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Francisco Nunes
Researcher at Vienna University of Technology
Publications - 50
Citations - 779
Francisco Nunes is an academic researcher from Vienna University of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Everyday life & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 42 publications receiving 602 citations. Previous affiliations of Francisco Nunes include Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
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Self-Care Technologies in HCI: Trends, Tensions, and Opportunities
Francisco Nunes,Nervo Verdezoto,Geraldine Fitzpatrick,Morten Kyng,Erik Grönvall,Cristiano Storni +5 more
TL;DR: This review analyzes studies of self-care published in key HCI journals and conferences using the Grounded Theory Literature Review (GTLR) method and identifies research trends and design tensions and draws out opportunities for advancing HCI research in self- care.
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Designing tablet-based games for seniors: the example of CogniPlay, a cognitive gaming platform
Ana Luisa Soares Vasconcelos,Paula Alexandra Silva,João Caseiro,Francisco Nunes,Luís F. Teixeira +4 more
TL;DR: The analysis and design of a tablet-based gaming platform for seniors that promotes their quality-of-life and well-being by incorporating cognitive training mechanisms and the identification of 10 rules of thumb that can be beneficial if applied to related projects are described.
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Self-Care Technologies and Collaboration
TL;DR: A case study of people living with Parkinson’s disease is used to illustrate how patients and carers collaborate in self-management, discuss the reasons why self-care technology is designed for individual use, and explore the implications of recognizing collaborations for the design ofSelf-care technologies.
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Understanding the Mundane Nature of Self-care: Ethnographic Accounts of People Living with Parkinson's
TL;DR: Drawing on in-depth interviews with patients and carers, and online ethnography of an online community, it is described how the self-care of Parkinson's is mundane, to sensitise designers to identify the mundane ways in which self- care is performed and design technologies that better fit the complexities of everyday life with a chronic condition.
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Human-computer interaction and the older adult: an example using user research and personas
TL;DR: The main contributions of this paper are a user research study that covers aspects such as perception, cognition, mental and psychosocial changes that occur with age and an example-based description of the process of creating personas.