Teaching

After 5 years as a lecturer at the School of Allied Health Sciences of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, I am, since 2009, an assistant professor in the Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Porto. My main teaching subjects are in the area of Information Systems, specifically Databases, Information Retrieval, and Web Development.

Courses

Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto

I teach and have taught in 4 different programmes: the Bachelor of Arts in Information Science (CINF), the Bachelor in Informatics and Computing Engineering (L.EIC), the Master in Information Science (MCI) and the Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering (MIEIC). The courses I coordinated are identified, in the list below, with ^*.

• Databases [L.EIC]: 2021/2022^*, 2023/2024^*
• Databases [MIEIC]: from 2012/2013 to 2015/2016, from 2016/2017^* to 2020/2021^*
• Information Architecture [MCI]: 2023/2024^*
• Information for the Internet [CINF]: from 2014/2015^* to 2021/2022^*, 2023/2024^*
• Information Retrieval [CINF]: from 2015/2016^* to 2021/2022^*, 2023/2024^*
• Information Society [MCI]: 2023/2024^*
• Database and Web Applications Laboratory [MIEIC]: 2012/2013
• Databases [CINF]: 2009/2010
• Digital Archives and Libraries [MCI]: 2010/2011
• Discrete Mathematics [MIEIC]: 2013/2014
• Enterprise Information [CINF]: 2009/2010
• Information Storage and Retrieval I [CINF]: from 2009/2010 to 2011/2012, 2013/2014, 2014/2015^*

School of Allied Health Sciences

I have taught in several programmes of the School of Allied Health Sciences, a higher education institution of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, from 2003 to 2009.

• Case Studies in Occupational Therapy (Biostatistics): 2008/2009
• Human Activity Study II (Biostatistics): 2008/2009
• Information Systems in Radiotherapy: 2008/2009
• Informatics: 2002/2003, 2006/2007, 2008/2009
• Simulations V: 2008/2009
• Assistive Technology in Occupational Therapy: 2006/2007, 2007/2008
• Information Systems in Environmental Health: from 2003/2004 to 2007/2008
• Information Technologies: 2002/2003, 2003/2004, 2007/2008
• Programming: from 2003/2004 to 2007/2008
• Programming and Databases: from 2003/2004 to 2007/2008
• Biomathematics and Biostatistics I: from 2004/2005 to 2006/2007
• Biomathematics and Biostatistics II: from 2002/2003 to 2005/2006

MSc and Bachelor Supervisions

I have supervised several master dissertations and bachelor projects.

MSc Supervisions

• Luana Rodrigues Ponte. Archive users, their characteristics and motivations. Master in Information Science. Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto. 2023. [dataset]
• João Paulo Gomes Torres Abelha. Automatic categorization of health-related messages in online health communities. Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering. Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. 2022. [dataset]
• Pedro Miguel Braga Barbosa Lopes Moás. Real-time prediction of Wikipedia articles' quality. Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering. Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. 2022. [dataset]
• Tito Alexandre Trindade Griné. A Social Media Entity-Centric Tool for Domain-Specific Information Retrieval - A Case Study in Human Trafficking. Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering. Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. 2022. [dataset]
• Mariana Ferreira Dias. ArchMine: Learning from non-machine-readable documents for additional insights. Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering. Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. 2022. [dataset] [dataset] [dataset]
• Bruno Edgar Évora Rebelo Oliveira. Web Search Engines - A study on the evolution of user interfaces. Integrated Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering. Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. 2021. [dataset]
• Bruno Miguel Faustino Moreno. Mutability of Web Search Engines Results - Data Collection and Brief Analysis. Integrated Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering. Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. 2021.
• Luís Pedro da Silva Couto. Avaliação da qualidade da Wikipédia enquanto fonte de informação em saúde. Integrated Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering. Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. 2021. [co-supervised by Gil Domingues] [dataset] [dataset]
• Mariana Cláudia Medeiros de Henriques. Analysis of web information-seeking behavior of users with different levels of health literacy. Master in Information Science. Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto. 2020.
• Miguel Martins Fernandes. A utilização e produção de imagens em contexto de investigação: contribuições para boas práticas de gestão de dados em formato de imagem. Master in Information Science. Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto. 2020. [co-supervised by Joana Rodrigues] [dataset]
• Alice Rangel Teixeira. Social Media and Chatbots use for Chronic Disease Patients Support: Case Study from an Online Community Regarding Therapeutic use of Cannabis. Master in Multimedia. Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. 2019.
• Edgar Duarte Ramos. Automatic Prediction of Health Literacy through an eye tracker. Integrated Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering. Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. 2019.
• Hélder Manuel Mouro Antunes. Automatic Assessment of Health Information Readability. Integrated Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering. Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. 2019.
• Maria do Rosário Ferreira Nunes. Ferramentas para o Planeamento e Avaliação de Risco de Dados de Investigação: o caso do i3S no âmbito do RGPD. Master in Information Science. Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto. 2019. [co-supervised by Joana Rodrigues]
• Paulo Miguel Pereira dos Santos. HealthSuggestions: moving beyond the beta version. Integrated Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering. Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. 2019.
• Cláudio Luís de Sousa Monteiro. Dendro Keywords: Supporting data description through information extraction. Integrated Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering. Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. 2018. [co-supervised by João Silva]
• Diogo Magalhães Moura. Exploring search engine counts in the identification and characterization of search queries. Integrated Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering. Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. 2017.
• João Miguel Lopes Vale Cardoso Monteiro. HealthTalks - Improving Health Communication and Personal Information Management. Integrated Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering. Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. 2017. [2nd prize winner in the MSc category of the Fraunhofer Challenge]
• Bárbara Lia Guimarães da Silva. Proposta de um esquema de classificação para mensagens colocadas em comunidades de 17 saúde na Web. Master in Information Science. Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto. 2016.
• Hugo Miguel Ribeiro de Sousa. HealthTranslator: automatic annotation of web documents in order to assist health consumer' searches. Integrated Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering. Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. 2016.
• Ricardo Daniel Soares da Silva. Query Expansion Strategies for Laypeople-Centred Health Information Retrieval. Integrated Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering. Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. 2016.
• Daniela Filipa Portela Dias. Characterization of health searches in generalist search engines. Integrated Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering. Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. 2011. [co-supervised with Cristina Ribeiro]
• Maria Isabel dos Santos Fernandes de Sousa. Health web documents characterization. Master in Information Science. Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto. 2010.

Bachelor Supervisions

• André Costa Lima, João Pedro Matos de Araújo, Jorge Daniel de Almeida Sousa, Mariana de Matos Lourenço Lobão. PeerGrade. Bachelor in Informatics and Computing Engineering. Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. 2023.
• Vasco Pinho Pereira Granja. Modelação de processos associados à direção de um curso - o caso do Mestrado em Ciência da Informação. Bachelor of Arts in Information Science. Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto. 2023.
• Maria Sofia Diogo Figueiredo. Manutenção e melhoria de sistemas de Front Office da equipa de Global Markets Commodities. Bachelor in Informatics and Computing Engineering. Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. 2022.
• Miguel Azevedo Lopes. Desenvolvimento de uma estrutura que mapeia terminologias clínicas e que são compatíveis com a especificação do FHIR. Bachelor in Informatics and Computing Engineering. Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. 2022.
• José António Pinto Cardoso. Definição da arquitetura de informação para o sítio web do projeto EPISA e sua implementação em WordPress. Bachelor of Arts in Information Science. Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto. 2022.
• Ana Margarida Falcão Gonçalves. Criação de um conjunto de dados para avaliação de processos de reconhecimento de texto em documentos datilografados existentes no Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo. Bachelor of Arts in Information Science. Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto. 2022. [dataset]
• Ana Catarina Santos Martins. Construção de dicionários de terminologia. Bachelor of Arts in Information Science. Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto. 2021.
• Ana Rita Sousa Silva. Digital clinical score sheets for improving animal welfare monitoring and reporting. Bachelor of Arts in Information Science. Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto. 2021.
• Cássio José Rodrigues Alves. Classificação de texto em registos dos Arquivos Nacionais. Bachelor of Arts in Information Science. Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto. 2021.
• Joana Sousa Almeida. Proposta de vocabulários controlados para a descrição de dados em formato de imagem. Bachelor of Arts in Information Science. Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto. 2021.
• Pedro Henrique Santos Oliveira. Elaboração de um dataset de imagens científicas anotadas segundo o conteúdo. Bachelor of Arts in Information Science. Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto. 2021. [dataset]
• Marta Mendes dos Santos Faria Araújo. Caraterização da coleção do Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo. Bachelor of Arts in Information Science. Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto. 2020.
• Vasco Borges de Araújo Teixeira Gomes. Criação de um conjunto de dados anotados para a avaliação de migração semântica no contexto do Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo. Bachelor of Arts in Information Science. Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto. 2020.
• Joana Maria Soares Ferreira. Proposta da arquitetura de informação para o sítio web do Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Informática e Computação. Bachelor of Arts in Information Science. Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto. 2017.
• Ana Margarida Rocha Cardoso. Piloto de melhoria de processos utilizando a ferramenta www.scraim.com da Strongstep, para ajudar uma empresa no seguinte sector: telecomunicações. Bachelor of Arts in Information Science. Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto. 2016.
• Henrique Leão Leal Alves de Sousa. Piloto de melhoria de processos utilizando a ferramenta www.scraim.com da Strongstep, para ajudar uma empresa no seguinte sector: banca. Bachelor of Arts in Information Science. Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto. 2016.
• João Nuno Fonseca Sousa. Piloto de melhoria de processos utilizando a ferramenta www.scraim.com da Strongstep, para ajudar uma empresa no seguinte sector: automotiva. Bachelor of Arts in Information Science. Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto. 2016.
• Melinda Pereira Fernandes. Tetra-Pak Recycling in Portugal. Bachelor of Environmental Health. School of Allied Health Sciences of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto. 2008.
• Nuno Miguel Lourenço Machado. Contribution to the development of a software system for assessment, intervention and training perceptual-cognitive development in children with cerebral palsy. Bachelor of Occupational Therapy. School of Allied Health Sciences of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto. 2008.
• Ezequiel Filipe Ferreira Dias da Silva. Analysis of the accessibility and web usability of Portuguese electronic commerce websites and their impact on users with special needs . Bachelor of Occupational Therapy. School of Allied Health Sciences of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto. 2006.

Pedagogical Content

In the context of the courses I taught, I have produced several types of pedagogical content. Those having a publication character are listed below.

Tutorials

• Carla Teixeira Lopes. Flash introdution in 3 lessons. 2006. [pdf]
• Ana Paula Nascimento, Agostinho Cunha, Carla Teixeira Lopes, Fatima Monteiro, Liliana Pereira, Sandra Alves, Vitor Bento. SPSS Introduction. 2005. [pdf]