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 vision of the BoSS project is to demonstrate and archive solutions for climate neutrality with a particular focus on coastal cities as an interfac... More

BIG ERA Chair

Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLT) deliver a potential that allows secured, transparent and user-centric digital services, encourage... More

DCitizens

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

LoGaCulture

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

eGames Lab

Electronic Games (eGames) exhibit the potential to transform our world by channelling our imagination and our understanding of reality. In a global ec... More

MEMEX

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

INDCOR

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

Beanstalk

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

PIE NEWS

The overall ambition of the PIE News project is to foster the emergence of commonfare as an alternative economic model to fight poverty, a condition a... More

ARTiVIS

ARTiVIS proposes to investigate innovative concepts and design methods regarding the use of interactivity for artistic exploration on environmental ca... 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 proje... More

Publications

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2022

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 Proceedings Article

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 Proceedings Article

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 Proceedings Article

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 Proceedings Article

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 Proceedings Article

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 Proceedings Article

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 Proceedings

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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