Valentina Nisi

Biography

Valentina Nisi is a tenured Associate Professor in Design Thinking at IST, U. of Lisbon (Portugal), Adjunct Faculty at the HCI Institute Carnegie Mellon University (USA) and founding researcher at the Interactive Technologies Institute (ITI LARSyS). Her research encompasses Interactive Digital Storytelling, Gaming, and HCI, bringing awareness and care to pressing social and environmental issues. Spanning from Fine Arts, to Design and HCI, Valentina’s background contributes to an interdisciplinary view on sustainability and climate change issues combining a Research-through- Design approach with post-humanistic concerns. Her most recent funded research Project deal with the participation and preservation of various forms of heritage through storytelling and gaming.

Related Projects

Bauhaus of the Seas Sails

The Bauhaus of the Seas Sails will build a portfolio of demonstrator pilots: the Atlantic Tagus River Estuary (Lisbon/Oeiras), the Lagoon in the Adria... More

eGamesLab

eGames Lab aims to build capacity for retaining in the country a young, well-trained generation of different backgrounds: design, storytelling, engine... More

Fostering Digital Civics Research and Innovation in Lisbon

DCitizens aims to foster Digital Civics research and innovation in Lisbon. Digital Civics is a cross-disciplinary field that posits the use of technol... More

Locative Games for Cultural Heritage

LoGaCulture will bring together the leaders in digital locative games, in collaboration with some of Europe’s most significant cultural institutions... More

Blockchain technologies and design Innovation for social Good

BIG project intends to seek funding for the expansion of the research and innovation potential of the Instituto Superior Técnico of the University of... More

MEMories and EXperiences for inclusive digital storytelling

The MEMEX project, funded by the European Union, aims to enhance our cultural heritage using digital storytelling tools that are inclusive and accessi... More

Interactive Narrative Design for Complexity Representations

The aim of this COST action is to build a network for the interdisciplinary study of the potential interactive digital narrative has as a means to add... More

Tools to analyse trends in tourism and marketingcomplemented with transmedia experience

The Beanstalk project team was formed at the Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute in collaboration with the Associação de Promoção da Madeir... More

Poverty, Income, and Employment News

The PIE News project aimed to address poverty in Europe by promoting a new economic model called commonfare. Commonfare is a form of welfare provision... More

Arts and Interactivity for Sustainability

ARTiVIS is a research project at the intersection of Art, Science and Technology to promote environmental sustainability. More

Periodic Fable

Chemistry is a school domain considered complex or difficult by some pre-teens, leading to a lack of motivation to pursue this rich subject. Our proj... More

Publications

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2023

Bala, Paulo; Sanches, Pedro; Cesário, Vanessa; Leão, Sarah; Rodrigues, Catarina; Nunes, Nuno Jardim; Nisi, Valentina

Towards Critical Heritage in the wild: Analysing Discomfort through Collaborative Autoethnography Inproceedings

In: Schmidt, Albrecht; Väänänen, Kaisa; Goyal, Tesh; Kristensson, Per Ola; Peters, Anicia; Mueller, Stefanie; Williamson, Julie R.; Wilson, Max L. (Ed.): Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023, Hamburg, Germany, April 23-28, 2023, pp. 771:1–771:19, ACM, 2023.

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Mencarini, Eleonora; Bremer, Christina; Leonardi, Chiara; Liu, Jen; Nisi, Valentina; Nunes, Nuno Jardim; Soden, Robert

HCI for Climate Change: Imagining Sustainable Futures Inproceedings

In: Schmidt, Albrecht; Väänänen, Kaisa; Goyal, Tesh; Kristensson, Per Ola; Peters, Anicia (Ed.): Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2023, Hamburg, Germany, April 23-28, 2023, pp. 352:1–352:6, ACM, 2023.

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Prandi, Catia; Nisi, Valentina; Ceccarini, Chiara; Nunes, Nuno

Augmenting Emerging Hospitality Services: A Playful Immersive Experience to Foster Interactions among Locals and Visitors Journal Article

In: Int. J. Hum. Comput. Interact., vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 363–377, 2023.

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Cesário, Vanessa; Nisi, Valentina

Lessons Learned on Engaging Teenage Visitors in Museums with Story-Based and Game-Based Strategies Journal Article

In: ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 1–20, 2023.

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Ceccarini, Chiara; Nisi, Valentina; Prandi, Catia

Exploring proximity-based recommendation criteria as a tool for information exchange and interactions between locals and tourists Journal Article

In: Multim. Tools Appl., vol. 82, no. 4, pp. 5229–5252, 2023.

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Olim, Sandra Monica Câmara; Nisi, Valentina; Rubegni, Elisa

"Periodic Fable Discovery" Using Tangible Interactions and Augmented Reality to Promote STEM Subjects Inproceedings

In: TEI, pp. 33:1–33:15, ACM, 2023.

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Perkis, Andrew; Bellini, Mattia; Nisi, Valentina; Reyes, María Cecilia; Sylla, Cristina; Santa, Mijalche; Zaluczkowska, Anna; Irshad, Shafaq; Bakk, Ágnes Karolina; Barnabé, Fanny; Barnard, Daniel; Boukhelifa, Nadia; Klungre, Øyvind Sørdal; Koenitz, Hartmut; Lombardo, Vincenzo; Eladhari, Mirjam Palosaari; Prandi, Catia; Rettberg, Scott; Serbanescu, Anca; Sousa, Sonia; Stefaneas, Petros; Uzunov, Dimitar; Vosmeer, Mirjam; Wardaszko, Marcin

INDCOR white paper on the Design of Complexity IDNs Journal Article

In: CoRR, vol. abs/2305.01925, 2023.

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2022

Olim, Sandra Monica Câmara; Nisi, Valentina; Rubegni, Elisa

Periodic Fable Augmenting Chemistry with Technology, Characters and Storytelling Inproceedings

In: Interaction Design and Children, ACM, 2022.

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Scuri, Sabrina; Ferreira, Marta; Nunes, Nuno Jardim; Nisi, Valentina; Mulligan, Cathy

Hitting the Triple Bottom Line: Widening the HCI Approach to Sustainability Inproceedings

In: Barbosa, Simone D. J.; Lampe, Cliff; Appert, Caroline; Shamma, David A.; Drucker, Steven Mark; Williamson, Julie R.; Yatani, Koji (Ed.): CHI '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New Orleans, LA, USA, 29 April 2022 - 5 May 2022, pp. 332:1–332:19, ACM, 2022.

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Cesário, Vanessa; Nisi, Valentina

Designing with teenagers: A teenage perspective on enhancing mobile museum experiences Journal Article

In: Int. J. Child Comput. Interact., vol. 33, pp. 100454, 2022.

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Ribeiro, Miguel; Nunes, Nuno; Nisi, Valentina; Schöning, Johannes

Passive Wi-Fi monitoring in the wild: a long-term study across multiple location typologies Journal Article

In: Pers. Ubiquitous Comput., vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 505–519, 2022.

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Andrade, Ana; Dionisio, Mara; Nisi, Valentina

SeaStory: An interactive narrative using collaborative features Inproceedings

In: IDC, pp. 633–636, ACM, 2022.

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Ma, Shuhao; Ferreira, Marta; Nicolau, Hugo; Prandi, Catia; Esteves, Augusto; Nunes, Nuno Jardim; Nisi, Valentina

Catering for Students' Well-being during COVID-19 Social Distancing: a Case Study from a University Campus Inproceedings

In: GoodIT, pp. 146–153, ACM, 2022.

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Ferreira, Maria José; Paradeda, Raul Benites; Oliveira, Raquel; Nisi, Valentina; Paiva, Ana

Using Storytelling to Teach Children Biodiversity Inproceedings

In: ICIDS, pp. 3–27, Springer, 2022.

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Bala, Paulo; James, Stuart; Bue, Alessio Del; Nisi, Valentina

Writing with (Digital) Scissors: Designing a Text Editing Tool for Assisted Storytelling Using Crowd-Generated Content Inproceedings

In: ICIDS, pp. 139–158, Springer, 2022.

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Silva, Cláudia; Prandi, Catia; Nunes, Nuno; Nisi, Valentina

Addressing children and caregivers' concerns in the design of child-targeted locative systems Inproceedings

In: MUM, pp. 100–109, ACM, 2022.

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Cesário, Vanessa; Nisi, Valentina

A Co-Design Method for Museums to Engage Migrant Communities with Cultural Heritage Inproceedings

In: DRS2022: Design Research Society, 2022.

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Cesário, Vanessa; Nisi, Valentina

Designing mobile museum experiences for teenagers Journal Article

In: Museum Management and Curatorship, pp. 1–21, 2022.

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2021

Cesário, Vanessa; Nisi, Valentina

Collecting Qualitative Data During COVID-19 Proceeding

Springer, Cham, vol. 12936, 2021, ISBN: 978-3-030-85607-6.

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Dionisio, Mara; Nisi, Valentina

Leveraging Transmedia storytelling to engage tourists in the understanding of the destination’s local heritage Journal Article

In: Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2021.

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Prandi, Catia; Nisi, Valentina; Ceccarini, Chiara; Nunes, Nuno Jardim

Augmenting Emerging Hospitality Services: A Playful Immersive Experience to Foster Interactions among Locals and Visitors Journal Article

In: International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, vol. 0, no. 0, pp. 1-15, 2021.

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Ribeiro, Miguel; Nunes, Nuno Jardim; Ferreira, Marta; Nogueira, João; Schöning, Johannes; Nisi, Valentina

Addressing the Challenges of COVID-19 Social Distancing Through Passive Wi-Fi and Ubiquitous Analytics: A Real World Deployment Inproceedings

In: Human-Computer Interaction -- INTERACT 2021, pp. 3–24, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2021, ISBN: 978-3-030-85616-8.

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Tumedei, Gianni; Boschi, Francesco; Prandi, Catia; Gomes, Luís; Calheno, Rui; Abreu, Rui; Ma, Shuhao; Nisi, Valentina; Nunes, Nuno Jardim; Esteves, Augusto

Promoting a Safe Return to University Campuses during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Crowdsensing Room Occupancy Inproceedings

In: Proceedings of the Conference on Information Technology for Social Good, pp. 145–150, Association for Computing Machinery, Roma, Italy, 2021, ISBN: 9781450384780.

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Cesário, Vanessa; Acedo, Albert; Nunes, Nuno Jardim; Nisi, Valentina

Promoting Social Inclusion Around Cultural Heritage Through Collaborative Digital Storytelling Inproceedings

In: Proceedings of EAI ArtsIT 2021 – 10th EAI International Conference: ArtsIT, Interactivity & Game Creation, pp. 145–150, Springer, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2021.

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Cesário, Vanessa; Acedo, Albert; Nunes, Nuno Jardim; Nisi, Valentina

People-Place Interactions: From Pictures and Stories to Places and Sense of Place Inproceedings

In: Proceedings of the Ninth Congress of the International Association of Societies of Design Research, pp. 145–150, Springer, Hong-Kong, China, 2021.

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Bala, Paulo; Nisi, Valentina; Dionisio, Mara; Nunes, Nuno Jardim; James, Stuart

Square Peg, Round Hole: A Case Study on Using Visual Question & Answering in Games Inproceedings

In: Extended Abstracts of the 2021 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, pp. 133–139, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2021, ISBN: 9781450383561.

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Dionísio, Mara; Nisi, Valentina; Xin, Jin; Bala, Paulo; James, Stuart; Nunes, Nuno Jardim

Amnesia in the Atlantic: An AI Driven Serious Game on Marine Biodiversity Inproceedings

In: Hauge, Jannicke Baalsrud; Cardoso, Jorge C. S.; Roque, Licínio; Gonzalez-Calero, Pedro A. (Ed.): Entertainment Computing -- ICEC 2021, pp. 427–432, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2021, ISBN: 978-3-030-89394-1.

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Prandi, Catia; Nisi, Valentina; Ribeiro, Miguel; Nunes, Nuno Jardim

Sensing and making sense of tourism flows and urban data to foster sustainability awareness: a real-world experience Journal Article

In: Journal of Big Data, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 51, 2021, ISSN: 2196-1115.

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Ferreira, Marta; Nunes, Nuno; Nisi, Valentina

Interacting with Climate Change: A Survey of HCI and Design Projects and Their Use of Transmedia Storytelling Inproceedings

In: Mitchell, Alex; Vosmeer, Mirjam (Ed.): Interactive Storytelling, pp. 338–348, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2021, ISBN: 978-3-030-92300-6.

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Ferreira, Marta; Coelho, Miguel; Nisi, Valentina; Nunes, Nuno Jardim

Climate Change Communication in HCI: A Visual Analysis of the Past Decade Inproceedings

In: Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2021, ISBN: 9781450383769.

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Nisi, Valentina; Bostock, Hollie; Casario, Vanessa; Acedo, Albert; Nunes, Nuno Jardim

Impalpable Narratives: How to Capture Intangible Cultural Heritage of Migrant Communities Inproceedings

In: Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2021, ISBN: 9781450390569.

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Bala, Paulo; Oakley, Ian; Nisi, Valentina; Nunes, Nuno Jardim

Dynamic Field of View Restriction in 360° Video: Aligning Optical Flow and Visual SLAM to Mitigate VIMS Inproceedings

In: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2021, ISBN: 9781450380966.

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Prandi, Catia; Ceccarini, Chiara; Nisi, Valentina; Salomoni, Paola

Designing interactive infographics to stimulate environmental awareness: an exploration with a University community Journal Article

In: Multim. Tools Appl., vol. 80, no. 9, pp. 12951–12968, 2021.

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Bala, Paulo; Oakley, Ian; Nisi, Valentina; Nunes, Nuno Jardim

Dynamic Field of View Restriction in 360textdegree Video: Aligning Optical Flow and Visual SLAM to Mitigate VIMS Inproceedings

In: CHI, pp. 525:1–525:18, ACM, 2021.

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Olim, Sandra Câmara; Nisi, Valentina; Romão, Teresa

Enhancing Children Spatial Skills with Augmented Reality Serious Games Inproceedings

In: CHI PLAY, pp. 94–100, ACM, 2021.

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Prandi, Catia; Ceccarini, Chiara; Nisi, Valentina

Can 360textdegree VR and customization foster personal connections between tourists and locals?: An experiment in the sharing economy and hospitality frame Inproceedings

In: GoodIT, pp. 67–72, ACM, 2021.

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Olim, Sandra Câmara; Nisi, Valentina; Romão, Teresa

Towards Identifying Augmented Reality Unique Attributes to Facilitate Chemistry Learning Inproceedings

In: INTERACT (5), pp. 513–516, Springer, 2021.

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Nisi, Valentina; Bostock, Hollie; Cesário, Vanessa; Acedo, Albert; Nunes, Nuno

Impalpable Narratives: How to capture intangible cultural heritage of migrant communities Inproceedings

In: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Communities & Technologies-Wicked Problems in the Age of Tech, pp. 109–120, 2021.

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2020

Cesário, Vanessa; Olim, Sandra; Nisi, Valentina

A Natural History Museum Experience: Memories of Carvalhal’s Palace – Turning Point Proceeding

Springer, Cham, vol. 12497, 2020, ISBN: 978-3-030-62515-3.

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Cesário, Vanessa; Petrelli, Daniela; Nisi, Valentina

Teenage Visitor Experience: Classification of Behavioral Dynamics in Museums Inproceedings

In: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-13, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2020, ISBN: 9781450367080.

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Olim, Sandra Câmara; Nisi, Valentina

Augmented Reality Towards Facilitating Abstract Concepts Learning Incollection

In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 188–204, Springer International Publishing, 2020.

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Cordeiro, José A.; Castro, Deborah; Nisi, Valentina; Nunes, Nuno Jardim

BWDAT: A Research Tool for Analyzing The Consumption of VOD Content at Home Journal Article

In: Addictive Behaviors Reports, pp. 100336, 2020, ISSN: 2352-8532.

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Prandi, Catia; Nisi, Valentina; Loureiro, Pedro; Nunes, Nuno

Storytelling and remote-sensing playful interventions to foster biodiversity awareness Journal Article

In: Int. J. Arts Technol., vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 39–59, 2020.

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Silva, Cláudia; Prandi, Catia; Nunes, Nuno Jardim; Nisi, Valentina

Blue whale street art as a landmark: extracting landmarks from children's cognitive maps for the design of locative systems Inproceedings

In: IDC, pp. 602–613, ACM, 2020.

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Scuri, Sabrina; Nisi, Valentina

Immersion in Desktop-Based Web Browsing: A Framework Inproceedings

In: AVI, pp. 24:1–24:9, ACM, 2020.

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Candido, José; Nisi, Valentina; Prandi, Catia; Nunes, Nuno

A visual immersive participatory platform to foster dialogue between locals and tourists Inproceedings

In: CCNC, pp. 1–6, IEEE, 2020.

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Dionisio, Mara; Bala, Paulo; Oliveira, Sarah; Nisi, Valentina

Tale of T(r)ails: The Design of an AR Comic Book for an Animal Welfare Transmedia Inproceedings

In: ICIDS, pp. 281–284, Springer, 2020.

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Bala, Paulo; Dionisio, Mara; Andrade, Tânia; Nisi, Valentina

Tell a Tail 360textdollar^textbackslashcirc textdollar: Immersive Storytelling on Animal Welfare Inproceedings

In: ICIDS, pp. 357–360, Springer, 2020.

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Ribeiro, Miguel; Nisi, Valentina; Prandi, Catia; Nunes, Nuno

A data visualization interactive exploration of human mobility data during the COVID-19 outbreak: a case study Inproceedings

In: ISCC, pp. 1–6, IEEE, 2020.

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Nunes, Nuno Jardim; Radeta, Marko; Nisi, Valentina

Enhancing Whale Watching with Mobile Apps and Streaming Passive Acoustics Inproceedings

In: ICEC, pp. 205–222, Springer, 2020.

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