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, […]
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 / […]
From 13 to 16 July, ITI researchers participated in the 2026 ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition, held at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, in London. Under the theme “Creativity for Change,” the conference explored how creativity can enable societal transformation, address decolonisation and climate action, and support place-making in urban and cultural […]
Researchers from the Interactive Technologies Institute (ITI/LARSyS) presented five contributions at DIS26, the ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, with work addressing Sustainable HCI, ocean knowledge, ageing, brain health, culturally grounded design, and more-than-human design practice. Valentina Demarchi, Valentina Nisi, and Nuno Jardim Nunes (all from ITI/LARSyS) presented the pictorial “Designing Boundary Objects to Surface Ocean […]
Researchers from the Interactive Technologies Institute (ITI/LARSyS) presented six contributions at DRS 2026, the Design Research Society Conference in Edinburgh, with work addressing posthumanism, interspecies relations, intimate health, more-than-human temporalities, bioregional materials, and speculative approaches to AI. Mariana Pestana, Katerina Inglezaki, Carlos Pastor, Mathilde Gouin, Bernardo Gaeiras, Fernanda Costa, and Mariana Simões, all from ITI/LARSyS, […]
ITI/LARSyS is at CHI 2026, with an impressive presence from researchers and collaborators across the programme. This year’s presence includes: 🏆 The Best Paper distinction was awarded to Towards Fluent Interaction with Cyber-Physical Architecture.⭐ An Honorable Mention was awarded to EcoAssist: Embedding Sustainability into AI-Assisted Frontend Development. Across the programme, these contributions engage with: 📄 Full Papers […]
Researchers from the Interactive Technologies Institute (ITI/LARSyS) presented several contributions at the 20th ACM Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI 2026), taking place in Chicago, United States. TEI is one of the main international venues in Human–Computer Interaction dedicated to research on tangible interfaces, embodied interaction, and the integration of digital technologies with the […]
On 3 February 2026, the Interactive Technologies Institute (ITI) participated in the second edition of the Técnico Innovation Summit (TIS 2026), held at the Técnico Innovation Center in Lisbon. Throughout the day, ITI was present with a dedicated stand showcasing several ongoing research projects developed within the Institute. The projects were presented directly by six […]
A new open-access paper by ITI researchers, published in Discover Sustainability, explores how artificial intelligence might be used to represent non-human interests in environmental decision-making. Titled Exploring a biocentric LLM-based assistant in environmental decision-making with more-than-human representation of the Tagus Estuary, the study investigates whether Large Language Models (LLMs) can be instructed to speak from a biocentric […]
Joana Pestana, together with Mariana Pestana, Miguel Carvalhais, and Nuno Jardim Nunes, presented the pictorial Designing with an Assembly of Many: Eden X on rivers, their constituents and rights at CHItaly 2025, the 16th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI, held in October 2025. The pictorial introduces Eden X, a digital assembly that re-imagines how nonhuman entities can participate in decision-making processes around environmental […]
