Teresa Almeida
Biography
Teresa Almeida received a Ph.D. in HCI/Interaction Design from Newcastle University, UK, and a Master’s from ITP, Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics, Instituto Superior Técnico. Previously, she was an Associate Professor at Umeå University in Sweden and held postdoc positions at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and the IT University of Copenhagen in Denmark.
Her work is interdisciplinary, design-led, and interventional. She combines research through design (RtD) and participatory methods to research sensitive topics and design with marginalized communities of practice.
Related Projects
Publications
2023
"My sex-related data is more sensitive than my financial data and I want the same level of security and privacy": User Risk Perceptions and Protective Actions in Female-oriented Technologies Journal Article
In: CoRR, vol. abs/2306.05956, 2023.
2022
A card game for designing activities for technology-enhanced learning in higher education Journal Article
In: Educ. Inf. Technol., vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 2367–2383, 2022.
Vision: Too Little too Late? Do the Risks of FemTech already Outweigh the Benefits? Proceedings Article
In: EuroUSEC, pp. 145–150, ACM, 2022.
Bodies Like Yours: Enquiring Data Privacy in FemTech Proceedings Article
In: NordiCHI (Adjunct), pp. 54:1–54:5, ACM, 2022.
2021
Designing with the Immune System: The Abject, Bodily Fluids, and Micro(be) Interactions Proceedings Article
In: ARTECH, pp. 79:1–79:4, ACM, 2021.
Caring for Intimate Data in Fertility Technologies Proceedings Article
In: CHI, pp. 409:1–409:11, ACM, 2021.
2020
Introduction to the Special Issue on HCI and the Body: Reimagining Women's Health Journal Article
In: ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact., vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 20:1–20:32, 2020.
Woman-Centered Design through Humanity, Activism, and Inclusion Journal Article
In: ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact., vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 27:1–27:30, 2020.
Designing for the Emotional Pregnancy Proceedings Article
In: Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (Companion Volume), pp. 145–150, ACM, 2020.
Gut-Tracking as Cultivation Proceedings Article
In: Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, pp. 561–574, ACM, 2020.