Researchers from the Interactive Technologies Institute (ITI), Nuno Jardim Nunes and Valentina Nisi, were recently invited to speak at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where they presented insights on digital storytelling, cultural heritage, and sustainability through technology. Their talks, deeply connected to ongoing European projects, highlighted the intersection of interactive technologies, design, and participatory […]
The call for papers is open until January 14, 2024. Professor Valentina Nisi, a member of the Interactive Technologies Institute, is part of the organising committee behind the Inaugural Workshop of the ACM-SIGCHI Mediterranean Committee (MedCHI). We are excited to announce the first public gathering of the newly established ACM-SIGCHI Mediterranean Committee (MedCHI) coinciding with […]
The Interactive Technologies Institute researchers Nuno Jardim Nunes and Valentina Nisi are two of the seven experts who chair the workshop HCI for Climate Change: Imagining Sustainable Futures. This workshop accepts applications until February 16 and is happening in a hybrid format during CHI2023 on April 28. The workshop aims to offer a gathering where […]
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, […]
Técnico co-organises the Sustainable Interaction Design Summer School at the Politecnico di Milano, in Italy What does it take to imagine a world beyond plastic? This June, a team from Instituto Superior Técnico set out to answer exactly that — not from a lecture hall in Lisbon, but from the shores of Lake Como. As […]
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 […]
