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Identification

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

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences
Education
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
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2025/09/01 - 2026/01/31 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal

Other Careers

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2003 - 2011 Professor do ensino básico e secundário (Professor do ensino básico e secundário) Secretaria Regional da Educação e Cultura, Portugal
2000 - 2004 Assistente Operacional (Assistente Operacional) KPMG LLP Toronto, Canada
Secretaria Regional de Educação, 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
2024/01/01 - Current Postdoctoral Researcher Instituto Superior Técnico de Lisboa (IST -ID), eGames , Portugal
Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2024/12/01 - 2026/12/31 eGames Lab
C645022399-00000057
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019/05/01 - 2023/06/30 Augmented Reality Serious Games Towards Introducing and Promoting Chemistry to Preteens
PD/BD/150286/2019
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2015 - 2020 MITIExcell - Excelência Internacional de IDT&I nas TIC
M1420-01-0145-FEDER-000002
Invited Scientist Fellow
Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação, Portugal
Concluded
2015/11/01 - 2019/09/01 Beanstalk
MITIExcell M1420-01-0145- FEDER-000002
Research Assistance
Universidade da Madeira Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal
 Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Sandra Camara Olim. "Periodic Fable Augmenting Chemistry with Technology, Characters and Storytelling". {ACM, 2022.
    10.1145/3501712.3534092
  5. 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
  6. Sandra Câmara Olim; Valentina Nisi. "Augmented Reality Towards Facilitating Abstract Concepts Learning". 2020.
    10.1007/978-3-030-65736-9_17
  7. 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
  8. 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
Book review
  1. Câmara Olim, Sandra; Nisi, Valentina; Romão, Teresa. "Augmented reality interactive experiences for multi-level chemistry understanding". http://hdl.handle.net/10362/178559.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2024.100681
Conference paper
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Sandra Camara; Valentina Nisi; Teresa Romão. "Enhancing Children Spatial Skills with Augmented Reality Serious Games". 2021.
    10.1145/3450337.3483470
  4. 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
  5. 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
  1. 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
  2. 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
  1. Olim, Sandra Mónica Anjo Câmara. "Augmented Reality Serious Games Towards Introducing and Promoting Chemistry to Preteens". PhD, 2023. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/162954.
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2021 - 2023/09 Development of “Masters contra o Desperdício”, a game for awareness on Food waste
Co-supervisor
 Masters of Computer Science (Master)
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2025/02/28 ”Enhancing Financial Literacy trough Narrative na Puzzles. A serious game approach for young adults”.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Ana Catarina Antunes Santos (Master)
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
2024/10/18 Enhancing Museum Brand Awareness through Immersive Technologies: A Case Study for MHNC-UP
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Marika Pokhodnia (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024/03/03 - 2024/03/09 ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2024 (979-8-4007-0330-0) Association for Computing MachineryNew YorkNYUnited States
2023/04/24 - 2023/05/17 Multimedia Tools and Applications 1380-7501
2023/03/03 - 2023/03/08 International Design and Children 2023 (979-8-4007-0131-3) Association for Computing MachineryNew YorkNYUnited States
2022/04/08 - 2022/04/20 Interaction Design and Children IDC 2022 (978-1-4503-9197-9) Association for Computing MachineryNew YorkNYUnited States
2021/09/18 - 2021/09/18 16th International Conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interactions (978-1-4503-9147-4) Association for Computing MachineryNew YorkNYUnited States

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/09/09 - 2025/01/31 Interactive Visual Narrative II - Master in Digital Interactive Medias (Mestrado) Universidade da Madeira, Portugal

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2023/03/06 Apresentação de projeto desenvolvido durante doutoramento Diario de notícias
2023/03/06 Entrevista em revista científica sobre jogos desenvolvidos no âmbito do projeto Periodic Fable Phys.org

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2024/07/01 - 2024/09/30 Computer Science Paulo Afonso Pinto Belim
2021/09/03 - 2023/11/28 Computer Science Francisco José Mendes Vasconcelos
2023/07/01 - 2023/09/01 Computer Science Diego Andrés Silva Briceño
2023/07/01 - 2023/09/01 Computer Science Pedro Henrique Lobo
Distinctions

Award

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