Reminiscence therapy (RT) consists of thinking about one’s own experiences through the presentation of memory-facilitating stimuli, and it has as its fundamental axis the activation of emotions. An innovative way of offering RT involves the use of technology-assisted applications, which must also satisfy the needs of the user. This study aimed to develop an AI-based computer application that recreates RT in a personalized way, meeting the characteristics of RT guided by a therapist or a caregiver. The material guiding RT focuses on intangible cultural heritage. The application incorporates facial expression analysis and reinforcement learning techniques, with the aim of identifying the user’s emotions and, with them, guiding the computer system that emulates RT dynamically and in real time. A pilot study was carried out at five senior centers in Barcelona and Portugal. The results obtained are very positive, showing high user satisfaction. Moreover, the results indicate that the high frequency of positive emotions increased in the participants at the end of the intervention, while the low frequencies of negative emotions were maintained at the end of the intervention.

Este volume pretende constituir-se como um espaço de debate sobre temas centrais à formação de professores, debatendo temas relativos à supervisão pedagógica e à importância que essa supervisão tem para a construção de uma profissionalidade docente. Mais do que encontrar receitas para a formação de professores, pretendemos suscitar o debate e proporcionar um espaço de reflexão sobre temas centrais da formação de professores para o século XXI. Os textos - da autoria de um leque de especialistas em ciências da educação e supervisão pedagógica, associados a um vasto conjunto de instituições de ensino superior do país – articulam-se em torno de três eixos de análise: i) Supervisão pedagógica e desenvolvimento profissional docente; ii) Ética e profissionalidade na formação inicial de professores e, iii) Supervisão na formação inicial de professores.

A representação do outro é tão antiga como a história cultural da humanidade e a imagem que desse outro se veicula depende integralmente do eu que a descreve e constrói. Assim, tendo por base os pressupostos teóricos da imagologia, propomo-nos analisar a imagem do mouro transmitida na Crónica da Tomada de Ceuta, procurando rastrear o topos do enaltecimento dos portugueses, basilar da construção da identidade nacional.

Cultural and intangible heritage has been part of human daily life since time immemorial, fulfils a function within the community and acts as an element of identity. Its potential as a stimulus in Reminiscence Therapy (RT), however, has been scarcely explored, despite well-documented evidence on the role of music, crafts or sports as facilitators of autobiographical recall. This pilot study had three operational objectives: (i) to design a reproducible protocol for selecting elements of intangible cultural heritage (traditional oral literature and traditional dances) suitable for personalised RT; (ii) to develop and field-test the first prototype of the LONG-REMI App, an AI-supported tablet application that delivers these stimuli in an individualised manner; and (iii) to examine the impact of those stimuli on memory recall, communication and interaction in older adults with and without neurocognitive disorder. Pilot, prospective, multicentre, mixed-methods study with a participatory observational component, conducted in six institutions (three Day Care Centres in Catalonia (Spain) and three centres in Portugal) between February 2021 and April 2022. Fifty-six participants aged ≥ 65 years were enrolled ( n = 21 without cognitive decline, recruited from two centres; n = 35 with mild or moderate cognitive decline, recruited from four day-care centres). Mean age was 80.71 ± 6.82 years (range 66–94); 41 (73.21%) were women and 43 (76.78%) had a low educational level (including two illiterate participants). Cognitive status was classified using Reisberg’s Global Deterioration Scale (GDS 3 and 4) and the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE; group with cognitive decline: 22.26 ± 5.90, range 7–30). Each participant attended four weekly individual 45-minute sessions on Android tablets. The App database contained more than 500 multisensory stimuli organised in two difficulty modalities (low / high). Data were collected through the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS, 1–10) for usability and satisfaction; the Spanish-adapted Computer System Usability Questionnaire (CSUQ, 7-point Likert); and the Spanish-validated PANAS, administered before and at the end of the intervention. In addition, a structured observation grid (memory recall, verbal and non-verbal interaction), audio-video recording and facilitators’ field notes supported the qualitative arm. Content validation of the App database was carried out by the multidisciplinary research team itself, through consensus during project meetings; a formal Delphi with an external panel is foreseen for the planned randomised trial. Stimuli combining rhyme and music (songbook items and ballads) and stimuli supported by video produced the highest frequency of recall episodes and of communication / interaction events. Brief audio-only stimuli (proverbs and nursery songs without video) elicited fewer recall events and were associated with observed disengagement. Usability and satisfaction were highly perceived in both groups: VAS usability 7.75 ± 1.88 and VAS satisfaction 8.38 ± 1.57 on a 1–10 scale; the CSUQ overall score was 6.95 ± 0.22 in the group without cognitive decline and 5.44 ± 1.09 in the group with cognitive decline (1–7 Likert). PANAS scores showed a statistically significant shift in positive affect from pre- to post-intervention (28.86 ± 8.88 vs. 36.70 ± 9.43; Z = − 4.18; p < 0.001), while no significant change was observed in negative affect (12.09 ± 3.19 vs. 11.89 ± 3.00; p = 0.688). Participants completed on average 3.59 ± 0.40 of the four planned sessions. Traditional oral literature and traditional dance, when delivered through an AI-supported App, can act as effective triggers for reminiscence in older adults with and without cognitive decline. The study contributes (a) a replicable protocol for cross-cultural selection of intangible heritage stimuli, (b) preliminary evidence on which formats (audio + video, rhyme + music) are most effective, and (c) an open methodological framework for future randomised, longitudinal trials.

The water element has a symbolic, ancestral value in all cultures, and it is possible to trace, throughout human history, the importance that water had and still has for different cultures and the symbolic values ​​that have been attributed to it. From an object of worship to a symbol of life, water is also associated with different cultural practices. To this extent, we find references to water in literature or painting and we find that, in these expressions, the symbolic values ​​that each community attributes to the water element are evidenced. Thus, based on the importance and symbolic values ​​of the water element in different cultures, in different cultural practices and in different expressions, we revisit the symbolic constructs associated with the water element in literature, particularly in an oral genre: spanish balads. In a very particular way, we intend to analyze the linguistic options of the lexical field of water in novels of the modern Iberian oral tradition, trying to verify to what extent the linguistic forms present in the texts contribute to the incorporation of metaphorical values ​​of the water element and in what measure those are the underpinning of a symbolic construct.

Muito embora tenham sido dados à estampa alguns estudos sobre as especificidades da linguagem do género literário Romanceiro, constatamos que esses estudos se debruçam maioritariamente sobre aspetos como a presença e a importância das fórmulas, as inversões da ordem linear dos itens lexicais nas frases, a maior frequência de diálogo em detrimento da narração, as alternâncias de tempos verbais e o estilo. Na realidade, o estudo de aspetos relacionados com as especificidades da sintaxe do verso do romanceiro tem sido, até ao momento e que saibamos, preterido a favor do estudo das estruturas verbais simples e do estudo das estruturas formulísticas. Partindo do incipit português do romance Aparição/Soldado (La Aparición/El Quintado – IGR 0168 e 0176, respetivamente), procuraremos salientar alguns aspetos da estrutura da frase que compõe o verso de romances da tradição oral moderna portuguesa. Em particular, centraremos a nossa atenção na presença/ausência de vocativos e nos marcadores temporais, contribuindo para o estudo da língua dos romances e, simultaneamente, para o estudo da linguagem poética do género romanceiro.