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Mariana Seiça is a crossmedia designer, trained in the Bachelor and Master's Degree in Design and Multimedia in the University of Coimbra. As a teaching assistant in both courses, she is currently pursuing a PhD in Computational Media Design in the same institution. Her research and artistic practices focus on the use of sound as a communication tool, embodying her enthusiasm for musical forms that travel between the fields of Sonification, Sound Design, Human-Computer Interaction and Collaborative Computing. Her PhD theme deals with the proposal of a systemic design to sonification, materialised through a sonic field of sound beings, exploring novel, interactive dialogues that entice the emergence of aesthetics as a perception expander, and new design spaces for sound interaction.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Mariana Seiça Paiva de Carvalho

Citation names

  • Seiça, Mariana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
6E11-4902-506B
ORCID iD
0000-0001-5450-5459
Google Scholar ID
AhfpzbIAAAAJ

Websites

Education
Degree Classification
2022/09 - 2025/03
Concluded
 Design de Media Computacionais (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Portugal
"A Systemic Design Approach for Sonification Aesthetics" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2017/09 - 2022/08
Attended
 Programa de Doutoramento em Ciências e Tecnologias da Informação (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Portugal
2017
Concluded
 Design e Multimédia (Mestrado)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
"O Som dos Dados: Sonificação Musical de Emoções expressas no Twitter" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18
2014
Concluded
 Design e Multimédia (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
 16
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/09 - Current Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2019/01 - 2023/03 FCT PhD Scholarship
SFRH/BD/138285/2018
PhD Student Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Valéria Moreira Pinto; Mariana Seiça; Licínio Roque. "How Players Develop Computational Thinking While Modeling Character Behaviors in Gameplay". 2024.
    10.1007/978-3-031-51452-4_9
  2. Rui Craveirinha; Luís Lucas Pereira; Mariana Seiça; Licínio Roque. "Aesthetic Perspectives on Computational Media Design". 2021.
    10.1007/978-3-030-89394-1_42
  3. Mariana Seiça; João Couceiro e Castro; Sérgio Rebelo; Pedro Martins; Ana Boavida; Penousal Machado. "Casa das Máquinas: An Artificial Dialogue of Portuguese Poetry". 2021.
    10.1007/978-3-030-89394-1_46
  4. Nils Meisel; Seiça, Mariana; Amilcar Cardoso; Martins, P.. "O Som na Era dos Media Computacionais: Experiências e Perceções". In Geografias Culturais da Música, do Som e do Silêncio, edited by Ana Francisca Azevedo; Furlanetto, B. H.; Duarte, M. B.. Braga, Portugal: Lab2.PT Universidade do Minho, 2021.
    In press
Conference paper
  1. Valéria Moreira Vaz Pinto; Seiça, Mariana; Licinio Gomes Roque. Corresponding author: Valéria Moreira Vaz Pinto. "Insights into Competence Development Through Playfulness in a Cooperative Game Scenario: A Preliminary Study". Paper presented in 2023 Digital Games Research Association International Conference (2023 DiGRA), Sevilha, 2023.
    Published
  2. Valéria Moreira Pinto; Mariana Seiça; Licinio Roque. "How Can We Design for Gender-Neutrality in Games? – A Case Study With Children Using Gameplay Rehearsals". 2023.
    10.1145/3544549.3585637
  3. Seiça, Mariana; Roque, Licínio; Martins, Pedro; Amilcar Cardoso. "Playing With Sound Beings: A Sonic Playfield". 2022.
    10.1145/3505270.3558384
  4. Seiça, Mariana; Roque, Licínio; Martins, Pedro; Amilcar Cardoso. "An Illustrative Design Case of Systemic Sonification". 2022.
    10.1145/3561212.3561224
  5. Seiça, Mariana; Roque, Licínio; Martins, Pedro; Amilcar Cardoso. "Artefact, Participant and Interaction in Auditory Experiences". 2022.
    10.21785/icad2022.026
  6. Seiça, Mariana; Roque, Licínio; Martins, Pedro; Amilcar Cardoso. "A Systemic Perspective for Sonification Aesthetics". 2021.
    10.21785/icad2021.033
  7. Seiça, Mariana; Rebelo, Sérgio Martins; Lourenço, Nuno; Martins, Pedro. "#ESSYS*: An Online Happening". Paper presented in 9th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, 2021.
  8. Martins, Tiago; Seiça, Mariana; Martins, Pedro. "Planar: Discovering City Soundscapes". Paper presented in 9th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, 2021.
  9. Seiça, Mariana; Roque, Licínio; Martins, Pedro; Amilcar Cardoso. "Contrasts and Similarities between Two Audio Research Communities in Evaluating Auditory Artefacts". 2020.
    10.1145/3411109.3411146
  10. Seiça, Mariana; Rodrigues, Ana; Martins, Pedro; Amilcar Cardoso; Machado, Penousal. "Computer Generation and Perception Evaluation of Music-Emotion Associations". Paper presented in 14th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR), Marselha, 2019.
  11. Seiça, Mariana; Martins, Pedro; Roque, Licínio; Amilcar Cardoso. "A Sonification Experience to Portray the Sounds of Portuguese Consumption Habits". Paper presented in 25th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2019), Newcastle, 2019.
    Published • 10.21785/icad2019.050
  12. Seiça, Mariana; Lopes, Rui (Buga); Martins, Pedro; Amilcar Cardoso. "Sonifying Twitter’s Emotions Through Music". Paper presented in 13th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research, Matosinhos, 2017.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Seiça, Mariana; Roque, Licínio; Martins, Pedro; Cardoso, F. Amílcar. "A Design Model for Systemic Sonification". Journal of the Audio Engineering Society 72 9 (2024): 571-584. http://dx.doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2022.0165.
    Open access • 10.17743/jaes.2022.0165
  2. Seiça, Mariana; Roque, Licínio; Martins, Pedro; Amilcar Cardoso. "An interdisciplinary journey towards an aesthetics of sonification experience". Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces (2023): https://doi.org/10.1007/s12193-023-00416-7.
    10.1007/s12193-023-00416-7
  3. Sérgio M. Rebelo; Mariana Seiça; Pedro Martins; João Bicker; Penousal Machado. "ESSYS* Sharing #UC: An Emotion-driven Audiovisual Installation". arXiv (2022): https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.03338.
    10.48550/ARXIV.2209.03338
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Seiça, Mariana. "O Som dos Dados: Sonificação Musical de Emoções expressas no Twitter". Master, Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10316/82987.

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition
  1. as part of the Collective Biits.UC. "O Brain! My Brain!" - Conceptual Development, Design, Curation & Management, exhibited at Casa das Artes Bissaya Barreto, 2023. 2023.
  2. Rebelo, Sérgio; Seiça, Mariana. "ESSYS*: Sharing #UC" - Sound Design & Conceptual Development of the Audiovisual Installation, exhibited in Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra (CAPC). 2021.
  3. Seiça, Mariana; Couceiro e Castro, João; Rebelo, Sérgio M.; Boavida, Ana; Machado, Penousal. "Casa das Máquinas" (Máquina Canora) - Installation at Mostra de Artes da Palavra 2021. Palácio Ribamar (Oeiras, Portugal). 2021.
  4. Martins, Tiago; Seiça, Mariana; Martins, Pedro. "Planar" - Audiovisual installation in the exhibition "Dar a Ouvir. Paisagens sonoras da Cidade" 2020, at Convento de São Francisco, Coimbra, Portugal. 2020.
  5. Lopes, Daniel; Seiça, Mariana; Martins, Pedro. "Sonus Populi" - Audiovisual installation in the exhibition "Dar a Ouvir. Paisagens sonoras da Cidade" 2019, at Convento de São Francisco, Coimbra, Portugal. 2019.
Artistic performance
  1. Rebelo, Sérgio M.; Lourenço, Nuno; Martins, Pedro. 2021. #ESSYS*: An Online Happening. Performance session of the 9th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X (xCoAx 2021).
Sound design
  1. Cooperativa Bonifrates (Writer / Producer). 2024. "Há um Sol Esplendente nas Coisas" - Sound Design and Promotional Material for the performative recital about Mário Cesariny.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/06 Ressonâncias entre Design, Música & Som, Arte, Investigação e Ensino 4º Encontro Estudantes | reUniii - 4th Gathering iiiUC
Instituto Interdisciplinar da Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/05 A Estética dos Dados Open Class
Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha (ESAD) (Caldas da Rainha, Portugal)
2019/04 O som como ferramenta de comunicação e criação estética 12th Ciclo de Conversas de Design+Multimédia
Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2018/06 The Interaction of Functional and Aesthetic Dimensions in Auditory Displays Doctoral Consortium of the 9th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC 2018)
ICCC (Salamanca, Spain)
2018/04 Uma simbiose entre Design, Investigação e Música 11th Ciclo de Conversas de Design+Multimédia
Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2017/09 Sonificação Musical de Texto: d’ Os Lusíadas ao Twitter Das Palavras Nascem Sons, Dos Sons Nascem Ideias
Jazz ao Centro Clube (Coimbra, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/09 - 2024/09/10 Designing Contextual Personal Information Spaces
Co-supervisor
 Design e Multimédia (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022/09 - 2023/09 dotRodas - Workshop Tecnológico Itinerante
Co-supervisor
 Design e Multimédia (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2021/09 - 2022/09 Design E Estudo de Uma Experiência de Jogo Para Promoção Da Diversidade de Género Nas STEM
Co-supervisor
 Design e Multimédia (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2020/09 - 2021/09 Paisagens sonoras de Portugal: uma plataforma de recolha e partilha das paisagens sonoras nacionais no pré, durante e pós-pandemia
Co-supervisor
 Design e Multimédia (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2021/11 - 2021/11 Member of the local organization of the 20th International Federation for Information Processing – International Conference on Entertainment Computing (IFIP-ICEC 2021) (2021/11 - 2021/11)
Conference
 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2024/07 Pode a multimédia ajudar a comunicar a investigação biomédica?
(Thesis) Arguer
 Maria Inês Salgueiro Sales da Silva (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2023/02 Adaptive Fashion and Digital Technologies in Post Mastectomy: Undergarment Personalization as a Way of Empowering Women
(Thesis) Arguer
 Maria de Nolasco Santos (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022/09 Design Explorations of Interactive Virtual Environments Using Volumetric Capture and Visualisation Techniques: A 250 Year Timestamp of the Botanical Garden of the University of Coimbra
(Thesis) Arguer
 Maximilian Oliver Rubin (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2017 Best Paper Award at the 13th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR)
2013 Prémio 3% dos Melhores Estudantes
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2011 Prémio 3% dos Melhores Estudantes
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Other distinction

2021 O Brain! My Brain! - as one of the selected projects for the Scientific Culture Promotion initiative
Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Portugal
2020 Sharing #UC - as one of the selected projects for the Scientific Culture Promotion initiative
Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Portugal