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Journal Papers and Book Chapters (9)
Mobile Touch Screen User Interfaces: Bridging the Gap between Motor Impaired and Able-Bodied Users
Universal Access in the Information Society, Springer. To appear.
Mobile Text-Entry and Visual Demands: Reusing and Optimizing Current Solutions
Universal Access in the Information Society, Springer. To appear.
Designing TV Interaction for the Elderly - A Case Study of the Design for All Approach
A Multimodal End-2-End Approach to Accessible Computing, pp. 49-69, Pradipta Biswas, Carlos Duarte, Pat Langdon, Luís Almeida, Christoph Jung (Eds.), Springer, 2013
Involving All Stakeholders in the Development of TV Applications for the Elderly
International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems, 2012
Computer-Assisted Rehabilitation: Towards Effective Evaluation
International Journal of Cognitive Performance Support, October 2011
An Haptic based Immersive Environment for Shape Analysis and Modeling
Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, ISSN: 1861-8200, Springer. Special Issue on Improving Display and Rendering Technology for Virtual Environments. Eds. João António Madeiras Pereira and Pedro Santos, October, 2009
Assessing Electromyographic Interfaces
Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting, Vol. 5 (12), January, 2009
From Tapping to Touching: Making touch screens accessible to blind users
IEEE Multimedia, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 48-50, Oct-Dec, December, 2008
Evaluating Learning Support Systems Usability: An Empirical Approach
Communication & Cognition, Vol. 41, Nr. 1 & 2 ISSN: 0773-4182, January, 2008
International Peer-Reviewed Publications (66)
Friendsourcing the Unmet Needs of People with Dementia
W4A 2014, Seoul, Korea, April, 2014
B#: Chord-based Correction for Multitouch Braille Input BEST PAPER AWARD
CHI 2014 - ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Toronto, Canada, April, 2014
Measuring Snooping Behavior with Surveys: It's How you Ask About It
ACM CHI 2014 - Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Toronto, Canada, April, 2014
Supporting Autism Therapists: Co-Designing Interventions
ACM CHI 2014 - Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Toronto, Canada, April, 2014
Duress Unlock: Using Covert Signals to Restrict Access to Mobile Devices
CHI 2014 Workshop on Inconspicuous Interaction, Toronto, Canada, April, 2014
Workshop on Inconspicuous Interaction Workshop proposal
ACM CHI 2014 Workshop on Inconspicuous Interaction, Toronto, Canada, April 2014
Augmenting Braille Input through Multitouch Feedback
UIST 2013 - 26th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, St. Andrews, United Kingdom, October, 2013
The Today and Tomorrow of Braille Learning
ASSETS 2013 - 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. Bellevue, USA, October, 2013
UbiBraille: Designing and Evaluating a Vibrotactile Braille-Reading Device
ASSETS 2013 - 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. Bellevue, USA, October, 2013
Under the Table: Tap Authentication for Smartphones
HCI 2013 - 27th International British Computer Society Human Computer Interaction Conference. London, UK, September, 2013
Towards Ubiquitous Awareness Tools for Blind People
HCI 2013 - 27th International British Computer Society Human Computer Interaction Conference. London, UK, September, 2013
An accessible, adaptive and multimodal digital TV framework and corresponding development tool
SAI 2013 - IEEE Technically Co-Sponsored Science and Information Conference, London, UK, 2013
Stressing the Boundaries of Mobile Accessibility
MOBACC 2013: Mobile Accessibility Workshop at CHI 2013, Paris, France, April 2013
SIG: NVI (Non-Visual Interaction)
Special Interest Group at CHI 2013, Paris, France, April 2013
Third Mobile Accessibility Workshop
ACM CHI 2013 Workshop on Mobile Accessibility, Paris, France, April 2013
TV Applications for the Elderly: Assessing the Acceptance of Adaptation and Multimodality
ACHI 2013: 6th International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions, Nice, France, February 2013
Exploring the Accessibility of Touch Phones and Tablets for Blind People
MOBACC 2012: Mobile Accessibility Workshop at MobileHCI 2012, San Francisco, USA, September 2012
Audio-Based Mobile Puzzle Gaming for Blind People
MOBACC 2012: Mobile Accessibility Workshop at MobileHCI 2012, San Francisco, USA, September 2012
A Web-Based Application to Address Individual Interests of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
DSAI 2012: 4th International Conference on Software Development for Enhancing Accessibility and Fighting Info-exclusion, Douro, Portugal, July 2012
Guiding Blind People with Haptic Feedback
Pervasive 2012 workshop on Frontiers in Accessibility for Pervavise Computing , Newcastle, UK, June, 2012
Mobile Text-Entry: the Unattainable Ultimate Method
Pervasive 2012 workshp on Frontiers in Accessibility for Pervavise Computing , Newcastle, UK, June, 2012
Frontiers in Accesibility for Pervasive Computing Workshop proposal
Pervasive 2012 Workshops: Tenth International Conference on Pervasive Computing, Newcastle, UK, June 2012
Blind People and Mobile Touch-based Text-Entry: Acknowledging the Need for Different Flavors BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
Proceedings of ASSETS 2011 - 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. Dundee, Scotland, October, 2011
BrailleType: Unleashing Braille over Touch Screen Mobile Phones BEST SHORT PAPER AWARD
Proceedings of INTERACT 2011 - 13th IFIP TC13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Lisboa, Portugal, September, 2011
Blind People and Mobile Keypads: Accounting for Individual Differences
Proceedings of INTERACT 2011 - 13th IFIP TC13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Lisboa, Portugal, September, 2011
Investigating the Effectiveness of Assistive Technologies on Situationally Impaired Users
Proceedings of MOBACC 2011 - INTERACT 2011 Workshop on Mobile Accessibility. Lisboa, Portugal, September, 2011
Proceedings of MOBACC 2011 - INTERACT 2011 Workshop on Mobile Accessibility. Lisboa, Portugal, September, 2011
TROCAS: Communication Skills Development in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders via ICT
Proceedings of INTERACT 2011 - 13th IFIP TC13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Lisboa, Portugal, September, 2011
CHI 2011 Workshop on Dynamic Accessibility: Detecting and Accommodating Differences in Ability and Situation. Vancouver, Canada, May, 2011
HEALTHINF 2011 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics. Rome, Italy, January, 2011
SmarterPhone: Supporting meeting in a mobile context
NordiCHI 2010 - Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Reykjavik, Iceland, October, 2010
Towards Accessible Touch Interfaces
ASSETS 2010 - Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. Orlando, Florida, USA, October, 2010
The Key Role of Touch in Non-Visual Mobile Interaction
Mobile HCI 2010: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, Lisboa, Portugal, 09/2010. Lisboa, Portugal, September, 2010
Assessing mobile touch screen interfaces for tetraplegics
Mobile HCI 2010: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, Lisboa, Portugal, 09/2010. Lisboa, Portugal, September, 2010
Surpassing Farley Files: Opportunities and Challenges on Obtaining Personally Relevant Information
MobileHCI 2010: 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. Lisboa, Portugal, September, 2010
Assessing Mobile-wise Individual Differences in the Blind
MobileHCI 2010 - Doctoral Consortium: 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. Lisboa, Portugal, September, 2010
Laying the Groundwork for Assisted Rehabilitation
ECCE 2010 - Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, ACM DL. Delft,Netherlands, August, 2010
Identifying the individual ingredients for a (in)successful non-visual mobile experience
ECCE 2010 - Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, ACM DL, Delft,Netherlands, August, 2010
Proficient blind users and mobile text-entry
ECCE 2010 - Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, ACM DL. Delft,Netherlands, August, 2010
A Narrative-Based Alternative to Tagging
Hypertext 2010 - Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia. Toronto, Canada, June, 2010
Relating Personally Relevant Social Information from Heterogeneous Sources
UDISW 2010 - ACM IUI Workshop on User Data Interoperability in the Social Web. Hong Kong, China, February, 2010
NavTap: a Long Term Study with Excluded Blind Users
ASSETS 2009 - Eleventh International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. Pittsburgh, USA, October, 2009
This Just In! Your Life in the Newspaper
Interact 2009, Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science, 12th IFIP TC13 Conference in Human-Computer Interaction. Uppsala, Sweden, August, 2009
Designing Guides for Blind People
DSAI 2009 - International Conference on Software Development for Enhancing Accessibility and Fighting Info-exclusion. Porto Salvo, Portugal, June, 2009
Storytags: Once Upon a Time, There Was a Photo
ACM CHI 2009 - Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Boston, MA, USA, April, 2009
Blobby: How to Guide a Blind Person
ACM CHI 2009 - Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Boston, MA, USA, April, 2009
Mnemonical Body Shortcuts for Interacting with Mobile Devices
Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Gesture-Based Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation, LNAI 5085, ISBN 978-3-540-92864-5, (Eds.) Miguel Sales Dias, Sylvie Gibet and Marcelo Wander, January, 2009
Mobile Text-Entry Models for People with Disabilities
ECCE 2008 - Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics. Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, September, 2008
Mnemonical Body Shortcuts: Improving Mobile Interaction
ECCE 2008 - European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, ACM DL. Madeira, Portugal, September, 2008
NavTap and BrailleTap: Non-Visual Texting Interfaces
RESNA 2008 - Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America Conference. Arlington, Virginia, USA, June, 2008
RealFind: Managing Personal Items in the Physical World
ACM CHI 2008 - Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Florence, Italy, April, 2008
Understanding Stories about Personal Documents
The Fourth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems, Knowledge-based User Interfaces Track, IEEE CS Press, March, 2008
Braille Matrix: A new text introduction method for the blind
DSAI 2007: International Conference on Software Development for Enhancing Accessibility and Fighting Info-exclusion. Vila Real, Portugal, November, 2007
Extensible Middleware Framework for Multimodal Interfaces in Distributed Environments
ACM ICMI 2007: 9th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces. Nagoya, Japan, November, 2007
Issues in capturing the classroom experience: Lessons from the trenches
ICEE 2007: International Conference on Engineering Education. Coimbra, Portugal, September, 2007
BloNo: A New Mobile Text-Entry Interface for the Visually Impaired
Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Universal Access in HCI Part II, HCII 2007, LNCS 4555, pp. 908-917. Beijing, China, July, 2007
Using Autobiographic Information to Retrieve Real and Electronic Documents
HCII 2007 Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Universal Access in HCI Part II, LNCS 4555, pp. 908-917. Beijing, China, July, 2007
Emf: Extensible Middleware Framework
HCII 2007: 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Beijing, China, July, 2007
Mnemonical Gesture-based Mobile Interaction
HCII 2007: 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Beijing, China, July, 2007
Mobile Interaction Based On Human Gesture Analysis
ISHF 2007: International Symposium on Measurement, Analysis and Modeling of Human Functions. Cascais, Portugal, June, 2007
Assistive Technologies for Spinal Cord Injured Individuals: Electromyographic Mobile Accessibility
GW 2007: 7th International Workshop on Gesture in Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation. Lisboa, Portugal, May, 2007
GW 2007: 7th International Workshop on Gesture in Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation. Lisboa, Portugal, May, 2007
Evaluating Learning Support Systems Usability: An Empirical Approach
Proceedings of the Third E-learning International Conference on Computer Science Education. Coimbra, Portugal, September, 2006
EMG as a Daily Wearable Interface
GRAPP 2006: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications Conference on Computer Science Education. Setúbal, Portugal, February, 2006
National Peer-Reviewed Publications (31)
Predicting Relevant Events in the Life of a Person with Alzheimer
BODS 2014 - BioInformatics Open Days, Braga, February, 2014
Ferramentas Contextuais para Pessoas Cegas
Interacção 2013 - Portuguese Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Vila Real, Portugal, Novembro, 2013
Reabilitar o Processo de Reabilitação 
Interacção 2010 - Proceedings of the 4th National Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Aveiro, Portugal, October, 2010
Cognimobile: Diferenças Cognitivas e os Dispositivos Móveis
Interacção 2010 - Proceedings of the 4th National Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Aveiro, Portugal, October, 2010
NavTilt: Interface Gestual para Cegos
Interacção 2010 - Proceedings of the 4th National Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Aveiro, Portugal, October, 2010
Interacção 2010 - Proceedings of the 4th National Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Aveiro, Portugal, October, 2010
Rumo a Interfaces Tácteis Acessíveis
Interacção 2010 - Proceedings of the 4th National Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Aveiro, Portugal, October, 2010
Bases para Reabilitação Assistida
Interacção 2010 - Proceedings of the 4th National Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Aveiro, Portugal, October, 2010
Automating Repetitive Tasks in User Interaction
Recpad 2009: Actas da 15ª Conferência Portuguesa de Reconhecimento de Padrões. Aveiro, Portugal, October, 2009
GeniusPhone: Extracting and Relating Relevant Personal Information
Recpad 2009: Actas da 15ª Conferência Portuguesa de Reconhecimento de Padrões. Aveiro, Portugal, October, 2009
GeniusPhone: A Personal Companion for Everyday Situations
17º EPCG - Actas do 17° Encontro Português de Computação Gráfica. Covilhã, Portugal, Outubro, 2009
NavTap: um estudo de longa duração com utilizadores cegos BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
17º EPCG - Actas do 17° Encontro Português de Computação Gráfica. Covilhã, Portugal, Outubro, 2009
Blaze - Automatizando a Interacção em Interfaces Gráficas
17º EPCG - Actas do 17° Encontro Português de Computação Gráfica. Covilhã, Portugal, October, 2009
CameraPhone: Interacção Baseada em Câmara
Interacção 2008 - Terceira Conferência Nacional em Interacção Pessoa-Máquina. Évora, Portugal, October, 2008
Story Tags: Contar Histórias para Etiquetar Fotografias
Interacção 2008 - Terceira Conferência Nacional em Interacção Pessoa-Máquina. Évora, Portugal, October, 2008
Acessibilidade Móvel: Soluções para Deficientes Visuais
Interacção 2008 - Actas da 3ª Conferência Nacional em Interacção Pessoa-Máquina. Évora, Portugal, Outubro, 2008
EasyHouse: A Multimodal Domotic System for the Tetraplegic
Interacção 2008 - Terceira Conferência Nacional em Interacção Pessoa-Máquina. Évora, Portugal, October, 2008
Real Find: "Onde estão as Actas do Interacção 2006?"
Interacção 2008 - Terceira Conferência Nacional em Interacção Pessoa-Máquina, October, 2008
Personal News: A nossa Vida de Relance…
Interacção 2008 - Terceira Conferência Nacional em Interacção Pessoa-Máquina. Évora, Portugal, October, 2008
BloNo: Mobile device accessibility for the Blind
15º EPCG - Actas do 15° Encontro Português de Computação Gráfica. Porto Salvo, Portugal, Outubro, 2007
Mnemonical Gesture-based Mobile Interaction
RECPAD07: 13th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition. Lisboa, Portugal, October, 2007
Interfaces Baseadas em Narrativas para Recuperação de Documentos Pessoais
15º EPCG - Encontro Português de Computação Gráfica. Porto Salvo, Portugal, Outubro, 2007
BloNo: Mobile Notebook for the Visually Impaired
Conferência Inclusão Digital 2007: apresentação dos resultados dos projectos de I&D UMIC. Vila Real, Portugal, April, 2007
Bridging the Gap Between Real and Electronic Documents
Interacção 2006 - Actas da 2ª Conferência Nacional em Interacção Pessoa-Máquina. Braga, Portugal, October, 2006
Controlo Miográfico de Dispositivos Móveis para Tetraplégicos
Interacção 2006 - Actas da 2ª Conferência Nacional em Interacção Pessoa-Máquina. Braga, Portugal, October, 2006
Plataforma Extensível para Interfaces Multimodais
Interacção 2006 - Actas da 2ª Conferência Nacional em Interacção Pessoa-Máquina. Braga, Portugal, October, 2006
Online Communication in a Multimedia Course
Interacção 2006 - Actas da 2ª Conferência Nacional em Interacção Pessoa-Máquina. Braga, Portugal, October, 2006
Bloco de Notas para Portadores de Deficiências Visuais
DSAI 2006 - Conferência Nacional para o Desenvolvimento de Software para melhoria de Acessibilidade e combate à Infoexclusão. Vila Real, Portugal, March, 2006
Controlo Miográfico de Dispositivos Móveis para Tetraplégicos
DSAI 2006 - Conferência Nacional para o Desenvolvimento de Software para melhoria de Acessibilidade e combate à Infoexclusão. Vila Real, Portugal, March, 2006
Homero: O Guia Contador de Histórias para Invisuais
DSAI 2006 - Conferência Nacional para o Desenvolvimento de Software para melhoria de Acessibilidade e combate à Infoexclusão. Vila Real, Portugal, March, 2006
LEMe Wall: Desenvolvendo um Sistema de Multi-Projecção
EPCG 2005 - Actas do 13° Encontro Português de Computação Gráfica. Vila Real, Portugal, October, 2005
Invited Talks (1)
Acessibilidade Móvel para Pessoas Cegas
Sain Foundation 50th Anniversary commemoration Conference. Portugal, November, 2009
Thesis (2)
User-Sensitive Mobile Interfaces: Accounting for Individual Differences amongst the Blind
PhD Dissertation, IST, Technical University of Lisboa. Lisboa, Portugal, September, 2012
Myographic Mobile Accessibility for Tetraplegics
Master Thesis Dissertation, IST, Technical University of Lisboa. Lisboa, Portugal, July, 2008
Other (1)
Assistive Technologies for Spinal Cord Injured Individuals: A Survey
Technical Report, IST, Technical University of Lisboa. Lisboa, Portugal, 2007