Hugo Nicolau

Biography

Hugo is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department (DEI) of Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon in Portugal. He’s also a researcher and Vice-President at the Interactive Technologies Institute / LARSyS.

His research interests include human-computer interaction with a special focus on technologies that promote and support inclusion of people with disabilities in society. Hugo’s goals comprise creating meaningful technologies that empower people to address high-impact problems in areas such as education, health, and social cohesion. His research methods extend mostly from the discipline of human-computer interaction and are informed by perspectives in design justice, psychology, sociology, and disability studies.

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2023

Pires, Ana Cristina; Abreu, Lúcia Verónica; Rocha, Filipa; Simão, Hugo; Guerreiro, João; Nicolau, Hugo; Guerreiro, Tiago João

TACTOPI: Exploring Play with an Inclusive Multisensory Environment for Children with Mixed-Visual Abilities Inproceedings

In: IDC, pp. 411–422, ACM, 2023.

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Rocha, Filipa; Correia, Filipa; Neto, Isabel; Pires, Ana Cristina; Guerreiro, João; Guerreiro, Tiago João; Nicolau, Hugo

Coding Together: On Co-located and Remote Collaboration between Children with Mixed-Visual Abilities Inproceedings

In: CHI, pp. 606:1–606:14, ACM, 2023.

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Neto, Isabel; Correia, Filipa; Rocha, Filipa; Piedade, Patricia; Paiva, Ana; Nicolau, Hugo

The Robot Made Us Hear Each Other: Fostering Inclusive Conversations among Mixed-Visual Ability Children Inproceedings

In: HRI, pp. 13–23, ACM, 2023.

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Gordo, Alexandre; Roupa, Ivo; Nicolau, Hugo; Lopes, Daniel Simões

Feasibility and Expert Acceptance of a Virtual Reality Gait Rehabilitation Tool Inproceedings

In: VRW, pp. 565–566, IEEE, 2023.

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2022

Piedade, Patricia; Matsur, Nikoletta; Rodrigues, Catarina Alexandra Rebelo; Cecilio, Francisco; Marques, Afonso; Saturn, Rings Of; Neto, Isabel; Nicolau, Hugo

Co-designing a Bespoken Wearable Display for People with Dissociative Identity Disorder Inproceedings

In: Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, pp. 1–4, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2022, ISBN: 978-1-4503-9258-7.

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Kouroupetroglou, Georgios; Nicolau, Hugo

Introduction to the Special Issue on ASSETS'20 Journal Article

In: ACM Trans. Access. Comput., vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 8e:1–8e:2, 2022.

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Rodrigues, André; Nicolau, Hugo; Santos, André R. B.; Branco, Diogo; Rainey, Jay; Verweij, David; Smeddinck, Jan David; Montague, Kyle; Guerreiro, Tiago João Vieira

Investigating the Tradeoffs of Everyday Text-Entry Collection Methods Inproceedings

In: CHI, pp. 378:1–378:15, ACM, 2022.

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Antunes, Cristiana; Neto, Isabel; Correia, Filipa; Paiva, Ana; Nicolau, Hugo

Inclusive'R'Stories: An Inclusive Storytelling Activity with an Emotional Robot Inproceedings

In: HRI, pp. 90–100, IEEE / ACM, 2022.

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Hu, Yuhan; Neto, Isabel; Ryu, Jin; Shtarbanov, Ali; Nicolau, Hugo; Paiva, Ana; Hoffman, Guy

Touchibo: Multimodal Texture-Changing Robotic Platform for Shared Human Experiences Inproceedings

In: UIST (Adjunct Volume), pp. 68:1–68:3, ACM, 2022.

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Ma, Shuhao; Ferreira, Marta; Nicolau, Hugo; Prandi, Catia; Esteves, Augusto; Nunes, Nuno Jardim; Nisi, Valentina

Catering for Students' Well-being during COVID-19 Social Distancing: a Case Study from a University Campus Inproceedings

In: GoodIT, pp. 146–153, ACM, 2022.

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Urbano, Inês Cunha Vaz Pereira; Guerreiro, João Pedro Vieira; Nicolau, Hugo Miguel Aleixo Albuquerque

From skeuomorphism to flat design: age-related differences in performance and aesthetic perceptions Journal Article

In: Behav. Inf. Technol., vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 452–467, 2022.

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2021

Gonçalves, Matilde; Coheur, Luísa; Nicolau, Hugo; Mineiro, Ana

PE2LGP: tradutor de português europeu para língua gestual portuguesa em glosas Journal Article

In: Linguamática, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 3–21, 2021.

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Rocha, Filipa; Pires, Ana Cristina; Neto, Isabel; Nicolau, Hugo; Guerreiro, Tiago João

Accembly at Home: Accessible Spatial Programming for Children with Visual Impairments and their Families Inproceedings

In: IDC, pp. 100–111, ACM, 2021.

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Neto, Isabel; Nicolau, Hugo; Paiva, Ana

Community Based Robot Design for Classrooms with Mixed Visual Abilities Children Inproceedings

In: CHI, pp. 31:1–31:12, ACM, 2021.

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Neto, Isabel; Nicolau, Hugo; Paiva, Ana

Fostering Inclusive Activities in Mixed-visual Abilities Classrooms using Social Robots Inproceedings

In: HRI (Companion), pp. 571–573, ACM, 2021.

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Nogueira, João; Alves, Tomás; Nicolau, Hugo

DAN & Danny: Combining Analog and Digital Self-Tracking Data to Manage Wellbeing Inproceedings

In: ICGI, pp. 1–8, IEEE, 2021.

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Rodrigues, André; Santos, André R. B.; Montague, Kyle; Nicolau, Hugo; Guerreiro, Tiago João

WildKey: A Privacy-Aware Keyboard Toolkit for Data Collection In-The-Wild Journal Article

In: CoRR, vol. abs/2105.10223, 2021.

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2020

Rodrigues, André; Nicolau, Hugo; Montague, Kyle; Guerreiro, João; Guerreiro, Tiago João Vieira

Open Challenges of Blind People Using Smartphones Journal Article

In: Int. J. Hum. Comput. Interact., vol. 36, no. 17, pp. 1605–1622, 2020.

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Mendes, Daniel; Reis, Sofia; Guerreiro, João; Nicolau, Hugo

Collaborative Tabletops for Blind People: The Effect of Auditory Design on Workspace Awareness Journal Article

In: Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., vol. 4, no. ISS, pp. 197:1–197:19, 2020.

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Pires, Ana Cristina; Rocha, Filipa; Neto, Antonio José Barros; Simão, Hugo; Nicolau, Hugo; Guerreiro, Tiago João

Exploring accessible programming with educators and visually impaired children Inproceedings

In: IDC, pp. 148–160, ACM, 2020.

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Neto, Isabel; Johal, Wafa; Couto, Marta; Nicolau, Hugo; Paiva, Ana; Ozgur, Arzu Guneysu

Using tabletop robots to promote inclusive classroom experiences Inproceedings

In: IDC, pp. 281–292, ACM, 2020.

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Silva, Inês Santos; Guerreiro, João; Rosa, Marlene; Campos, Joana; Pascoal, Augusto Gil; Pinto, Sofia; Nicolau, Hugo

Investigating the Opportunities for Technologies to Enhance QoL with Stroke Survivors and their Families Inproceedings

In: CHI, pp. 1–11, ACM, 2020.

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Neves, Carolina C.; Coheur, Luísa; Nicolau, Hugo

HamNoSyS2SiGML: Translating HamNoSys Into SiGML Inproceedings

In: LREC, pp. 6035–6039, European Language Resources Association, 2020.

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Harper, Simon; Mueller, Julia; Davies, Alan; Nicolau, Hugo; Eraslan, Sukru; Yesilada, Yeliz

The case for 'health related impairments and disabilities' Inproceedings

In: W4A, pp. 2:1–2:7, ACM, 2020.

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Guerreiro, Tiago João; Nicolau, Hugo; Moffatt, Karyn (Ed.)

ASSETS '20: The 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Virtual Event, Greece, October 26-28, 2020 Proceeding

ACM, 2020.

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2019

Paulo, Soraia Figueiredo; Relvas, Filipe; Nicolau, Hugo; Rekik, Yosra; Machado, Vanessa; Botelho, João; Mendes, José João; Grisoni, Laurent; Jorge, Joaquim A.; Lopes, Daniel Simões

Touchless interaction with medical images based on 3D hand cursors supported by single-foot input: A case study in dentistry Journal Article

In: J. Biomed. Informatics, vol. 100, 2019.

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Nicolau, Hugo; Rodrigues, André; Santos, André R. B.; Guerreiro, Tiago João; Montague, Kyle; Guerreiro, João

The Design Space of Nonvisual Word Completion Inproceedings

In: ASSETS, pp. 249–261, ACM, 2019.

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Rodrigues, André; Santos, André R. B.; Montague, Kyle; Nicolau, Hugo; Guerreiro, Tiago João

Understanding the Authoring and Playthrough of Nonvisual Smartphone Tutorials Inproceedings

In: INTERACT (1), pp. 42–62, Springer, 2019.

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Lopes, Daniel S.; Faria, Afonso; Barriga, Ana; Caneira, Sérgio; Baptista, Filomena; Matos, Catarina; Neves, Ana F.; Prates, Leonor; Pereira, Ângela Maria; Nicolau, Hugo

Visual Biofeedback for Upper Limb Compensatory Movements: A Preliminary Study Next to Rehabilitation Professionals Inproceedings

In: EuroVis (Posters), pp. 33–35, Eurographics Association, 2019.

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Nicolau, Hugo; Montague, Kyle

Assistive Technologies Incollection

In: Web Accessibility (2nd Ed.), pp. 317–335, Springer, 2019.

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2018

Trindade, Daniel; Rodrigues, André; Guerreiro, Tiago João; Nicolau, Hugo

Hybrid-Brailler: Combining Physical and Gestural Interaction for Mobile Braille Input and Editing Inproceedings

In: CHI, pp. 27, ACM, 2018.

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Rodrigues, André; Camacho, Leonardo; Nicolau, Hugo; Montague, Kyle; Guerreiro, Tiago João Vieira

Aidme: interactive non-visual smartphone tutorials Inproceedings

In: MobileHCI Adjunct, pp. 205–212, ACM, 2018.

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2017

Nicolau, Hugo; Montague, Kyle; Guerreiro, Tiago João Vieira; Rodrigues, André; Hanson, Vicki L.

Investigating Laboratory and Everyday Typing Performance of Blind Users Journal Article

In: ACM Trans. Access. Comput., vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 4:1–4:26, 2017.

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Rodrigues, André; Montague, Kyle; Nicolau, Hugo; Guerreiro, João; Guerreiro, Tiago João Vieira

In-context Q&A to Support Blind People Using Smartphones Inproceedings

In: ASSETS, pp. 32–36, ACM, 2017.

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Miller, Ashley; Malasig, Joan; Castro, Brenda; Hanson, Vicki L.; Nicolau, Hugo; Brandão, Alessandra

The Use of Smart Glasses for Lecture Comprehension by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students Inproceedings

In: CHI Extended Abstracts, pp. 1909–1915, ACM, 2017.

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2016

Brandão, Alessandra; Nicolau, Hugo; Tadas, Shreya; Hanson, Vicki L.

SlidePacer: A Presentation Delivery Tool for Instructors of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students Inproceedings

In: ASSETS, pp. 25–32, ACM, 2016.

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Rodrigues, André; Nicolau, Hugo; Montague, Kyle; Carriço, Luís; Guerreiro, Tiago João Vieira

Effect of target size on non-visual text-entry Inproceedings

In: MobileHCI, pp. 47–52, ACM, 2016.

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2015

Rodrigues, André; Montague, Kyle; Nicolau, Hugo; Guerreiro, Tiago João Vieira

Getting Smartphones to Talkback: Understanding the Smartphone Adoption Process of Blind Users Inproceedings

In: ASSETS, pp. 23–32, ACM, 2015.

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Nicolau, Hugo; Montague, Kyle; Guerreiro, Tiago João Vieira; Rodrigues, André; Hanson, Vicki L.

Typing Performance of Blind Users: An Analysis of Touch Behaviors, Learning Effect, and In-Situ Usage Inproceedings

In: ASSETS, pp. 273–280, ACM, 2015.

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Montague, Kyle; Rodrigues, André; Nicolau, Hugo; Guerreiro, Tiago João Vieira

TinyBlackBox: Supporting Mobile In-The-Wild Studies Inproceedings

In: ASSETS, pp. 379–380, ACM, 2015.

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Guerreiro, João; Rodrigues, André; Montague, Kyle; Guerreiro, Tiago João Vieira; Nicolau, Hugo; Gonçalves, Daniel

TabLETS Get Physical: Non-Visual Text Entry on Tablet Devices Inproceedings

In: CHI, pp. 39–42, ACM, 2015.

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Guerreiro, Tiago João Vieira; Montague, Kyle; Guerreiro, João; Nunes, Rafael; Nicolau, Hugo; Gonçalves, Daniel Jorge Viegas

Blind People Interacting with Large Touch Surfaces: Strategies for One-handed and Two-handed Exploration Inproceedings

In: ITS, pp. 25–34, ACM, 2015.

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Nicolau, Hugo; Montague, Kyle; Guerreiro, Tiago João Vieira; Rodrigues, André; Hanson, Vicki L.

HoliBraille: multipoint vibrotactile feedback on mobile devices Inproceedings

In: W4A, pp. 30:1–30:4, ACM, 2015.

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2014

Nicolau, Hugo; Guerreiro, Tiago João Vieira; Lucas, David; Jorge, Joaquim A.

Mobile text-entry and visual demands: reusing and optimizing current solutions Journal Article

In: Univers. Access Inf. Soc., vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 291–301, 2014.

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Nicolau, Hugo; Guerreiro, Tiago João Vieira; Jorge, Joaquim A.; Gonçalves, Daniel

Mobile touchscreen user interfaces: bridging the gap between motor-impaired and able-bodied users Journal Article

In: Univers. Access Inf. Soc., vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 303–313, 2014.

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Montague, Kyle; Nicolau, Hugo; Hanson, Vicki L.

Motor-impaired touchscreen interactions in the wild Inproceedings

In: ASSETS, pp. 123–130, ACM, 2014.

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Nicolau, Hugo; Montague, Kyle; Guerreiro, Tiago João; Guerreiro, João; Hanson, Vicki L.

B#: chord-based correction for multitouch braille input Inproceedings

In: CHI, pp. 1705–1708, ACM, 2014.

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Nicolau, Hugo; Guerreiro, João; Guerreiro, Tiago João Vieira

Stressing the Boundaries of Mobile Accessibility Journal Article

In: CoRR, vol. abs/1402.1001, 2014.

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Guerreiro, Tiago João Vieira; Nicolau, Hugo; Oliveira, João; Jorge, Joaquim A.; Gonçalves, Daniel

Understanding Individual Differences: Towards Effective Mobile Interface Design and Adaptation for the Blind Journal Article

In: CoRR, vol. abs/1402.1037, 2014.

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2013

Nicolau, Hugo; Guerreiro, João; Guerreiro, Tiago João Vieira; Carriço, Luís

UbiBraille: designing and evaluating a vibrotactile Braille-reading device Inproceedings

In: ASSETS, pp. 23:1–23:8, ACM, 2013.

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