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Doctoral degree on digital location-based games for social interaction, as a playful approach to positive social impact. As Systems Engineer, I design and create technical systems for citizen participation.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
FRANCISCO XAVIER DOS SANTOS FONSECA

Citation names

  • FONSECA, XAVIER

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
F913-DB73-72C7
ORCID iD
0000-0003-0558-3172

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics - Communication Engineering and Systems

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Dutch Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
German Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Spanish; Castilian Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2016/03/01 - 2021/02/01
Concluded
 Location-based Games for Social Interaction in Public Space (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in Systems Engineering; Serious Games;
Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands
"Location-based Games for Social Interaction in Public Space" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2014/09/01 - 2016/05/31
Concluded
 Advanced Studies in Industrial Information Systems (Pós-Graduação)
Major in Electronics Engineering
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
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2005/09/01 - 2011/07/15
Concluded
 Engenharia de Computadores e Telemática (Mestrado integrado)
Major in High Performance Computing
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"GPU Power for Medical Imaging: A Practical Approach to General-Purpose Computing, with CUDA, Machine Learning and Medical Imaging" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/07/01 - Current Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal
2016/03/01 - 2021/02/01 Contracted Researcher (Research) Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands
Technische Universiteit Delft Faculteit Techniek Bestuur en Management, Netherlands
2014/05/01 - 2015/12/31 Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa UNINOVA Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2014/02/01 - 2014/05/01 Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH, Germany
2013/11/01 - 2014/02/01 Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Universität Bremen, Germany

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2012/09/01 - 2013/07/01 Software Support Executive TCS - Tata Consultancy Services, India
2011/08/01 - 2012/07/01 Software Developer IT Sector, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2016/03/01 - 2021/02/01 Location-based Games for Social Interaction in Public Space
SK-M77-M90351
PhD Student Fellow
Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands
 Technische Universiteit Delft
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. FONSECA, XAVIER; Queirós, Ricardo; CUNHA, BRUNO. Corresponding author: Queirós, Ricardo. Exploring the Convergence of Computer and Medical Science Through Cloud Healthcare. IGI Global. 2022.
    Published • 10.4018/978-1-6684-5260-8
  2. Fonseca, X.; Lukosch, S.; Brazier, F.. Fostering Social Interaction in Playful Cities. 2019.
    10.1007/978-3-030-06134-0_33
  3. FONSECA, XAVIER. GPU Power for Medical Imaging. Germany. 2014.
Book chapter
  1. Gião, J.; Sarraipa, J.; Francisco-Xavier, F.; Ferreira, F.; Jardim-Goncalves, R.; Zdravkovic, M.. "Profiling based on music and physiological state". 123-135. 2016.
    10.1007/978-3-319-30957-6_10
Conference paper
  1. Fonseca, X.; Lukosch, S.; Brazier, F.. "Secrets of the south: A location-based game for the development of 21st century social skills and promotion of social interaction". 2020.
  2. FONSECA, FRANCISCO. "Designing Outdoor Playgrounds for Increased Civic Engagement". 2019.
  3. Fonseca, X.; Lukosch, S.; Lukosch, H.; Tiemersma, S.; Brazier, F.. "Requirements and game ideas for social interaction in mobile outdoor games". 2017.
    10.1145/3130859.3131304
  4. FONSECA, XAVIER; José Maria Fernandes; Ilídio C. Oliveira; Guilherme Campos. "Análise paralela de imagem endoscópica com recurso a GPU". Paper presented in INForum - Simpósio de Informática, 8/9 Setembro de 2011, Coimbra, Portugal, Coimbra, 2011.
    Published
Journal article
  1. FONSECA, XAVIER; Stephan Lukosch; Heide Lukosch; Frances Brazier. "Requirements for Location-based Games for Social Interaction". IEEE Transactions on Games (2021): https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9428492.
    10.1109/TG.2021.3078834
  2. Fonseca, X.; Slingerland, G.; Lukosch, S.; Brazier, F.. "Designing for meaningful social interaction in digital serious games". Entertainment Computing 36 (2021): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85092454586&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.entcom.2020.100385
  3. Slingerland, G.; Fonseca, X.; Lukosch, S.; Brazier, F.. "Location-based challenges for playful neighbourhood exploration". Behaviour and Information Technology (2020): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85092490249&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/0144929X.2020.1829707
  4. Fonseca, X.; Lukosch, S.; Brazier, F.. "Social cohesion revisited: a new definition and how to characterize it". Innovation 32 2 (2019): 231-253. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85049953793&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/13511610.2018.1497480
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. FONSECA, XAVIER. "Location-Based Games For Social Interaction In Public Space". 2021. http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9db1a0c4-89ba-4f9b-b32a-47b7bca5b55e.
    10.4233/UUID:9DB1A0C4-89BA-4F9B-B32A-47B7BCA5B55E
Activities

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2020/03/10 - 2020/03/10 Key-note speaker of a conference on Social Cohesion, for experts of sociology, psychology, and mental health at Berliner Institut fur Empirische Integrations - und Migrationsforschung (2020/03/10 - 2020/03/10)
Conference (Other)
 Berliner Institut fur Empirische Integrations - und Migrationsforschung, Germany
2015/06/01 - 2016/06/01 Contributed to the planning and execution of the Advanced Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and industrial Systems (DoCEIS), in 2016, as part of my doctoral education at FCT/NOVA. (2016/04/11 - 2016/04/13)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2021 2º Prémio Inovação Jovem Engenheiro 2020 | 2nd National Innovation Award Young Engineer 2020
Ordem dos Engenheiros, Portugal
2016 3rd place in the Design and Development of the Nervousnet Backend competition, at the Hackathon Nervousnet, Zurich
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland