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The health centers group (ACES) “Douro Sul II” is creating a Community Support Team for Palliative Care (ECSCP) in order to provide palliative care services for the ACES’s population of 73,713 registered users. The team comes as a follow-up from a strategic plan, recently issued by the health ministry, in order to serve the patients in their own homes, providing the necessary support to them, to their families, and their caregivers. This approach has several benefits for the patients and their families, as well as for the healthcare system itself. To further promote the effectiveness of the ECSCP team, it was planned to develop an information system (IS), comprising several application modules, with the main objective to monitor the patients in their homes and deliver information to support the planning and execution of the ECSCP team activities. The system is based on an electronic services platform and several mobile and web applications, to be used by the patients, team’s staff and coordination. This way, we expect to overcome the geographic issues of the ACES territory, as well as the team’s human resources constraints, while remotely monitoring the patients and providing the necessary support, if and when needed, contributing to maintaining the conditions for the patients to live with dignity and quality in the comfort of their own homes. Copyright

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Experiences with online learning in higher education are increasing in number. This is due to advancements in technology, technological savviness of teachers and students, evolution of teaching practices, and changes in student expectations. That is why understanding learners’ and teachers’ needs, expectations, and perceptions of their proficiency and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) is critical to the success of the integration of technologies in higher education. The purpose of this paper is to reflect on teachers’ needs and expectations about ICT adoption in higher education, based on the results of a questionnaire, applied in a Portuguese university. The questionnaire explores what motivates teachers to use ICT tools in the context of teaching in higher education. It also intended to reveal which tools are most used from the ones available, as well as the needs and requirements that are not covered by the existing tools and services provided. The results allowed to analyze the usefulness of the measures implemented for teachers and consider new ones, more appropriate to the reality in permanent change by the constant evolution of the technologies used in the pedagogical practices. © Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018.

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This article is devoted to the problem of training cyclists from a system approach. Technologies were used to monitor and evaluate in an integrated way the physical form, load parameters and level of functional capabilities of the athlete's body. For correlation between the physiological indices and performance, data from cardiac activity (ECG), muscle activity (EMG and temperature), respiratory processes (oximetry), as well as data from the environment where this athlete is inserted (ambient temperature, pressure, humidity).

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Aging is a natural process during which a person's physical and mental condition will degrade, imposing limitations on their lifestyle. The consequences of aging can be aggravated when the elderly permanently move to an elderly care center, causing a decline in social relations and contact with family and friends, with negative effects on the person's well-being. Therefore, it is important to act to maintain these relationships in the later stages of life. In this work we propose a roadmap to introduce and evaluate the usage of telepresence robots in elderly care centers, so that family and friends can interact with the elderly more often and with better quality. The proposal defines a set of steps to introduce the robots into the care center environment, as well as an evaluation methodology to assess the success of implementing the roadmap.

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Kinematic analysis of human movement is very important in several areas, such as in sports (e.g., for athletic performance analysis), health (e.g., rehabilitation of people with motor disabilities) and others. The study of the kinematics of the human body involves several methods that resort to the analysis of several parameters that come from the movement. Important parameters to take into account are the acceleration, velocity and position (linear or angular) of the various articulations of the human body, which can be measured by sensors or through the analysis of repeated images obtained by camera. In this paper will be presented a suit that acquire the different position of human joints that will be useful in rehabilitation, FatoXtract. It is through the analysis of human movement that we can analyze whether the movement in rehabilitation is adequate or not.

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