Biography

Andreia Valente is a PhD student at the Empathic Computing Laboratory, where she is advised by Professor Mark Billinghurst (University of Auckland) and Professor Augusto Esteves (University of Lisbon). She holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, where she previously served as a Teaching Assistant for the Human-Computer Interaction course.
Her Master’s project, Empathic AuRea, explored augmented reality solutions for emotional sharing in face-to-face communication through visualization of physiological data. Now, her PhD research focuses more on hardware solutions for haptic technology to modulate and communicate physiological states. Her work combines physiological computing with tangible interfaces to create intuitive ways for people to understand and influence each other’s bodily signals, with applications in areas such as stress management and empathic computing.

Supervisor: Augusto Esteves