Doctoral Program in Digital Media

The Interactive Technologies Institute is an academic partner of the Doctoral Program in Digital Media, which joins the efforts of the University of Porto, the New University of Lisbon and the University of Lisbon. The Doctoral program uniquely blends the Humanities, Fine Arts, Economics, Sciences, and Engineering disciplines, offering a rich, multidisciplinary perspective on digital […]

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 […]

Portugal leads climate neutrality project funded with € 5 million

Bauhaus of the Sea Sails is one of the projects selected under the call for the development of ‘lighthouse demonstrators’ of the New European Bauhaus (NEB) that will focus on climate neutrality. The project, selected for funding of approximately €5 million by the European Commission, will pursue the broad Vision of the New Bauhaus of […]

ITI/LARSyS at CHI 2022

  The 2022 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference on Human-Computer Interaction. It is considered the most prestigious conference in the field of HCI, which counts with the participation of thousands of international attendees annually. CHI 2022 is structured as a Hybrid-Onsite full conference.   April 30–May […]