Personal identification

Full name

Sandra Mónica Anjo da Câmara Olim

Citation names

• Câmara Olim, Sandra

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

DF1E-8BBB-6B7D

ORCID iD

0000-0003-0098-4495

Websites

• https://sandramolim.wordpress.com/ (Personal)

Knowledge fields

• Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences

	Degree	Classification
2018/09/05 - 2023/12/20 Concluded	Digital Media (Doutoramento) Major in Tecnology and Human-Computer Interaction Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal "Augmented Reality Serious Games Towards Introducing and Promoting Chemistry to Preteens" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Approved
2013/08/22 - 2015/06/22 Concluded	Entertainment Technology (Master) Major in Entertainment Technology Carnegie Mellon University, United States	A
2001/09/01 - 2006/06/11 Concluded	Design e Projectação Ramo Ensino (Mestrado integrado) Major in Design e Projectação Ramo Ensino Universidade da Madeira, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

	Category Host institution	Employer
2015/12/01 - 2019/02/03	Research assistance	Universidade da Madeira Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/06/01 - Current	Postdoctoral Researcher	Instituto Superior Técnico de Lisboa (IST -ID), eGames , Portugal
	Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2019 - 2023	Periodic Fable PD/BD/150286/2019 PhD Student Fellow Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31	Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia UID/EEA/50009/2019 Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2015/12/01 - 2019/01/31	Beanstalk MADEIRA14-20 FEDER funded projec Integration into Research Grant Fellow Universidade da Madeira Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal	Ongoing

Publications

Book chapter	Sandra Câmara Olim; Francisco Vasconcelos; Mara Dionisio; Pedro Campos. "“Masters Against Food Waste” Providing Children with Strategies to Avoid Food Waste". 2025. 10.1007/978-3-031-74138-8_13 Francisco Vasconcelos; Mara Dionísio; Sandra Câmara Olim; Pedro Campos. "Game ON! a Gamified Approach to Household Food Waste Reduction". 2023. 10.1007/978-981-99-8248-6_11 André Freitas; Francisco Fernandes; Mara Dionísio; Sandra Olim. "Mystery in the Ecological Park: An Interactive Narrative to Promote Interaction with Biodiversity". 2023. 10.1007/978-981-99-8248-6_32 Sandra Camara Olim. "Periodic Fable Augmenting Chemistry with Technology, Characters and Storytelling". {ACM, 2022. 10.1145/3501712.3534092 Sandra Câmara Olim; Valentina Nisi; Teresa Romão. "Towards Identifying Augmented Reality Unique Attributes to Facilitate Chemistry Learning". 2021. 10.1007/978-3-030-85607-6_69 Sandra Câmara Olim; Valentina Nisi. "Augmented Reality Towards Facilitating Abstract Concepts Learning". 2020. 10.1007/978-3-030-65736-9_17 Vanessa Cesário; Sandra Olim; Valentina Nisi. "A Natural History Museum Experience: Memories of Carvalhal’s Palace – Turning Point". 2020. 10.1007/978-3-030-62516-0_31 Cesário, Vanessa; Trindade, Rui; Olim, Sandra; Nisi, Valentina. "Memories of Carvalhal’s Palace: Haunted Encounters, a Museum Experience to Engage Teenagers". In Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2019, 554-557. Springer International Publishing, 2019. Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-29390-1_36
Conference paper	Sandra M Câmara Olim; Pedro Filipe Campos; Valentina Nisi. "Periodic Fable in the Wild: Bringing Chemical Elements to Life and Making Them Relatable to Preteens". 2024. 10.1145/3628516.3661164 Sandra Monica Camara Olim; Valentina Nisi; Elisa Rubegni. "“Periodic Fable Discovery” Using Tangible Interactions and Augmented Reality to Promote STEM Subjects". 2023. 10.1145/3569009.3572804 Sandra Camara; Valentina Nisi; Teresa Romão. "Enhancing Children Spatial Skills with Augmented Reality Serious Games". 2021. 10.1145/3450337.3483470 Ferreira, Maria José; Câmara Olim, Sandra; Raquel Oliveira ; Valentina Nisi. "Let's Learn Biodiversity with a Virtual "Robot"?". Paper presented in International Conference on Social Robotics, 2020. Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-62056-1_17 Bala, P.; Dionísio, M.; Trindade, R.; Olim, S.; Nisi, V.; Nunes, N.. "Evaluating the influence of location and medium applied to mobile VR storytelling". 2017. 10.1145/3152832.3156617
Journal article	Sandra Câmara Olim; Valentina Nisi; Teresa Romão. "Augmented reality interactive experiences for multi-level chemistry understanding". International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction (2024): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2024.100681. 10.1016/j.ijcci.2024.100681 Sandra Câmara Olim; Valentina Nisi; Teresa Romão. "Periodic fable discovery: an augmented reality serious game to introduce and motivate young children towards chemistry". Multimedia Tools and Applications (2023): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-17526-9. 10.1007/s11042-023-17526-9
Thesis / Dissertation	Vasconcelos, Francisco José Mendes. "Development of “Masters contra o Desperdicio”, a game for awareness on Food waste". Master, 2023. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/5475.

Award

2024	Award for women researcher in ICT Founding Inspiring Futures, Portugal