The project NUTRIA started in March 2023 and finished in June 2026.
Presentations
- 2024, Portuguese Congress of Food Education: Teaching Nutrition in the 21st century
- 2025, ‘Systematic Development and Refinement of a User-Centred Evidence-Based Digital Toolkit for Supporting Self-Care in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Mixed-Methods Approach’ at ISBNPA Conference
- 2026, ‘Understanding The User Experience Of Women With Gestational Diabetes Mellitus With A Mobile App To Support Self-Care: Qualitative Insights From A Pilot Study’ at XXV Congresso de Nutrição e Alimentação
Awards
- 22/11/2024, Maria Lua Nunes received the ULisboa redeSaúde Best Master Thesis Award for her thesis, Development of an evidence-based toolkit for self-care in gestational diabetes using a mobile application. Maria Lua Nunes, scientist at Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS and part of the NUTRIA team completed her master’s degree in Clinical Nutrition with this research
- 21/2/2025, Maria Lua Nunes received Best Oral Communication at 2025 Nutrition Insights Congress after presenting her work on Determinants of Adherence to Lifestyle Changes in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus under the project NUTRIA
Publications
- M. L. Nunes, B. Félix, F. Nunes, and I. Santos (2025) Systematic development and refinement of a user-centered evidence-based digital toolkit for supporting self-care in gestational diabetes mellitus, Sci Rep, vol. 15, no. 1, p. 12009.
- Avellino, I., Kuo, P.-Y., Foong, P. S., Wiese, J., Mentis, H. M., Munson, S. A., Wallace, J. R., Singh, A., Miller, A. D., Epstein, D. A., & Nunes, F. (2025). Envisioning the future of interactive health. In Extended Abstracts of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1–5). Association for Computing Machinery.
- Chung, C.-F., Nunes, F., & Agapie, E. (2025). Where did the practices go? On why interactive health should provide space for patient and healthcare professional practices. In I. Avellino, P.-Y. Kuo, P. S. Foong, J. Wiese, H. M. Mentis, S. A. Munson, J. R. Wallace, A. Singh, A. D. Miller, D. A. Epstein, & F. Nunes (Eds.), Proceedings of the CHI ’25 Workshop on Envisioning the Future of Interactive Health.
- B. Félix et al. (2026), Understanding the Self-monitoring Practices of People Living with Gestational Diabetes: A Qualitative Study with Implications for the Design of Self-monitoring Technologies, ACM Trans. Comput. Healthcare.
- Z. Kokkinogenis, B. Silva, M. Santos, C. Soares, F. (2026) Berry Picking Across Data Landscapes: Understanding Performance Sensitivity in Collaborative Filtering at COSEAL Workshop.
Theses
- 2024, Maria Lua Nunes, Development of an Evidence-based Toolkit for Self-care in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus using a Mobile Application in Clinical Nutrition - Faculty of Medicine of University of Lisbon
- 2024, Pedro Garruço, NUTRIAmobile - Co-design and evaluation of a mobile app for women with gestational diabetes in Design and Multimedia at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology - University of Coimbra
- 2024, Ishan Mehendale, Developing a mobile application to support women with gestational diabetes in Advanced Computer Science at the School of Computer Science and Informatics - Cardiff University
- 2024, Anubhav Mishra, Developing a web app to support dietitians in caring for women with gestational diabetes in Advanced Computer Science at the School of Computer Science and Informatics - Cardiff University
- 2025, Juliana Assis, NUTRIApro - Co-designing a web app for dietitians to care for gestational diabetes in Design and Multimedia at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology - University of Coimbra