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PhD researcher in Digital Media at INESC TEC in the HumanISE Centre, focusing on the area of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) using methodologies related to immersive learning and participatory design. Invited professor at the University of Porto's Faculty of Engineering's Department of Computer Science. Coordinator of TRIO-Adult Education on Digital Literacy in Health under the Erasmus+ program in the area of Digital Literacy in Health. The doctoral research analyzed how digital technologies can be used to create immersive museum experiences with the participation of museum stakeholders through gamification frameworks. The thesis is entitled: "Play the Museum: A framework for designing location-based games with augmented reality for museological spaces.". Web and Graphic Designer responsible for conceptualizing, visualizing, creating and managing the production of multimedia applications for several Museums and Cultural institutions special in Portugal, Brazil and IOM projects (UN migration). Responsible for the Multimedia area at Sistemas do Futuro – Multimedia, Gestão e Arte, between 2003-2022 in Oporto, Portugal. Undergraduate Degree in Communication Design from the Faculty of Fine Arts and a Master's Degree in Multimedia (arts and culture) from the Faculty of Engineering with a thesis about online collections and social media in Museums (2010). Organization and speaker at international conferences and participation in Museums and Web 2009/2010 and Museumnext 2012. Awards winning - FIAMP 2009 (special mention) in Multimedia Guide of "National Railway Museum" - Multimedia tour, FIAMP 2012 Bronze (Web’Art Special Prize) in the category "Special Web'Art Award: online exhibition or program" with the project "Ludi Saeculares" developed in partnership with the Regional Museum of Archaeology D. Diogo de Sousa, FIAMP 2014 (silver prize - "Grand Prix Du Moyen Metrage") with the interactive station "Mr. Steam and "The train is our friend” from National Railway Museum - Entroncamento, Portugal.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Maria Sousa

Citation names

  • Sousa, Maria
  • van Zeller, Maria

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
AF14-C252-BFC4
ORCID iD
0000-0002-8706-0414

Email addresses

  • mvanzeller@fe.up.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • (+351) 966306063 (Personal)

Addresses

  • Rua Carlos Dubini, 80, 2, 4150-187, Porto, Porto, Portugal (Personal)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Media and Communications

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Spanish; Castilian Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Upper intermediate (B2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2022/01/26
Concluded
 Media Digitais (Doutoramento)
Major in Área de especialidade: Tecnologias
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Jogar o Museu: Uma framework para o design de jogos baseados em localização com realidade aumentada para espaços museológicos" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2019/09 - 2019/10
Concluded
 CURSO DE FORMAÇÃO LEARNING FROM USERS: User Research Methods for Technology Design (Outros)
Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal
2008/09 - 2010/11/02
Concluded
 Multimédia (Mestrado)
Major in cultura e artes
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"(Re)design da ficha de inventário online. Que contributos colaborativos e interactivos poderemos acrescentar num contexto científico de um objecto museológico." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17
1995/09 - 2000/10/30
Concluded
 Design de Comunicação (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/04/18 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2022/04/18 - 2024/04/18 Postdoc (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/09/01 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Other Careers

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2003/01/02 - 2022/04/17 Coordenador Técnico (Assistente Técnico) Sistemas do Futuro Multimédia Gestão e Arte Lda, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2000/05 - 2002/12 Web designer Imediata Websentials do Grupo Imediata, SGPS, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2017/02 - 2021/05 Norte 2020
NORTE_ 08-5369-FSE-000049
 Norte 2020
2018/01 - 2019/12 Breaking Educational Barriers with Contextualised, Pervasive and Gameful Learning (BEACONING)
H2020-ICT-2015-687676
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2022/04/18 - 2024/04/18 TRIO - Adult education on digital, health and data literacy for citizen empowerment
KA220-ADU-000033817
Coordinator
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
 Erasmus Plus
Ongoing
2021/05/01 - 2022/04/18 Memória para todos
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Cordenador projecto web
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Ongoing
2021/05 - 2022/04 Az Infinitum - Sistema de Referência e Indexação de Azulejo
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Coordenador do website
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2021/05 - 2022/04 Reimaginar a Europa
PTDC/LLT-OUT/7036/2020
Cordenador website
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
Ongoing
2021/05 - 2022/04 Rohingya Cultural Memory Center
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Cordenador web
International Organization for Migration, United States
2021/05 - 2022/04 Projeto remilitari
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Cordenador website
CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
Ongoing
2017/09 - 2018/02 Mu.SA: Museum Sector Alliance
575907-EEP1-2016-1-EL-EPPKA2-SSA
Invited Scientist Fellow
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
 Erasmus Plus
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. van Zeller, Maria. Jogos com Realidade Aumentada nos Museus. Caleidoscópio. 2023.
    10.30618/9789896587260
Conference paper
  1. van Zeller, Maria; Morgado, Leonel; Pecaibes, Viviane. "Participatory design as a co-creation methodology for health literacy games: the case of the TRIO project". Paper presented in 16th International Conference on Education Technology and Computers (ICETC 2024), Porto, 2024.
    10.1145/3702163.3702413
  2. Bárbara Andrez; Maria van Zeller; António Coelho; Paula Menino Homem; Maria Manuela Pinto. "Interdisciplinary Co-Creation Of A Multiplayer Gamified Mobile App To Address Heritage Preservation Consciousness Among Museum Visitors: The Case Of The Military Museum Of Porto". 2023.
    10.21125/iceri.2023.1381
  3. van Zeller, Maria; Liliana Santos; Coelho, António; Cardoso, Pedro. "Play the Museum: Um Projeto Sobre Jogos Em Ambientes de Aprendizagem Informal Na Galeria Da Biodiversidade". Paper presented in 5º Encontro sobre Jogos e Mobile Learning, 2020.
  4. Maria van Zeller; António Coelho; Pedro Cardoso; Liliana Santos; José Raimundo; Roberto Vaz; Coelho, António; et al. "Gamifying the museological experience". Paper presented in XChange Reality 2020: Exploring the Future of Current Challenges with Augmented and Virtual Reality, 2020.
  5. Antonio Coelho; Pedro Cardoso; Marina Camilo; Augusto Sousa; Maria van Zeller. "Designing of a mobile app for the development of pervasive games". 2019.
    10.1109/icgi47575.2019.8955034
  6. Maria van Zeller. "Mr. Steam and “The train is our friend”: an interactive system to welcome school children to the Museum". 2013.
Journal article
  1. Leonel Morgado; António Coelho; Dennis Beck; Christian Gütl; Fernando Cassola; Ricardo Baptista; Maria van Zeller; et al. "Inven!RA Architecture for Sustainable Deployment of Immersive Learning Environments". Sustainability (2023): https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/1/857.
    10.3390/su15010857
  2. Demetrius Lacet; Maria Van Zeller; Paulo Martins; Leonel Morgado. "Digital Storytelling approaches in Virtual Museums: Umbrella review of systematic reviews". Journal of Digital Media & Interaction (2022): vol. 5 n.º 13 (2022)-vol. 5 n.º 13 (2022). https://proa.ua.pt/index.php/jdmi/article/view/29215.
    10.34624/JDMI.V5I13.29215
  3. António Coelho; Rui Rodrigues; Rui Nóbrega; João Jacob; Leonel Morgado; Pedro Cardoso; Maria van Zeller; Liliana Santos; A. Augusto Sousa. "Serious Pervasive Games". Frontiers in Computer Science 2 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcomp.2020.00030.
    10.3389/fcomp.2020.00030
Online resource
  1. Mu.SA: Museum Sector Alliance. MU.SA Mooc course - technology trend monitoring. 2018. http://www.project-musa.eu/platform/.
Report
  1. van Zeller, Maria; Alice Moreira; Carina Dantas; Miriam Cabrita. 2022. TRIO, Adult education on digital, health and data literacy for citizen empowerment: National report on digital health and data literacy | Portugal. https://trioproject.eu/wpcontent/uploads/2023/03/TRIO-national-report-Portugal_SHINE_Final.pdf..
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Jogar o Museu: Uma framework para o design de jogos baseados em localização com realidade aumentada para espaços museológicos". PhD, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/140610.
  2. "(Re)design da ficha de inventário online: Que contributos colaborativos e interactivos poderemos acrescentar num contexto científico de um objecto museológico.". 2010. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/bitstream/10216/60031/1/000145777.pdf.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/10/31 COMpartilhAÇÕES: oficinas para professores_Cocriação de Immersive Educational Escape Rooms V Congresso Internacional da RIEOnLIFE e no IX Festival Internacional do WLC – A Formação de Ecologias Conectivas no Paradigma da Educação OnLIFE
Universidade Aberta — Portugal, a Universidade de Coimbra — Portugal, o Grupo Internacional de Pesquisa Educação Digital (GPe-dU) da UNISINOS/CNPq — Brasil (Peso da Régua, Portugal)
2024/10/31 Vivência Imersiva na Cibricidade V Congresso Internacional da RIEOnLIFE e no IX Festival Internacional do WLC – A Formação de Ecologias Conectivas no Paradigma da Educação OnLIFE
Universidade Aberta — Portugal, a Universidade de Coimbra — Portugal, o Grupo Internacional de Pesquisa Educação Digital (GPe-dU) da UNISINOS/CNPq — Brasil (Peso da Régua, Portugal)
2023/06/07 Tecnologias digitais para criar experiências imersivas em museus O Metaverso numa perspetiva multidisciplinar: oportunidades e desafios
Universidade Portucalence (Porto)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2022/09 - 2023/12/13 Experiências inclusivas com uso de jogos e realidade aumentada.
Supervisor
 Multimédia (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2022/09/20 - 2023/07/30 Serious game for promoting health data literacy using the Inven!RA analytics architecture
Co-supervisor of José Ricardo Vieira Gomes
 Engenharia Informática (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2022/09 - 2023/07/30 3D story editor applied to the project Frontowns
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia da Informação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2020 - 2021/07/19 Flo[RA]: Uma Aplicação Móvel Para Comunicar Ciência Através Do Lúdico e Da Realidade Aumentada.
Co-supervisor of David Jorge Lourenço Soares
 Multimédia (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2020 - 2021/07/19 Serious Game with Augmented Reality - Programming on Indoor/Outdoor Systems: A case study on Galeria da Biodiversidade da Universidade do Porto
Co-supervisor of Diogo Alexandre Silva Teixeira
 Engenharia Informática (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/05/20 - Current Descrever e planear atividades imersivas estruturadamente
Seminar
 Flash seminar
Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal
2024/05/07 - Current Presentation TRIO project
Conference
 Building Sustainable and Participatory Environments
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar Cultura Espaço e Memória, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2024/12/19 Fariseu aumentado: o caso do Parque Arqueológico do Vale do Côa
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Nuno Gabriel Da Silva Tavares Veloso (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2024/07/19 A Gamified Intervention to Inoculate Against Misinformation. - PhD Thesis Plan
(Thesis) Arguer
 Tiago Nuno Mesquita Folgado Leitão Devezas (Other)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2024/07/18 ICU patients Rehabilitation using Virtual Reality. - PhD Thesis Plan
(Thesis) Arguer
 Inês Oliveira (Other)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2024/07/09 Desenho de interfaces de telemedicina acessíveis para seniores: aplicação na evolução do produto SmartAL da Altice Labs
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Tiago Filipe Ferreira Álvaro (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2024/07/09 Cocriação de experiências turísticas multissensoriais em realidade virtual para apoiar o processo de reserva de alojamento. - PhD Thesis Plan
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Márcia Gisela Fernandes Vaz (Other)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2024/07/01 DoSTEM: uma ferramenta de design e avaliação de jogos de sérios para capacitação de professores de STEM no Ensino Superior em Moçambique. PhD Thesis Plan
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Ednilson Agostinho Bambo Dava (Other)
Universidade Aberta, Portugal
2023/11/28 O Papel Social do Design na Inclusão: Uma abordagem de Ação-Reflexão no contexto do projeto Skills for a Next Generation U.Porto
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Luisa Rocha Lino (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal
2022/07/22 Three-Dimensional Interactive Visualization of the Thematic Network of Immersive Learning Research
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Madalena Antunes de Sousa (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2022/07/21 World Building and Design of an Immersive Educational Escape Room: its Impact on Immersion
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Ana Rita Bernardo Garcia (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2018/12/18 Atribuição de Título de Especialista
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Horácio António Barbosa Tomé Marques (Other)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2024/10/30 - 2024/10/31 V Congresso Internacional da RIEOnLIFE e no IX Festival Internacional do WLC – A Formação de Ecologias Conectivas no Paradigma da Educação OnLIFE Universidade Aberta — Portugal, a Universidade de Coimbra — Portugal, o Grupo Internacional de Pesquisa Educação Digital (GPe-dU) da UNISINOS/CNPq — Brasil

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/04/19 - Current Tecnologias digitais para criar experiências imersivas em museus Pós-graduação e Extensão – PROPPEX (Postgraduate Certificate) Universidade FEEVALE, Brazil

Scientific expedition

Activity description Institution / Organization
2023/07/10 - 2023/07/14 EIT Culture & Creativity Summer School 2023 Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego w Krakowie Wydzial Zarzadzania i Komunikacji Spolecznej, Poland
Distinctions

Award

2014 FIAMP 2014 - Silver prize "GRAND PRIX DU MOYEN METRAGE" (FIAMP - AVICOM (International Committee for the Audiovisual and Image and Sound New Technologies) )
International Council of Museums, France
2013 FIAMP 2012 - Bronze Web Art Special Prize: online exhibition or program
International Council of Museums, France
2012 APOM 2012 - Best Multimedia and Management Application
2010 FIAMP 2009 - Special Mention for "Mobile Program" AVICOM
International Council of Museums, France
2008 APOM 2008 - Best Website: Honorable Mention