A ERGONOMIA DO AMBIENTE CONSTRUÍDO EM SALAS DE FISIOTERAPIA PARA CRIANÇAS COM PARALISIA CEREBRAL

This article presents a literature systematic review relating the state of art related with cares founded at the treatment environment to person with any disability. The interest focus for the key words definition ruled at the children’s with cerebral palsy interaction and the physiotherapy rooms where they belong, to find the guidelines and questions that were already elaborated about it, evolving the theme. As a methodologic process, it was used the Cochrane method, through exhaustive exploration of key words combination in the Periodic CAPES portal, it was generated a meaningful number of articles which presents the strands of them, in the last five years, as immediately connected only with treatment aspects, without any relation with spaces perception. The results founded show a meaningful gap at the interaction study between children’s with cerebral palsy and the environment used by them for theirs diary treatments, thus contributing with the final research substantiating a concrete justify for the study.Este artigo apresenta uma revisão sistemática de literatura relacionada ao entendimento do estado da arte em relação aos cuidados com os ambientes de tratamento de pessoas com deficiência. O foco do interesse para a definição das palavras-chave da busca contempla a interação de crianças com paralisia cerebral e os ambientes de fisioterapia no qual se inserem, a fim de encontrar diretrizes que já tenham sido elaboradas e questões pesquisadas envolvendo a temática. Como metodologia, a revisão sistemática baseou-se no método Cochrane, através da exploração exaustiva da combinação de palavras-chave através portal de Periódicos CAPES, gerando um número de artigos significativo, onde as vertentes de estudo nos últimos cinco anos, puderam ser percebidas como diretamente ligadas aos aspectos imediatos do tratamento, sem relação da percepção do espaço. Os resultados encontrados demonstram uma lacuna no estudo da interação entre as crianças com paralisia cerebral e os ambientes de salas de fisioterapia por elas utilizados para o tratamento diário, contribuindo assim com a pesquisa final fundamentando uma justificativa concreta para o estudo

Mobile services for green living

A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor in Information Management, specialization in Geographic Information SystemsUrban cycling is a sustainable transport mode that many cities are promoting. However, few cities are taking advantage of geospatial technologies to represent and analyse behavioural patterns and barriers faced during cycling. This thesis is within the fields of geoinformatics and serious games, and the motivation came from our desire to help both citizens and cities to better understand cyclist behaviour and mobility patterns. We attempted to learn more about the impact of gamified strategies on engagement with cycling, the reasons for choosing between mobile cycling applications and the way such applications would provide commuting information. Furthermore, we explored the potential benefits of offering tools to build decision-making for mobility more transparent, to increase cycling data availability, and to analyse commuting patterns. In general, we found our research useful to enhance green living actions by increasing citizens’ willingness to commute by bicycle or communicating cycling conditions in cities. For urban cycling, data coming from mobile phones can provide a better assessment and enrich the analysis presented in traditional mobility plans. However, the diversity of current mobile applications targeting cyclists does not provide useful data for analysing commuter (inner-city, non-sporting) cycling. Just a few cyclists are adopting these applications as part of their commuting routine, while on the other hand cities are lacking a valuable source of constantly updated cycling information helpful to understand cycling patterns and the role of bicycles in urban transport. This thesis analyses how the incentives of location-based games or geo-games might increase urban cycling engagement and, through this engagement, crowdsource cycling data collection to allow cities to better comprehend cycling patterns. Consequently, the experiment followed a between-groups design to measure the impact of virtual rewards provided by the Cyclist Geo-c application on the levels of intention, satisfaction, and engagement with cycling. Then, to identify the frictions which potentially inhibit bicycle commuting, we analysed the bicycle trips crowdsourced with the geo-game. Our analysis relied on a hexagonal grid of 30-metre cell side to aggregate trip trajectories, calculate the friction intensity and locate the frictions. The thesis reports on the results of an experiment which involved a total of 57 participants in three European cities: M¨unster (Germany), Castell ´o (Spain), and Valletta (Malta). We found participants reported higher satisfaction and engagement with cycling during the experiment in the collaboration condition. However, we did not find a significant impact on the participants’ worldview when it comes to the intentions to start or increase cycling. The results support the use of collaboration-based rewards in the design of game-based applications to promote urban cycling. Furthermore, we validated a procedure to identify not only the cyclists’ preferred streets but also the frictions faced during cycling analysing the crowdsourced trips. We successfully identified 284 places potentially having frictions: 71 in M¨unster, Germany; 70 in Castell ´ o, Spain; and 143 in Valletta, Malta. At such places, participants recorded trip segments at speeds below 5 Km/h indicating a deviation from a hypothetical scenario with a constant cycling speed. This thesis encompasses the cyclist and city perspectives of offering virtual incentives in geo-games and crowdsourcing cycling data collection to better comprehend cycling conditions in cities. We also compiled a set of tools and recommendations for researchers, practitioners, mobile developers, urban planners and cyclist associations interested in fostering sustainable transport and the use of bicycles