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 particular focus on technologies that promote and support the inclusion of people with disabilities in society. Hugo’s goals include creating meaningful technologies that empower people to address high-impact problems such as education, health, and social cohesion. His research methods extend primarily from the discipline of human-computer interaction and are informed by perspectives in design justice, psychology, sociology, and disability studies.
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2022
Inclusive'R'Stories: An Inclusive Storytelling Activity with an Emotional Robot Proceedings Article
In: HRI, pp. 90–100, IEEE / ACM, 2022.
Touchibo: Multimodal Texture-Changing Robotic Platform for Shared Human Experiences Proceedings Article
In: UIST (Adjunct Volume), pp. 68:1–68:3, ACM, 2022.
Catering for Students' Well-being during COVID-19 Social Distancing: a Case Study from a University Campus Proceedings Article
In: GoodIT, pp. 146–153, ACM, 2022.
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.
2021
PE2LGP: tradutor de português europeu para língua gestual portuguesa em glosas Journal Article
In: Linguamática, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 3–21, 2021.
Accembly at Home: Accessible Spatial Programming for Children with Visual Impairments and their Families Proceedings Article
In: IDC, pp. 100–111, ACM, 2021.
Community Based Robot Design for Classrooms with Mixed Visual Abilities Children Proceedings Article
In: CHI, pp. 31:1–31:12, ACM, 2021.
Fostering Inclusive Activities in Mixed-visual Abilities Classrooms using Social Robots Proceedings Article
In: HRI (Companion), pp. 571–573, ACM, 2021.
DAN & Danny: Combining Analog and Digital Self-Tracking Data to Manage Wellbeing Proceedings Article
In: ICGI, pp. 1–8, IEEE, 2021.
WildKey: A Privacy-Aware Keyboard Toolkit for Data Collection In-The-Wild Journal Article
In: CoRR, vol. abs/2105.10223, 2021.