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- Cultural heritage visits supported on visitors' preferences and mobile devicesPublication . Cardoso, Pedro; Rodrigues, Joao; Pereira, Joao; Nogin, Sergey; Lessa, Joana; Ramos, Celia; Bajireanu, Roman; Gomes, Miguel; Bica, PauloMonuments, museums and cities are great places to feel and experience neat and interesting things. But cultural heritage is experienced differently by different visitors. The more erudite may know beforehand what they intend to explore, while the least literate usually know and are capable of expressing some of their preferences but do not exactly realize what to see and explore. This paper proposes the use of a mobile application to set an itinerary where you can move at your own pace and, at the same time, have all the complementary information you need about each of the points of interest. The application is designed in face of an adaptive user interface where the routing and augmented reality are connected to acknowledge the needs of different user categories, such as elders, kids, experts or general users
- Interactive 180 degrees rear projection public relationsPublication . Alves, Ricardo; Negrier, Aldric; Sousa, Luis; Rodrigues, Joao; Felisberto, Paulo; Gomes, Miguel; Bica, Paulo; Koziel, S; Leifsson, L; Lees, M; Krzhizhanovskaya, VV; Dongarra, J; Sloot, PMAIn the globalized world, good products may not be enough to reach potential clients if creative marketing strategies are not well delineated. Public relations are also important when it comes to capture clients attention, making the first contact between them and companies products while being persuasive enough to trust that the company has the right products to fit their needs. A virtual public relations is purposed, combining technology and a human like public relations capable of interacting with potential clients located 180 degrees in front of the installation, by using gestures and sound. Four Microsoft Kinects were used to develop the 180 degrees model for interaction, which allows tracking and recognition of gestures, sound sources, voice commands, extract the face and body of the user and track users positions (heat map).