Beatriz Peres
Biography
Beatriz Peres is a Computer Science – Human-Computer Interaction Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Madeira and is part of the Graphics and Interaction Research Line at ITI – Interactive Technologies Institute/LARSyS and INESC-ID. Beatriz holds a master’s degree in Interactive Media Design from the University of Madeira and a bachelor’s degree in Design from the University of Madeira. After receiving her MSc Degree in 2019, Beatriz joined the Maritimo Training Lab project at ITI as a junior researcher until 2020, when she received the FCT PhD scholarship at the end of 2020. She also has teaching experience, as she taught a course module and co-coordinated a project in Advanced Topics in Informatics and Persuasive Computing of Computer Engineering Master. She has been on the organizing committee as web chair at IEEE VR 2020 and chair session at INTERACT 2023. Beatriz has authored ten publications, nine as first author and one as co-author at international refereed conferences and journals.
In ITI, Beatriz started by developing her master project to help people know how to correctly walk with crutches regarding the coordination between the foot and the crutch with a mobile projection system. Now, she is developing her PhD project about improving the well-being of informal caregivers watching digital nature using mobile and virtual reality. Her main research interests are augmented and virtual reality and health and well-being.
Publications
2023
“I Miss Going to that Place”: The Impact of Watching Nature Videos on the Well-Being of Informal Caregivers Proceedings Article
In: IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, pp. 23–32, Springer Nature Switzerland Cham 2023.
2022
Many Cues, Few Clues: Identifying Design Opportunities for Digital Cues in Physical Rehabilitation Processes Proceedings Article
In: 2022.
Don’t Forget to Take Some Time to Yourself: The Effect of Mobile Phone Reminders on Self-care Subdomains of Informal Caregivers Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, pp. 259–261, 2022.
Identifying Design Opportunities for Digital Cues in Gait Rehabilitation Proceedings Article
In: Irish HCI 2022, 2022.
The Impact of Mobile Phone Reminders on Perceived Self-Care Levels of Informal Caregivers Journal Article
In: Informatics, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 59, 2022.
2021
Virtual Reality Exposure Treatment in Phobias: a Systematic Review Journal Article
In: Psychiatric Quarterly, pp. 1–26, 2021.
2019
A Persuasive Approach in Using Visual Cues to Facilitate Mobility Using Forearm Crutches. Proceedings Article
In: BCSS@ PERSUASIVE, 2019.
Digitally Augmenting the Physical Ground Space with Timed Visual Cues for Crutch-Assisted Walking Proceedings Article
In: CHI Extended Abstracts, ACM, 2019.
A Digitally-Augmented Ground Space with Timed Visual Cues for Facilitating Forearm Crutches' Mobility Proceedings Article
In: INTERACT (1), pp. 184–201, Springer, 2019.