Micaela Fonseca, an integrated member of Hei-Lab, was awarded the Santander/NOVA Collaborative Research Award for the Com@Rehab of which she is principal investigator. The multidisciplinary project fosters synergies in areas such as Linguistics, Technology and Medicine and has as main objective the development of the Digital Communication Module (MCD Rehab) of an interactive rehabilitation solution in Virtual Reality.
“We intend to focus on the development of the communicative skills of the various actors involved, while strengthening technological literacy and interactivity with technology, thus helping to improve human-man and man-machine interaction, as well as we intend to support the management of therapeutic activities aimed at post-COVID patients, thus making the program more effective and efficient”.
