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  1. Immersive virtual reality learning environments for higher education: A student acceptance study

    Article • Computers & Education X Reality, December 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  2. An Explosion of the Uses of Immersive Learning Environments: A Mapping of Reviews Update

    Article • August 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  3. Immersion for AI: Immersive Learning with Artificial Intelligence

    Article • August 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  4. Bridging the gaps: an updated mapping of the uses of immersive learning environments

    Article • Virtual Reality, August 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  5. A Domain-Agnostic Virtual Choreography Framework for Digital Twins: An Oil Spill Application

    Article • June 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  6. Implementation of Virtual Reality in Teacher Training: A Case Study with VRChat and Oculus Quest 2

    Article • June 2025, Immersive Learning Research Network

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  7. Frontiers of the Past in the Digital World: Multidisciplinary Collaboration in the 3D Reconstitution of Medieval Border Towns

    Article • March 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  8. Describing and Interpreting an Immersive Learning Case with the Immersion Cube and the Immersive Learning Brain

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  9. Method for Evaluation and Classification of Self and Co-regulation of Learning in Immersive Narratives

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  10. How Museums Are Changing Their Visitors’ Experience with New Formats and Approaches to Digital Storytelling

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  11. Participatory design as a co-creation methodology for health literacy games: the case of the TRIO project

    Article • September 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  12. “Viewing puzzles as two-faced: theoretical and practical implications for Puzzle-based Learning”

    Article • Thinking Skills and Creativity, February 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Leonel Morgado, Pedro Pestana

  13. Tutorial–Authoring a Personal GPT for Your Research and Practice: How We Created the QUAL-E Immersive Learning Thematic Analysis Helper

    Article • January 2024, Immersive Learning Research Network

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  14. Work-in-progress—Introduction to Virtual Reality Headset: Experiments with Secondary and Higher Education students

    Article • January 2024, Immersive Learning Research Network

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  15. Immersive Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality for Self-regulated Learning: A Review

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  16. Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Education

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  17. Instructional Design Model for Virtual Reality: Testing and Participant Experience Evaluation

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  18. Immersive Learning Environments for Self-regulation of Learning: A Literature Review

    Article • October 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  19. Immersive Learning Research from the Perspective of Its Researchers and Practitioners: Questionnaire Validation and Early Results from a Survey on a Conceptual Framework for the Field

    Article • October 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  20. Research Agenda 2030: The Great Questions of Immersive Learning Research

    Article • October 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado, Prof.Dr. Andreas Pester

  21. VR2CARE: An Age-Friendly Ecosystem for Physical Activity, Rehabilitation, and Social Interaction

    Article • September 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  22. Mathematical and Statistical Modelling for Assessing COVID-19 Superspreader Contagion: Analysis of Geographical Heterogeneous Impacts from Public Events

    Article • Mathematics, February 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  23. Métodos para criação de narrativas imersivas: uma revisão de revisões da literatura

    Article • Novos Olhares, February 2023, Universidade de Sao Paulo Sistema Integrado de Bibliotecas - SIBiUSP

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  24. Inven!RA Architecture for Sustainable Deployment of Immersive Learning Environments

    Article • Sustainability, January 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  25. Educational Practices and Strategies with Immersive Learning Environments: Mapping of Reviews for using the Metaverse

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, January 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  26. AMBIENTES DE APRENDIZAGEM IMERSIVOS

    Article • Video Journal of Social and Human Research, December 2022, Universidade Estadual do Maranhao

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  27. Design and Evaluation of a Choreography-Based Virtual Reality Authoring Tool for Experiential Learning in Industrial Training

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, October 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  28. Anonymizing student team data of online collaborative learning in Slack

    Article • July 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  29. Using Virtual Choreographies to Identify Office Users’ Behaviors to Target Behavior Change Based on Their Potential to Impact Energy Consumption

    Article • Energies, June 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  30. Recommendation Tool for Use of Immersive Learning Environments

    Article • May 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  31. Work-in-Progress—The Role of Immersion When Designing Characters for Adapting Textual Narratives into Comic Strips for Online Higher Education: Trials Prototyping Characters

    Article • May 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  32. Using Virtual Choreographies to Identify Office Users’ Behaviour-Change Priorities with Greater Impact Potential on Energy Consumption

    Article • April 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  33. Non-verbal Aspects of Collaboration in Virtual Worlds: a CSCW Taxonomy-development Proposal Integrating the Presence Dimension

    Article • JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science, September 2021, Pensoft Publishers

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  34. Metacognitive challenges to support self-reflection of students in online Software Engineering Education

    Article • June 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado, Pedro Pestana

  35. Narrative-Driven Immersion and Students' Perceptions in an Online Software Programming Course

    Article • May 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  36. Towards an Immersive Learning Knowledge Tree - a Conceptual Framework for Mapping Knowledge and Tools in the Field

    Article • May 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  37. Work-in-Progress-Immersing E-facilitators in Training: The Perspective of Project FAVILLE - Facilitators of Virtual Learning

    Article • May 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado, Associate Professor Lina Morgado

  38. Immersive Authoring of Virtual Reality Training

    Article • March 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  39. A Novel Tool for Immersive Authoring of Experiential Learning in Virtual Reality

    Article • March 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  40. Drill-Down Dashboard for Chairing of Online Master Programs in Engineering

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  41. Motivating Students to Learn Computer Programming in Higher Education: The SimProgramming Approach

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  42. Using BPMN to Identify Indicators for Teacher Intervention in Support of Self-regulation and Co-regulation of Learning in Asynchronous e-learning

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  43. Internet das Coisas e Educação: uma revisão sistemática da literatura

    Article • Research Society and Development, November 2020, Research, Society and Development

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  44. Educação e transformação digital: o habitar do ensinar e do aprender, epistemologias reticulares e ecossistemas de inovação

    Article • INTERFACES DA EDUCAÇÃO, September 2020, Interfaces da Educacao

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  45. Serious Pervasive Games

    Article • Frontiers in Computer Science, August 2020, Frontiers

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  46. Uncovering literacy practices in the game Total War: Shogun 2 with a contract-agency model

    Article • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FILM AND MEDIA ARTS, June 2020, Universidade Lusofona de Humanidades e Tecnologias

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  47. Unifying Protocols for Conducting Systematic Scoping Reviews with Application to Immersive Learning Research

    Article • June 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  48. Challenges Implementing the SimProgramming Approach in Online Software Engineering Education for Promoting Self and Co-regulation of Learning

    Article • June 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  49. Preserving story choreographies across multiple platforms

    Article • October 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  50. Research priorities in immersive learning technology: the perspectives of the iLRN community

    Article • Virtual Reality, July 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  51. Tele-Media-Art

    Article • International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction, April 2019, IGI Global

    Professor Leonel Morgado, Professor Pedro Alves Veiga

  52. Multimodal Narratives as a Tool for In-Service Teachers in an Online Professional Development Course

    Article • January 2019, IGI Global

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  53. Co-regulated Learning in Computer Programming: Students Co-reflection About Learning Strategies Adopted During an Assignment

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  54. Immersive Learning Research Network

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  55. Videogame Agency as a Bio-costs Contract

    Article • Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts, December 2018, Escola das Artes, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  56. Immersive Learning Research Network

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  57. A Technological Proposal Using Virtual Worlds to Support Entrepreneurship Education for Primary School Children

    Article • December 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  58. SimProgramming: uma abordagem motivacional para a aprendizagem de alunos intermediários de programação

    Article • October 2017, Comissao Especial de Informatica na Educacao

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  59. Integration scenarios of virtual worlds in learning management systems using the MULTIS approach

    Article • Personal Technologies, August 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  60. mHealth initiatives in Portugal

    Article • June 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  61. UPPERCARE: A community aware environment for post-surgical musculoskeletal recovery of elderly patients

    Article • April 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  62. Immersive Learning Research Network

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  63. Self-regulated learning in higher education: strategies adopted by computer programming students when supported by the SimProgramming approach

    Article • Production, January 2017, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  64. Impact of Non-verbal Communication on Collaboration in 3D Virtual Worlds: Case Study Research in Learning of Aircraft Maintenance Practices

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  65. EmbodiMentor

    Article • December 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  66. Integrating Virtual Worlds with Learning Management Systems: The MULTIS Approach

    Article • December 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  67. Exploring educational immersive videogames: an empirical study with a 3D multimodal interaction prototype

    Article • Behaviour and Information Technology, October 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  68. Collaboration in 3D Virtual Worlds: a protocol for case study research

    Article • EAI Endorsed Transactions on Future Intelligent Educational Environments, June 2016, Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (ICST)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  69. Management of surgery waiting lists in the Portuguese public healthcare network: The information system for waiting list recovery programs

    Article • June 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  70. SIMPROGRAMMING: THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTEGRATED TEACHING APPROACH FOR COMPUTER PROGRAMMING IN HIGHER EDUCATION

    Article • March 2016, IATED Academy, S.L.

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  71. Computer-Simulated 3D Virtual Environments in Collaborative Learning and Training: Meta-Review, Refinement, and Roadmap

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  72. Self-regulated Learning in Computer Programming: Strategies Students Adopted During an Assignment

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  73. Immersive Learning Research Network

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  74. Separating Gesture Detection and Application Control Concerns with a Multimodal Architecture

    Article • October 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  75. Quality of life and health of people undergoing median nerve decompression surgery

    Article • Revista de Enfermagem Referência, June 2015, Health Sciences Research Unit: Nursing

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  76. Fitting three dimensional virtual worlds into CSCW

    Article • May 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  77. Accessible Options for Deaf People in e-Learning Platforms: Technology Solutions for Sign Language Translation

    Article • Procedia Computer Science, January 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  78. Enhancing Students’ Motivation to Learn Software Engineering Programming Techniques: A Collaborative and Social Interaction Approach

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  79. Cities in Citizens’ Hands

    Article • Procedia Computer Science, January 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  80. Collaboration in 3D Virtual Worlds: designing a protocol for case study research

    Article • January 2015, IOS Press

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  81. Development of a mechanical maintenance training simulator in OpenSimulator for F-16 aircraft engines

    Article • Entertainment Computing, December 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  82. Balancing European SME Managers’ Training Contents: Perceived Importance & Training Needs

    Article • Business Systems Research Journal, September 2014, De Gruyter

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  83. Online-Gym: Multiuser Virtual Gymnasium Using RINIONS and Multiple Kinect Devices

    Article • September 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  84. Meta-theoretic Assumptions and Bibliometric Evidence Assessment on 3-D Virtual Worlds as Collaborative Learning Ecosystems

    Article • Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, June 2014, Virtual Worlds Institute, Inc.

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  85. VIC – An Interactive Video System for Dynamic Visualization in Web and Mobile Platforms

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  86. Staging Choreographies for Team Training in Multiple Virtual Worlds Based on Ontologies and Alignments

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  87. Exploring the Usage of 3D Virtual Worlds and Kinect Interaction in Exergames with Elderly

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  88. Cultural Awareness and Personal Customization of Gestural Commands Using a Shamanic Interface

    Article • Procedia Computer Science, January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  89. BIZZY – A Social Game for Entrepreneurship Education

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  90. Can Presence Improve Collaboration in 3D Virtual Worlds?

    Article • Procedia Technology, January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  91. Simplifying Crowd Automation in the Virtual Laboratory of Archaeology

    Article • Procedia Technology, January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  92. Model-Driven Generation of Multi-user and Multi-domain Choreographies for Staging in Multiple Virtual World Platforms

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  93. Online-Gym: A 3D Virtual Gymnasium Using Kinect Interaction

    Article • Procedia Technology, January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  94. Usability test of 3Dconnexion 3D mice versus keyboard + mouse in Second Life undertaken by people with motor disabilities due to medullary lesions

    Article • Universal Access in the Information Society, October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  95. Technology Challenges of Virtual Worlds in Education and Training - Research Directions

    Article • September 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  96. Demo: Multi-user virtual world simulator of F-16 aircraft engine mechanical maintenance

    Article • September 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  97. 3D simulators in professional training learning complex tasks overcoming material, economic, and human constraints

    Article • September 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  98. Virtual Archaeology in Second Life and OpenSimulator

    Article • Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, April 2013, Virtual Worlds Institute, Inc.

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  99. Mechanisms of three-dimensional content transfer between the OpenSimulator and the Second Life Grid® platforms

    Article • Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds, March 2013, Intellect

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  100. Designing User Learning Experience in Virtual Worlds: The Young Europeans for Democracy Serious Application

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  101. Potential of virtual worlds for marketing tests of product prototypes

    Article • Journal of the Textile Institute, September 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  102. Development of platform-independent multi-user choreographies for virtual worlds based on ontology combination and mapping

    Article • September 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  103. Social networks, microblogging, virtual worlds, and Web 2.0 in the teaching of programming techniques for software engineering: A trial combining collaboration and social interaction beyond college

    Article • April 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  104. Handbook of Research on Business Social Networking

    Article • January 2012, IGI Global

    Professor Leonel Morgado, Professor Dr Norazah Mohd Suki

  105. Usability Test of 3Dconnexion 3D Mice Versus Keyboard+Mouse in Second Life Undertaken by People with Motor Disabilities due to Medullary Lesions

    Article • Procedia Computer Science, January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  106. Towards an Overarching Classification Model of CSCW and Groupware: A Socio-technical Perspective

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  107. Development of a Mechanical Maintenance Training Simulator in OpenSimulator for F-16 Aircraft Engines

    Article • Procedia Computer Science, January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  108. Virtual Worlds and Metaverse Platforms

    Article • January 2012, IGI Global

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  109. Customer Relationship Management and the Social and Semantic Web

    Article • January 2012, IGI Global

    Professor Leonel Morgado, Dr Tomasz Kajdanowicz

  110. Planning of a usability test for 3D controllers in Second Life / OpenSimulator virtual worlds

    Article • November 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  111. Integrating a Military Air Traffic Control Simulator with an LMS

    Article • May 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  112. A Software Architecture for Collaborative Training in Virtual Worlds: F-16 Airplane Engine Maintenance

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  113. E-Business Managerial Aspects, Solutions and Case Studies

    Article • January 2011, IGI Global

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  114. Architecture for transparent helpdesk system with multimodal presence

    Article • December 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  115. Preschool cookbook of computer programming topics

    Article • Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, May 2010, Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  116. Improving teaching and learning of computer programming through the use of the Second Life virtual world

    Article • British Journal of Educational Technology, March 2010, Wiley

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  117. Privacy Challenges and Methods for Virtual Classrooms in Second Life Grid and OpenSimulator

    Article • March 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  118. SME Managers’ Most Important Entrepreneurship and Business Competences

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  119. Second Life Information Desk System Using Instant Messaging and Short Messaging Service Technologies

    Article • March 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  120. MobMaps: Towards a Shared Environment for Collaborative Social Activism

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yishay Mor, Professor Leonel Morgado

  121. Towards a specification of the ToonTalk language

    Article • Journal of Visual Languages & Computing, October 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  122. Contextualization of programming learning: A virtual environment study

    Article • October 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  123. Using Second Life in Programming’s Communities of Practice

    Article • January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  124. Children as Active Partners: Strategies for Collaboration in Spatial Tasks through Virtual Worlds

    Article • January 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  125. A Version Control System as a Tool and Methodology to Foster Children’s Collaboration in Spatial Configuration Decision Tasks

    Article • January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  126. PLAYER

    Article • IGI Global

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  127. SME Managers’ Required Entrepreneurship and Business Competences

    Article • IGI Global

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  128. TEL Practices in Preschool and Kindergarten Education

    Article • IGI Global

    Professor Leonel Morgado

  129. Procedural Virtual Worlds

    Article • IGI Global

    Professor Leonel Morgado