Francisco Braga is a PhD student at NOVA School of Science and Technology, working on Computer Music. Francisco obtained my Integrated Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico where he first got interested in these fields. He intends to focus on the use of emotion and structure in AI musical composition.
Electric Engineering and Computer Science MSc. who has information and interaction technologies for childhood education as a main research interest. His doctoral work regards the co-design of a playful informal learning management system for primary education – a tool to help integrate everyday and implicit learning activities into educational systems and, by introducing interactive narratives set in fantastical universes starring characters to whom children are bonded by their learning, engage children in the management of these activities. The CMU Portugal program provided a unique opportunity to work with a reference scholar, and respective research group, on the topic of transformational play.
