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Filomena Soares

Researcher at University of Minho

Publications -  337
Citations -  2301

Filomena Soares is an academic researcher from University of Minho. The author has contributed to research in topics: Yarn & Higher education. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 322 publications receiving 1961 citations. Previous affiliations of Filomena Soares include University of Miami & Polytechnic Institute of Porto.

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Using a Humanoid Robot to Elicit Body Awareness and Appropriate Physical Interaction in Children with Autism

TL;DR: The study showed the potential that teaching children with autism about body parts and appropriate physical interaction using a humanoid robot has, and highlighted the issues of scenario development, data collection and data analysis that will inform future studies.
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An integrated project of entrepreneurship and innovation in engineering education

TL;DR: The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Integrated Project (IEIP) as discussed by the authors is a project-based learning in the School of Engineering of University of Minho, where four groups, each one composed of students from different engineering integrated master courses, compete against each other in developing or improving commercial products manufactured by actual industries.
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Perception and performance in a flipped Financial Mathematics classroom

TL;DR: In this article, a flipped classroom model was implemented into a Financial Mathematics Course at ISCAP and the sample of 803 students, enrolled in 2014, 2015 and 2016, was investigated how the incorporation of the flipped classrooms model into a financial mathematics class, affected students' class training, learning, and achievement.
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Promoting interaction amongst autistic adolescents using robots

TL;DR: The intent of this study is to improve the social life of adolescents with both autism and mental impairment, with a main focus on promoting their social interaction and communication.

The potential benefits of using videos in higher education

TL;DR: Some of the potential benefits and challenges associated with the use of videos in the teaching and learning process at higher education levels are explored and ideas about the potentialities and future of video’s annotation new software resources are changed.