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Assistive Technologies may greatly contribute to give autonomy and independence for individuals with physical limitations. Electric wheelchairs are examples of those assistive technologies and nowadays each time becoming more intelligent due to the use of technology that provides assisted safer driving. Usually, the user controls the electric wheelchair with a conventional analog joystick. However, this implies the need for an appropriate methodology to map the position of the joystick handle, in a Cartesian coordinate system, to the wheelchair wheels intended velocities. This mapping is very important since it will determine the response behavior of the wheelchair to the user manual control. This paper describes the implementation of several joystick mappings in an intelligent wheelchair (IW) prototype. Experiments were performed in a realistic simulator using cerebral palsy users with distinct driving abilities. The users had 6 different joystick control mapping methods and for each user the usability and the users' preference order was measured. The results achieved show that a linear mapping, with appropriate parameters, between the joystick's coordinates and the wheelchair wheel speeds is preferred by the majority of the users.

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This work aimed developing a multimodal interaction platform of robotic devices in a simulated environment. It was developed and implemented a system that allow a user to interact with an Intelligent Wheelchair (IW) allowing to test the robot driving control through an adaptive multimodal interface. Furthermore, it was implemented and tested a robot representing a ramp for Paralympic sport "Boccia". This Intelligent Robotic Ramp (IRR) will allow practitioners with various physical and psychological disorders, to practice this sport in a more autonomous way. This IRR will have greater emphasis on the BC3 category, where its practitioners have a very high level of dependency, having the need to resort to his coach and a launch pad (ramp) in order to play the game.

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Serious Games are an important tool in health rehabilitation, contributing to increase the motivation of patients in the completion of tasks included in their recovery programs. Following the study of the set of features which can be used to improve cognitive therapy processes, making them more motivating for the patients, we develop a web platform composed of a set of games that seek to integrate the proposed features. In this paper we present the serious games currently deployed in the platform and the results of user tests performed in order to evaluate its usability and attractiveness. Overall, subjects reported a positive gaming experience for all the games, registering the highest values in the multiplayer and competition aspects. We intend in the future to test the games on a population with various kinds of limitations.

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Continuous assessment of the quality of health-related life (HRQoL) of patients is an important aspect of health and gives rise to several readings. On one hand, the enormous amount of information that is generated allows the extraction of knowledge with great accuracy concerning the disease, the treatments and the impact it has on society, on the other hand, this continuous monitoring allows effective control and one timely intervention on the patient. The QoLIS platform has a set of characteristics advantageous over other, including the wide range of analyses that can be made from the results that it provides. However, the complexity of the calculus evolved on the models used, combined with the number of data processing, hamper its use in real time, hindering their use in the context of a medical appointment. Whereas the use of evaluation of quality of life (QoL) in the context of a appointment is an added value for everyone involved, it was necessary to develop and implement, on the QoLIS, a strategy for determining the value of QoL, by estimate, based on Rasch model (in order to provide the same set of responses) and whose response time allows its effective use

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Advances in the last decades in the areas of medical science and patients treatment resulted in a decrease in the mortality rate but also an increase in the number of patients with chronic diseases. This increased life expectancy of patients with chronic diseases often involves great suffering and considerable adverse effects for the patients. Thus, in addition to prolonging life, it is essential to increase the quality of life (QoL) of patients. QoL is now considered an important aspect in clinical practice for patients with chronic illnesses, but the methods to assess, in an automatic or semi-automatic manner, QoL, and their use in clinical decision support are still underexplored and their applications are virtually inexistent. The QVida + solution is based on scientific and technological developments in the areas of quality of life and mobile devices, with the goal of creating a new paradigm for the evaluation and use of QoL in clinical practice. The solution devised is based on an adaptive information system (IS) able to use physical and behavioral data of the patient, gathered by sensors and mobile devices, in conjunction with machine learning techniques, allowing continuous assessment of QoL based on measurement tools that significantly reduce the questionnaires response time without affecting the patients daily life. Continuous assessment of QoL and its rapid use on a clinical decision support system will enable a better quality and more supported decision, patient-centered, by the physician, allowing for an increased quality of life of patients.

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Portuguese teacher placements' system is a centralized system managed by the Portuguese government, specifically by the Ministry of Education and Science. It is a system with some issues and, therefore, has been criticized by its stakeholders, mainly by teachers. This paper aims to do a systematic review and a meta-analysis of the Portuguese teacher placements' system. An objective is to understand and describe how similar system works in European Union countries. Another objective is to interview school specialists, in this particular case-teachers, to find solutions for teacher placements' system. Finally, from solutions from European Union countries and from solutions arising from schools' specialists, a set of requirements is identified that the teacher placements' system should take into account, in order to avoid the issues identified.