, Sílvia; Miguel Oliveira. "What happened after ethical decision-making training went virtual: some features about VREthics Application". Paper presented in 15th International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality & Associated Technologies, Prague, 2024.
    Published
  3. Cadete, Carla; Andreia Sofia Pinto de Sousa; Alves de Sousa, João. "Changing Behaviours Through Design: An Educational Comic Brochure to Help Prevent Childhood Obesity". Paper presented in 13th Asian Conference on Media, Communication & Film (MediAsia2022), Kyoto, Japan, October 17-20, Kyoto, 2022.
    Published • 10.22492
  4. gamito, pedro; Souto, Teresa; Oliveira, Jorge; Conde, Ana Rita ; Ferreira, Maria José; Alves de Sousa, João; Aleixo, Inês; et al. "Synthetic agents: relaxing agents?". Paper presented in 13th International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality & Associated Technologies, Serpa, 2021.
    Published
  5. MENOSSO, PAMELA; BONAMIGO, ANDREI; WERNER, STEFFAN M. "O espaço da produção independente na indústria dos videojogos". Paper presented in Videojogos, Coimbra, 2013.
    Published • 10.14488/enegep2019_tn_sto_293_1655_37226
Journal article
  1. João Alves de Sousa. "Editorial - Playful by Design: Transformative Approaches to Game Studies". International Journal of Games and Social Impact (2024): https://doi.org/10.24140/ijgsi.v2.n1.editorial.
    10.24140/ijgsi.v2.n1.editorial
  2. gamito, pedro; Conde, Ana Rita ; Souto, Teresa; Alves de Sousa, João; Ricou, Miguel; Marina, Sílvia. "Ethical decision-making training goes virtual". Technology, Mind, and Behavior (TMB) (2021): https://tmb.apaopen.org/pub/c9tf7rzd/release/1.
    Open access • Published
  3. Miguel Oliveira; Pedro Gamito; Rita Conde; Maria Teresa Soares Souto; Fábio Dias; João Alves de Sousa; Miguel Ricou; Silvia Marina. "Ethical decision-making training goes virtual". Technology, Mind, and Behavior (2021): https://research.ulusofona.pt/en/publications/0a0b2eb3-293e-4f8c-876e-02b262cd7c4e.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Alves de Sousa, João. "Os Videojogos Indie Como Forma De Expressão Autoral: Criatividade, Estilo e Significado". PhD, Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Investigação em Ciência e Tecnologia das Artes, 2016.
  2. Alves de Sousa, João. "O Drama nas Curtas-Metragens de Animação". Master, Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola das Artes, 2009.

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition
  1. Ana Aragão; João Alves de Sousa. No Plan for Japan. 2021.

Other

Other output
  1. The Damn Newspaper. Videogame created and presented during Global Game JAM 2021. 2021. Alves de Sousa, João. https://globalgamejam.org/2021/games/damn-newspaper-3.
  2. Emotional Competencies Training. 2020. Alves de Sousa, João; Souto, Teresa.
  3. VREthics. VR simulator for training psychology students used by Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses - OPP. 2020. Alves de Sousa, João; Souto, Teresa; gamito, pedro; Conde, Ana Rita ; Marina, Sílvia; Ricou, Miguel.
  4. re_PAIR. Videogame created and presented during Global Game JAM 2020. 2020. Alves de Sousa, João; Carita, André; Jacob, João. https://globalgamejam.org/2020/games/repair-8-4.
  5. Emotion Recognition Assessment. App for the assessment of the capacity of emotion recognition as an alternative to the "pen and paper" auto-evaluation of the TAS assessment.. 2019. Souto, Teresa; Alves de Sousa, João; Sousa, Andreia Pinto de.
  6. Door. Videogame created and presented during Global Game JAM 2019. 2019. Alves de Sousa, João. https://globalgamejam.org/2019/games/door.
  7. Sendo um Feto. animated short movie. 2010. Alves de Sousa, João. https://youtu.be/HraE9KZApGE.
  8. ?orquê. animated short movie. 2006. Alves de Sousa, João. https://youtu.be/2sQeA8gI3-k.
Activities

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2019/01/01 - Current Local organizer Global Game Jam - VAM Game JAM (2009/01/30)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Lusófona do Porto, Portugal
2024/11/07 - 2024/11/09 3rd Playful by Design International Conference: Transformative Approaches to Game Studies (2024/11/07 - 2024/11/09)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
2024/01/08 - 2024/01/08 Playful by Design Conference in collaboration with University of Illinois and Uppsala University (2024/01/08 - 2024/01/08)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade Lusófona do Porto Faculdade de Comunicação Arquitetura Artes e Tecnologias da Informação, Portugal
2023/01/10 - 2023/01/10 Playful by Design (2023/01/10 - 2033/01/10)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade Lusófona do Porto, Portugal

ISLA Gaia Instituto Politécnico de Gestão e Tecnologia, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2018/05/01 Comparação de sistemas de partículas em suportes digitais bidimensionais e realidade virtual
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Vasco Ribeiro (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024/11/05 - 2024/11/05 Revista Sociologia, Problema e Práticas (0873-6529) Cies-Iscte (Centro de Investigação e Estudos e Sociologia)
2024/04/04 - 2024/04/04 Revista Media & Jornalismo (1645-5681) Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2023/04/11 - 2033/04/14 Foundations of Digital Games 2023 Universidade Lusófona
2024/11/07 - 2024/11/09 DIGICOM 2024 IPCA
2023/11/09 - 2023/11/11 Digicom 2023 IPCA
2022/11/03 - 2022/11/05 Digicom 2022 IPCA
2021/11/04 - 2021/11/06 Digicom 2021 Teatro Gil Vicente, Barcelos, Portugal
2021/10/22 - 2021/10/22 Glow 2021 - 1st Games and Social Impact Media Research Lab Conference Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias
2020/09/14 - 2020/09/16 Game On Universidade de Aveiro
2019/06/26 - 2019/06/28 MILT Conference Media Literacy for Living Together Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias
2018/11/21 - 2018/11/21 Videojogos 2018 - 10th Conference on videogame Sciences and Arts Faculdade de Belas Artes, Universidade do Porto

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2020/02/01 - Current Teacher in Mobile App Design - Master in Digital Design (Mestrado) Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Portugal
2017/09/01 - Current Director of Videogames and Multimedia Apps Videojogos e Aplicações Multimédia (Licenciatura) Universidade Lusófona do Porto, Portugal
2010/09/15 - Current Deputy Director Audiovisual and Multimedia Communication Audiovisual and Multimedia Communication (Licenciatura) Universidade Lusófona do Porto, Portugal
2010/09/01 - Current Teacher in various disciplines based on digital image, animation and videogames such as: - Digital Image - 2D Digital Animation - Video games and multimedia applications workshop I e II (Licenciatura) Universidade Lusófona do Porto, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024/05/26 - 2024/05/26 Perspectives on Design and Digital Communication V (2661-8192) Springer Cham

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2021/12/20 - 2023/06/13 Master Thesis Mentoring - Augmented Reality App as a Means of Cultural Dissemination: A Historical-Cultural Contribution to the City of Póvoa de Varzim Rita Sofia Martins Gomes Costa Pinto
2020/09/01 - 2021/03/02 Master Dissertation: Hogwarts Mystery: a convergência da obra literária no formato de videojogo para criação de um ciberespaço colaborativo. Maria Júlia Cunha
Distinctions

Award

2023 Fazer + Programa de incentivo à ciência e inovação pedagógica
Instituto Lusófono de Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
2021 Fazer + Best Innovative Pedagogical Practice
Instituto Lusófono de Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
2019 Financing for exploratory project - Using Technology to promote Health and Well-being
Instituto Lusófono de Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
2015 Most Innovative Game - Lots of Guts (game prototype)
Sony Playstation Ibéria, Portugal
2010 Best Student Movie by student Juri - Sendo um Feto (short animated movie)
Festival Monstra, Portugal
2006 Young Portuguese Filmmaker - ?orquê (short animated movie)
Cinanima, Portugal
2006 1st place Animation - "?orquê" (short animated movie)
Video Cor, Portugal
2006 2nd place (Schools Digital) "?orquê" short animated movie
Animatu, Portugal
2006 Honorable Mention - ?orquê (short animated movie)
Filofest, Slovenia
2005 1st place - Award for the creation of a label for the Oficial Fantasporto Film Festival Port Wine
Fantasporto, Portugal
2005 1st Prize VI in (Original Wine Label DN Awards)
Diário de Notícias, Portugal
2005 2nd place in Postcard Design Challenge
Papélia, Portugal