Email: claudia.pernencar@universidadeeuropeia.pt
Degree: Ph.D.
Scientific Area:Medias Digitais
Affiliation:IADE-EU
Category: Docente do ensino superior
ORCID: 0000-0001-8981-2133
Languages: Portuguese, English
Research Interests: e-Health; Human Social Interaction; Human-Computer Interaction; Interaction Design studies; Medical Information Design

Currently, coordinator of Employability and Agency School where she manages the link between the university, market and civil society, incorporate real projects in the academic context. Professor at IADE-UE where she teaches Interaction Design and Multimedia Design. In 2011, she was acknowledged at UNIDCOM/IADE (Research unit in Design and Communication). Since 2012, she engaged seminars of Interaction Design at universities like UBI, FCT.UNL, FE.UP, IPP, ISM.UNL and KEA University (Denmark). Since 2008, she has been involved in software training as an Adobe® Certified Expert/ Instructor. Co-writer of the books “Photoshop Cs4 e Cs5 Depressa e Bem” and “Photoshop CC Depressa e Bem” — FCA Publisher.
Her research work is related to Interaction Design, where healthcare UxD, HCI and ID themes are the main focus. She hold a Ph.D in Digital Media (FCSH/UNL—UT Austin Portugal Co-Lab) where she studied how Portuguese patients with the IBD, were able to track disease symptoms through an app mobile. Currently, and in association with IPL—Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, she is exploring how gamification techniques can prevent obesity through TeenPower assignment, which is a transdisciplinary research-action project based on practice, with the aim to develop innovative interventions to promote healthy behaviors.

• TeenPower (teenpower.ipleiria.pt)

Reis, C, Pernencar, C., Carvalho, M., Fragata, N., Martinho, R., Alves, R., Morais, T. (2019). Promovendo comportamentos saudáveis na adolescência com uma aplicação móvel: O processo de ilustração, design e gamificação. In Sousa M. L. Pedro (Ed.). TEENPOWER – Tecnologia & inovação na promoção de comportamentos saudáveis em adolescentes (pp.77-111). Coimbra: Grácio Editor. ISBN: 978-989-54412-1-1.

Reis CI, Gaspar P, Carvalho M, Sousa P, Martinho R, Frontini R, Alves R, Pernencar C. (2019). TeenPower: development of an adolescent obesity prevention platform from a user-centered design approach. JMIR mHealth & uHealth. JMIR Preprints. doi:10.2196/preprints.13819. url:https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/13819

Saboia, I., Pisco Almeida, A. M., Sousa, P., & Pernencar, C. (2018). I am with you: a netnographic analysis of the Instagram opinion leaders on eating behavior change. CENTERIS 2018 - International Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems / ProjMAN 2018 - International Conference on Project MANagement / HCist 2018 - International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies, CENTERIS/ProjMAN/HCist 2018, 138, 97–104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2018.10.014;

Pernencar, C., Sousa, P., Frontini, R., Martinho, R., Runte, D., Mendes, D., & Carvalho, M. (2018). Planning a health promotion program: Mobile app gamification as a tool to engage adolescents. CENTERIS 2018 - International Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems / ProjMAN 2018 - International Conference on Project MANagement / HCist 2018 - International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies, CENTERIS/ProjMAN/HCist 2018, 138, 113–118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2018.10.016;

Saboia, I., Pernencar, C., & Varinhos, M. (2018). Augmented Reality and nutrition field: A literature review study. CENTERIS 2018 - International Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems / ProjMAN 2018 - International Conference on Project MANagement / HCist 2018 - International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies, CENTERIS/ProjMAN/HCist 2018, 138, 105–112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2018.10.015;

Leonor, S., Loução, R. Pernencar, C. and Rosa, C. (2018). Pedagogical Experience Design – A Pedagogical Framework for Higher Education. In proceeding of the 8th International Conference The Future Education, Florence, Italy, June 2018, vol. 1. ISBN: 883-359-020- 8;

Almeida, A., Pernencar, C., Saboia, I. and Veloso, A. (2018). Gamification Strategies in Weight Control Applications, where "losing (weight) is winning". IEEE 6th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH) Vienna, 2018, pp. 1-8. doi: 10.1109/SeGAH.2018.8401375;

Pernencar, C., Romão, T., & Simões, G. (2016). The design process of an e-Health project: Applying the HSI framework for interface analysis. In proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH 2016)(pp. 1–8). Orlando, Florida, USA. https://doi.org/10.1109/SeGAH.2016.7586279

Pernencar, C., & Romão, T. (2016). Mobile apps for IBD self-management using wearable devices and sensors. In proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct (MobileHCI ’16) (pp. 1089–1092). Florence, Italy: ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/2957265.2965007

Pernencar, C. (2015). The challenge of designing for digital health environment – e-Health and m-Health. In proceeding of the 8th International Conference Sense and Sensibility, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2015. ISBN: 978-989-8473-18-9;

Pernencar, C. (2014). Human-Social Interaction Model for e-Health interfaces. In proceeding of the 5th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE Conference 2014), Krakow, Poland, July 2014, vol. 11, pp. 555–566. ISBN: 978-1-4951-2106-7;

Pernencar, C. (2013). My Crohn’s disease on real time information – HCI improvement for e-Health interfaces. In proceeding of IEEE 2nd International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH 2013) (pp. 1–7). Vilamoura, Portugal. https://doi.org/10.1109/SeGAH.2013.6665304