ITI researchers at CHItaly 2019 win an Honorable Mention Best Paper Award

ITI/LARSyS researchers Valentina Nisi, Mara Dionísio, Cláudia Silva and Nuno Nunes received an Honorable Mention for the Best Paper Award at CHItaly 2019 with “A participatory platform supporting awareness and empathy building between tourists and locals: the Há-Vita case study,” on September 24. Also, Lígia Duro, ITI PhD student, presented on September 25 the paper […]

H2020 project MEMEX – MEMories and EXperiences for inclusive digital storytelling

Valentina Nisi and Nuno Nunes recently won an H2020 project named MEMEX – MEMories and EXperiences for inclusive digital storytelling, as a partner, with a budget of about 380K€ for ITI. This project, funded by the European Commission, has an overall budget of 3,995.036,25€. The project coordinator is Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), established in […]

ITI at CHI 2019

ITI (Interactive Technologies Institute) will have a large presence at CHI 2019, which is taking place in Glasgow, UK on May 4-9. This ACM conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction. This year, several Full Papers and Late Breaking Works have been accepted from ITI members. List […]

CMU Portugal partnership reinforcement

The Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Manuel Heitor, visited on February 1st Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) on an official visit, along with a Portuguese delegation of 15 people, which included the President of Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), Paulo Ferrão; Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program National Co-Director, Nuno Nunes; representatives of Industry, […]

Ciência e Tecnologia ajuda no combate ao COVID-19

Iniciativa visa apoiar os serviços de saúde regionais no combate ao coronavírus Os investigadores estão, em colaboração com os profissionais de saúde do SESARAM, a ajustar um modelo de viseiras e esperam começar brevemente a produção em massa para apoiar a resposta à pandemia a nível regional Investigadores do Instituto de Tecnologias Interativas (ITI / […]

LARSyS Annual Meeting fosters collaboration

The much-anticipated LARSyS 2023 Annual Meeting is set to take place on July 17th and 18th at Culturgest in Lisbon. This two-day event promises to bring together nearly two hundred participants, including researchers, experts, and stakeholders, for a series of engaging discussions, presentations, workshops, and team-building activities. LARSyS, the Laboratory of Robotics and Engineering Systems, […]

We are going to Designing Interactive Systems

The Interactive Technologies Institute is once again marking its presence at one of the most relevant conferences in Computer Science. The Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2023 takes place at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh (USA) from the 10th to the 14th of July. The DIS conference is “the premier international arena where designers, artists, psychologists, […]

Summer internships with the HCI leaders in Portugal

The Interactive Technologies Institute wants to allow young students to experience the field of Human-Computer Interaction, contributing to their academic excellence from an early stage. Therefore, we invite highly-motivated students to apply for a research assistant position running this Summer. We offer 12 Summer Internships (BIIC) starting on June 1, 2023, with a fixed duration […]

CHI 2023: We are leading HCI research in Portugal

The Interactive Technologies Institute will attend the top Human-Computer Interaction conference this April. We will follow the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems with four research papers. Surprisingly, there are only seven accepted papers from Portuguese institutions. Indeed, CHI 2023 is the premier international conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), our main field […]