Duarte is a LARSyS/INESC-ID researcher with an MSc in Interactive Media Design, blending HCI, Design Research, and User-Centered Design. Currently, he is exploring AI-powered approaches to enhance knowledge personalisation through transdisciplinary methods.
Bea is a creative director and a CMU Portugal Dual Degree PhD candidate in Human-Computer Interaction. She works on ocean literacy games that foster a sense of interconnectedness with the ocean. She also uses photography to reflect on people’s embodied experiences of the sea. Her research focuses on posthuman HCI, hydrocommons and more-than-human entanglements.
Before returning to academia, she worked internationally as a creative director for 2 decades. Starting in advertising, she then transitioned to environmental campaigning, where she worked on ideating communication campaigns for NGOs such as Greenpeace and WWF.
Now I am an HCI design researcher at ITI, LARSyS. Before joining the CMU Portugal program, I got my master degree in design at Tongji University and experienced multiple digital projects (Social media, social innovation and sustainability, etc.) with my interaction design skills in China. My current research is triggered by digital technologies, HCI, sustainability, and multi-disciplinary practices. I appreciated the opportunity and am glad to meet the fabulous network.
I am an HCI Researcher at INESC-ID with an MSc. Degree in Aerospace Engineering from IST. Highly motivated by technological challenges, I designed an approach for remote virtual collaboration during my master thesis. During my exchange program in India, I have enriched my adaptability to new environments and developed great intercultural sensitivity.
Through my education in computer engineering, interaction design, media studies and architecture, I learned to recognize the need for interdisciplinary approaches to designing interactions with (and within) the built environment. My professional experience as an interaction designer in India and Germany, and as a research assistant in the U.S. (Buffalo), Canada and Portugal enable me to connect academic research to professional practice.
