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Vítor Crista is a researcher at the Research Group on Intelligent Engineering and Computing for Advanced Innovation and Development (GECAD) at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto and an Assistant Professor at the Porto School of Engineering (ISEP). He holds a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence Engineering and a Bachelor's degree in Informatics Engineering from the ISEP. Since 2022, he has been working as an R&D grant holder, contributing to several international and national research projects. He was actively involved in two projects under the ITEA/Eureka programme: FoodFriend – Autonomous and easy-to-use tool for monitoring of personal food intake and personalised feedback (ITEA-18032) and MedGPT – Medical GPT: Revolutionizing Healthcare with Ethical AI (ITEA-23020). He also contributed to the national PRR project "ATT – Acelerar e Transformar o Turismo" (reference C645192610-00000060), where he worked on adapting tourist routes to the physical condition of visitors through intelligent systems. After completing his contribution to the FoodFriend project, he focused on his Master’s thesis, entitled "Leveraging Generative Artificial Intelligence and Wearable Technology for Adaptive Health and Conversational Interventions in the Elderly", for which he received the highest possible grade (20/20). He is currently a PhD student in the Doctoral Program in Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems Engineering. His research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, human-computer interaction systems for the elderly, gamification, natural language processing, and large language models. His scientific output includes nine publications: two journal articles (one published in a JCR Q1-ranked journal and another in a JCR Q2-ranked journal), five book chapters published by Springer, and four peer-reviewed conference papers, including one in an A* ranked conference. He was the first author of several works and has received international recognition. In 2022, he was awarded the Best Paper Prize by the Università degli Studi dell’Aquila for the paper “A Hybrid Model to Classify Physical Activity Profiles”. In 2024, he received the Best Paper Second Award from the University of Salamanca for his article “Design of a Proactive System to Promote Healthy Behaviors in the Elderly Population.”
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Vítor Crista

Citation names

  • Crista, Vítor

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
D716-3835-392D
ORCID iD
0000-0002-8794-6354

Email addresses

  • vvrpc@isep.ipp.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • (+351) 915462620 (Personal)

Addresses

  • GECAD - Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto. R. Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431, 4249-015, Porto, Porto, Portugal (Professional)
  • Rua Nova do Seixo nº693 R/C Trás. Esq., 4460-384, Senhora da Hora, Matosinhos, Portugal (Personal)

Websites

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2025/09 - 2029
Ongoing
 Doctoral Program In Artificial Intelligence And Intelligent Systems Engineering (Doutoramento)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
2022/09 - 2025/02/24
Concluded
 Master's Degree in Artificial Intelligence Engineering (Mestrado)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
"Leveraging Generative Artificial Intelligence and Wearable Technology for Adaptive Health and Conversational Interventions in the Elderly" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18
2018/09/15 - 2022/02/11
Concluded
 Informatics Engineering (Licenciatura)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
"Desenvolvimento de uma aplicação gamificada para suporte de utilizadores idosos" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 14
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/02/11 - Current Researcher (Research) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Grupo de Investigação em Engenharia e Computação Inteligente para a Inovação e o Desenvolvimento, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2025/09/15 - Current Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2025/03 - Current MedGPT
ITEA-23020
Research Fellow
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Grupo de Investigação em Engenharia e Computação Inteligente para a Inovação e o Desenvolvimento, Portugal
Ongoing
2023/03/15 - 2025/03/14 Agenda Acelerar e Transformar o Turismo
C645192610-00000060
Research Fellow
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Grupo de Investigação em Engenharia e Computação Inteligente para a Inovação e o Desenvolvimento, Portugal
2023/08/01 - 2024/03/14 Research Group on Intelligent Engineering and Computing for Advanced Innovation and Development
UIDB/00319/2020
Research Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2022/08/01 - 2023/06/30 FOOD FRIEND
NORTE-01-0247-FEDER-047381
ITEA-18032
Research Fellow
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Grupo de Investigação em Engenharia e Computação Inteligente para a Inovação e o Desenvolvimento, Portugal
Concluded
2022/02/11 - 2022/07/31 FOOD FRIEND
NORTE-01-0247-FEDER-047381
ITEA-18032
Scientific Initiation Fellow
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Grupo de Investigação em Engenharia e Computação Inteligente para a Inovação e o Desenvolvimento, Portugal
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Vítor Crista; Diogo Martinho; Goreti Marreiros. "A Multi-agent System Approach with Generative AI for Improved Elderly Daily Living". 2025.
    10.1007/978-3-031-73497-7_11
  2. Vítor Crista; Diogo Martinho; Goreti Marreiros. "Design of a Proactive System to Promote Healthy Behaviors in the Elderly Population". 2025.
    10.1007/978-3-031-80946-0_21
  3. Diogo Martinho; Vítor Crista; Andreia Pinto; José Diniz; Alberto Freitas; João Carneiro; Goreti Marreiros. "An Architecture for a Coaching System to Support Type 2 Diabetic Patients". 2023.
    10.1007/978-3-031-22356-3_16
  4. Diogo Martinho; Vítor Crista; Ziya Karakaya; Zahra Gamechi; Alberto Freitas; José Neves; Paulo Novais; Goreti Marreiros. "Design and Development of Ontology for AI-Based Software Systems to Manage the Food Intake and Energy Consumption of Obesity, Diabetes and Tube Feeding Patients". 2023.
    10.1007/978-3-031-49008-8_3
  5. Vítor Crista; Diogo Martinho; Jorge Meira; João Carneiro; Juan Corchado; Goreti Marreiros. "A Hybrid Model to Classify Physical Activity Profiles". 2022.
    10.1007/978-3-031-18697-4_22
Conference paper
  1. Crista, Vítor; Martinho, Diogo; Marreiros, Goreti. Corresponding author: Crista, Vítor. "Chat4Elderly: A Multi-Agent System for Personalized Wellness Using Generative AI and Wearable Technology". Paper presented in AAMAS '25, Detroit, 2025.
    Published
  2. Crista, Vítor; Martinho, Diogo; Meira, Jorge; Carneiro, João; Juan Manuel Corchado; Marreiros, Goreti. "A Hybrid Model to Classify Physical Activity Profiles". Paper presented in PAAMS - Workshop on Decision Support, Recommendation, and Persuasion in Artificial Intelligence (DeRePAI), L'Aquila, 2022.
  3. Martinho, Diogo; Crista, Vítor; Pinto, Andreia; Diniz, José; Freitas, Alberto; Marreiros, Goreti. "An Architecture for a Coaching System to Support Type 2 Diabetic Patients". Paper presented in ISAMI'22: 13th International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence, L'Aquila, 2022.
  4. Pinto, Andreia; Viana, João; Martinho, Diogo; Crista, Vítor; Diniz, José; Reis, Joana; Matos, João; et al. "Improving the lifestyle behavior of type 2 diabetes mellitus patients using a mobile application". Paper presented in 27th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2022), Rhodes Island, 2022.
Journal article
  1. Diogo Martinho; Vítor Crista; João Carneiro; Kenji Matsui; Juan Corchado; Goreti Marreiros. "Effects of a Gamified Agent-Based System for Personalized Elderly Care: A Pilot Usability Study (Preprint)". JMIR Serious Games (2023): https://doi.org/10.2196/48063.
    10.2196/48063
  2. Diogo Martinho; Vítor Crista; João Carneiro; Juan Manuel Corchado; Goreti Marreiros. "An Intelligent Coaching Prototype for Elderly Care". Electronics 11 3 (2022): 460-460. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11030460.
    10.3390/electronics11030460
Preprint
  1. Diogo Martinho; Vítor Crista; João Carneiro; Kenji Matsui; Juan Manuel Corchado; Goreti Marreiros. "Effects of a Gamified Agent-Based System for Personalized Elderly Care: Pilot Usability Study (Preprint)". 2023. https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.48063.
    10.2196/preprints.48063
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Leveraging Generative Artificial Intelligence and Wearable Technology for Adaptive Health and Conversational Interventions in the Elderly". Master, Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, 2025. https://recipp.ipp.pt/entities/publication/242be4a6-56c3-48e6-b35d-e3bf51d3c5d0.
Activities

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/09/02 - 2024/09/03 Participação na escola de verão EAIA (Escola Avançada de Inteligência Artificial) organizada pela APPIA (Associação Portuguesa de Inteligência Artificial) que oferece cursos e palestras sobre tópicos relevantes de IA com o objetivo de aprofundar o conhecimento dos participantes e promover a interação entre estudantes e investigadores na área. Escola Avançada de Inteligência Artificial
Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2024 Systems Journal MDPI Best Paper Second Award
Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
2022 Electronics Journal MDPI Best Paper
Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy