Patrícia Piedade


Biography
Patricia (she/her) is an HCI researcher who aims to leverage technology in ways that are innovative, inclusive, and impactful. She holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. She is currently a PhD student at the Interactive Technologies Institute under the supervision of Hugo Nicolau (ITI) and Rui Prada (INESC-ID).
In her current research, Patricia focuses on Neurodiversity and HCI. In collaboration with fellow researchers at the Inclusive Computing Lab, she remains dedicated to creating technologies that cater to the needs of minority groups and is committed to advancing knowledge in this field.
Publications
2023
The Robot Made Us Hear Each Other: Fostering Inclusive Conversations among Mixed-Visual Ability Children Inproceedings
In: HRI, pp. 13–23, ACM, 2023.
2022
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.