Filipa Rocha
Biography
Filipa Rocha holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Information Systems and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. She is now pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Lisbon with Tiago Guerreiro and Hugo Nicolau as advisors.
Her Ph.D. is focused on improving technology accessibility for children with visual impairments. The work is mainly focused on developing coding environments that promote collaborative work between mixed-visual ability children while training computational thinking skills.