Nota preliminar sobre uma particularidade da biologia de Sardinella aurita Cuv. & Val., da costa brasileira

O espectro de uma terceira onda: questões e desafios da educação formal em IHC em uma instituição brasileira

We present in this article some reflections on the challenges of developing an HCI education aligned on the so called HCI third wave. We discuss the necessary perspective of such an endeavor in order to ground a curriculum reformulation under development at UTFPR, Curitiba. We address the tensions between the established curricula recommendations from one side, and the cultural, axiological, po...

Um Estudo de Campo sobre o Estado da Prática da Elicitação de Requisitos em Sistemas Embarcados

Embedded Systems have a very important role in the modern life. We use them in our home, work, transportation, medical procedures, leisure time and so on. Despite of its great importance to our lives this kind of system steel lake a better process to improve the quality of its software. In this paper we present the results from a field research that focused the state of the practice of the embe...

Ciclo de Vida das Capacidades de Tecnologia da Informação na Trajetória dos Sistemas Integrados de uma Universidade Brasileira

Uma abordagem sobre o uso da hipermídia adaptativa em ambientes virtuais de aprendizagem

Adaptive Hypermedia Systems constitutes a recent research area that shows great application capacity for the development of Web Learning Environment. The system’s idea is to personalize or to adapt a Hypermedia System for users. Thus each user will have one determined vision of the content and the navigation structure, or either, the system tries to anticipate the user’s necessities and desires...

Assessing the quality of a scientific journal: the case of Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria Avaliando a qualidade de uma revista científica: o caso da Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria

Scientific production in the field of Psychiatry is growing exponentially, as reflected by the number of scientific journals now available. Current strategies to objectively estimate the quality of a specific publication are mostly based on indexation and citation criteria. The concept of impact factor, a measure of the frequency with which an article has been cited in a particular period, is k...