BEACONING

About Project

Breaking Educational Barriers with Contextualised, Pervasive and Gameful Learning (BEACONING)

The goal of the project is to create a platform of pervasive games, that can transmit educational content in the most opportune moments to students, based on the philosophy Anytime, anyplace. Pervasive games extend the gaming world to the surrounding environment, which can be a classroom, the student home or the city where he lives in. It will be developed a platform to automatically generate mobile applications with pervasive games, according to the description made by the teachers themselves, who launch challenges and questions to the students, and that integrates itself with the instruments and educational services that exist in the organizations participating in the project. To test BEACONING, it will be implemented, in 2017, large scale systems in Greece, Turkey, France, Israel and Romania, each one involving hundreds of students and professionals in Europe, assuring both an exploration and a business plan to adopt this platform.

Acronym

BEACONING

Responsible

António Fernando Vasconcelos Cunha Castro Coelho

Status

Closed

Start

January 1, 2016

End

January 30, 2019

Effective End

January 30, 2019

Global Budget

€5,902,772.00

Financing

€296,562.00

Members

Team Leaders

António Fernando Vasconcelos Cunha Castro Coelho

António Coelho is a senior researcher at INESC TEC and coordinates the Computer Graphics and Virtual environments area of the HUMANISE.

He is actively involved in several research projects (from H2020 European projects to I&DT projects with the industry) and PhD supervisions, focused in the areas of Computer Graphics (Virtual Reality and Procedural Modeling), Serious Games (Procedural Content Generation, Mobile Gaming and Games-based Learning) and Geospatial Systems (Location-based Systems and Spatial Databases).

He is also Associate Professor with Habilitation at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto where he teaches in the areas of Computer Graphics, Programming and Digital Games. He is the director of the Doctoral Program in Digital Media at the University of Porto and academic leader of the European University Alliance for Global Health (EUGLOH).

Team Members

António Augusto Sousa

António Fernando Vasconcelos Cunha Castro Coelho

Rui Pedro Amaral Rodrigues

Hugo Alexandre Paredes Guedes da Silva

Leonel Caseiro Morgado

Paulo Nogueira Martins

João Manuel Pereira Barroso

Disseminations

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Associated Centres

Human-Centered Computing and Information Science

The Centre for Human-Centered Computing and Information Science (HumanISE) brings together engineers, scientists, and designers with expertise in Human-Centred Computing (HCC), Computer Science (CS), and Information Science (IS). Interdisciplinarity, one of the Centre’s defining features, fosters the development of software systems, methods, and tools designed to empower individuals and their communities. The excellence and impact of HumanISE’s research, innovation, and consultancy activities allow addressing increasingly complex, volatile, heterogeneous, ambiguous, and uncertain challenges, while ensuring compliance with legal, ethical, and organisational standards and frameworks. Value transfer is achieved through close collaboration with academia and industry partners. HumanISE’s core research areas include Human-Computer Interaction; Computer Graphics and Interactive Digital Media; Information Management and Information Systems; Software Engineering; and Large-Scale and Special-Purpose Computing Systems, Languages, and Tools; as well as Computing for Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems. HumanISE also explores innovation domains like Earth, Ocean and Space Sciences; Personalised Health Research; Geospatial Information Systems Engineering; and Applied Information Systems and Computing.