Manuel Oliveira
Senior Research Scientist, SINTEF, Norway
Personal Profile
Manuel Fradinho Oliveira is senior research scientist at Sintef. His research interests include learning, social media, serious games, user engagement, gamification, user behaviour change, virtual environments, and mixed reality. He has more than 100 refereed conference and journal publications to date. He founded HighSkillz in 2012, a start-up specializing in rapid competence development using serious games and gamification. He recently worked on using game based learning to bridge the gap between formal training and on-board training within the maritime sector. He is currently working on the use of serious games, simulation and virtual reality in attracting young talent to manufacturing education.
Interests and Expertise
Game based learning, Mixed Reality learning, mobile learning, talent management, gamification