Cristina Parente is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Master’s Course in Pre-School Education at the Universidade do Minho. Her research interests focus on the training and supervision of early childhood educational professionals and teachers. She contributes with her knowledge to the analyses of the project’s results.

Maitê Gil is a Specialist in Education Sciences and Teacher Development at the Católica Learning Innovation Lab, a pedagogical innovation laboratory at the Faculty of Education and Psychology of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Her research interests include: Language Teaching; Multiliteracies; Cognitive Linguistics; Teacher Training; and Teacher Professional Development. She contributes to the analysis and interpretation of data related to the field of linguistics, and scientific writing.

Irene Cadime is an Assistant Professor at the School of Psychology of the Universidade do Minho. Her research areas are Psychological assessment, Psychometrics, Reading disabilities, Language development, Reading and Writing, Web-based interventions, and Executive functioning.  She is responsible for the quantitative analysis of the data collected and the subsequent interpretation and scientific writing.

Andreia Couto is an Early Childhood Teacher, with professional experience working with children up to 11 years of age. She has experience in pedagogical practice based on the Montessori method. She collaborates in the collection and data analysis from field studies and contributes to the achievement of the project’s scientific objectives.

Linda Ferreira is currently enrolled in the Master course in Digital Design at the Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, where she investigates the applicability of Design Systems for pedagogical innovation. She is responsible for creating and maintaining graphic elements for the project.

Beatriz Alves is a Computer Engineer from Instituto Superior Técnico, with a special interest in the areas of Interaction and Visualisation. During her master’s degree and within the Once Upon a Time project, she developed an augmented reality mobile application to support children’s storytelling. She collaborates in the development of the Mobeybou tools.

Nuno Martins is Adjunct Professor at the School of Design (ESD) of the Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave and director of the Master’s Degree in Digital Design. His research focuses on Digital Media Design, in this scope he has co-supervised with Cristina Sylla several Master students that have contributed to the design of digital media within the project.